"SmugAardvark" (SmugAardvark)
02/28/2020 at 21:53 • Filed to: cavalier, Chevrolet
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"SmugAardvark" (SmugAardvark)
02/28/2020 at 21:53 • Filed to: cavalier, Chevrolet | 4
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Today I f ound this picture on an old CD of random files from one of the computers I owned somewhere around the turn of the century. Judging by my car and the location of the photo , this must have been 2001, or possibly early 2002 . Definitely still in my teenage years, and most likely while I was working inside that very brightly- colored and brightly-lit building.
Can any Oppos identify where this picture was taken? I assume at least one of you have been there before.
Obviously, the car is a Chevrolet Cavalier. A little background, it was a 1997 Rally Sport model, 5MT with the 2.2L inline 4. It was my first autocross and track day car, and the one I came within a few inches of spinning into a barrier at Sebring Raceway. At the point of the photograph, it appears to be at stock ride height . Looks like I already went with 16x7.5 wheels with Falken Azenis (back when they were all the rage), some very beefy sway bars, and the standard aftermarket bolt-ons, intake/header/exhaust.
It was never a great car in any regard, but I thrashed the hell out of it and it never once broke down. Even won a few SCCA Solo 2 HSP-Class events with it. I’ll have to dig around some more CD’s, but I have a great picture of this car mid-turn with one rear wheel about 3" or 4" in the air at a local autocross.
I eventually traded it in for the first (and to this day, only) brand new car I bought off a dealer lot, the 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege.
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> SmugAardvark
02/28/2020 at 22:59 |
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Cocoa Beach Ron Jon’s?
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SmugAardvark
> someassemblyrequired
02/29/2020 at 02:03 |
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