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Title: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Stewart G Griffin on July 01, 2016, 08:45:01 pm
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i think the front end looks good and it looks better than 99% of what's produced today.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: LTZ C20 on July 01, 2016, 09:23:28 pm
No. No. Just no.





But at the same time yes, yes and yes.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: FlatBlack77 on July 02, 2016, 06:31:09 am
(http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/trailertrashtransam/jim%20carrey%20gag.gif)
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: VileZambonie on July 02, 2016, 08:38:32 am
Reminds me of one of those bugs that flies in your house and you go to kill it but it's so ugly you feel bad for it so you catch and release
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: LTZ C20 on July 02, 2016, 09:43:16 am
Reminds me of one of those bugs that flies in your house and you go to kill it but it's so ugly you feel bad for it so you catch and release
LMFAO!
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Stewart G Griffin on July 02, 2016, 10:12:05 am
i still stand by my assertion that the front end looks good and better than 99% of what's being produced today.  The front end now, i'm not talking about the rest......

Drop a 4.3 in there and you have a tuff car.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: zieg85 on July 02, 2016, 11:01:43 am
Two each is own.  I think I threw up a little in my mouth...  I think I would rather drive an AMC Gremlin or Pacer...
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Engineer on July 03, 2016, 08:17:36 pm
Ugh.

The 1970s were not kind to our society. Platform shoes, bell bottoms, disco, and now the love child of the Chrysler Córdoba.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: LTZ C20 on July 03, 2016, 10:46:00 pm
GM trucks were 1 of only a few good things to come from the 70s hahaha.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Irish_Alley on July 06, 2016, 05:29:39 pm
i think i would rock it. i mean something big and goofy looking riding in something small and goofy looking, it would be a chick magnet. but im married and dont need that attention from the chicks  8)
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Blazin on July 07, 2016, 07:15:48 pm
Reminds me of those 39 Ford noses you could put on a VW Bug.
Its like a car crash, you wanna look, but you kinda don't wanna look, but you look anyway!
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Stewart G Griffin on July 08, 2016, 09:14:01 am
I apologize for bringing this topic up.  :)
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: roundhouse on July 08, 2016, 10:57:00 pm
Reminds me of those 39 Ford noses you could put on a VW Bug.
Its like a car crash, you wanna look, but you kinda don't wanna look, but you look anyway!
Worse than a car crash
It's like when some chick gets drunk , hops on a table and announces that she used to be a guy before the surgery , and offers to let everyone see what the doc in Switzerland did


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Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: roundhouse on July 08, 2016, 11:00:40 pm
Two each is own.  I think I threw up a little in my mouth...  I think I would rather drive an AMC Gremlin or Pacer...
The Gremlins were actually kinda cool
My mom had a 67 beetle and then a 73 Gremlin and then a 80 chevette

With the chevette  and the Cadillac version of the Chevy cavalier
And GM still wonders why Honda and Toyota kicked their butts


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Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: werewolfx13 on July 30, 2016, 01:01:53 am
I kinda like it.... ???
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Dr_Snooz on July 30, 2016, 11:20:02 pm
The writing in that article is really good. The author is really talented.

The car is ghastly.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: hatzie on July 31, 2016, 01:50:37 pm
Two each is own.  I think I threw up a little in my mouth...  I think I would rather drive an AMC Gremlin or Pacer...
The Gremlins were actually kinda cool
My mom had a 67 beetle and then a 73 Gremlin and then a 80 chevette

With the chevette  and the Cadillac version of the Chevy cavalier
And GM still wonders why Honda and Toyota kicked their butts


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I had a Gremlin X with the mighty mighty 401 AMC.  Heckuva sleeper.
If they had used the Javelin as the base for the Gremlin instead of the Hornet it would've been a pretty cool looking car.
This is the Javelin based AMX-GT concept from the 1968 NY auto show. It'd be cool to find if it survived. http://gremlinx.com/a-brief-history-of-the-amc-gremlin/ (http://gremlinx.com/a-brief-history-of-the-amc-gremlin/)
(http://i1.wp.com/gremlinx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1968_AMC_AMX_GT_Concept.jpg?w=1500)
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Stewart G Griffin on August 01, 2016, 08:10:34 pm
Two each is own.  I think I threw up a little in my mouth...  I think I would rather drive an AMC Gremlin or Pacer...
The Gremlins were actually kinda cool
My mom had a 67 beetle and then a 73 Gremlin and then a 80 chevette

With the chevette  and the Cadillac version of the Chevy cavalier
And GM still wonders why Honda and Toyota kicked their butts

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i'm sorry  but i think the chevette is/was a good car except for being underpowered, which can be remedied, and cramped due the trans protruding into the cabin, which can't really be remedied. 
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: roundhouse on August 02, 2016, 07:02:52 am
Two each is own.  I think I threw up a little in my mouth...  I think I would rather drive an AMC Gremlin or Pacer...
The Gremlins were actually kinda cool
My mom had a 67 beetle and then a 73 Gremlin and then a 80 chevette

