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298 messages, Last post on May 11, 2009 at 1:53 PM
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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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Replying to: fintail (Nov 20, 2008 12:47 pm) |
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Replying to: andys120 (Nov 20, 2008 1:27 pm) I think this is one of those cars that's kinda like the 1980 GM X-body or the Vega...it seemed like a good idea at the time, but was just poorly executed and didn't hold up. If it had the quality to back it up, it would've been a decent car from the get-go. Also, this is probably more of a sad commentary on police cars at the time, moreso than a defense of the Aspen/Volare, but in 1979, believe it or not, these things were the quickest cars out there. With the 360-4bbl (which not all of them had...some just had 2-bbls or 318's), they'd do 0-60 in 8.7 seconds and 0-100 in something like 22.7. I found some police car tests from around 2003 or 2004, and those cars (Impala, Intrepid, Crown Vic) weren't even that fast!  Okay, I'll stop defending the thing now. I do like some of its offshoots though, like the 1980-83 Mirada/Cordoba and '81-83 Imperial. The M-body versions (LeBaron/Diplomat/Gran Fury/5th Ave) are pretty nice, too.
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