@Joe Dapper: Too bad Chicago went national.
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Did some crafty supplier convince both the Chevy Volt purchasing agent and his counterpart from the Ford Taurus team to buy previous generation Subaru Legacy headlights? He's my hero. Way to amortize the tooling!
@Turbo60640: They had Chrysler sponsorship for the first couple years and then Chevrolet took over. Mike always had a new convertible and the family always had the latest three row wagon.
My father's first car was a 1960 Corvair, purchased as a two year old used car. At the time, it was a common practice to roll back the odometer. Not just crooks, but many car lots sold you a used car with zero miles. The Corvair proved to be a complete piece of garbage. Lessons learned for my father were to never buy…
@ROWSDOWER! Brodie: I found it, thanks!
Where is a good ChumpCar forum to be found? I'm actually interested in road racing in cheap clunkers.
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@ROWSDOWER! Brodie: It is from the generation before the Escort and 323 started sharing a platform.
The econobox is an '84 era Ford Escort or Mercury Lynx. The numbers they used to make their argument for the Buick ignored the time value of money tied up in a relatively expensive Buick and the fact that they were based on running costs for the previous generation Buick Park Avenue, which was less problematic than…
@vavon205: Nothing to do with safety. The bumpers were supposed to save insurance companies money on repair costs. They didn't.
This is the sort of car that my friends would have swapped a drivetrain from a wrecked E28 535i into in the '90s. It looks better than the cars they started with. I think the hipster dufus garbage BMW is building today is killing enthusiasm for the great cars they built in the past. I know it worked in my case.
It really was a steal. They don't want the owner to be able to identify it from the photos. It just didn't dawn on him that the owner is the only one who can tell what he is looking at. There are some nice areas in Newport News, but it is also a good place to lead the hip hop lifestyle of dog-fighting, bitch-slapping,…
BABY ON BOARD!
Don't live anywhere near Shitago and don't drive an Audi. You'll lead a happier life.
@dal20402 has new computer fever: In her defense, that Skoda looked like the perfect marriage of Volkswagen and iron curtain automotive excellence.
@grzydj: He was the good kind of socialist mass murder, apparently.
@RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment: Maybe you should be worried about whether or not people keep calling your cars Chevy instead of Chevrolet. The fact that you've made the arguments you have while being involved in GM product development tells me what sort of perspective GM has on its problems. Things…
@duurtlang: I don't hang out on Nazi websites, and therefore I don't have to see people worshipping Nazi artifacts. Why are commies different? I come here for cars, not to celebrate mass murderers.
@ferric oxide: More to the point, it probably wasn't worth a grand in 1972. Maybe $800 if it was in really nice shape.
@Bueller: Some piece of garbage is going to car shows with a soviet star on the hood of his Tatra. It isn't any different to putting swastikas on your BMW 328 vintage racer. What is the matter with leftists that they still celebrate murdering millions merely for being inconvenient?