The issues have often been raised here and there has often been quite a lot of detail, extensive discussions and sometimes a bit of ranting, usually by me and occasionally by others.
The car has continued to look great the whole time but has been a royal pain, seemingly hanging on by its fingernails to avoid going back on the road. And I am sure there will still be tales to tell in the future.
I'd like to thank everyone for the ongoing help over the years. I'd like to think I know a fair bit about these cars but really you've never touched everything, there's always something else and sometimes things take you by surprise or there's new technology to get your head around (water pump I'm looking at you)
And I'd like to share these photos taken recently when the Sprint was used as the wedding car for my daughter. Once again its 100% record of never letting me down on the road was maintained. After much previous mechanical work, recent water pump panics, a last minute bonnet respray, the unexpected need to revisit the stereo (there's now more tech in the cheap head unit than the rest of the car) and a lot of Autoglym and window cleaner the car had never ever looked better. I also fitted it out with some temporary fairy lights in the roof. There are some pics below including the lights taken in the garage darkness to show the effect.
It was a great day. My wife and I left our wedding in this car, ahem, ~30 years ago. Now it was there for my daughter. It really is part of the family.
