Chevrolet Citation
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Originally Posted by 85e150six4mtod
What was it running on 3 cylinders? That should have been a 16 or 17 second car new I think....
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I had a 1980 Pontiac phoenix. That thing must have set a record for recalls...clutch, transmission, wiper motor, brakes gear shifter.....
Mine had the 4cyl 4 speed. Low gear was so high that it was impossible to make a smooth start unless you revved the thing and slipped the clutch.
I did the 360° thing into an intersection a half a block after pulling out of a carwash, but my results were a bit more spectacular, two other cars, and $4500 damage to mine. And this was 6 months before the brake recall, so i was SOL as far as fighting the insurance co.
As an aside, I wrecked my '86 f-150 at the same intersection 10 years later (60 miles from my home and only two accidents i've been in in the last 22 years!). I got T-boned by a kid in his mom's K-car. I usually avoid that area now.
Mine had the 4cyl 4 speed. Low gear was so high that it was impossible to make a smooth start unless you revved the thing and slipped the clutch.
I did the 360° thing into an intersection a half a block after pulling out of a carwash, but my results were a bit more spectacular, two other cars, and $4500 damage to mine. And this was 6 months before the brake recall, so i was SOL as far as fighting the insurance co.
As an aside, I wrecked my '86 f-150 at the same intersection 10 years later (60 miles from my home and only two accidents i've been in in the last 22 years!). I got T-boned by a kid in his mom's K-car. I usually avoid that area now.
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Today I saw a well maintained early 80's Pontiac Phoenix parked in a driveway.
Originally Posted by Fordzlla
I had a 1980 Pontiac phoenix. That thing must have set a record for recalls...clutch, transmission, wiper motor, brakes gear shifter.....
Mine had the 4cyl 4 speed. Low gear was so high that it was impossible to make a smooth start unless you revved the thing and slipped the clutch.
I did the 360° thing into an intersection a half a block after pulling out of a carwash, but my results were a bit more spectacular, two other cars, and $4500 damage to mine. And this was 6 months before the brake recall, so i was SOL as far as fighting the insurance co.
As an aside, I wrecked my '86 f-150 at the same intersection 10 years later (60 miles from my home and only two accidents i've been in in the last 22 years!). I got T-boned by a kid in his mom's K-car. I usually avoid that area now.
Mine had the 4cyl 4 speed. Low gear was so high that it was impossible to make a smooth start unless you revved the thing and slipped the clutch.
I did the 360° thing into an intersection a half a block after pulling out of a carwash, but my results were a bit more spectacular, two other cars, and $4500 damage to mine. And this was 6 months before the brake recall, so i was SOL as far as fighting the insurance co.
As an aside, I wrecked my '86 f-150 at the same intersection 10 years later (60 miles from my home and only two accidents i've been in in the last 22 years!). I got T-boned by a kid in his mom's K-car. I usually avoid that area now.
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My sister got an '81 4-dr Citation. Drove that little car to death, sold it to some kid who squeezed a few more thousand miles out of it. I bought a clean '83 2-dr, ran it for a year or so to college, only complaint was that it was pretty underpowered. Gas mileage wasn't bad for the time. Sold it to a friend of ours who needed a car, she proceeded to trash it. I also bought one with the 2.8 V-6 and four-speed, knew it was in pretty rough shape when I got it. My brother got it from me, did some more work on it, and ran it another year or so before it got trashed on base while he was in Iraq. All three of them were pretty reliable little cars for the time, always managed to get us where we were going.
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From: Montreal Canada
my folks bought one new in 81. the first and last chevrolet dad ever owned. we were new to canada and thought we were getting a fine american car. but crawling thru the rocky mountains in summer of '88 with the heater blowing trying to keep the engine from overheating was enough to convince him what we needed was a mustang. v8 with A/C just in case. then sometime around '91 we rented a chevy on holiday. it had the same ugly door locks, giant clock in the instrument panel, and sliding front bench seat as the one he'd bought 10 years earlier. god damn chevrolet he would yell. when i bought a camaro he wouldn't even touch it he was so angry at me.
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