Faults:

Small Bits of welding which were easily rectified.

Electrical problems with the indicators, other than that nothing.

General Comments:

Although it obviously smells, looks, runs and drives like an old car you could not buy another 15 year old car which is more fun to own, especially in the summer when it turns heads with the top down.

The only problem is the power, it only has a small engine so performance is limited, don't get me wrong there are slower cars when doing 0-50mph, but it does struggle to go much faster than 65mph and it does take a while to get there, but speed is not why I bought it.

It must also be noted that its boasts surprising off-road credentials!

Faults:

Quite a few problems.

Bought it with a sick clutch, release springs had lost their springiness, leading to a bent release arm and frayed cable.

Universal joint in rear prop shaft, next to handbrake hub was in need of replacement, made do with swapping for the front prop shaft and 2 wheel drive until the replacement arrived (and I got around to fitting it).

Head gasket blew between cylinders 3 and 4, but it still ran, and got me a fair way home in that condition. Needed an excuse to change the cam belt and adjust valve clearances anyway.

Roof leaked above drivers lap, reproofed it using an autoglym cleaner/reproofing kit and it was fine after that.

Sills rotted through, a good seeing to with the welding torch cured that.

Handbrake adjuster had rotted into the drum, needed to be drilled out and re-tapped with and alternate adjuster fitted.

Hole in the fuel tank, didn't find this for ages as it would still hold ten pounds worth of fuel before it reached the leak. Corrosion prevented me getting to the tank so lived with it.

Bought it with bits of a thermostat, got one off the shelf at the local dealers, 10 minutes to fit, nice and warm in the snow from then onwards.

And not forgetting the comedy window winders, passenger one would open and not shut, support bracket had corroded through and detached itself, the drivers one the ratchet mechanism had worn, so half a turn and it would be fully open, pig to get back up though.

And one main beam would stop working mysteriously, the earth was good, the 12 volts was there, but it would have occasions where it would not light up, suspected it was the bulb, but when swapped for another, guess what!

General Comments:

Lots of problems, a pain to drive, slow (although I had fun explaining to the nice police officer that I could not possibly been going as fast as they said I was as it was uphill...), and the driving seat padding had seen some of its better days.

What a fantastic truck, loved it to the bits it eventually started falling to. And started virtually every time, except when I tried to start like my diesels and flooded it. I would love to have another one, but would go for the 1300cc version like my brother had, much better on the open road. Choice would be though soft-top again?? or the van??

Maybe one day.

I believe my little friend (christened 'Bobtail' by my other half due to the white spare wheel on the back reminding her of a rabbits tail) is now being used as an off-roader.

May he live for many more years.

Faults:

After about 3 years the transfer box needed changing, I fitted second hand so can only assume since it has not reoccurred that it was a one off fault.

The car does tend to "eat" points, but they are cheap & easy to change.

At about 60000 miles I let the engine freeze, not recommended, the head was damaged so I swapped it, but it was never really right until about 5000 miles ago when I put a second hand engine in.

General Comments:

I love this little car & use it as my second car.

It is so cheap to run, I am only on the second set of tyre's! and it still turns a few heads in the summer with the roof off.