Oh my...
Posted on 01/30/2012 7:40:31 PM PST by DemforBush
From the wilds of Craigslist, this piece of automotive excellence emerged recently seeking new ownership for the price of an entry-level iPad. Yes, it's a 1992 Geo Metro given a limousine stretch. Yes, there's a mural of Betty Boop with a tiger on the hood. And it has some of the most avant-garde ad copy I've seen...
(Excerpt) Read more at autos.yahoo.com ...
Oh my...
So its a Caravan?
Yes.
And caviar is salty eggs.
Get back to your corner.
You silly CC, Caravan’s only seat seven. ;-)
A stretch limo for midgets :-)
Now that’s redneck.
Some friends and I toured Yellowstone in a Caddy limo painted with zebra stripes and the Budweiser frogs. We go more attention from the other tourists than the moose did.
Looks like a James Bond car. Just like a tightly coiled jungle cat, wild, free and dangerous.
Cutting edge cool, it has a Steve McQueen mystique, a car for the ages, can anyone say, “chick magnet times ten”?
What did you call it, a Geo Metro?
“Looks like a James Bond car.”
Close. That was Dzhim Bondov’s car ... hero of the People’s Soviet Socialist Labor Super Secret Spy Agency. He had to sell that after the Soviet Union fell for a sheet of toilet paper.
Of course, he went and sold that single sheet of toilet paper to Sheryl Crow so that she could record “Tuesday Night Music Club”. That’s where she mastered the one-wipe one-sheet technique.
True story! Look it up!
I am sure that your story is just as credible as my description, of that sexy beast of an automobile.
The engine is shot, white smoke is not a sign of needing to be “flushed” thats BS fast lube nonsense. The engine is shot because it’s a 3 cylinder fuel sipper. It’s now hauling around twice the weight it was designed to and they where 100,000 mile engines if you where lucky. (they burned the valves in the middle hole)
As to the worn tires in the front, the lower control arm mounts where poorly designed, prone to rust and easy to bend. Ad the extra weight and your asking for trouble.
while it might weigh out at about 400 bucks at the scrapper, 550 is probably a fair price to pay if you really want a POS like this. But you will likely be rebuilding/replacing the engine (these things did come with a 4 cylinder.....) and sucking up to someone stupid enough to assume the risk of welding the control arm mounts back up.
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