British motors always sounded like Angry squirrels with knock-knees: I have had 2 MG Midgets that the parts were always falling off from, like my beloved while-hated Austin-Healey 100-6. I thought seriously about putting a small modern Japanese engine and 5-speed tranny in one of them. Didn't tho.

Dacarls:
A-class USA 196, USA 21, H18, H16
"Nothing that's any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work"- Thomas Edison