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TimM:
A friend of mine once won one in a national fishing competition...

he thought is was great (at first), he was only 17/18ish and had a brand new car...

After a few weeks he hated it so much he drove it to a local scrap yard and had it publicly (I'm sure I;ve spelled that wrong) crushed.

He would rather have no car than keep it!!!!!

Not sure what he drives now.

Tim.

Henry Webster:

--- Quote from: "hingmy" ---they are basically an old jeep design (CJ of some vintage). Since most post-willys jeeps take substantial modification to achieve their proper potential expect to go down a similar route. However it is tough as old boots, though as earlier mentioned the legit spares might be hard to find its closeness to trad yank builds may free it up for some interesting (if possibly pricy) modification/adaptation.
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Hingmy

You are thinking of Mahindras.  The Rocsta was a new design taking more than a few styling cues from the CJ, but sharing no parts.  Mazda provided the engines 1.8 petrol and 2.2 diesel - so bits for those should be possible to come by, don't know about other spares.

My guess is that £800 is rather alot of money to pay for one, given the parts situ.  I would buy Turtle's Niva instead if you want a cheap play car.

My dad used to be a dealer for the Rocsta for a bit.  Didn't sell many, but they were a reasonable little truck.  Pretty reliable - I think the only problems we had were broken springs (on a game keeper's well used hack) and fuel air lock problems after running a diesel one out of fuel.

H

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