We had a '79 when I was in highschool and college, used as a summer/3rd car. I used it to commute from Minneapolis to Madison, WI when I was in college. Drove well at 70mph on the interstate, but it was no fun in the rain.

iirc, we had to replace the headgasket at around 40k miles. It had some electrical glitches, aux fan went kaput and the blower motor worked intermittently.

For a top-down, summer car why not? In 60k miles, the biggest repair we did was the headgasket. If you can get it running and safe on the cheap and it isn't rotted out, go for it!

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

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Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

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