by "HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
Published 05/04/2017 at 01:48
by "HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
Published 05/04/2017 at 01:48
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We all hate them, and yet chances are unless you’re rich, you’ve probably owned one, or knew some one who did. In my case both, kinda. Any way find the best, or worst looking J you can and post it. Here’s mine. I Hate it, if I saw it in real life I’d laugh, but I sorta love it too.
"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
05/04/2017 at 01:55, STARS: 1
Nope
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/04/2017 at 01:58, STARS: 0
Fine
"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
05/04/2017 at 02:04, STARS: 1
Yep. Had a 94 Cavalier. That thing was hilarious. So many FWD peelouts for no reason other than bad chassis performance. 80 mph felt like a million.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
05/04/2017 at 02:10, STARS: 6
I’m fine with the older ones
The only manual car I’ve recently driven was a Cavalier actually, no idea what year. One of the newer blobby ones. Comically easy clutch, refused to stall, rubbery gross shifter feel, but overall kinda fun.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/04/2017 at 02:39, STARS: 0
My wife had a 01 for 6 years, then I had it for a few months. Those moths wee kind fun tho, I never looked forward to driving because of the car, I went driving because I was going to drive hard. I beat that car, and it took it
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/04/2017 at 02:41, STARS: 2
I’ve never driving a manual one, but I can’t imagine it’s all that great, rubble gloomy sounds like it would have been Chevy’s goal when they made it.
"CodyVella" (codyvella)
05/04/2017 at 02:49, STARS: 4
I’m another one who likes older J-Bodies. My first car was a ‘92 Pontiac Sunbird V6 Coupe and I dated a girl in high school that had a ‘93 Cavalier Z24 Convertible. I also briefly owned a ‘91 Sunbird V6 Convertible that oddly had a stick shift. I’d buy that car back if I could. I’d also love to own a Sunbird Turbo with a stick. Pictured is my first car.
Side note: I almost won a demolition derby with a ‘94 Sunbird that had the 2.0L Opel engine.
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
05/04/2017 at 03:06, STARS: 0
Wow. I’d hate to see what the losers looked like
"TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts" (the-vancen)
05/04/2017 at 03:16, STARS: 0
Yep. Sister has a 2001 Sunfire. I didn’t get lucky with my 400 dollar crap can and neither did she.
"CodyVella" (codyvella)
05/04/2017 at 03:19, STARS: 0
Honestly not as bad. That Sunbird was rotted so it just folded. But that little Opel engine and GM automatic tranny took a shit kicnkin’ and kept on tickin’.
"RT" (rt-p)
05/04/2017 at 04:04, STARS: 0
Nope, we never got them on this side of the pond.
Even if they were sold here - I’d never buy one.
"Maxima Speed" (maximaspeed)
05/04/2017 at 05:24, STARS: 0
I never had one and never will. My dad always said that it would be a mistake to get one. His family has always had trouble with the j body cars. He says they are junk and so does everyone I’ve ever talked to about them. Yet you still see them running around.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
05/04/2017 at 06:01, STARS: 0
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
05/04/2017 at 06:51, STARS: 1
I just saw this Cavalier on Craigslist. It looks like something straight out of The Fast and the Furious , but y’know what, it actually appears to a pretty well-rounded build. The styling may not be quite my thing, but there’s plenty of Fast to make up for all that Furious . I don’t hate it.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
05/04/2017 at 07:18, STARS: 1
I didn’t get a picture, but I saw a second gen Cavalier the other day for the first time since I don’t remember.
My sister bought a brand new ‘03 Cavalier for $12k out the door. It was her first car, and she had it paid off before she graduated high school. Nice car? Hell no. Dependable car? Definitely.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
05/04/2017 at 07:45, STARS: 0
My first brand new car was a ‘90 Sunbird Turbo convertible with a stick. Had it for 5 years. It was a lot of fun, but had all the torque steer and went through 3 turbos and at least one head gasket in 55k.
