11/10 would drive

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 01/16/2019 at 20:26 • Filed to: None

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Fun fact: a ‘91 Chevy Lumina sedan was the first car I ever drove at the age of 9 after riding in it almost every day of my life to that point , and I drove it to its final resting place in the junkyard since it was our fourth car at the time and had a leaky rear main seal but was otherwise perfect (except for the clearcoat) with over 310,000 miles on it . I have an immense amount of nostalgia for these godawful rental shitboxes and I swear I’ll own one someday and basically do the above photo to it, and probably involving some manner of 3800 Series II and a Getrag 284.

Chariotoflove > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/16/2019 at 20:35

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Well it was a 4 dr Beretta, which was basically a sports car. At least that’s what Chevy told us.

AestheticsInMotion > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/16/2019 at 20:44

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I don’t get y ou guys and your 90's d omestic economy car fetishes.

*places another Benjamin on the PCV valve as an offering to keep the Volvo running another day *

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/16/2019 at 20:46

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My '91 grand Prix with the 3.1 ran fantastic and didn't burn any oil when I sold it in 2001 with 250,000 miles. I liked it more than the 2004 GXP I owned much later.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/16/2019 at 20:51

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If that was your family’s fourth car, what were the other three?

I suppose the first car I got moving was our family’s Mazda 626 when I was a young kid on summer break. I must’ve been around 4-5 years old; I remember it was a nice day and my mom was cleaning the car interior in our driveway . She ran inside briefly to do something and I must’ve pulled the handbrake since the car slowly rolled backwards onto our neighbour’s lawn (I believe I was just “pretend” driving at the time).

Mom ran out the house freaking out but I enjoyed my brief excursion. It was a very quiet residential area so there wasn’t much of a chance of hurting myself, but thank fuck that some other poor stranger wasn’t behind me at the time.

That was the first time I “drove” a manual car, something I wouldn’t do again until I was 28 years old, and that was only marginally better than my first time.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Chariotoflove 01/16/2019 at 21:18

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It’s much larger than a Beretta. W body platform (Grand Prix, etc.) , not L body (Cavalier, etc.), and was available as both a two door and four door.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > gin-san - shitpost specialist 01/16/2019 at 21:19

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At that time we had:
2000 Buick LeSabre
1980-something Chevy Malibu station wagon
1996 Chrysler LHS

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/16/2019 at 21:57

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We had an LHS for like 3 months. It was broken all of it. This was like in 1998-99, so it was still fairly new. 

Chariotoflove > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/16/2019 at 22:40

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Okay, then I remembered it wrong. It’s the Corsica. I was thinking of the Corsica, not the Lumina

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Chariotoflove 01/17/2019 at 07:22

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Um, it was a 4 door version of the 2 door Lumina.

The 4 dr Beretta was the Corsica.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/17/2019 at 07:23

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I feel like the Lumina of that era has aged very well. 

Chariotoflove > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 01/17/2019 at 09:23

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Yeah, I remembered that later (see my answer to Jake after he corrected me). My brain was not functioning well. 

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 01/17/2019 at 09:56

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We are basically the only two people, then.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Chariotoflove 01/17/2019 at 10:02

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It happens.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/17/2019 at 10:02

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A SC 3800 Lumina would be amazing!

Khalbali > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/17/2019 at 10:03

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I almost got a z34 coupe but that sedan looks lovely, I've always though they were good looking, just never driven one but GM makes me want.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Khalbali 01/17/2019 at 10:31

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I just love the interior so much. Horizontal strip of instruments, super overstuffed plush seats, super clicky switches.

C62030 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/17/2019 at 11:30

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I feel like every time I see someone mention one of these godawful rental shitboxes, it’s in the context of how actually-not-godawful they were.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > C62030 01/17/2019 at 12:05

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Yeah... funny how that works.

Khalbali > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/17/2019 at 21:34

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Those s eats do look comfy..... I really hate leather.