It certainly isn't a dog. It's a nice drive. It goes well. No major problems that I've found. No sagging with the doors open, so the main structural beams in the sill are intact.
Roof opens and closes properly and quickly. Passenger side front window motor is a tad slow, but that is normally a build up of gunk in the works.
A stripdown and clean will normally work. Makes proper boost, gearbox is very small. He wasn't joking about the pile receipts for parts and work.
Has a Sony Radio Cassette fitted with a changer interface cable in the boot, but the changer packed up a while ago and never got replaced. Looks like a big blue DIN cable. Any idea what changers fit?