In news:Xns9684E58B02210adrianachapmanfreeis@204.153.244.170, Adrian decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
The thing about it is the same thing that I suspect keeps a lot of people interested in classic cars;
When it's running like it should it's a brilliant old thing, comfy, torquey as anything, totally fabulous soundtrack, reasonably quick, easy to drive, and laid back as hell. Makes you grin when you see / hear it rumbling down the street, and makes other people smile when they see it in traffic, burbling away, roof down, driver looking in a slightly paranoid manner at the oil pressure / voltmeter / temp gauge...
It's just a shame that it happens to be an utter pain in the arse to work on, and unreliable enough to mean it's a pain on a regular basis, especially for something that has been mollycuddled all its life and only done 16,900 miles...