Something I haven't seen in a long while.

"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani) 04/01/2019 at 18:41 • Filed to: Chevrolet, Malibu

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N-Body Malibu. I’m surprised it runs.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 18:47

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I see these often in Indiana. They are quite crusty.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 18:55

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Aside from the transmissions, hateful interior, and numerous tiny cheap-to-fix but annoying problems, these things will run almost forever. You see quite a few where the rust doesn’t get them.

ToyotaFamily > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 18:59

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Isn’t there a saying that GM products are the cars that will run the longest at their worst? 

wafflesnfalafel > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 19:02

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O ur neighbor’s mother has a silver one just like that except no rear spoiler - had it since new. It’s dinged up and sounds pretty ratty , but she only drives is between her senior living place, the grocery store and her son’s place.

Ash78, voting early and often > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 19:44

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I see these several times a day. They were the go-to cheap car for BHPH lots before the Koreans took over that honor.

WilliamsSW > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 19:50

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Earlier today I saw a Malibu one generation newer than this one that was absolutely pristine. That’s a miracle around Chicago, I presume it was retiree owned. 

theloudmouth > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 20:23

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It is amazing how many you still see in metro Detroit, clinging to life and arthritic.

404 - User No Longer Available > WilliamsSW 04/01/2019 at 20:35

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I presume it was retiree owned.

Judging by that old-style Ontario plate, I’m assuming this one is too. That plate dates back to at least the mid-80s. When my family arrived in the 1990, plates already started with K, this one starts with E.

WilliamsSW > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 21:13

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I think the only way those survive is in the hands of a retiree that drives 3k miles per year, keeps it in the garage, and says yes to all maintenance recommendations. 

Under_Score > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/01/2019 at 21:49

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These are still everywhere in the south.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > 404 - User No Longer Available 04/02/2019 at 01:25

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They are everywhere   in NM. I assume most of them were stolen somewhere else and ended up here.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > WilliamsSW 04/02/2019 at 01:28

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Heck just about all of the generation after that one (7th gen ‘08-12) that I see are completely trashed. There is one in the lot at work with completely peeled/faded paint, totally rusted steel wheels, yellow head lights, green window tint, dented body panels  and a broken windshield.  Pretty rough for a car 10 years old at the most - and every single one that generation is almost as bad.