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Colostomy Bag posted:Dear god, the Pontiac Chevette. how could you not love a 2000lb RWD hatch? Imagine what a modern engine and suspension with a stripped out interior would produce. 
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Powershift posted:how could you not love a 2000lb RWD hatch? A faster, better handling pile of poo poo?
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Sep 2, 2019 14:05
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wesleywillis posted:A faster, better handling pile of poo poo? exactly! a poo poo rocket
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Sep 2, 2019 14:16
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For those of you who weren’t there to read it when it was on the newsstand, there was the bad seed Chevette. Magnante is an insane genius.
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Sep 2, 2019 14:27
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Powershift posted:how could you not love a 2000lb RWD hatch? My dad was cheap (or maybe he was "overly" frugal, was hard to judge at the time given my age) combined with a bit of laziness. This will be an important note for my final comments. For you younger folks, one can't begin to imagine the literal shitpiles that were cranked out by the big 3 in the mid 70's/80's. Cars were "done" at around 50-60k miles. Anyways back to the Chevette. Notorious for the floorboards rusting out. So bad in fact you could spot it driving past them because crap like the carpet/sound deadening (lol as if)/etc. would be hanging down out below. Spent many hours at the dealership where my dad would argue over the price of everything including a set of floor mats. Well the floorboard went. He was driving along, grabbed his sunglasses, dropped them and they fell through the floor. He circled around to pick them up, found them, and realized he ran them over.
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Sep 2, 2019 14:50
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C-Bangin' it 
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https://www.kijiji.ca/v-travel-trailer-camper/red-deer/t300-kenworth-rv-hauler/1457137964 45k is loving ridiculous but it would be awesome to bag the front, throw a pickup box on that bitch and drive it everywhere. Powershift fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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Sep 2, 2019 14:53
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Powershift posted:https://www.kijiji.ca/v-travel-trailer-camper/red-deer/t300-kenworth-rv-hauler/1457137964 quote:1997 T-300 kenworth, 3126 Cat engine, Allison 5 speed automatic, Eaton 5:29 rear end, Air Ride, Air Brakes, Too many new parts to list. Legal to drive with a class 5 license. If the add is up it’s available. Low-ball offers will be blocked.  Can you get an airbrake endorsement on a Class 5? (For non Albertans, Class 5 is a "standard" drivers license that 90% of people have)
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Sep 2, 2019 15:24
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Colostomy Bag posted:My dad was cheap (or maybe he was "overly" frugal, was hard to judge at the time given my age) combined with a bit of laziness. This will be an important note for my final comments. For you younger folks, one can't begin to imagine the literal shitpiles that were cranked out by the big 3 in the mid 70's/80's. Cars were "done" at around 50-60k miles. Seriously, my dad owned two Chevettes between 1981 and 1987 because we had pretty much no money and I remember two things about them: The awful, instantly faded orange-red interior and the terrifying holes in the floor-pans.
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Sep 2, 2019 15:55
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slidebite posted:
Yes, you can. it's called a "Q endorsement", Q obviously standing for Qair brakes.. Those things go for $5k at RB and the 3126 has a B10 of like 600k miles, so my future plans may have just shifted.
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Sep 2, 2019 15:58
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Powershift posted:how could you not love a 2000lb RWD hatch? Thank you! Someone gets it. I’ve been looking at Chevettes and AMC Spirits with this in mind.
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Sep 2, 2019 16:05
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Powershift posted:how could you not love a 2000lb RWD hatch? The Australian version of the T Car, the Gemini, is a huge candidate for engines out of Rodeo Utes and V8s. There used to be a ton of them on the roads during the 90s, but they're pretty much either dead from rust or being beaten to death by new drivers, as they were a popular first car.
