1983 Renault Alliance (aka "The Appliance")
Scary to the wallet. My first car. I had the axle replaced 4 times in this piece of junk because of a poorly designed CV joint. I spent more on axles than the original price of the car.
Posted on 10/08/2006 5:20:54 PM PDT by GretchenM
Brilliant!
Ha! I had the same EXACT thought when I saw the picture...
LOL, folks didn't believe me either. The cars I had in high school all had what we euphemestically called, "character". I loved the Gremlin though, that car could MOVE!
"My first "new" car was a 69 Mustang with the workhorse Ford 390 in it"
Maybe my memory is failing but I did not remember Ford offering the 390ci in a Mustang for 1969. I do remember the 289ci, 428ci (Cobra Jet?) and the Hemi engine, 429ci I think. The 390 engine was a hot offering in 1961. However in 1962 the 406 came out, then in 1963 the 427.
"Looks like an early Ford Mustang, right? It is, on the outside anyway. The inside, however, is all Ford Falcon, a pedestrian vehicle if ever there was one."
The Falcons and early Ford Mustang looked like they had been made crudely and cheap at a postwar Japan or South Korean sheet tin stamping plant.
TWO gerbils? You must've had the GT model.
I had an employee with a 69 Mustang. He put a wooden block under the accelerator pedal to increase the response time....... The first time he tried it he drove through a motel wall. I was paying the motel bill so received a call about it. His insurance covered the "accident"
Don't forget the Boss 302! The '70 429 was a Boss engine too. There were some Mach I's that had the 351C as well.
Actually, there was a 390 GT Mustang in '68. I don't remember that model in '69, but I could be wrong. Generally the 390 was the mill for Galaxies, Country Squires and pickups.
Hey, I had one of these in 68 overseas, bought it for $300 from another guy going home...it had been bondoed, repatched, and fixed so many times, the mechanics had to start making parts for it.....the driver's side door wouldn't stay shut so
I always had to keep the left elbow clamped down on it...when it wouldn't start, I lifted the whole front end hood and dropped it a couple of times and it started up again...
1983 Renault Alliance (aka "The Appliance")
Scary to the wallet. My first car. I had the axle replaced 4 times in this piece of junk because of a poorly designed CV joint. I spent more on axles than the original price of the car.
Think I'll make my next vehicle a Hummer. I despise enviroweinies.
Don't believe I would have told that!!
My daughter and SIL bought a new Plymouth Colt in 1985. The speedometer cable broke at over 200,000 miles and they still drove it for years after that. The interior was just shot. The door handles were vise grips. Finally the steering wheel broke so they gave it to my SOL's dad . He put in another steering wheel and drove it for a couple more years before it jumped time. They parked it in a field and planted flowers in it I think.
*drool*
I've seen those cars (aztek) driving around. They look like the sandwiched one car on top of another. Just weird...and you say a team of women designed it? they need to go back to the drawing board.
Yeah, but the beauty of the Rochester Quadrajet was that it could have a plugged jet, a dozen missing fasteners and a chipmunk wedged in one barrel, and you'd still get home.
Your parking brake reminded me of a 1954 Chevy truck I drove in law school. I had a "parking BRICK" that my girlfriend would engage and disengage. Sort of like chocking a plane.
That was one understanding gal.
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