Faults:

The gasket which keeps the stick shift (not sure if that's the right word, simply the stick you change gears with) aligned got worn out. Shifting gears is now a bit trickier, but still works.

General Comments:

Pros:

- Beautifully built, especially the front end of the car is simply gorgeous.

- Good engine power, easily keeps up with todays road speeds

- comfortable to ride

- pretty good heating controls (separate for passenger and driver seat).

- Very nice chrome details. (1974 was the last year for much of this)

- All electronics work perfectly and are easy to handle.

- Good quality feel on most components

- Very informative, honest and thorough instruction manual (deals with many things that would be considered secrets by todays standards)

Cons:

- Bad fuel economy, at least 12 litres / 100 km.

- Very noisy above 100km/h. Under that no problem at all.

- Pretty soggy suspension, which of course adds to the comfort as long as you aren't taking hard turns

- A bit weird (charming) placing of some things, the battery under the back seat, the front brake discs right under the engine

- Personally I don't think the rear end of the car matches the front end, front looking very aggressive and sporty, rear end looking like, say, a very old mans car

- No decent place keep my coke.

Bottom line: I love this car for many reasons, mostly for it looks, engine and personality, and the relative wealth of features for a car this age.

I would have expected a lot more trouble, of course I have only driven 5000 km so far, but that is more than enough for a lot of problems to emerge. Maybe I'm just lucky, the car has been _very_ well kept by the old lady that was the (only) previous owner. Still it's 33 years old and works very well.