My folks bought an Aries K station wagon late 80's. I guess that's what you mean by k car? Ran great for a lot of years till my brother cross threaded a spark plug. I think they junked it after that, I don't remember. I wasn't big enough to reach the pedals or drive it so I have no idea except it ran for a lot of miles for us.
Buddy had a chevette in HS. Pulling the e brake and spinning tight turns on dirt was good clean fun for dumbass teenagers.
My dad also had bought an escort, can't remember the year but it was a 1/2 year model, manual transmission. Ran it a lot of miles and it ran good till it didn't. And getting parts was a mofo, because it was some odd year model. I want to say 85 1/2 maybe?