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Sep 3, 2019 00:06
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Waldstein Sonata posted:Seriously, my dad owned two Chevettes between 1981 and 1987 because we had pretty much no money and I remember two things about them: The awful, instantly faded orange-red interior and the terrifying holes in the floor-pans. You sound like my spiritual brother. Ours were '78 and '80. My memory is hazy, and I don't know what precipitated the ultimate demise of the old man's '78 Chevette. Probably broke in half. Do remember the replacement. A Plymouth Horizon. It was ten times the car the recently launched Ford Escort was.
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Sep 3, 2019 00:41
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My mother, father and grandfather all worked for GMH so we had a huge number of lovely GM products in the family over the years - Sunbirds - Toranas - Vauxhall Chevette - Geminis - Camiras (many of these, they were desperate to unload to staff on the cheap because no one was buying them) - Gen1 Barina (actually a pretty good car) At that point second hand Japanese imports became common so my parents switched to Nissans and Hondas and Subarus but my grandfather continued to buy Vectras and Astras etc (still has an Astra now)
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Sep 3, 2019 00:43
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Powershift posted:how could you not love a 2000lb RWD hatch? I worked for a shop that had a Chevette tubbed out and a SBC. It ran 11s, but looked scary as gently caress to drive.
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Sep 4, 2019 16:39
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Nocheez posted:I worked for a shop that had a Chevette tubbed out and a SBC. It ran 11s, but looked scary as gently caress to drive. 300mph in a bugatti? yawn 100mph in a chevette? HOLY poo poo DID I JUST BREAK THE SOUND BARRIER?
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Sep 4, 2019 16:41
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My first speeding ticket was in a Chevette and I got clocked at 72 mph. I still think it was bullshit.
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Sep 4, 2019 18:09
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angryrobots posted:My first speeding ticket was in a Chevette and I got clocked at 72 mph.
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Sep 4, 2019 18:34
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I know right! It was on the way to school, and my buddy driving past heard my incredulous "Seventy!?!?" reply to the cop after the "Do you know why I pulled you over/how fast you were going" song and dance.
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Sep 4, 2019 19:39
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Colostomy Bag posted:You sound like my spiritual brother. Ours were '78 and '80. My memory is hazy, and I don't know what precipitated the ultimate demise of the old man's '78 Chevette. Probably broke in half. You got off lucky. My dad "upgraded" to a city-surplus Chevy Citation after the second Chevette died. Thankfully we only had to endure that until 1989 when he bought a Toyota Pickup. The family was also still enduring our Ford Tempo/Mecury Topaz (which we had traded a first gen Escort wagon for), as well, since my parents decided to do the greatest hits of the malaise era.
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Sep 5, 2019 01:50
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When's the last time you've even seen a Tempo out there? I at least see an Escort once a week, I can't afford to see her more often.
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Sep 5, 2019 02:00
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StormDrain posted:When's the last time you've even seen a Tempo out there? I at least see an Escort once a week, I can't afford to see her more often. I saw a Topaz last week.
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Sep 5, 2019 03:35
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Waldstein Sonata posted:You got off lucky. My dad "upgraded" to a city-surplus Chevy Citation after the second Chevette died. Thankfully we only had to endure that until 1989 when he bought a Toyota Pickup. The family was also still enduring our Ford Tempo/Mecury Topaz (which we had traded a first gen Escort wagon for), as well, since my parents decided to do the greatest hits of the malaise era. Ah the Citation. To think they made a sport model...X11 I think? As for getting off easy? Well I don't know. We inherited a '78 Nova Custom. Had the 305. That was hot poo poo compared to whatever else. It was built on some drunk labor day weekend given the quality and how many times it left us stranded. Basically malaise^2. When my friend got his license we cruised around in a Tempo. With of course a 40 watt cassette deck. Frond posted:I saw a Topaz last week. Do you live in Unicornville?
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Sep 5, 2019 04:48
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StormDrain posted:When's the last time you've even seen a Tempo out there? I at least see an Escort once a week, I can't afford to see her more often. This needed more love. 
