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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (169135)5/30/2002 5:08:28 PM
From: stomper  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
The PT Cruiser

The Fiero of the new millenium.

Blechhhh, as Sergio Argones would say.

-dave



To: Knighty Tin who wrote (169135)5/30/2002 5:50:24 PM
From: Horgad  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 436258
 
The Chrysler Slant Six was a great engine (Isn't that what the Dart had?). I had an old LaBaron with a Slant Six. When I sold it for $50 bucks with 135,000 miles on it, the engine was still purring like a kitten. That sucker would have easily made it over 200K. The only problem was everything else on the car had gone to crap mostly because of rust.

Rust is a big problem with the pre 90's Toyotas as well. I have owned 3 (still driving one) early 90's Toyotas and they by far the cheapest transportation I have ever owned.

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The Slant Six, introduced in late 1959 for the Valiant, has a legendary reputation for endurance -

allpar.com



To: Knighty Tin who wrote (169135)5/31/2002 2:01:22 PM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
By the time my daughter was driving the 1976 Corolla it looked so awful that her friends thought it was cool. At one point I repainted it with eight cans of surplus spray paint labeled "Ford blue" (tractor color). Took an hour and cost $10. It looked OK for almost a year. Then it took on the aspect of a piece of abandoned farm machinery.