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newVideoPlayer("/80_ChevyMonteCarlo_494.flv", 506, 423,""); Back when Chrysler was getting bailed out by Uncle Sam and frantically readying their new K Car saviors, The General replied by re-blinging the Monte and adding a Malaise Grade 170-horsepower Buick V6. Nice redline!
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The overwhelming majority of voters thought that the Callaway '83 Porsche 944 was reasonably priced at $45,000; not bad for a Late Malaise Era machine. Today we're going to ponder a car from the same era, and it may be even more rare than the Callaway 944: a really straight, all-original Chevy Chevette! I could have sworn that I'd already posted on this car, but I must be mixing it up in my memory with the $20,000 Pinto Squire . That was a full-on rock-smokin' price, but this Chevy is priced far more reasonably: $8,995. Sure, knocking the five bucks off the price to put it under nine grand makes it appear to be on sale at Nickel Nick's Gently Used Brougham Coaches, but the seller was able to take his or her eyes off the 16,700-mile odometer reading long enough to take note of the Chevette emblems on the outside. Just about all the other Chevettes were crushed 15 years ago, and the few that remain are sunk to their axles in trash-strewn lots- this is likely your only...
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newVideoPlayer("/87_ChevyDealer_BernieCarbo_494.flv", 506, 423,""); When you're going for a celebrity endorsement of your car dealership, you have to pay extra for a celebrity who will show some enthusiasm for your lineup of Celebrities and Sprints and/or enunciate clearly. In this case, Casey Chevrolet opted for the no-frills delivery of Red Sox hero Bernie Carbo . Can you feel the passion for that Celebrity Eurosport?
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newVideoPlayer("/85_Corvette_476.flv", 506, 423,""); We may laugh at the early C4 Corvette these days, since most of the ones you see now are beat-to-hell heaps adorned with custom gear purchased from Manny, Moe, and Jack. Back in the mid-80s, however, it was quite the bang-for-buck deal, selling for $25K- half the cost of the Porsche 928S- and outhandling some of Europe's hottest machinery. OK, fine, the build quality wasn't so great and the engine only made 230 horsepower and the styling screamed "small-time coke dealer," but it would eat up a Ferrari on the race track!
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Are you ready for another round of Nice Price Or Crack Pipe ? Last time we were here, 79% of you felt that the $100,000 Electric De Lorean DMC-12 deserved the Marshal Lucky treatment . Yessir! Now we've got a profoundly customized '87 Corvette that BZR found for us; it failed to sell with a Buy It Now of 95 grand, but check out the receipts: the "partial total investment" in the Lazer F/X Prototype comes to $210,868.45. There's a Lingenfelter 388ci small-block (with an automatic), a custom-molded interior, and a bunch of stuff described by the seller as "aggressive." It still needs bodywork and paint, but you're getting this thing for less than half the original investment! [eBay Motors] galleryPost('NPOCPLazerFXVette', 6, 'Lazer FX 1987 Chevrolet Corvette'); Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you're viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.
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I was thinking about using this fine customized cartruck for Project Car Hell , but gave up when I realized that nothing could possibly compete with it. Yes, folks, it's a genuine Roly Fernandez-built 1988 Camaro with dual rear axles and a truck bed that will laugh at standard lumber sizes, and all for a starting bid of just $1,500! Sure, it's maybe not quite as nice as it was when it first left Roly's shop, but how hard could it be to fix up the "Long Gone?" Imagine the Super Dorifto Potential with this thing! Thanks to Ceruleanblu for the tip. [eBay Motors] galleryPost('Hexamaromino', 3, 'Hexamaromino On eBay');
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When you run a dairy farm, heading out to the driveway and laying eyes upon a boring old nonfat '86 Camaro in plain white is just plain unacceptable . Clearly, the only option is to decorate it with Holstein spots, then do the upholstery to match and pile a bunch of stuffed cow toys in the back seat (we'd add a freshly severed Holstein head to the hood, but that's just us). Now the creator of the Cowmaro has decided to sell- in spite of getting a feature in Camaroworld - and the bid price is sitting at a totally reasonable $3,000! The T-tops leak (a statement as unnecessary as "the engine block is heavy"), the ignition key is stuck in the switch, and so on, but who cares? Cowmaro! Thanks to Thunder for the tip. [eBay Motors] galleryPost('CowmaroEbay', 3, '1986 Chevrolet Cowmaro For Sale');
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newVideoPlayer("/89_Camaro_494.flv", 506, 423,""); Why did the Berlin Wall go crashing down in 1989? Some might try to confuse you with all sorts of economic or political gibberish, but the answer is actually real simple : the third-generation Camaro destroyed the Evil Empire's will to live! Look at the triumphant American Camaro owners in this ad- with 230 horsepower (that is, for those who bought the IROC; the base V6 had 130 horses) at their command, victory was theirs!
