Chevy’s Chevette was a lightweight pipsqueak with two-digit horsepower and a big chip on its shoulder due to all the abuse it got in Jr High school. Chevette owners will say “just wait till the bad ones are gone and the good ones will be worth a fortune” but I’m not holding my breath on […]
Let’s say someone gives you $1000. What do you do with it? Do you squirrel it away in your piggy back for a rainy day or the inevitable health costs of a retired octogenarian? Scratch that…anybody who drives the cars recommended on this website isn’t gonna save his cash or survive through their 80s (if […]
The Chevette never had a chance. It was born with a face that even a mother couldn’t love and a body that was destined to be crushed like a legless roach on a sunny doorstep. Uggg, put that thing out of its misery before it gets in the house…except this squishy mutant has a secret. […]
If you wanted to buy a new ‘vette in 1983, you could. It wasn’t the kind built in Bowling Green, KY, though. It was an anemic econobox. With a little tweaking, however, you could make one of them keep up with traffic. Find this ’83 Chevette for sale in Birmingham, AL for $3,800 via craigslist. In […]
Chevy’s Chevette was a lightweight pipsqueak with two-digit horsepower and a freightliner’s worth of negative connotations. It was embraced by the drag strip crowd, who found that it only took a small-block V8 to redeem an otherwise disposable economy trinket. Originally listed in January, this thing keeps getting closer to fiscal sensibility. Find this 1976 […]
Looking at this car renders your brain to a full story arc of emotions. It’s simultaneously an underdog and an overstatement. It’s trolling inception. Imagine seeing this pull up next to you at the drag strip, wincing as the driver begins to rev it, only to hear the piteous clatter of a 1.4-liter Chevette plant. […]
The Pontiac T1000 (later renamed 1000) was introduced to an awestruck public in 1981, but it was no terminator. The little Pontiac shared all body stampings with the ice racing king Chevrolet Chevette, but it cost a few bucks more with the Pontiac badges. The 1000 may have been badge engineering turned up to 11, […]
Before you start thinking that featuring a Chevette is like getting excited about the fastest snail, we at DT are trying to cast the widest possible net. After all, there’s a butt for every seat, so here’s the perfect ride for a hot shot dot matrix printer technician, small but tough door man at Hooters, or […]