I know our classic Mopars are expensive but...

The closest I ever got was a '76 MBG.

Well, the body and interior was '76. The engine and trans was from a '67. I can't remember the year the rear end was, but it took me some guess work before finding the one year only parts it needed.

A customer of mine had it. Came in every spring on a rollback. She had an inclined driveway and set the parking brake one winter. Brakes froze. Told her to buy wheel chocks. The next spring it came in with a stuck clutch. She had forgone the wheel chocks and left it in gear instead of setting the brakes.

Lucas created darkness. That car has so many electrical gremlins. She turned on the wipers the radio went out. She turned on the headlights, the wipers stopped working. She turned on a turn signals the hazards started working.

I wound up tearing the damned thing apart and making a complete new harness for it, including a Painless fuse panel.

She was paranoid of Y2K. She called the MG her Y2K car because she was afraid her Lexus would stop running. When her fears didn't realize she sold the little POS in the summer of '00. Never been happier to see a customer sell a car so I wouldn't have to work on it except for when a customer sold his turbo Jetta. Another POS with major electrical issues.

Other than the MGB and my own Fiat 124 Spyder, the only experience I have with Euro trash is newer. I can probably still change both axle seals in a 944 in fifteen minutes and the lower engine mount in half an hour.