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I looked back over this thread to see if I had mentioned the Renault 17, but upon reflection, recall the '73 Torino my Dad bought new and was sold for scrap in '79. While I was in possession of the car, it would not go through three inches of water without the ignition system requiring a "time out". I had to replace the muffler with less than two years on the car. One day I was following an old truck and mentioned to my wife,"That poor guy has a radiator leak. I can smell coolant." Except the poor guy was me. The carb heating block corroded and leaked. The carb had actually iced up on a drive home one Christmas. I did manage to get the thing off the highway to a garage before it choked itself to death. This was also the car that had the throttle linkage stick wide open one cold day. The seats could have been registered as torture devices. Aside from pick up trucks, that was the last 'domestic ' vehicle I have owned. The Renault 17 was a close 2nd, though.