Some people are so very very mean...

ant7377 wrote:Yeah they hammer it pretty good. Why not just ask where all those mid seventies Honda's are. I havent seen one in at least 10 years. How about mid 80's Accords?Havent seen one of those in a hell of a long time either. Rusty Jap junk ! Stupid non car people should stick to talking about wall paper.

BlackChevelleSS wrote:hell the GVW of my geo storm is like 3400

HDHugger wrote:I don't know what they are talking about, but I don't think they do, either. These cars have plenty of backseat room, we used to go upnorth (6 hours each way) with a family of 6 and had no problems. Also, the trunk was big enough to hold all our luggage. These cars are tanks, they go through almost anything. I am PROUD to have had a 75 as my first car purchase, and as my most recent purchase. I love the good reactions I get at car shows, gas stations, when people yell out "NICE!" as I drive down the road, or when they drive past my house and slow down to call out. I am THRILLED to have another of these, and I am so glad that they are not a "dime a dozen" like so many other classics. Okay, most other classics are more expensive than a dime a dozen, but I'm good with that too.

HDHugger wrote:Yeah I noticed that too. Could they have found a more rusted car? Maybe they got drunk and ripped the roof off just to make their story better. Put a pic of a few of our cars next to that one, and it's an entirely different story. That's okay, I always did like things that weren't so "mainstream." I don't really want to be like everyone else. I never did. Just let me be happy with my car that I searched for for over 20 years, and they can take their horrid opinions and stick them in their Accord asses.

bigredlaguna wrote:I read the comments after the story and one fella in particular summed up what I think is the reason why this generation isn't as popular as the earlier and later models. I think it's funny how the author(of the article) couldn't help but give good ratings for the suspension design even as he tried to bash it.

Here is the comment

"I had one of these as company car in ‘76. It rode well, handled OK and was comfortable but it was slow, ugly and got bad gas mileage; basically a hunk of $hit on wheels.

I beat a$$ on that car for a year and it held up surprisingly well inspite of its poor workmanship; I managed to dent most of the sheet metal and lose all four doggie bowl hupcaps in the process. Never broke anything significant however.

I mark these as the beginning of the end for GM in spite of their brisk sales. It find it odd that Hemmings Muscle Machines have been attempting to sing the accolades of the more “sporting” models; their editors must truly be lost or not really old enough to remember how bad these crapsters were, comparatively speaking."

I worked for a Chevrolet dealer in ‘73 & ‘74 and found these collonades to be the bane of my existence.

novaderrik wrote:

BlackChevelleSS wrote:hell the GVW of my geo storm is like 3400

GVW is Gross Vehicle Weight- the maximum weight that it is rated to carry when full of gas, people, and luggage.
it's actual curb weight is probably closer to 2500 pounds.

BlackChevelleSS wrote:

novaderrik wrote:

BlackChevelleSS wrote:hell the GVW of my geo storm is like 3400

GVW is Gross Vehicle Weight- the maximum weight that it is rated to carry when full of gas, people, and luggage.
it's actual curb weight is probably closer to 2500 pounds.

hence why I put GVW

My car weighs in at 2000lbs, im hoping to get it down to 1800lbs without me in it, then 180-200hp probably looking at low 13s in a geo storm haha. My 70 chevelle weighed in 4000lbs with me in it.