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Sep 5, 2019 13:19
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Colostomy Bag posted:Ah the Citation. To think they made a sport model...X11 I think? Yep. Had the 2.8 "HO" V6 and some suspension improvements, along with a stripe package, of course. quote:As for getting off easy? Well I don't know. We inherited a '78 Nova Custom. Had the 305. That was hot poo poo compared to whatever else. It was built on some drunk labor day weekend given the quality and how many times it left us stranded. Basically malaise^2. The only malaise-y car my folks had was a '78 or '79 Pontiac Safari G-body wagon, and the only thing terrible I really noticed about it is that the rear door windows didn't roll down - just wing windows, which were useless, because they were at the rear edge. Really sucked being the kid in the rear seat in south Texas when the AC no workee. Oh, I guess my mom's '79 Chrysler Cordoba counts, too. But it wasn't actually terrible reliability-wise, just big, thirsty, and not fast. Before the Pontiac wagon, mom drove a '70 Chevelle SS 396 (which actually had a 402) but in about '82, gas for it was getting pricey, and a two-door with 2 kids could be annoying, I guess. I miss that Chevelle. I was 12 or 13 when it went away.
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Sep 5, 2019 23:50
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My family had a brown 82-ish Chevette, my older sister got to drive to to school. Sometimes she'd give me a ride in to to school, and make me sit in the back seat, regardless of if there was anyone else in the car or not, because sister. Even at nine years old or whatever I was when we had it, I recognized that you shouldn't be able to see the ground through the floorboards. Man, that car was a massive piece of poo poo. Didn't stop my other older sister from buying one a couple of years ago and using it as a summer "fun" car. The other malaise-era car I remember was a 1990 Lebaron Convertible, which I don't remember being THAT bad, but the rear windows quit working after a few years so if you had the top down you got to drive around with double shark fins. Also, the back seat was ludicrously small, even for a little kid like me. We also had an 84 Fiero at one point, but that car was perfect and I'll hear no argument. 
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Sep 6, 2019 00:16
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https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-daimler-ferret-mk-2-4/ [APHEX TWINNING INTENSIFIES]
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Sep 6, 2019 04:51
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boxen posted:
Heh, my in-laws had one around that period, same problem.
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Sep 6, 2019 11:20
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Colostomy Bag posted:Heh, my in-laws had one around that period, same problem. I thought it was a feature, not a bug. Oh, Daimler...
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Sep 6, 2019 15:25
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That was like a decade before Daimler had anything at all to do with Chrysler.
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Sep 6, 2019 17:53
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Chrysler was a good car company, it was Daimler that did all the bad stuff. Sort of like the Wehrmacht and the SS.
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Sep 7, 2019 18:05
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Throatwarbler posted:Chrysler was a good car company, it was Daimler that did all the bad stuff. Sort of like the Wehrmacht and the SS. I can't believe Daimler used their time machine to make the K-car instead of using it to kill Hitler. Okay, i can kind of believe it.
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Sep 7, 2019 18:54
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Throatwarbler posted:Chrysler was a good car company, Oh boy.
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Sep 7, 2019 19:09
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Colostomy Bag posted:Oh boy. He's not wrong, probably just confused on the time span. 
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Sep 7, 2019 19:12
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Colostomy Bag posted:Oh boy. I mean with his comparison it works.
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Sep 7, 2019 19:28
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I mean with his comparison it works. Sure, they get the ultimate pass of tossing a jet turbine into a car along with the Hemi. But the reversed thread lugnuts? And then came the K-car.
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Sep 7, 2019 19:38
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Chrysler has always, and continues to make cool cars that fall apart
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Sep 7, 2019 21:19
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Wasn't he the Dodge Journey factory zip-tied bumper guy?
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Sep 7, 2019 23:39
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angryrobots posted:My first speeding ticket was in a Chevette and I got clocked at 72 mph. 
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Sep 8, 2019 03:59
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Colostomy Bag posted:
I like the cool stuff.
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Sep 8, 2019 12:12
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hello, long time no see https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/cto/d/arcadia-unique-one-of-kint-bmw-m3/6962330082.html 
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