On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Dr. Faustus wrote:
> A Chevette was my first car. I could kill the damn thing. Never thought
>such a
> piece of junk would be so reliable. I jumped it over railroad tracks, raced
>my
> friends Rally style (In his old Tercel), Glued a Big Gulp cup to the top...
>Finally
> sold it for scrap four years later when it wouldn't pass emmisions anymore.
>The
> yard gave me $80 bucks for mine, and hauled it anyway. He probably adjusted
>the
> carb and gave it to his kid...
The local yard re-assembles the good ones and crushes the lousy ones. The
stupid things go forever (so long as ya don't hit anything too hard). I
have done amazingly horrible things to my car-- nothing illegal (I
think!), but stuff like "in situ" rotor rebuilds, side-of-road hydraulic
work, starter, $50 exhaust system (the stock one's well over $200 cdn!),
piece of sheetmetal over the Flinstone Floorboards, etc, etc.
She leaks oil pretty bad and there's not much left to part out. I will
keep the battery for the TR4 until I can get a stronger one. Every week I
get a new squeak, thump, grind or shimmy. This time i have to adjust the
back hatch...
One of my dreams is to take a chevette and shoehorn a Lotus twin-cam 1.8
engine (or a buick / ford V6)inside - just to blow the socks off the '65
289 Mustang that cruises around here... and maybe take a stab at the
wound-up Capri too... <dream>
I dont' know what my next car will be. Probably whatever I can afford
when this one gives up the ghost. But I sure like the simplicity of the
front-engine, rear-drive system. Now, if only they couldn't kept it on a
frame... yeah... and made it smaller, and convertible, stuck on bigger
wheels & engine... that's the tickey
-Malcolm
'62 TR4
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