Automobile Enthusiasts

It ran fine until it didn't! As stated above, the engine made a great boat anchor!

Seems to me they just took a gas engine and redid the fuel system, not really modifying the heads for the high compression needed for a proper Diesel, as your Wikipedia article indicates.

He took a serious bath on it when he had to get rid of it.

He bought a Peugeot Diesel as well. He got that in the late 80's and sold it to me in the early 90's. I was living in Michigan at the time, and the first really cold morning I found out it wouldn't start! Why? Because the glow plugs had gone south and he never replaced them! Well, he lived in Miami and it didn't really matter! My dad was a child of the Depression, and so he was kind of cheap. He never refilled the windshield washer fluid with proper fluid, just water, so that was another surprise for me the first winter I drove it in Michigan. The fucking reservoir was a block of ice! I ran it into the ground, pretty much and got maybe $30 for it when a towing company came and took it away.