You are RIGHT! Good engine and poor body!They were cheap cars. Things are changed now.CIAO
My older brother's first car was a used Fiat X1/9. It suffered numerous mechanical breakdowns. My dad assumed my (then teenaged) brother was too hard on the equipment and took it away and drove it himself.
One day, while my dad was driving to work, the left-front suspension broke and the wheel folded under the car. That's when my dad realized it was the car, not the driver....