"S65" (granthp)
05/04/2017 at 08:41, STARS: 0
They have found the stance
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/04/2017 at 08:48, STARS: 0
No low enough
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/04/2017 at 08:50, STARS: 1
Wow two rows of “sponsor” stickers, fancy.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/04/2017 at 08:52, STARS: 0
My wife’s was her first car too. Her cousin had it, and sold it to her dad. She only paid for half of it as a graduation present. So she paid 1500 bucks for it drove it for 6 years and over 80,000 miles, then sold it for 1000 bucks,
"hellriaser" (hellriaser)
05/04/2017 at 09:05, STARS: 1
Wow, a completely untouched “era” show car, wonder where it has been hiding since it retired in 2004ish
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
05/04/2017 at 09:08, STARS: 1
They’re total cockroaches.
"S65" (granthp)
05/04/2017 at 09:18, STARS: 0
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/04/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 0
Better. Body kits are cheating
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
05/04/2017 at 09:26, STARS: 0
I’ve actually been searching CL for Z24 convertibles off and on. I had a 1992 with the atrocious 3-speed Auto for a while when I was in high school and always was jealous of the Z24 5-speeds. I realize they are crap, but $2000 for a clean convertible seems to be the going rate and for nostalgia that is tempting.
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
05/04/2017 at 12:28, STARS: 1
Looks like I win for having owned the oldest J-body. No pics because why the fuck would I but I had a 1987 Cavalier 2.0. 4-door, automatic, nothing special whatsoever.
Being young as I was and more interested in spending my cash on VIDYA GAEMS all I did to it was slap a Flowmaster 40 on it, paint the steelies black (with chrome poverty caps and trim rings!) and replace all the interior bulbs with red-tinted ones. It was atrocious. Particularly in this color:
It was however immaculately reliable and only died after I sold it and the next owner put field gas in it, turning the cat to a brick. I hillhopped the ever-living fuck out of it and it just kept coming back for another beating
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/04/2017 at 12:36, STARS: 0
Say what you will about the iron duke, it’s a hard one to kill
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
05/04/2017 at 12:40, STARS: 0
Not a Duke unfortunately. Common misconception though. The Cav never got the Duke.
"Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!" (theduckduck)
05/04/2017 at 13:53, STARS: 0
Oh my god! I likes that! I likes that a lot!
"CodyVella" (codyvella)
05/04/2017 at 18:54, STARS: 1
I like how GM just plucked an engine from the Opel lineup, stuck a Turbo on it and said “No, we don’t need to upgrade anything else. Maybe give it a bit more boost, yes”. Then ultimately as we all know, they just ate headgaskets because boost.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
05/04/2017 at 20:02, STARS: 0
Yup. Exactly that. I’m pretty sure it was an 8 valve, and certainly didn’t have an intercooler or anything else that might have helped my 22 year old idiot self get it past 50k without grenading turbos on a regular basis.
I still recall that the owners manual recommended that the car idle for 30 seconds prior to shutdown, so the turbo could spool down. I think I did that for about the first 6 months I owned it, max.
It was fun when it worked though.
They were such unreliable engines, it must be nearly impossible to find one intact now.
"CodyVella" (codyvella)
05/04/2017 at 21:07, STARS: 1
Turbos are hard to come by now, and all the ones that do still exist are Automatics. I actually recently stumbled across a ‘89 Sunbird Turbo Sedan, but it was rough. But from ‘92-’94 the base Sunbird had the exact same engine minus the turbo. Those ones are impossible to kill. The poor Cavalier still got that garbage 2.2L pushrod GM powerplant.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
05/04/2017 at 23:20, STARS: 0
IIRC, most of the turbos were autos back then, even. There was some conventional wisdom that thought turbos were best paired with automatics around that time (why I have no idea). I liked the stick so I could keep the tach at around 2800+, no turbo lag then. :)