malaise

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 05/24/2018 at 04:56 • Filed to: almost hour rule, malaise, chevrolet, chev, chevy

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. . > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/24/2018 at 05:07

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God, that thing is depressing.

pip bip - choose Corrour > . . 05/24/2018 at 05:19

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:)

WilliamsSW > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/24/2018 at 05:30

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Official Car of Soul Crushing Despair

Long-Voyager > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/24/2018 at 07:26

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Looks clean.

I’d rock it as a daily until it rotted apart.....

fhrblig > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/24/2018 at 07:46

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My friend had an ‘86. It was an automatic, but 3rd gear was gone. First and second still worked. She drove it for about two years that way. They were crap, but they were unkillable.

Grindintosecond > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/24/2018 at 09:26

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I’m going to defend the 80's here. Imho, malaise ended in the early 80s, like 81 our something with the emergence of the the K car and chevy celebrity. They were successful instead of suck. The chevy celebrity was the best selling of ALL sedans in America at the time beating foreign market. The cavalier?....well, just an 80% scale model. I’m not saying they were great cars. It was a time of recovery where something was finally reasonably reliable and with good mileage. A winning exit from malaise and above water manufacturers.

Grindintosecond > WilliamsSW 05/24/2018 at 09:26

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That would be the early taurus...showing everyone you gave up on dreams.

WilliamsSW > Grindintosecond 05/24/2018 at 10:13

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I remember when these things were all new — and yeah, I agree that these cars were a step forward from the trash of the late ‘70s, but these cars were far from good. I turned 16 in 1984, and people were getting excited because the Camaro and Mustang were getting back to the 200 HP mark - I wouldn’t say that the malaise era was over, but you could at least see the light at the end of the tunnel by then.

That said, I refused to consider anything built after 1972 for my first few cars.