Faults:

Head rebuilt at 185500 $340 with install and a new timing belt.

New timing belt 185500.

New catalytic converter at 185500 $65 I installed.

New battery at 190508 $35.

Both head light bulbs at 200511 $10.50.

New voltage regulator at 208010 $38 A new alternator was $110 but I checked the book and did a quick test that's all that was needed.

General Comments:

If we didn't have emissions requirements here the top end wouldn't have been rebuilt. It smoked, but still got excellent gas mileage.

This car was beat up cosmetically. Dents and dings. It had a rear window leak that took a while to find. Over all not pretty.

After a basic tune up the mileage went from 22 mpg to 35 mpg with up to 41 mpg on road trips.

Performance is not great, but the low-end response compared to my Geo was super.

My car was a base model with a 5 speed and am radio. Carburetor no AC no power steering, power breaks.

Stereo was very easy to update using an after market adapter for the wiring and changing the location from the stock location to the small package tray just below the stock radio location. The stock location isn't deep enough for most after market radios.

Seats were okay they sit a little to low in the front so I made some spacers with some 1/8 flat bar and lifted the front of the seat about 1 and 1/4 inch's.

Handled best with stock size tires and got the best gas mileage.

A 4X4 truck hit this car while I was slowing to make a turn. The bumper on the truck cleared my bumper so the full impact was taken by the hatch and rear fenders. It was totaled, but held up very well considering the truck was going at least 55 and only had 4 feet of skid marks before contact with my car.

I looked a long time to try and replace it, but couldn't find one in my price range. I only paid $400 for mine.

Faults:

When we first bought it, the trunk leaked. We solved the problem with some new rubber in the right areas.

The remote trunk release cable broke, but luckily it was just a small tab inside the trunk. It was easily fixed.

It needs an alignment, and maybe even a new front right axle. The CV boot split a little, which isn't good.

Most recently, the water pump decided to eat itself, so we had to replace it. The timing belt was also replaced at this time (it was about due.)

General Comments:

The wheels are quite ugly at the moment. The paint is coming off on all four, though, I have planned to repaint them for some time. They are great, almost 'vintage' looking steel wheels. I couldn't imagine anything else on the car.

The seats seem to be quite durable, as mine are obviously worn, but definitely not worn out. No holes, surprisingly.

The factory speakers in it were only 4in, so it would be pretty hard for an audio enthusiast to get great sound out of it. We get decent music coming out of a nice deck and some off-brand $8 a pair ***Mart speakers.

It isn't the tightest car - Definately no go-kart. I'd imagine some slightly shorter, harder springs may do it some good.

I just cleaned the engine not long ago.

With regular oil changes, and other maintenance, this car will easily last well past 200k miles.