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newVideoPlayer("/83_Camaro_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Whether you were grabbing a gear with the 190-horse IROC- oh, wait, you couldn't get the manual transmission with the Tuned Port Injection 305- or experiencing the joys of leaky rubber seals with your Berlinetta's T-tops, the 1985 Camaro let you live it! The glitchy VHS recording just makes this ad that much more Eighties, we think.
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newVideoPlayer("/85_Celebrity_Urinesport_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Perhaps it's because every Celebrity ever made looked like it had 200,000 rough miles on the clock by the end of its second year on the road- fading plastic, trim panels a-dangling, and so on, or maybe it's the acre upon acre of clapped-out examples you see clogging up the GM section at every junkyard in the country. Either way, it seems impossible to picture the '85 Celebrity Eurosport as a new car , much less one that carried an air of class and sophistication.
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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! We had what may be our all-time closest vote yesterday, with the 4x4 Econoline beating the lowrider Econoline 202 votes to 200. Today we're going racing! We've had Arse-Freeze-A-Pa-Looza LeMons PCH and the LeMons San Francisco PCH , and now tradition dictates that we have a LeMons South Edition PCH. Just in time for teams still hoping to make the deadline for the Yeehaw It's Texas LeMons event! With Mazda RX-7s taking the first two places at LeMons South (not to mention three of the top ten at the Arse-Freeze-A-Pa-Looza ), you've got to figure you're looking at one of the all-time great budget race cars. Light, simple, and powered by a wailing rotary that's sure to give your competitors a migraine by the time the race is over... and you can get 'em for peanut shells! Say, this '85 RX-7 with an asking price of only $200. Two...
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newVideoPlayer("80_Chevette_Dealer_476.flv", 494, 413,""); You Chicago-area folks might remember Timmy of Long Chevrolet in Elmhurst, in which case you've already been inoculated against the effects of this stunning combo of Malaise Era machinery, bad suits, brain-scouringly bad UHF production values, and Timmy's shouts. Chevettes Chevettes Chevettes!
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newVideoPlayer("84_Sprint_476.flv", 463, 387,""); Yes, 53 highway MPG... 24 years ago. The little rebadged Suzuki got the kind of gas mileage that many Prius drivers will never see in real-world driving, but we're betting that today's car buyers would find its noise and lack of cupholders absolutely intolerable. Still, can you do this in a Prius?
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With Maximum El Camino Day beginning to draw to a close, it makes sense to answer the uestion of where these beautiful beasts go to meet their final end. No matter how useful that car's truck bed might be, at some point an El Camino owner often decides that it's no longer worth fixing the ol' Chevy. Or perhaps- in fact, more likely- parking tickets pile up like Saskatchewan snowdrifts and even a plaintive note can't ward off the Tow Truck Man. Either way, many El Caminos end up as parts donors as they await their final journey to the cold steel jaws of The Crusher. In honor of Maximum El Camino Day, I stopped by an East Bay wrecking yard over the weekend and photographed these five examples: three 70s examples and two from the 80s (and, yes, I know the one with the shell is a GMC Sprint). Make the jump for many, many more photos. galleryPost('JunkedElCaminosTop', 9, 'El Caminos Down On The Junkyard Part 1'); galleryPost('JunkedElCaminosJump', 55,...
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When I posted the DOTS Bonus Edition Abandoned Oakland Camaro , I wasn't prepared for all the emails I got pleading with me to add third-gen GM F-bodies to the Eligible For DOTS list. I'm still not 100% convinced they belong in DOTS proper, because they're still pretty common even in rusty parts of the country, but we'll give it a shot for today (and those of you who wish to make your feelings known on this important issue can go ahead and vote in the poll below the gallery). I picked this '89 RS, which was parked near the Bay in Alameda's West End, because it's so, well, Eighties . The Rally Sport designation had become more or less meaningless by the time George Bush Senior took office... oh, wait- it was always pretty much meaningless. Seeing the USS Hornet (and San Francisco) in the background reminds me that the Camaro was once the car to have for sailors stationed at Alameda's now-closed Navy base. You spent 9 months at sea in the Enterprise or Coral...
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