"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
09/26/2018 at 12:04 • Filed to: Light water damage
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"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
09/26/2018 at 12:04 • Filed to: Light water damage | 1
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What are the odds that THIS is the cover image for a story on flooded cars left behind by Florence?
photo credit: getty images via NPR.org
This was someone’s Pride and Joy, I can just tell. They kept it going all these years only to have it all end in tragedy. Then, the first paragraph is even weirder:
The first thing that hit Ashley Simpson when she opened her car door was the smell: a rotten, stale, mold smell, leftover from the sewage-contaminated floodwaters that engulfed her silver
2010 Chevrolet HHR
Cruiser during Hurricane Florence.
[
update:
I realize now that an HHR is like a PT Cruiser. Weird, but not exclusively-old-man-weird. The SSR is the “truck” whose highest-mileage example has to be around 10,000. Carry on.
]
A 2010 HHR?? How weird is that? Like, of all the thousands of anonymous crossovers and bloated CUVs, mediocre sedans, and of course pickup trucks, they found someone with an HHR. And there’s yet another twist:
The car was considered a total loss by her insurance company. She had just finished paying it off over the summer.
So this was her daily driver? Do you know anyone, have you ever heard of anyone daily-driving an HHR? I thought they were exclusively bought by middle-aged men and parked in their spotless garage next to their Harley. I guess I was wrong. I also cringe to imagine the terms of her loan that she’s just paying off a 2010 HHR eight years later.
[ yes, I had the HHR and SSR backwards in my mind.]
I really do feel bad for her, of course, along with everyone else affected by this storm. I just thought this particular article had a few surprisingly Jalop things about it, and figured I’d share.
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Quadradeuce
> functionoverfashion
09/26/2018 at 12:07 |
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Are you thinking of the SSR? The HHR was GM’s version of the PT Cruiser.
Wacko
> functionoverfashion
09/26/2018 at 12:13 |
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HHR is GM PT cruiser based on a Cruse,
SSR is that retro pickup thing.
Mercedes Streeter
> functionoverfashion
09/26/2018 at 12:17 |
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I also cringe to imagine the terms of her loan that she’s just paying off a 2010 HHR eight years later.
She could have purchased it used with decent terms. :)
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functionoverfashion
> Quadradeuce
09/26/2018 at 12:23 |
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I’m just directly quoting the article, which seems to have added the word Cruiser to HHR mistakenly.
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functionoverfashion
> Wacko
09/26/2018 at 12:24 |
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Oh yeah, I was confusing those two.
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functionoverfashion
> Quadradeuce
09/26/2018 at 12:24 |
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Also, yes. The HHR is still not exactly common, but I was thinking of the SSR.
facw
> functionoverfashion
09/26/2018 at 12:43 |
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Yeah, the HHR was purchased mostly by rental companies as far as I can tell (Enterprise was always trying to stick me with one).
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functionoverfashion
> Mercedes Streeter
09/26/2018 at 12:43 |
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You’re right, and I’m also mistaken about the HHR vs the SSR. The HHR is much more understandable, but still a little unusual.
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facw
> Mercedes Streeter
09/26/2018 at 12:44 |
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Or even crappy terms. I sincerely hope no one took out an 96-month loan to buy an HHR, so a used purchase seems much more plausible.
Ash78, voting early and often
> functionoverfashion
09/26/2018 at 12:48 |
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Has anyone come into this thread to assume you meant SSR, not HHR?
If not, I shall be the first!!
/s
//kinja sucks
Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
> Mercedes Streeter
09/26/2018 at 12:49 |
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Yeah, CarMax has some 2010 HHRs below $10k right now. Could definitely see a reasonable 36 month loan in there.
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functionoverfashion
> Ash78, voting early and often
09/26/2018 at 13:10 |
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WELL DONE SIR
I may have to edit the part about the HHR.