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This car came from the California central valley... only rust problem is a spot about an inch round on the rear passenger side rocker. It was garage kept and still has the original vinyl padded dash and door panels. :thmbsp: |
I loved my grand am that i transplanted a w41 ho quad four into.
Drove it for over 20 years put over 450,000 miles on it Very fast and cheap to own I did all of the repairs and maintenance my self. No prelude ever out ran me :D |
My w41 was extrude honed had hollow aftermarket cams - - etc
Lots of modifications It had about 230+ hp and it was reliable I drove it very hard all the time like a idiot. :D I drove it like i stole it |
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I liked them, they were kinda neat. I made a body kit for one of them too.....out of plastic gutters, and painted it same color as the car. It actually looked really good! Although I did like the 85 1/2 Escort/Lynx style better....when they came out, I was amazed at the sexy European look they had. Well, after all, it was 1985...... ;) |
The Escort EXP was a good one too. Such an improvement over the Pinto-Mustang II "POS platform".
I knew many who had the Lynx-Escorts, always lending a hand to fix them. It was a "world car", using much design from Ford of Cologne Germany. Ford of Cologne Germany gave us the Mercury Capri from 1971-76, a true pocket rocket with that wicked-running 2.8 V6, but the body rusted bad and electrical system was a disaster, they kept running long after the garages refused to pass inpsection on them. The chevette also had lots of critics but the simplicity of rear wheel drive made them so easy to fix. |
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GM, also sold those to AMC for the Jeep Cherokee. Bad choice. Regarding the people that grumble about the government bailout of the auto industry, Chrysler paid back the money, with interest, in less time, than planned. I have no problems with the GM bailout, even though, I'm not crazy about their products. How many more people do you want on the unemployement line? :sigh: |
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I have a bunch of the harder-to-find, mostly NOS non-mechanical parts for the 1981-early 1985 models, including the little black hubcaps that were exclusive to the lower-trim models. A 1981-82 grille hangs on the wall above my desk. One good thing about this car's lack of popularity as that many parts can be had cheap. I figure it was better to start stockpiling these parts when I did, rather than trying to find the parts when the need comes up. |
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Those Shitvettes were as exciting as watching paint dry, but were almost as reliable as hammers-Front engine, rear-wheel drive, a combination that was well & truly understood by the late Sixties/early Seventies..Didn't they soldier on til '85 or so ?
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The only problem with the Chevettes is the front suspension was weak, cross-member issues and threw the camber way off. I remember seeing a lot of ads for alignments and in small print said "toe in only on chevettes". I owned a '76 Capri(or crappi) as a lot of people said but was a pretty good car except for the C3 automatic which started pouring fluid out of the torque converter seal. Only $300 to rebuild the trans(those were the days!!)
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IIRC, the Chevette was GM's 1st "World Car", a design that with small modifications, could be sold in virtually any market they serviced. I THOUGHT most of the initial design work was done in South America, I could be wrong. Think they called it the "T" car at the time..It was, in '76, however, a design that was on the way out, for the nominative car design from then til now has basically been a transverse-engine, front wheel drive set up..
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Super duty or ho versions of the iron duke are pretty kool
3200 cc ho 4 banger |
When I was in high school in the early 80's the student parking lot was literally half full of Chevettes or Pontiac T1000s with an occasional Ford Fiesta or Dodge Omni thrown in. They had absolutly no resale value, which is why they were popular with kids cause they were cheap. The other half of the cars were old farm trucks, or 70's era family trucksters (my group), or old muscle cars that had no resale value thanks to $1/gallon gas.
By the time I went to college in the late 80's Escorts had replaced most Chevettes. I can tell you they didn't last as long as either. But, like the Chevette, most people drove them 'till they fell apart because they just weren't worth anything on a trade in. |
SandyG, I like your avatar. That is a REAL CAR!
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