The other evening I passed a clean Chevy Monza--I know, probably the last one in the wild. Sounded like a V8, too. Later on, I saw a clean, stock Chevette. Did I go back in time for a few?
The other evening I passed a clean Chevy Monza--I know, probably the last one in the wild. Sounded like a V8, too. Later on, I saw a clean, stock Chevette. Did I go back in time for a few?
Yes, back to the days of simple rear drive cars!
Ohh wow ... Back in the early 80's when I was around 5 or so, I remember riding in my aunts Chevette ... I thought it was a cool car back then because it was automatic and both my mom and dad drove manuals, lol !!
J
88mph and 1.21 gigawatts is mother.
Did you see one of these?
The last Monza I saw was on the dragstrip.
Which brings me to a question that has been rattling around my tiny brain. What percentage of Vegas and Monzas left in the world are drag race cars?
around 80% I'd guess. The rest are Cosworths, buried in a barn, or rotting in the woods.
See them everyday. I watch Emergency! Great for old car watching.
I would venture to say that there are more on the strip than on the street.
I saw a diesel Isuzu I-mark today, even more rare than a chevette lol.
I pass a nice pinto on the way int o work every day. Red with small black hood scoop tastefully done with black steelies with red stripe.
Oh, and a PS: This morning I followed a diesel VW Rabbit.
One of my students was very proud of his newly acquired Chevette. It looked pretty clean and I can't wait to get it up on a lift.
Chevette = House Party for me.
Appleseed wrote: 88mph and 1.21 gigawatts is mother. Did you see one of these?
I saw one of those last week but
It wasn't in that good of shape of course
The interesting cars have been coming out of the garages here, too. Several freshly redone Beetles, a really nice first gen CRX, and a strange site in this area, a Countach. A couple with an old 911 checked into the hotel where I work last weekend.
vwcorvette wrote: See them everyday. I watch Emergency! Great for old car watching.
Every day after school I'd come home, start 1000 ccs of Ringer's Lactate and watch it. Today at the train station there was an old Land Rover With a long body and a canvas top and every day some guy comes in with a very clean mid 80's Riviera
LopRacer wrote: One of my students was very proud of his newly acquired Chevette. It looked pretty clean and I can't wait to get it up on a lift.
where are you teaching ?
wbjones wrote:LopRacer wrote: One of my students was very proud of his newly acquired Chevette. It looked pretty clean and I can't wait to get it up on a lift.where are you teaching ?
Ridgemont High perhaps?
Appleseed wrote: 88mph and 1.21 gigawatts is mother.
For the record, I had NOTHING to do with this... 
Been seeing more of the interesting cars coming out here again with the weather warming up. Doesn't hold a candle to how many I saw in PA when I was still going back there regularly on business... for some reason there were LOTS of older cars running around out there. Of course, I'll see plenty here when Somernites starts back up for the year...
On a recent road trip my fiance found it funny that I was more excited by seeing a Yugo in the wild than a Ford GT...
This Starfire (Olds Monza) is for sale just down the street for me. It may be the nicest one left in the world. 
My brother has a strong Olds 350 that this would make a great home for.......
Joe Gearin wrote: This Starfire (Olds Monza) is for sale just down the street for me. It may be the nicest one left in the world.
Too bad I live all the way up here in MA. I have a 1970 Olds 455 just waiting to settle it's torquey self into a car like this. 
I saw a really nice Corvair this morning. And there are two V-8 Vega wagons sitting in a yard about 20 miles up the road from me with a for sale sign. $2500 for both, if I recall correctly. One is a panel wagon.
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