The Worst and Best thing about your retro ride?

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Best
Excellent long distance motorway cruiser & tow car, very relaxing to drive, but still respectable on B roads, luggage capacity, reliability, excellent heater & it's built like a tank!

Worst
Fuel consumption isn't great, the body needs work, very heavy steering at parking speeds and compared to the Sprite, it's a barge to drive.


Sprite

Best
Grin factor - fun to drive, with amazing steering (2 1/4 turns lock to lock, rack and pinion), handles like a go-kart, feels so much faster than it actually is, can be driven hard without attracting attention from the Feds, rifle-bolt gearchange, camaraderie of the Midget & Sprite Club.

Worst
Lack of oil pressure (needs an engine rebuild), top speed only 86mph, so can't keep up on motorways (no fifth gear / overdrive), maintenance intensive, & no MOT at the moment.

Applicable to all 3 of my Datsuns:

+ve

1. Really easy to drive - light clutches, slick gearboxes, light steering and fairly forgiving roadmanners

2. Reliability - My cars have never leaked and they will start up on the button every morning - cold or hot.

3. Easy to work on, loads of space under the bonnet, all major components are within easy reach

4. Retrotastic - once treated as junk (you really couldn't give one away a few years ago) and now the pseudo american/plastic trash/70's over styling thing is apparently well in.

5. Quite good fun to drive, once you sort out the suspension, which can be a bit wallow.


-ve

1. Rust

2. Some parts can be a problem

3. People pre-conceptions of Datsuns still remain

4. They have no 13' bolts on the car - as a result my 13' ratchet is unused...actually most of my spanners don't get used that often ;D

Best Bits
Seeing it outside the house every morning and going "That's mine that is!"
Fun fun fun to drive
Surprising the 205 boys

Worst Bits
Rust rust rust
Anything engine goes pop and it'll be a b***er to find the parts
Rust

That's such a British car problem, the car stops working when it rains or something, despite there being no logical reason why that might happen, so nobody has a clue how to fix it, am I right? ;D ;D ;D My Imp has a similar affliction, it doesn't work properly on any day that has a 'y' in it's name!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Impy turbo -

best bits-
whistly popping turbo monkey, sideways, and rare too

worst bits -
no radio, bits of rust, wondering if the engine is going to explode!

J