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Replying to: hpmctorque (Nov 19, 2008 8:03 pm) The headlight switch knob came off in my hand when I turned them on the first time. Another demonstration of GM's death-wish, to my mind. They weren't satisfied with killing Cadillac - no! They had to start killing off the great names from their past too. Of course they weren't the only ones. When I get to Hell, I'm going to ask to vist the circle where they keep the guy who OK'd the "Mustang (sic) II. The cruelest thing about that abomination was that it really wasn't any smaller than the original 65 Mustang. It just did everything worse. Now, back to the Daewoo LeMans. My local mechanic of choice one time showed me a De Mans that had hit one of those reflectors that they put along the interstate. You know, the little reflectors that they put up on metal stop-sign posts? It darn near totaled that little Daewoo. He was horrified by the lousy sheet metal in that thing. That fact that one still exists is merely an example of the law of big numbers. One in a million survives the rust, one in a million doesn't blow up, one in a million doesn't hit anything.. Sometimes all those one in a million odds come together in the same car. Somewhere there is a museum quality Yugo, is it not so? 
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Replying to: lokki (Nov 20, 2008 7:51 am) I was at a car show in Cincinnati when they first displayed that thing. Get this - they had a whole display bragging about how it was close to the size of the original T-Bird! What a bunch of IDIOTS. Nobody's mentioned the Ford EXP - at least they didn't ruin another great old name with that rolling disaster, a car about which Iacocca said "the young folks will just eat this up." Oops!  
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Replying to: texases (Nov 20, 2008 8:16 am) I think the wheels were off a Mercury Linx or a Topaz too. 
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Replying to: hpmctorque (Nov 19, 2008 8:03 pm) Come to think of it, I think the Chevette and T-1000 were based on the Opel Kadette too. You have it backwards, there were Opel Kadetts long before there was a Daewoo Industries but the T-Cars were descended from a Brazilian-built Chevy Chevette which eventually spawned the Opel Kadett C (1973-79). Daewoo's version was the comically named Daewoo Maepsy (a clone of the Isuzu Gemini). I don't think the Daewoo/Pontiac LeMans (Asuna GT/SE in Canada) ever had an Opel variant. Wikipedia-Daewoo LeMans.
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while Cadillac never offered one, thankfully, there was some aftermarket company back in the 70's that would take a Chevette and outfit it with a pretentious little grille, nip and tuck the rest of the sheetmetal here and there, and try to stuff in a leather interior and some other appointments that were supposed to give the illusion of a luxury car. I forget the name of the company or what they called the car, but I do remember seeing one on eBay once. Horrid little thing.
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Replying to: fintail (Nov 19, 2008 12:58 pm)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Nov 20, 2008 12:11 pm) I remember that one. I think it wa sposted in one of Fintail's eBay time posts on the Classic Cars forum. It was indeed ugly. |
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Replying to: andys120 (Nov 20, 2008 11:56 am) Wikipedia claims 1973 for the Kadett C, 1974 for the Brazilian Chevette.
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Replying to: joshuag (Nov 20, 2008 12:18 pm) |
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without mentioning these>  I had one buddy who traded in his crappy Chevy Vega Wagon for...would you believe..a Dodge Aspen, both were stick-shift wagons. Did I mention he was very cheap. 
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