Since passing my driving test in 1989, I promise you that I’m not kidding when I say I have owned well over a hundred cars – and that excludes company cars. From Austin to Triumph and even Communist Soviet clunkers including a pair of old Ladas – there’s a good chance I have either owned it or had a steer. There is a knack to running and buying these things and it’s called risk assessment. I strongly recommend that if your mechanical acumen is even slightly lacking, buying and running older motors is perhaps not ideal. Readers who know
