In 1980, we purchased a brand new Buick Skylark (same platform as Chevy citation X-drive.) It was really sort of an OK car, meaning that it was reliable (at least ours was), fairly comfortable, roomy, and fit our family needs at that time. My wife drove it off an embankment when it was three years old which resulted in a cracked engine sub-frame that had to be replaced. The car was never right after that so we got rid of it, replacing it with a new Saab (the car choice ever since).

When I was a couple of years out of college, I bought a new 1973 Chevy Vega GT. The car was a three-door hatch, very nice interior, nice wheels, Polyglass GT tires, GT suspension and a first for me, air conditioning. The car did handle nicely for the day, had pleasant styling, and was practical with the hatchback. However, it did have the cylinder block sleeve issue going and just after two years, it was blowing oil at an alarming rate. Of course, Chevy told me take my complaints elsewhere. Remember, GM usually won these type of arguments back then. Seeing as how repairing that engine would have resulted in the same issue soon after the repair, coupled with the fact that I had no dependents at that time, I stuck a small-block Chevy engine in the car along with some beefed-up suspension pieces. NOW I had the car that GM should have marketed....surprised alot of people at stoplights. I made the conversion money back when I sold the car a few years later and boy, do I wish I had that car back now!

Steve

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• MOTOR TREND: 10 TOP REGRETS---Article, TG, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:18:19
  • I owned 1,5 of them, xhawksaab, Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:08:38
  • My life in 2 of those cars!, Railhead , Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:30:10
    • Re: Citroen SM, Henri L, Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:00:20
    • Re: My life in 2 of those cars!, UpstateNY Bill, Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:30:58
  • '96 Ford Contour SE, EGD , Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:12:58
    • came near to buying one recently..., LesH, Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:51:06
    • I'd consider an SVT version..., Craig, Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:17:36
      • Re: I'd consider an SVT version..., Finch, Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:38:06
        • Re: I'd consider an SVT version..., Justin VanAbrahams , Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:34:21
          • Re: I'd consider an SVT version..., EGD , Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:22:17
            • Re: I'd consider an SVT version..., Justin VanAbrahams , Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:40:16
  • The only one I owned is the ..., UpstateNY Bill, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:01:07
  • I wonder........., Herb Hirsch , Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:11:15
  • I owned a ..., KevinM, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:15:46
  • Driven 'em all, sold 8 of 10.., Mike Lynch , Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:29:13
    • This sounds, vaguely, like a song by "The Cars"?, oldsaab, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:10:49
  • Why no Gremlin or Pacer?, Bill Homer , Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:37:48
    • What? No Chevette?!?, RobsSaab, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:41:27
    • Re: Why no Gremlin or Pacer?, yaofeng, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:30:36
      • OK, the Gremlin was ugly, but the Pacer, Noel, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:23:29
        • Re: OK, the Gremlin was ugly, but the Pacer, yaofeng, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:05:59
    • I don't think that they were car of the year n/m..., Wasabi, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:22:21
  • I owned two of them!!!, Steve in Chicago, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:21:21 <-- Viewing This Message
  • my neighbor still has her merkur..., smt, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:20:37
    • Re: my neighbor still has her merkur..., Craig, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:35:17
  • I'm proud to say I never owned any of them... n/m, Peter_UMA, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:22:29
    • Re: I'm proud to say I never owned any of them... n/m, saabsince 93b , Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:31:06
      • Re: I'm proud to say I never owned any of them... n/m, yaofeng, Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:51:18

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