That kid can chevette up his ass

There must be a "Mile of Cars" on that lot.

Up Next... Wheel of Fish!!!
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You So Stupid!

When your Chevette from Long Motors breaks down, you can call Victory Auto Wreckers. Victory will tow it away free, and you'll get cash on the spot. Or save money by fixing up your car with used parts, Victory has seven acres of used parts. Starters, engines, transmissions....

Victory auto wreckers, seven-ten East Green in Bensonville, near O'hare.

I don't think he understands how a microphone works. IMAGINE THAT!!!!!

I prefer Timmy's work with The Lords of the Underworld.....

@OldeEnglishD: TIMMMAH ! !

Chevettes had options?
I do know of a guy who was able to fit a 454 in one.

I always preferred the Ben's Auto Sales commercials.

quick question (and an apparent threadjack)... what the hell happened here this weekend?

If you yell it loud enough, often enough, it starts to sound like a stuttery "SHITS SHITS SHITS," which is wholly appropriate.

@lascauxcaveman: whispering, "timmah"

years later he was arrested in Central park with a cord around his neck and genitals.

Wonder if they are still on the lot?

Well, it's no worse than those "Mel Farr, Superstar!" spots from Detroit back in the '80's.

Could we still get 200 Chevettes on one lot (other than the junkyard)?

Geez, in that spot the kid's voice breaks more often than a chevette's starter solenoid. Hopefully Timmy wasn't forced to work until 10 on school nights, I guess the child labor regulations in Illinois were a lot more liberal back then.

@layabout:
COTD!!!

This is the first time I've been angry at having watched a Classic Ad Watch ad. Screw you Chicago.

...annnnnd Boom goes the dynamite!

Imagine THAT!!!!

My Father had one of these back in the 80's, nicknamed "The Shitter"

When are we going to see the classic add from the detroit area? "We gotz Chevettes, BITCHES!"

@БЯд╒╒ ®: Best YouTube clip EVER!

as annoying as the "head-on" commercials... apply directly to the HEAD-ON, apply directly to the HEAD-ON

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@deckard97: "Chevettes had options?"

Yep... some of the options were:
-power steering
-a radio
-a right side mirror
-a back seat (in the earlier years)
-5 speed manual (4 speed manual was standard even into the 1980s)
-cloth seats

I shit you not... these were actual options on the Chevette. I've been in a 4 speed manual, no power steering, no radio, no right side mirror, plastic seat Chevette.

@Dr.Danger's got nards: Nice reference, good Doctor.

I drove two of 'em used. Poor man's jeep. Say what you want about, but that was the best bang for my buck. Think I paid 450 bucks for my first one. Drove it 'til i toasted the timing belt alignment.

This was hilarious. Thanks for posting it.

@SundaySundayFnC: Someone finally picked up what I was putting down.

@БЯд╒╒ ®: Wert dropped a steamer on us and left for the weekend.

Way back wen a local auto body shop had one as a loner. I took my Honda in to get the bumper fixed and they gave me the Chevette. It was terrifying.

@petersterncan: Don't forget the Woody!

@petersterncan: sounds like you just described a Saturn SL1...

Ahh, the Shove-It. I narrowly avoided having a cream four door as my first car because I'm a tall bastard and my knee kept hitting the steering wheel while working the clutch. Ended up with an 81 Mailbu instead. :D

@beercheck: I feel like we were invaded as their are a lot of new names around here... oh well, it's all good in the jalopnik hood. People are set straight that we can and will go off topic as much as possible...

At first I wanted to pummel this kid, but then I realized that probably happened regularly, what with him being on TV and all. Then I figured that this ad was so ridiculous that I didn't need to make any jokes about it, but then it loaded again accidentally and I wanted to slap the shit out of him again. Poor Timmy.

@petersterncan:
Don't forget a movable passenger seat.

Yes it was an option. A friend's Mom had one and it did not have that option.

@MazdaEric:
I would concur...

@voodoojoo:

Timmy getting that ass kicked,

Imagine that!

My aunt, and later my cousin had that yellow Chevette with the orange and oranger tape stripe package.

Aren't these guys near Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet at York and Roosevelt Road...WHERE YOU ALWAYS SAVE MORE MONEY?

@БЯд╒╒ ®: Yeah, but I think next weekend we should all pick another Gawker site and go visit THEIR house.

Chevettes plus home-made amateur ads = stink up the place. I think there should be a law that no business owner can do his own ad. Source of humor, yes, but painful to watch over and over in your local markets.

Surely someone must know where Timmy is now? Male hooker? Driver's Ed teacher? Dinner theater? Jail?

Seems as though the aerial shot is a parking lot full of non-Chevettes. I really was expecting a sea of Chevettes so I'm a little disappointed.

Wonder if/how long it took till they sold all the 200 Chevettes?

@akirachan:

i think they still have at least 150 of them....

they are perfectly parked too run them over with grave digger of bigfoot...

@Novaload: I can see the VH1 special now:
It all went downhill for Timmy when he entered the underground orangutan nipple sniffing rings of Borneo. Here is a rare video clip of Timmy, nestled in the trees, waiting for his next fix...

ps: watch the ad like 10 times... and you will start thinking about suicide!!!

Timmy looks just like my pastor's youngest son did when he was that age.
Wow, that's freaky.

The Chevette was a POS,but we'll be forced to drive economy rides before too long.

They actually have a class of Chevettes at many short tracks in Kentucky and Ohio and elsehwere. Where are they finding them???

Back in the late 1970s there was a joke going around Chicago.

Q: What's John Wayne Gacy's last request?

A: Timmy of Long Chevrolet.

Back in the late 1970s there was a joke going around in Chicago.

Q: What's John Wayne Gacy's last request?

A: Timmy of Long Chevrolet.

DAMMIT! Slow server = duplicate post.

@Novaload: I like it...

@petersterncan: Buddy of mine back in HS had a '70-whatever Chevette Scooter, and it didn't have all that, and it didn't have vinyl covering the interiot panels either- bare cardboard doorpanels, woohoo! It also didn't have any guts at all (duh, right?) -the only way it broke 75 miles an hour was if I pushed it with my Dart.. it's best "feature" was, it was light enough to pick up and carry out of mudholes.

A disintegrated timing belt killed his Chevette, too.

Hot Rod Magazine years ago shoehorned a junkyard Caddy 500 into one of these shitboxes and pissed off a bunch of musclecar purists at the dragstrip. Loved the indignant letters about what a hot rod really is. My best memory of the Chevette as a kid is a rancher where I lived in North Florida herding cattle with one of these, getting sideways in wet grass chasing the cows around. Thing was yellow. Cows seemed to resent the indignity of the whole thing.