The Car with Character

Bought it for four hundred pounds from a man who said it was "solid as a rock" but it wasnt solid as a rock. There was a hole in the floor on the passenger side that I covered with a piece of carpet. My girlfriend found out when her shoe got wet going through a puddle.

But I loved that car completely and irrationally. It started first time every morning even in the coldest winter days back then. The heater worked if you hit the dashboard in the right place. The radio picked up Radio 2 and nothing else.

I drove it to Scotland and back on sixty pounds because the engine was the size of a kettle.

Sold it eventually when the MOT estimate came in higher than the car was worth. The man who bought it said he was going to restore it and I hope he did.