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Old 08-21-2009, 12:02 AM
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That's no rare Italian sportscar, that's a BiTurbo. In GM terms, its a nicely trimmed '80s Cavalier with the torque steer you'd expect after you put an HO 5.0L V8 into it, plus it has all of the self igniting fire capabilities of an '84 Fiero. That and the reliability of an old British sports car that had been in a flood. Awful cars with no resale value. Regardless of its low miles, it looks like the leading edge of the front fender is rusted through. No tragedy here, and the dealer would be a fool to keep it. JMO....
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Old 08-23-2009, 06:14 PM
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After all the calls and work the truck is going to the junk yard. The manager doing the paperwork did not call as directed whan the final paperwork was completed so the application was processed with the goverment and approved so no going back now and a very very sad day.. One very big problem with vehicles like the syclone going through the process is the younger folks are looking at them just as an old worn out truck because that just do not know any better. We have a huge auto mall and we have taken in hundreds of the cars and trucks and I just do not even go to the holding lot anymore to look.
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That's no rare Italian sportscar, that's a BiTurbo. In GM terms, its a nicely trimmed '80s Cavalier with the torque steer you'd expect after you put an HO 5.0L V8 into it, plus it has all of the self igniting fire capabilities of an '84 Fiero. That and the reliability of an old British sports car that had been in a flood. Awful cars with no resale value. Regardless of its low miles, it looks like the leading edge of the front fender is rusted through. No tragedy here, and the dealer would be a fool to keep it. JMO....

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Tom you could make a good buck descibing used cars for honest salesmen!!
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Old 08-23-2009, 10:10 PM
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That's no rare Italian sportscar, that's a BiTurbo. In GM terms, its a nicely trimmed '80s Cavalier with the torque steer you'd expect after you put an HO 5.0L V8 into it, plus it has all of the self igniting fire capabilities of an '84 Fiero. That and the reliability of an old British sports car that had been in a flood. Awful cars with no resale value. Regardless of its low miles, it looks like the leading edge of the front fender is rusted through. No tragedy here, and the dealer would be a fool to keep it. JMO....

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Way to go Tom! Now you've angered all the Maserati BiTurbo lovers, all the '84 Fiero lovers, the '80s Cavalier lovers, and the old British sports car lovers! Honesty does have a way of doing that, doesn't it.
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