With the chevette  and the Cadillac version of the Chevy cavalier
And GM still wonders why Honda and Toyota kicked their butts

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i'm sorry  but i think the chevette is/was a good car except for being underpowered, which can be remedied, and cramped due the trans protruding into the cabin, which can't really be remedied.
A Toyota celica used less gas , was lighter,  faster and far more reliable
Plus held its value , something Big three vehicles are not familiar with

I had a 77 and an 80 celica
Fantastic cars


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Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: hatzie on August 02, 2016, 06:59:20 pm
Two each is own.  I think I threw up a little in my mouth...  I think I would rather drive an AMC Gremlin or Pacer...
The Gremlins were actually kinda cool
My mom had a 67 beetle and then a 73 Gremlin and then a 80 chevette

With the chevette  and the Cadillac version of the Chevy cavalier
And GM still wonders why Honda and Toyota kicked their butts

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i'm sorry  but i think the chevette is/was a good car except for being underpowered, which can be remedied, and cramped due the trans protruding into the cabin, which can't really be remedied.
A Toyota celica used less gas , was lighter,  faster and far more reliable
Plus held its value , something Big three vehicles are not familiar with

I had a 77 and an 80 celica
Fantastic cars


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I gotta agree on that.  Toyota was always very reliable.  The Celica beat the big four and the Datsun Z car in reliability and it was pretty quick.

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Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: Stewart G Griffin on August 02, 2016, 11:40:46 pm
Two each is own.  I think I threw up a little in my mouth...  I think I would rather drive an AMC Gremlin or Pacer...
The Gremlins were actually kinda cool
My mom had a 67 beetle and then a 73 Gremlin and then a 80 chevette

With the chevette  and the Cadillac version of the Chevy cavalier
And GM still wonders why Honda and Toyota kicked their butts

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i'm sorry  but i think the chevette is/was a good car except for being underpowered, which can be remedied, and cramped due the trans protruding into the cabin, which can't really be remedied.
A Toyota celica used less gas , was lighter,  faster and far more reliable
Plus held its value , something Big three vehicles are not familiar with

I had a 77 and an 80 celica
Fantastic cars


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To sleepy to get into it now, but wanted to respond so i wouldn't forget about it.

i want specs.   How much better mpg?   What celica got over 59mpg?  i'm not too concerned about weight right now.  As far as faster, yes MOST cars were are faster than a chevette.  i'm not concerned about that either right now.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: hatzie on August 03, 2016, 07:51:37 pm
My 1978 47hp 1.5L VW diesel got 55mpg. 

No Chevette even came close to 59mpg.  The 1.8L 51hp Isuzu diesel got 34/40 City/Hwy. 
They're in the same ballpark but the Chevette is less.  The 52hp 1.4L Chevette got EPA 28mpg hwy.  The 117hp 2.0L Celica GT got EPA 32mpg hwy.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: LTZ C20 on August 04, 2016, 11:34:50 pm
I've driven multiple Chevy Cruze's with GM's  2.0L EcoTec turbo diesel and repeatedly achieved 60-65 mpg. The best I ever got was 66 mpg on a 20 mile straight drive. I think I remember hearing rumors that if you filled up and jumped on the freeway and just drove you could get 700 miles out of a single tank. Never heard if this was true tho. I love them, if I was looking to buy that vehicle specifically, I would only get the turbo diesel. Only down side is the DEF fluid, we won't get into that tho.
Title: Re: When you try to combine monte carlo and chevette.............
Post by: roundhouse on August 06, 2016, 08:50:00 am
Two each is own.  I think I threw up a little in my mouth...  I think I would rather drive an AMC Gremlin or Pacer...
The Gremlins were actually kinda cool
My mom had a 67 beetle and then a 73 Gremlin and then a 80 chevette

With the chevette  and the Cadillac version of the Chevy cavalier
And GM still wonders why Honda and Toyota kicked their butts

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i'm sorry  but i think the chevette is/was a good car except for being underpowered, which can be remedied, and cramped due the trans protruding into the cabin, which can't really be remedied.
A Toyota celica used less gas , was lighter,  faster and far more reliable
Plus held its value , something Big three vehicles are not familiar with

I had a 77 and an 80 celica
Fantastic cars


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To sleepy to get into it now, but wanted to respond so i wouldn't forget about it.

i want specs.   How much better mpg?   What celica got over 59mpg?  i'm not too concerned about weight right now.  As far as faster, yes MOST cars were are faster than a chevette.  i'm not concerned about that either right now.
I doubt a Chevette diesel averaged 59 but I dunno
Mine was a gas burner and I don't Remember what it got exactly
The Celtics was a heck of a lot more fun to drive and faster and handled far better and unlike a Chevy , never broke down .

I ditched the Celica for a 71 Trans-am


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