Ruct mainly, both rear arches, and all door bottoms, although it was only an eyesore.
Gear linkage would pop off at the most inconvenient times e.g traffic lights, leaving you to pull away in 3rd, 4th or 5th, or put the bonnet up and push it back on. A replacement and it's been fine (under £5)!!
It starts first time every time, even though its 1.3 it does keep up with traffic, benefits from E/F/W, S/R, and C/L.
The seats are great, big and almost bucket like, with grey velvet covers that wear well with age and are very comfy!
It's one of few cars that you can lift the bonnet on and identify the parts under there. Its not covered in sheets of plastic, nor is full of complicated electrionics.
I would have another, it's 6" wider than an Escort (or so I am told), it's a great piece of British engineering.
A great piece of british engineering?
Mine had more rust on it than the Titanic and cost a fortune to run, I could have kissed the bloke who did me a favour and ran into the back of it and killed it! (See my review 1985 Vanden Plas).
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