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Unless the car was sold with those things having been replaced, I'd call that "par for the course".
The belts, brakes shoes/calipers...those are consumables. Between my two SL's, I believe that I had to replace 6 calipers from frozen pistons. When you don't change the brake fluid in 25 years, the water gets to them. The soft brake lines are cheap and so you really want to drive with 25+ year old rubber hoses involved with the function of the brakes, especially ones exposed to the elements and flexing all the time? The hood pad and bushings (hood pad in particular) are easily within the bounds of the home mechanic to replace.
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