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    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
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    Image of ErcoleGesh ErcoleGesh
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    crack pipe-It's simply not possible to use the terms "nice" or "nicest" in the context of ANY Chevette--not on a car where POS was a delete option. The decimal place needs to move at least one place to the left, and probably 2, since the seller carefully avoids pictures of the driver's seat, leading me to suspect it's trashed.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/11/08

    @ErcoleGesh: Why oh why did I read "incest" instead of "nicest" and wonder just why you couldn't use that term regarding a Chevette?
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    Image of bzr bzr
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    Somebody needs to stick it on Top Gear and have it square off against a Lada at an East German military base.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    As much as I'd love having a virtual lock on the subcompact class (assuming there is one) win at the inaugural Concours d'Ignorance, there are probably hundreds of other cars that I can and would rather buy for that kind of coin. Pass the pipe.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    I don't care how nice it is. Cardboard door panels. Pass the pipe.
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    Image of Bo Darville Bo Darville
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    With the possible exception of the Hyundai Pony, my cousin's diesel Chevette was the worst car I have ever experienced, and I have ridden in a fair number of Ladas. There is no reason for this vehicle to continue to exist, other than as a punishment for the beancounters who have destroyed the US auto industry.


    On a side note, I find it almost comical that the estimated fuel cost of $1.55/gallon on the window sticker is actually higher than my corner gas station. I can't imagine this will last.

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    12/11/08

    @Bo Darville: FWIW, the Diesel Chevette was a MUCH worse piece of shit than the gasoline version. I had one (gasoline) with a 4-speed for awhile, and it was a pretty decent car overall.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    Chevettes hold a very special place in my heart as I fell out of a moving one when I was twelve. Oh yes, I had worse concussions in my youth but none as memorable as being spit out of a shoebox on wheels.


    Pass me the pipe...

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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    Even after (or maybe because of) driving a fleet of Chevettes for work for about 8 months, I'm a little nostalgic for them, I wouldn't mind picking one up at a much lower price. But the sight of that automatic transmission lever is enough to give me post-traumatic stress disorder. Terrifying isn't a strong enough word to describe a car that can barely get out of its own way, and stalls if you try to accelerate too quickly, while driving along Huron Church Rd in Windsor (part of the busiest border crossing in the world, populated by hundreds of 18-wheelers).
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    At first I thought it was under-priced, but then I noticed it has an automatic transmission. I wouldn't pay a dime more than $8900.00 for this chevette.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    Pipe with crack in it.


    I just saw a classified ad for a 1998 Olds Intrigue with all options, including leather, and 30,000 miles for $3,995.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/11/08

    @brandegee: And 3.5 Shortstar > pretty much any other GM engine with less than eight cylinders.
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    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    "Hey Honey I bought a 'Vette for $8,995!"
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    So where are these "painted up hussys" the seller refers to? That's grandmaw language and I don't think any Chevette, however modded, would qualify as a "hussy."


    And, if I finance this for 10 years, as the seller offers, why, any budget can afford this charming 4 door "sedan."


    So it's not crack--more like a Geritol OD. Hell, do they even make Geritol anymore? OK, it's a Centrum Silver OD.

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    "Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"


    There are so many fundamentally wrong things here. It's a Chevette. There's a $3000 premium above the original price. It's been lovingly cared for.


    It's a Chevette.


    Somebody toss this guy $250, open up the exhaust and switch out the carb to something less awful, and go beat it to death in the next LeMons.

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    Image of jedchev jedchev
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    I kind of like this car, but $8995 is a lot of dough and it's an automatic, which limits the probability of this thing reaching the posted speed limit. I could buy the world's nicest 81 Cadillac with the only working V8-6-4 for that price. Or maybe I could get GM's car of the future, the 81 Citation. Or I could go a turbo route, and get an 81 Riviera type S, a Turbo T/A or a Monte Carlo Turbo.


    There were some cool GM Malaise machines from 81, but this owner has been hittin' the pipe so hard, he thinks it's the other 'Vette.

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    12/11/08

    @somibear: Nah- EXP, baby!
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    12/11/08

    @Slantsick- on layaway at SPATULA CITY: Whoops- supposed to be in response to somibear..
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    Image of Jimal is a non-attorney spokesperson Jimal is a non-attorney spokesperson
    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    Again, not a nice price but at least a starting point of a conversation should you be so inclined.


    Now someone go find me a rust-free early Vega, any body style will do, but I prefer the "sedan" (w/trunk) or the panel wagon, that hasn't had a V8 shoehorned into it already. Chop-chop.

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    12/11/08

    @Jimal: Coming right up:

    Oh, wait- "Rust free Vega"? Hahahahahah....
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    12/11/08

    @Jimal: Solid, unmolested, pre-'74 Vegas are a rare breed, indeed.


    I'd love to find one myself. Seems 90% of 'em have been "pro-streeted" to one degree or another. Bastards!

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    12/11/08

    @Slantsick- on layaway at SPATULA CITY:


    I'd rock the Vega wagon in the top pic. Get the welder and some spare sheetmetal out, clean up the chrome trim, rip the seats out of 3-rd gen F-body and re-upholster them, new brake job, toss in a 327 small block backed by a 5-speed, do a quick respray in midnight blue metallic, and finish it off with a new set of torq-thrusts.


    Eat your heart out, Volvo Amazon.


    And thee whole Chevette thing? Crackpipe.

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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    12/11/08

    @pauljones: Given any Vega wagon, even one with a few dozen pounds of gold bullion in the back, I'd still take an Amazon.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    12/11/08

    @mechimike:


    I'd love me some Amazon, too.


    In British Racing Green with a natural leather interior and a set of black mags. . Alternatively, a bare metal exterior finish with a black interior would be bitchin', too. And, I'm sorry, as I know that many will consider this sacrilege, but I'd throw in a crate LS1.

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    12/11/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?
    I'm guessing that the seller put the price up there for some bargaining room. More likely he's a crackhead though.
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