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had one of these i bought for 200, drove the chit out of it for 2 yrs then sold it for 500. You shoulda hung onto it for a while...looks like they're going for $2500 these days.
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buddy in high school had a vega with a 454 in it, ran pretty good.
How? A buddy and I shoehorned a 350 into one and that was bad enough.
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buddy in high school had a vega with a 454 in it, ran pretty good.
How? A buddy and I shoehorned a 350 into one and that was bad enough. I'm surprised they didn't tip over onto the front bumper! RS
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buddy in high school had a vega with a 454 in it, ran pretty good.
How? A buddy and I shoehorned a 350 into one and that was bad enough. his dad traded a Kawasaki 900 for it, it was a all out drag car that was street legal but not very streetable. tubbed, tube chassis.
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If you bought 'em used, in reasonable condition, it was hard to beat a K-car for basic trans. Low initial purchase price. Low cost of operation. Reasonable fuel economy. Bought each of my daughters one when they started driving for approx $1,000 each. Liability insurance. One lasted two years till it got caught in a flood. One slid off a snowy back road into a telephone pole. Both daughters were O.K. afterwards. No worry about the vehicles...
IIRC, with at least one engine-transmission combination on the Citation, it required unbolting an engine mount and jacking the engine up to change the oil filter. BIL had a shop and started using a hole saw to cut an access in the front fender well. Sheet metal screwed a cover plate over the hole. Had to take a wheel off to change the oil. But, beat messing with an engine mount.
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The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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I would drive that Gremlin right now! What a babe magnet!
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Maybe in a Walmart parking lot.
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Pontiac Aztec. From the same company that produced the 389 GTO and the 455 SD Trans Am? That thing looks like a miniature garbage truck I work with a guy that hit a deer in WvA with that pile of junk on I77. Nearly killed him and his entire family.
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Every auto maker has its duds. Honda airbags kills you. Toyota sudden acceleration kills you. Might as well follow OUR PRESIDENT and BUY AMERICAN! By the way, OrangeOkie - what do you drive? Is this thread just to make you fell good about your Asian junk? You very dumbphuck...You do realize that GM,Dodge and Ford all use Takata airbags.
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You very dumbphuck...You do realize that GM,Dodge and Ford all use Takata airbags. So, why are all the deaths occurring in Honda's and not other brands, Einstein? Click Here
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You very dumbphuck...You do realize that GM,Dodge and Ford all use Takata airbags. So, why are all the deaths occurring in Honda's and not other brands, Einstein? Click HereBecause they sell more of them Dumb Phugg and they are actually driven and not sitting in a mechanic shop. They last 10 to 1 .. Easy Peasy
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Gremlin I'd take a gremlin or a vega any day.
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The Chevy Vega had to be about the biggest piece of shyt in my memory. Followed closely by the Chevette and Ford pinto. I had a Tempo and while slow it was a good, dependable car. My own personal award for biggest piece of shyt goes to the Chevy S-10 Blazer I had. Something went wrong with that heap every other week. It was so bad I've never bought another GM product since I got rid of it in 1996 and I never will. I am with you, will not even rent one since early 80's. Cheers NC
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Pops had a Blazer S10. Rode like crap but was problem free up to 100K then engine died. Put a reman in it and some bimbo swerved to miss a cat and trashed it (parked on street).
Chevette............Pops had one of those too. I beat the living snot out of it. Broken shifter bushing was the only prob in 165K miles. Floorboard rusted out, had to make a new one. Sold to a kid that drove it for years til a truck backed into it.
I had a well worn one, drove it for a few yrs, pushing 200K. Finally had the head crack. Did a pretty deep gulley crossing on Jeep trail in my deer woods with it, to fetch a deer. Amazingly, all the glass stayed in.
My brother laughed his arse off.
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Gremlin I'd take a gremlin or a vega any day. Back in my youthful days I had a Vega, Gremlin, and a several different K-Cars. The Vega was a good idea gone bad. It would rust while you were looking at it, and the interior fell apart as fast as the paint job. The Gremlin was a giant step up from the Vega, and was actually a fun, functional car. I also had a Plymouth Reliant, Dodge 400, and a Chrysler New Yorker -- They were all head and shoulders above the Vega and Gremlin.
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You very dumbphuck...You do realize that GM,Dodge and Ford all use Takata airbags. So, why are all the deaths occurring in Honda's and not other brands, Einstein? Click HereBecause they sell more of them Dumb Phugg and they are actually driven and not sitting in a mechanic shop. They last 10 to 1 .. Easy Peasy In your dreams. Next time, try responding with facts - not fiction.
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we had a ford escort that my mom bought new, between her my dad, me and my brothers driving it, it had over 400,000 miles on it and was still running when we got rid of it. We had an 82 and a 91 escort. Or an 81 and a 92? NO matter. They wont win any races, but manual trans were fast enough to get to school or work good mileage and ran forever. Great car for transportation. The 91 had . a crap ton of miles, and it wasnt all highway, lots of city in there. Just under 300k, and the guy who bought it kept driving it for years. if we are talking cheap reliable gems, the escort is way up there.
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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. . . By the way, OrangeOkie - what do you drive? Is this thread just to make you fell good about your Asian junk? Ha ha ha . . . I consider myself a car connoisseur . . . I currently own five vehicles, and there ain't no junk in the bunch! Here is a thread with all of the cars I have owned or currently own. I also have a 2012 Ford F-150 Boss 302 and 2016 Audi A7 TDI not shown. https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...828773/re-cars-i-have-owned#Post13828773
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
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K cars were decent basic transportation. i don't know much about the X car but there was a schit ton of those running around about 25 years ago. when i was but a lowly E4 i went out and bought a brand new 1986 ford escort. the base model pony. manual steering and brakes and 4 speed, no a/c. it cost me 5400 bucks. i proceeded to drop a 400 dollar bad ass stereo in that thing and drove the schit out of it for 12 years and 160k miles. i even ran that thing plumb out of oil one time and it still ran for several years. it still ran when i sold it to my neighbor for 200 bucks.
My diploma is a DD214
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