I had to share - this is priceless! From GM's excitement division in 1982, a car with a 0 to 60 mph time of 30 seconds.
It makes you wonder why GM even bothered. I knew a girl that had one of these and we used to bust her about having a luxury Chevette. Now there's an oxymoron.........
They sure didn’t give it. Lot of kudos. Seems for 7 grand in ‘82 you were in really nicely loaded Zephyr Z7 money.
Are you sure about that? I seem to remember the inflation of 1979-82 causing car prices to more than double during that time frame. Early in 1979 sure you could get a car for under $3500 but after that the prices started skyrocketing. But that must have been a loaded car to be over $7000. I do remember Chevette's selling below $4000 new. But those T-1000 were just there to meet CAFE standard's, Sunbird's were gone, replaced by the FWD J-2000's, and the Big Pontiac;s & Firebirds were still selling well. So to get the divisions MPG average up, an arrow head badged 20 year old Opel design sure it sounds like a great Idea. Dark days, I am actually surprised the division lived thru them in hindsight.
And what was a loaded 1000? Air, auto, bigger engine? Not like you could get power seats, windows or cruise. Could you? That’s a loaded car to me. How many colors did the vinyl tops come in?
Not defending it, they were durable garbage, but I would say A/C, sunroof, Power Steering & Brakes would be loaded for a Chevette or T-1000, auto trans 1.6 litre engine. They made every mile you drove them seem worse than the last. Quite a few of my old Muscle car friends had gotten married had a Kid and sold the GTO or GTX and bought a new Chevette or T-1000 for the MPG, I just could not see it myself, but I bought quite a few cheap Muscle cars in 1979/1980 time frame.
Oh my gosh. Could you imagine sitting in the Pontiac dealer trading in your ‘70 Gto on a “loaded” 1000, and the dealer says it’s $2,135 and your car. Then you wind up divorced, you’re stuck with the 7 year old 1000, having a beer while watching Barrett Jackson and you see a ‘70 GTO like the one you had gavel down for $41,000. Your 1000 has 17 dings in it and 4 pounds of animal crackers ground into the seats and carpet from the baby, as your wife would not let you haul the baby in your muscle car. Yeah. cammerjeff, I’ve heard of those guys. Lol
