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19377 messages, Last post on Dec 01, 2009 at 6:24 PM
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Oh. My. Word. My family actually owned one of those little turds, and I jumped a bar ditch in it. Backwards. At 60MPH. Why? Because if you hit a patch of gravel in a curve, the backend will come around so fast there is no way to catch it. On good pavement, handled like a go-cart. Engine is 843cc and has less horsepower than a VW. In a hard corner the seat tracks will break and only the seat belt will keep you from flying across the car. Does not use and oil filter. Change the oil every 1500miles. And it had cruise control. A slide rod that locked the throttle in place. The only thing that released it was your hand. Only thing on the piece of junk that was any good was the brakes. That thing would stop so fast the engine would lose oil pressure. Oh, yeah, the factory supplied jack stuck in a square tube on the side of the car and lifted the whole side at once. Problem was, as the suspension shifted, the jack got closer to the side of the car, and you couldn't let it back down. We won't go into the rust issues. |
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Replying to: jlflemmons (Dec 09, 2008 6:44 pm)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 10, 2008 5:19 am) Which would just make that one a later model of the same junk. Miserably underpowered car. Had to keep the revs north of 4K to get anything out of the engine. |
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Replying to: jlflemmons (Dec 09, 2008 6:44 pm)
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Replying to: srs_49 (Dec 10, 2008 8:21 am) But didn't the increased cost of life insurance absorb all the profits? 
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Replying to: lokki (Dec 10, 2008 9:00 am)  Good point. But, knowing how cheap my brother-in-law was, he probably didn't have any life insurance!
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and he's already finished the welding work on the windshield base of my '67 Catalina. He wants me to come over after work to look at it. I'm gonna swing by my house first and get the camera so I can take some pics.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 10, 2008 12:27 pm)
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Replying to: 210delray (Dec 10, 2008 5:47 pm) And I think you're right, that the color is called Butternut Yellow. My mechanic used that same term. I guess it's possible that Pontiac called it something else, though? Normally I don't like yellow, but this particular car ended up seducing me the moment I saw it, sitting at a little used car lot north of Baltimore, its siren song beckoning me. As long as it behaves itself, I intend to take this car to the GM Nationals in Carlisle PA next June. I've taken my '76 LeMans the past four years. And while I love that car, I have a feeling that I'm going to sort of forget about it, once I get the Catalina back! There's a light blue '67 Bonneville that's been at that GM show every year since it started in 2001, so it'll be cool to see the two, side-by-side! Here's a pic of the blue one, that I took back in 2006.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 10, 2008 7:20 pm) |
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