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01-18-2009, 04:28 AM | #73 |
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One of my coworkers had a Chevette. One time for a lark he took it offroading and climbed up a hill with a sixty degree grade behind our work place. I came to work and saw the tire tracks up the side of the hill. He was a bit off of the hook so it did not surprise me, but seeing those tire tracks reaching almost all of the way up was impressive.
I don't know about their long term durability but that little car could do things that most SUVs cannot do today. Gene |
01-18-2009, 07:50 AM | #74 |
Chevrolet Chevette is just a re-dressed Opel kadett:
Obviously, running on an 1.6L petrol engine, was the most economic car of the US. |
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01-18-2009, 06:07 PM | #75 | |
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You know if the Big Three were to all go under, you'd have to live in the same depression as the rest of us. |
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01-19-2009, 11:50 PM | #76 |
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oh man...i would hate being seen in a ford gt or a v model caddy.......
for the record....jk |
01-20-2009, 09:45 AM | #77 |
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I purchased a 1977 brand new Datsun B-210. Hatchback. Good car with great MPG with no power. Purchased new for $4300. At the time the 240Z sold new for around $8500.
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01-20-2009, 10:42 AM | #78 |
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My friends '60 or '62 (forgot) Buggy.
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01-20-2009, 10:42 AM | #79 |
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Yeah...I'd be embarased to be seen driving an 09 dodge viper with an 8.4 liter 6 speed, or even a 70 hemi cuda' with a 426 hemi!
NASCAR would be interesting. I can hear it now..."here comes Earnhardt in his Hundai elantra". DON'T HATE! |
01-20-2009, 11:49 AM | #80 |
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we briefly had a used '79 (or '80 ?) CHEVETTE that you could see roadkill through the hole in the drivers side floorboard . Like a glass bottom boat on land . " Honey , was that a woodchuck or a raccoon that we just passed over ? " . " dear " . . That car was nothing but a pain in the . . After that we went over to anything foreign made . Such as CHEVY Nova ( Corolla ) , PLYMOUTH Champ / DODGE Colt ( Mitsus') , etc.. to those .
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01-23-2009, 10:44 AM | #81 |
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Best choice for what? We didnt care about reliability, plus, they didn't handle well and were sluggish. I'll stick with the FIAT 128 or a Chevy Nova. No damn Datsun B210 Bumble Bees either!
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01-23-2009, 01:30 PM | #82 |
rarer than JDM -1 of 1!
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A subaru 360, got 60 mpg.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...&ct=image&cd=1 I'm gonna build one in my lifetime. |
01-23-2009, 09:18 PM | #83 |
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I bought a new 73 240Z exactly like this one.
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01-23-2009, 11:22 PM | #84 |
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Drove a 63 SS Impala from 68-74.
Also drove a 64 Triumph Herold from 72-73. Sold the Herold to buy a 58 GMC Suburban (daily driver for a year and 3 trips from Miami to Nebraska). Bought a Datsun 411 to replace the Suburban in 74. Traded the Datsun for a Fiat 124 Sport coupe in 75. Bought a 53 buick in 74 (painted it with laquer and had wide whites...Beautiful) Bought a 63 VW bus in early 75. When I sold the buick in late 75...the 'then' wife ran off with the Fiat a week later and left me with the POS VW Bus...oh well life goes on! Sold the bus and bought a nearly finished 66 corvair (mid engine 350/headers/solid lifters/double pumper Holley) and had fun! This is typical for me since graduating high school in 68.... The 70's gas crisis was a PITA for getting gas more than affording gas, and it was short lived....worst part was it was the reason for the double nickle speed limit!!
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01-23-2009, 11:48 PM | #85 |
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My very first car was a 1974 Chevy Vega that I got in 1976 right out of high school. I don't remember how well it did in the gas milage department. The BIG thing then if you could afford it was to replace the four cylinder engine with a V8. Yeah, not economical but whooo that would have been fun for a guy in his 20's. I gave it to my brother when I entered the Army. He trashed it and then sold it for nothing.
From this: To this:
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01-24-2009, 04:04 PM | #86 |
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I love the Vega, I've always wanted a Cosworth and even have mentioned it in this thread.
They rusted so easily though, even more than average for it's era, and that was pretty bad. |
01-24-2009, 04:26 PM | #87 |
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Cosworth Vega... mmmmm.
Nothing a college student working at Six Flags Magic Mountain could afford.
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01-24-2009, 05:15 PM | #88 |
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Kimona, that Z is sexier than your avatar.
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01-27-2009, 11:45 AM | #89 |
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Love the chocolate colour - good enough to eat off of. Fun car in its day. Ive been lusting after a early 90's 300ZX; had a rental once - best handling stocker I've ever driven.
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01-29-2009, 09:26 AM | #90 |
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LtNoogie
"My very first car was a 1974 Chevy Vega that I got in 1976 right out of high school. I don't remember how well it did in the gas milage department. The BIG thing then if you could afford it was to replace the four cylinder engine with a V8." Did it myself. I took my dad's commuter 74 vega GT and stuffed the 327 into it using the don hardy v8 kit. A lot more work than first thought given my sub-2000 budget. Bought a 10 bolt z28 posi rear diff and converted it from leaf to 4-link, long narrow vette radiator mounted in FRONT of the rad mount, TH350 auto trans from the junk yard with a oil cooler and a new filter, flip the hearter core 180deg so the outlets would clear the engine, cut and reshape the trans tunnel, new cut down front springs from a 63 impala, multipiece headers with header mufflers with side turn outs UNDER the doors, etc etc. 0-100 in 10 secs with a lazy motor and 3:55 rear gears. and YES you would lift the front off the ground when you nailed it at a stop light. Ended up selling to a 17yo kid for 1700 bucks after a year of ya yas and terrorsing the town. |
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