I'm a massive Meteor fan and have far too many for my own good, I was watching that auction too.
Personally I wouldn't try to use alternative wheels, the Meteors have quite unusual wheels, most that I try on don't fit too well, I haven't tried RC10 wheels yet but original wheels aren't particularly pricey and the tyres aren't hard to get.
Re. Tyres the original ISR/VSR tyres are quite rare in good/unused condition, I suggest using alternatives to run on, were original RC10s a 2.0 tyre? I'm sure I recall they were in which case they will be easier to get than Schumachers in the US.
I think I've got an original manual somewhere, if no-one else has one on PDF I'll dig it out and scan it, however they are simple in the extreme.
32dp pinions needed.
You are missing the rear bumper/motor guard, I assume also the C clip to hold the wheel on and the drive pin.
Also missing the top plate across the battery holders and the mechanical speedo. Top plates are fairly rare as are speedos as most people went electronic and the top plate made changing batteries even harder. I suggest just leaving a battery in it and charging it up in car, it's all I did for years as a child.
Looking at it you might get really lucky, your rear bearings are proper bearings, as kit the standard car had bronze bushes on early models and horrible all plastic rear uprights on late models, someone has upgraded your rear wheels to bearings this is a bonus, also it appears you may have the fairly rare bearing front wheels which are great, if your really really lucky the gearbox will be the full bearing version with the bearing laygear etc.
At least you can repair/repaint the body easily too as it's just hard plastic and painted on the top, unlike lexan.
Generally it doesn't look a bad buy, Unless your really set on going full collector I'd probably just hunt a wheel and speedo top plate and run an esc in it and enjoy it, if you start hunting out original boxes etc. It will get expensive fast!
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