You describe my first car...: the same as in the film, also white, "limousine"-spec but no sunroof.
But then... I was younger, cash was hard to come by as the Army didn't pay that well for a junior officer but it beated walking.
Strong car, never broke down so that I couldn't fix it: bushes, steering house, exhaust, leaking 1 liter of oil a week... but unlike the snob that JC has become, it had 82 horses and they could run. Find a long descent and you saw 180 on the speedo. You had to grip the steer though, a straight line became somewhat of a wave at speed and you scared people... those in the rear seats were scared *and* sick. It handled a bit barge-like :-)
I've got 3 great memories of that car: the first with a friend going to demolish a gardenshed. We were paid for that. Drove the car through. The owner could not comprehend how things got sorted so quick but we got our money nevertheless :-)
The second is with the army in Germany, winter of 1990. Cold: -18 celsius. As we were on exercice (scaring those Russians away ;-) ) our cars stayed in the open parkinglot at home base. Upon returning on Friday the carpark was but heaps of snow. Dug into the FSO, inserted the key and turned it. The only car there which roared into life was mine :-)
The third was still in the army going shopping at an American base at Wiesbaden, about 270 km from our base. Things (electronics) were taxfree there and cheap: we as Nato-troops had acces. I came back with that car
270 kms, 5 men in it, 2 big hifi-installations with the speakers as big as a house which we tied to the roof (no gallery) with a rope (officers in an Engineering Batallion know how to fix something with ropes), a big television set and a desktop computer.When we arrived at our base in Koln, we were halted by the Muppets (MP or Military Police). I expected to receive a ticket but it turned out that our CO had warned the Muppets of our coming: we got escorted for 50 km, photographed and starred with the car in the Army Gazette.
Had the car for a year, put 30 kkm on it, last months it was the towcar of the racetrailer. Pulled without complaints, remember: second gear never worked , must have stayed in Poland. Last race coming back, I lost all gears except for 5-th. Detached the trailer and drove the car to the wrecker.
Tom De Moor