Polite refusal accepted Pierre, yep built / rebuilt a few ol shitboxes meself, funny enuf I had a customer in Hitchin a few weeks ago who had one of my ol kit cars in his garage.
Brought back some memories and had a goodly chat with him, he is too old to drive it now but his son comes up from the smoke and gives it a run now and then.
A for spalted wood mate, no chance init, in my garden it spalts one day and dissolves into the ground the next.