Decades ago when a motorcyclist, I had an old Mini Metro as my winter car. This was the car that was supposed to replace the classic Mini but never did - the nearest equivalent would be a 2-door Plymouth Horizon, though the Metro wasn't a stylish as that..... Mine was pensioner beige for extra fashion points.
It was a car that could have explained to cockroaches how to thrive, not just survive, a nuclear winter as there was almost no level of abuse that stopped it. When it started overheating even in winter, I decided maybe it needed most of the radiator fins - on our salted roads, the pattern of the front body openings was repeated as missing fins on the radiator core.
So I took the rad out and went to a local rad repair shop (you know, a proper grubby place) and the guy came up with one of the nicest car things anyone has ever said to me:
"Do you not think you could get another weeks' use out of this as it is?"
