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Dodge Omni 024!

 

That was also one of the ones that used VW engines back then too.

 

In 1995 or so, my 16-year old babysitter's first car was a late 80s Plymouth Horizon. I seem to remember her telling me she was born in 1979, and she had a license when she started babysitting me, so I'm guessing it was 1995. The Plymouth died or just started having problems, and she got a red 1989ish Chevy Nova. She was so excited about that damn Nova and thought it was huge improvement over the Plymouth! It was based on a Toyota after all!

 

I remember those Toyota Nova's too lol.

 

The car wasn't much to look at, but now that I think about it, my babysitter was hot! I was only 6 at the time, and had no concept of sexual attraction, but looking back on it she was hot!

 

@shakerhood

She'd be 40 now, and she's probably still hot! Very few guys haven't lusted after their babysitter in later years...

 

Maybe she still likes Chevy Nova's too, lol.

 

But real Chevy Novas; the type with a V8, 4-on-the-floor, and positraction...

By the way, I just remembered that when I was 13, I had a crush on my friend's 36-year old blonde mom!

 

I remember working with a kid as a teenager and his mom was around that age at that time, she was a hot blonde that drove an SHO Taurus.

 

I had a crush on my 6th grade English teacher, and I remember she drove her husband's stick shift 1995 Nissan truck from time to time. This was in Washington state, on Whidbey Island. We lived there from 2000 to 2002. One thing I remember about Whidbey Island is that there were a lot of stick shift vehicles and a lot of vehicles with no air-conditioning. When I took an art class in the summer of 2002, the instructor drove a blue 1990ish Chevy Celebrity wagon that did not have air-conditioning. One of my dad's coworkers in the Navy, a reservist whose day job was a school principal, drove a 1989 Chevy Astro van that was a stick shift and did not have A/C. He donated the van to purple heart in 2006-2007 with something like 400K on the clock. This coworker remember my obsession with that van and requested that my dad update me on it.

I saw a 1991-1992ish Jeep Cherokee Sport 4-door 4x4 with a manual transmission and no A/C, an early 1980s Mercedes diesel sedan with a manual transmission and no A/C; When I went to Camp Moran in spring 2001, one of the camp counselors had a 1991 Nissan Pathfinder 4-door with a manual transmission and no A/C!

 

@shakerhood

One of my teachers had a 1992 Mazda Protege, manual with no A/C; Another teacher at that school had an old Subaru Justy 4WD, manual with no A/C...

I've seriously never seen such a high concentration of manual transmission vehicles with no A/C in one place!

 

I remember those Subaru Justy cars, almost think they had some weird 3 cylinder engine of some sort.

 

I worked with a guy that had a Le-Car, it backfired everytime he turned it off, lol.

 

They did have a 3-cylinder engine!

Also, the aforementioned blue Celebrity wagon was an automatic; I don't think those turds came with a manual transmission...

The parents of this one kid I know bought their daughter a white 1992 Toyota Tercel 4-door with an automatic transmission but no A/C as her first car. My friend's dad had a red 1989 or 1990 Honda Civic hatchback with a manual transmission and no A/C!

 

Sounds more like a LeFart...

 

It had a roof like an old sardine can too, he would roll it open, lol.

 

That is a factory V8 car?!? WOW!!!

 

Easily one of the worst cars ever made...

 

Very sad indeed.
I was a frequent visitor in the 70's ,80's and early 90's.
Went to the SummerNationals every year and some of the Wednesday night Funny Car shows.
Saw MANY record runs.
Had many friends who raced there and helped them out. Going 3-4 rounds made it a late night...esp. when we headed home when a Giants game was ending at the Meadowlands. Gridlock and Good Times.

Took the Nova there in '87 for the Street Machine Nationals.

I remember standing facing that tower when the jet cars were blasting afterburners.
Those big windows were flexing so much I am surprised none blew out.