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Posted on 10/30/2025 1:21:30 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A Utah man said a final farewell to the Geo Metro he drove for 35 years by dropping a 1,917-pound pumpkin on it from a height of nearly 14 stories.
Millville resident Alan Gebert said his 1991 Geo Metro finally stopped running this year, so he decided to send the vehicle off in style by destroying it with a giant pumpkin.
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With the girl in the pic??? Mass respect!!
“ That’ll buff right out.”
I’ll get the Bondo.
Driving a car that long...pretty good.
He wouldn’t be able to drop a 500 lb. Lemon on it. That would be wrong.
Geo metros were built by Suzuki IIRC...so no surprise that they could function well.
Perhaps an older Camry. I gave my 2006 Camry SE to a neighbor’s son so he could commute to college. Just short of 300k miles and running perfectly.
Its replacement was a 2025 Camry SE. A hybrid. I, as an engineer and ‘Vette owner, like it a lot. But the trunk, hood, and doors close with a “chink”, not a “clunk”
You have forced me to look up curb weights. There is a reason my spreadsheet shows the new Camry at 47.8 mpg after 15,500 miles.
The 2025 Camry SE hybrid is about 3,500 lbs and has decent hp at 232 combined. That seems to be ok for body structure and safety. Much better than a Geo Metro with 55 hp and 1,500 lbs approx.
I notice the car in your photo was right-hand drive, and I only remember seeing them in the UK (newer models than that one.) Were they ever available in the US market or were you somewhere other than the US?
Every now and then there are stories here on FR about a pickup Toyota makes for third world countries, I think it’s the Hilux. It’s a simple back to basic truck with zero frills.
That’s what the Geo Metro’s and Datsun’s were all about.
I’d love to buy a new car light this. Just simple basic transportation, manual transmission, hand crank windows, a simple radio with no nav system. Just basic transpiration.
Sadly, it will never happen.
Every now and then there are stories here on FR about a pickup Toyota makes for third world countries, I think it’s the Hilux. It’s a simple back to basic truck with zero frills.
That’s what the Geo Metro’s and Datsun’s were all about.
I’d love to buy a new car light this. Just simple basic transportation, manual transmission, hand crank windows, a simple radio with no nav system. Just basic transpiration.
Sadly, it will never happen.
Parents had a Datsun station wagon with a Z engine (240?).
It had fuel injection with some kind of fabric fuel lines; unfortunately, they sometimes leaked and caught on fire.
A girl friend in college had a Toyota Turdcell. That thing was so tinny that it was scary. I can’t hardly fathom how one could have even made 100K.
USA - SoCal. circa 1973.
That’s what the Samurai was. Easy to maintain, too.
I did a timing belt replacement on ours in less than 30 minutes.
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