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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 01/03/2019 at 06:48 • Filed to: hour rule, chevy, CL, barn finds.com, chev, chevrolet

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Wagon Guy drives a Boostang > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/03/2019 at 07:14

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A friend had one when we were in high school. It was a terrible car.

McMike > Wagon Guy drives a Boostang 01/03/2019 at 07:32

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High-school f riend of mine had a brown two-door. It was “car, ” and that’s about all you could say about it.

Wagon Guy drives a Boostang > McMike 01/03/2019 at 07:36

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yeah, that was about it. I think they were all either brown or green.

Sovande > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/03/2019 at 07:53

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My high school buddy had a yellow/beige two door.  He scrapped the “S” off the name so it just read “cooter.”  He used to drive it full bore into trash cans and it was seemingly indestructible.  Until it wasn’t and he got a Toyota Starlet.  Fun times.

RacinBob > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/03/2019 at 08:16

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A terrible car? You use that word terrible but I don’t think you know what it means ........

M y wife had her “Vette” from about ‘83 to ‘87 as her first car out of college. Indestructable maybe. Not a lick of problems. U nlike the Japanese cars at the time it didn’t rust out in 6 years. I t was s olid as a tank . The Chevette as I recall was based on Opel suspension and actually handled pretty good. If there was any cheap car of the late 70's that might make it to 100,000 miles without a lick of trouble, a Chevette would be at the top of my list.

Granted, the design was uninspired; it was a compact car designed by the same guys who designed 2 ton Chevy Impala’s . A 1978 Chevette is the automotive equivalent of oatmeal pizza. It will feed you but it is not fine automotive cuisine .

Now the Vega with its overheating, oil burning and headgasket throwing engines is another story . Owning one of those would be pretty terrible.

oldmxer > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/03/2019 at 11:14

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had a stripped model like this and a fully opt ioned four door with auto, the cheap one was the best by far, you could wring out the engine with the stick to get the most of the meager power and i used it as a bad weather car when it was too nasty to ride my honda to work, and it handled great on back roads. the extra weight of the 4 door and the auto made it the worst excuse for a car i have ever driven

someassemblyrequired > RacinBob 01/03/2019 at 11:59

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The manuals weren’t that bad. Cheap, RWD, decent handling, simple and reliable.   The autos were terrible though, no power at all.

someassemblyrequired > oldmxer 01/03/2019 at 12:00

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Ha I remember Dad renting a 4dr auto once in Florida. He used the A/C off switch like a nitrous button when passing.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/03/2019 at 12:13

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My sister had a blue Chevette in that exact style... and it had the automatic transmission.

It was a piece of shit.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > RacinBob 01/03/2019 at 12:21

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Yes... these cars had decent rust protection.

While they were better than the POS Vega, all that means is they were merely terrible while the Vega was Really Terrible.

T hey were gutless (especially with the automatic), had crappy brakes, were cramped, had shitty HVAC, had a hard/bouncy ride and did not like to start in really cold weather.

I never owned one. But my siblings I grew up with went through four of them.

Here’s a more detailed review I did years ago after the last Chevette left my family and I finally convinced them not to get anymore Chevettes/Acadians:

http://www.carsurvey.org/reviews/chevrolet/chevette/1987/page-2/

RacinBob > someassemblyrequired 01/03/2019 at 13:55

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Amen. If you wanted a 70's car for transportation only, it’s not bad. Granted a VW Rabbit would be a heck of a lot more fun.

Gas tank aside, would a Pinto be better or worse....... I assume better because more power....