Basic transportation at its most basic. Acceleration so poor you REALLY had to think about taking it on the interstate or anyplace with hills. That being said, the thing just kept running.....slowly
🥝✔️🤜🚕🤛 My yellow 58 PA was rust free from 1958 to 1997, when it was written off. Rust depends on winter salt application and where the cars ended up. Down here in the Antipodes, rust wasn't common.
For '83 the Chevette got their very last facelift, which included the front spoiler, rubber-endcapped bumpers and the deletion of almost all chrome except the thin stripe around the now-black grille. From there out to 1987 the only appearance changes were colors and seat fabrics, the govt mandated 3rd brake light for the '86 model year and a take rate for whitewalls that dropped to basically zero as the first-new-car target demo thought they were fogeyish and hardly a "plus" feature.
I could also move my chevette out of a snow bank if i slid into one with no issues, it was light enough i could put it in neutral and roll it out by myself, i was impressed with that little car,and i couldn't do that with my escort i owned before my chevette.
Here's an odd thing about my chevette, i would start it, remove the key and it was still running, i met someone recently who has a 4 door and his does the same thing? Just wondering if that was a normal flaw with all Chevettes?
I owned a 1984 chevette s automatic hatchback and loved it, it could carry 4 bales of hay, 100 pounds of grain, my greyhound and myself with no issues.It would start no matter if it was freezing outside, and got great gas mileage! Mine was cream colored with black vinyl seats and black carpet.
Offering an even slower and louder diesel in the Chevette was just cruel. They should have made automatic + airconditioning mandatory to finish the deal. The car would have gone backwards when you turned on the AC.
