How's this for obscure enthusiasm?

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
07/07/2017 at 13:56 • Filed to: Chevy

Cavalier RS sedan, Cavalier RS coupe. Spotted in Sandpoint.

DISCUSSION (29)

Textured Soy Protein > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 13:59

There’s a house near me that has two Ford Flexes. I keep meaning to take a picture of it and post it here but it’s on a somewhat busier road so I’d have to pull off on a side street and walk back around to take the picture, and I’m always on my way to somewhere else when I drive past it.

For Sweden > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:01

Presumably there’s a collection of 80s economy French cars in Coeur d’Alene

Chariotoflove > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:02

Points for keeping them up.

Respect.

Dave the car guy , still here > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:03

If either or both is the RS with the 3.1 motor they aren’t as bad. Those were like having a Z24 without the ground effects etc. Body stucture was a bit better that the next generation for those years. Being on West Coast they wouldn’t be rusting apart like in the Midwest. I owned one of the RS 3.1 wagons for 12 yrs.

Tekamul > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:06

I have a neighbor with 2 black Impalas. One with a spoiler, the other without. Same generation, could be the same year, they look identical.

Sometimes you like what you like.

EL_ULY > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:09

I approve! Rad set of rides

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:15

We had a ‘93 Cavalier RS with the V6 for a number of years. It was OK, but sortof terrible in that early-90's GM way. I will say that V6 had some punch if you floored it though.

I remember one time mom called at school because she was driving along, heard an unholy bang and noises under the hood (she was almost at work when it happened) and she took it to the garage across the street from her job. One of the spark plug threads was stripped in the HEAD, and the spark plug had chosen that moment to fire out of its hole when the combustion stroke happened, putting a noticeable dent in hood from underneath and leaving the engine running on 5 cylinders.

That was when mom chose to sell it and bought our also-gone 2000 Honda Civic (which eventually was sold due to rust)...

I seem to think I have ONE picture with the Cavalier in it, and it was just a part of it that happened to be in shot. I have several of that Civic, of the ‘93 Caravan BEFORE the Cavalier, and of the cars after the Civic, but yeah....that tells you how anonymous that car was!

The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!) > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:36

I’m part of a group on Facebook dedicated to GM Front Wheel Drive cars. I’m there out of curiosity and an appreciation for the looks of the Chevy Beretta, but there are plenty of hard core Roger Smith-era GM lovers there. This guy might be one of them.

RPM esq. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:42

Are we in the Idaho Sandpoint or somewhere near 50th avenue NE and Sandpoint Way in Seattle?

ranwhenparked > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 14:47

I’m guessing this guy wrote the Wikipedia article on the Cavalier.

CodyVella > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 15:06

Na, I get it.

I want all of the Sunbirds. Coupe, Sedan, Wagon, Hatchback, Convertible, 4 Cylinder, V6, Turbo. All.Of.Them.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 15:08

His and hers presumably. Also probably bought when they retired, now realizing they are still alive and have these shitty cars.

fintail > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 15:16

RS model huh, posh Seattleites. Either an old person who bought the place for 70K in 1980, or someone who likes cars worth 1/300th the price of their house.

thebigbossyboss > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 15:41

GIB GIB GIB!!!

I miss my Brapalier.

lone_liberal > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 15:48

I was a little confused by the Washington plates until I realized you meant the Sandpoint in the Seattle area and not the town in Idaho next to the really deep lake.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 16:26

There’s a house on my top way to work with marching beige Chrysler Seabring convertible and Town an Country. I’m guessing they won some department store give away in 1998.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > RPM esq.
07/07/2017 at 16:45

Latter

RPM esq. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 18:52

You’re in my neighborhood, or nearby... I’d alert the neighborhood watch to be on the lookout for slowmoving Toyotas except that that covers every third car in the area.

Also, I don’t think there’s a neighborhood watch.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > RPM esq.
07/07/2017 at 19:43

The only thing to watch out for us your neighborhood being systematically turned into boxy Townhomes.

shop-teacher > fintail
07/07/2017 at 20:06

I bet it’s the former and these are 1-owner cars.

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 20:07

I bet these are original owner cars.

RPM esq. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 21:25

Very true.

fintail > shop-teacher
07/07/2017 at 21:32

Yep. I think that’s a period correct license plate frame on the blue one.

FWIW, the house price remark was because it’s in a decent area, and is probably worth 750K or maybe more.

shop-teacher > fintail
07/07/2017 at 22:17

I know the housing market there has gone completely bonkers. I have no trouble believing a couple of, for example, school teachers could be living in a normal house that they paid a reasonable sum of money for long ago, that is now worth a freaking fortune because the world has changed around them. There are areas like that in and around Chicago, although not quite to that extreme.

fintail > shop-teacher
07/07/2017 at 22:30

Yep, there are a lot of house-rich boomers and seniors around here. It hasn’t hit all areas, but any decent part of Seattle and numerous nicer suburbs have gone insane. In my area, a house that was 85K in 1983 can easily be 1MM+ now, and that’s land value. A 100K mortgage wasn’t small 30-35 years ago, but a working couple could have made it happen. Good for their luck (when they don’t pretend to be savvy clones of Warren Buffett instead of lucky), but sad too, as a couple generations now are effectively priced out, and a lot of the demand is from sketchy offshore money.

wafflesnfalafel > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/07/2017 at 22:32

clearly you have a time machine and went back to 1994

shop-teacher > fintail
07/07/2017 at 23:12

I know what you mean. There is no possible way that I could afford to live in the town I grew up in. Luckily I found a nice town that reminds me of where I grew up, but back when I was a kid. Everything is changed there now.

fintail > shop-teacher
07/07/2017 at 23:24

That’s a nice thing to have if it is a workable commute. I look at so much of the country and cringe at housing prices, but this is where so many jobs are. A couple towns I grew up in are still relatively affordable too, but a 3 hour each way commute isn’t going to happen. Around here, we are into a new 40 and under generation of renters and condo owners if lucky, unless they are quite successful or have mommy and daddy to help.

shop-teacher > fintail
07/07/2017 at 23:28

Yeah, a three hour commute will not do, no way. That’d put you in an early grave.

My commute is 4-miles to the northeast, and my wife’s is 4-miles to the southwest. It worked out pretty perfectly that way.