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17854 messages, Last post on Nov 09, 2009 at 4:04 PM
You are in the Classic Cars Forum. Your Host is mr_shiftright
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Replying to: andys120 (Jan 03, 2009 8:17 am) Shifty the Host |
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 03, 2009 6:30 am)
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Replying to: lokki (Jan 03, 2009 7:25 am) |
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Replying to: texases (Jan 03, 2009 10:27 am) finding a picture of the chassis was the only thing i was looking for. 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jan 03, 2009 4:30 am) Chevy priced the '82-model Cavalier and Celebrity, for what they were, way too high. In '83 both were reduced in MSRP and content added (and in the case of the Cavalier, the engine bumped from 1.8L to 2.0L). Later on, say '84 and later, both lines were strong sellers. Bill |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 02, 2009 6:49 pm) Heck, if I could get that thing for $100, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat! FWIW it's up to $2700 now. It's actually been on eBay for what seems like forever now. It'll usually bid up to $6-7K or more, but never hit the reserve, so then just gets re-listed. You'd think that the seller would figure out that it ain't going any higher...he might as well just bite the bullet and sell it while he can, rather than being doomed to repeating history.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jan 03, 2009 4:30 am) The car was a tinny mess with wafer-thin doors and seats and a finish with such bad orange peel, the car should've been stamped "Sunkist!" It had a gutless 4-cylinder engine and a weird dashboard where ll the instruments were crammed into this skinny deep-recessed slot. Ads proclaiming the Celebrity as Chevrolet's new direction frightened me more than anything Stephen King could pen! |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jan 04, 2009 6:44 am) |
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"Actually, the Camaro Z28 was Car of the Year in 1982." Thanks for correcting me on this. I think I was misled by the fact that Motor Trend featured a Celebrity on the cover of one of its issues at around the time that model was introduced, so I'm guessing it may have been the September, October, November or December '81 issue. Anyway, in that issue MT praised the Celebrity and described it as the right family car for the time, since it was space and fuel efficient, and featured front wheel drive. We can criticize Motor Trend in hindsight, but if GM, and Ford and Chrysler too, for that matter, had delivered good quality, Motor Trend's evaluation of the GM A-bodies would have been reasonable. Let's remember that the superior reliability of the Japanese cars was not nearly as obvious in late '81 as it became later. Also, GM was recognized as a trail blazer in down sizing, while retaining interior space, as evidenced by the downsized '77 large bodies and the '78 intermediates. Converting the intermediates to FWD seemed a logical next step for achieving further gains in space and fuel efficiency. |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 02, 2009 12:35 pm)
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