It’s a beautiful deathtrap.
Hard pass.
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Your friend should get with the times and do electric conversions. Diesel is so 19th century.
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The Corvair-powered '71 that my dad had definitely made good use of those extra two cylinders. That was installed with a kit that could be undone, though by the time he got rid of it, it was enough of a rustbucket that it was bought for the engine.
As long as there weren’t any crosswinds, it was amazingly comfortable to drive long distances. But once the sliding door began falling off its track, we knew it had to go.
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Such pessimistic post.
I expect when electric vehicles have reached full market penetration and are available cheaply on the second hand market, that’s what he’ll do.
The second hand car market here (in Ireland) is a bit weird.
Cars from the '70s and earlier are pretty rare because there were relatively few cars purchased here then, and the ones that were bought suffered from rust and lack of maintenance.
Cars from the mid '80s to mid '90s that didn’t suffer rust and should still be around, were intentionally destroyed by the motor industry lobby in trade in deals where any old car (regardless of value or condition) could be traded in for a fixed value against a new car.
Cars from the mid '90s on have very little value because the market is flooded with new cars, again because of the motor industry lobby.
So it’s possible to pick up say, a 12 year old VW Passat for next to nothing and retrofit the motor, brakes etc. to a MK1 or Mk2 Golf from the '70s or '80s. So you get cheap road tax and insurance 'cos you have a vintage car but you have the power, fuel economy and reliability of a modern car.
This really only works for VWs and Audis because they have a weird cult following so enough of them survived the motor industry purges and their engine designs never changed very much.
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