"tortured with constant maintenance issues"---Amen
I thought I was the only one..... I had a Karman Ghia for 8 years and beetles before that... and built a 52 MGTD replica on a 71 chassis...... I finally got smart and changed to 1800 pushrod engined Subaru's...... they belong in the KISS category ( well, as much as a non diesel can fit that category).

Now I own a 1980 manual shift, manual window crank, manual AC control, NON sunroof 240d.

Larry , it is funny you mention a model A in this class...
I have a friend down the road whose family had land from before Texas becoming a part of the Union.... on Saturday nights they would go to town in their Model A KNOWING that half the way there they would have to take the pan off the car and file the rods down and put it back together ... and do it again on the way back...... this for a single 40 mile round trip to Austin....