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Well I had enough to pay off the Mustang loan and put down a nice down payment on the Cavalier, was making payments on it while she was in school.

 

Cavaliers are reliable if you take care of them, but they are very cheaply made.

 

It was a pretty bare bones car with a 5 speed manual, I wanted her to have a warranty while she was in school and figured she would finish before the 36K was up but she drove the wheels off and put almost 60K on!

 

Air-conditioning?

 

Yeah, that was the only thing it had that you could consider a luxury.

 

Tilt wheel? Cruise control?

 

Nope, roll up windows too. It only had an AM/FM radio but I snagged a better unit out of the junkyard from a higher model Cavalier and got new speakers from Crutchfield which actually sounded pretty good overall.

 

What year was this thing? Cavaliers at least had intermittent wipers standard!

 

It was 2004, 2 door lowest base model that was offered, I recall the MSRP price being around $9995.

 

Stick shift?

 

Yep, 5 speed manual. Think it had around 140 Horsepower so it scooted along pretty good.

 

I remember having to look all over to even find the base model, I think there were a total of 3 within 500 mile radius.

 

Kinda like trying to find a base model Tacoma more than ten years ago!

 

I actually found a picture of it, didn't even have the normal body side moulding.

 

I could put a hell of a stereo in that car!

 

What I ended up putting in there sounded pretty damn good for what it was.

 

I’d put a couple of 12” inch subs in the trunk!

 

Well it was just supposed to be a basic car to take her back and forth to schools, so for the budget it sounded pretty good. Some 12" Subs in there would have made it a beast for sure though.

 

I'm pretty sure that Cavaliers had tilt steering standard by the time you bought this car...

 

I don't recall it having tilt steering nor seen anything listed under standard equipment on the net, I guess its possible but it was 16 years ago too.