"My lovely car now sold onto a very happy new owner. I still love this marque and I will still be around, preferred selling to breaking, as a great runner and performer"
If I had the time space and money, I'd get one like this and drop a seconhand engine in it. So long as the belts are done before fitting, you should get another few miles out of it.
Financially maybe not a brilliant thing to do, but a lovely bit of history.