While we are all indulging in that favourite British occupation of knocking British cars, may I say all was not rosy across the channel at the time. In 1970 I bought a 1968 Volkswagen 1600TL whose bodywork, I suspect, was made by the people who made the Trabant. By the time I sold it in 1972 it was possible to poke a stick through the wings, which resembled brown lace by that stage.
Definitely the worst rustbucket I ever owned
