You've got the un-serviceable air filter backwards You're supposed to remove the wing nut, lift up the filter housing slightly then slide another Chevette under it. Saab Sonett Broh
+Amesie's Automotive Corner Wow..This is amazing, theres some funny comments on youtube but normally its some stupid or cliché joke, but this...is hilarious.
+Poe Tay Toe That's not zoom noise. That's autofocus noise on his Nikon DSLR. He's using a kit lens, which has relatively noisy AF motor Source: I have the same kit lens on my D3300 which makes the same noise.
That silly air filter was introduced on the Vega (another brilliant idea from that fine car). That aftermarket unit was as common in parts stores as a rebuilt and sleeved short block. Yup, you would walk into your local parts store and there sat a nice looking Vega engine on display - which just about lasted as long as the air filter did!
Somebody is filming using a Nikon camera with auto-focus enabled and recording audio with the internal mic... just in case you're wondering what whirring sound is when the camera focuses. I have a Nikon D3300 and I've learned to shoot video with manual focus. Supposedly using an external mic such as the Rode DSLR mic will eliminate the noise, but I wouldn't be so sure.
+Nathan Roe If you're using an external mic, it will essentially eliminate the noise as long as you don't have it right by the body point where the AF motor is.
The strut towers in my Impulse are so similar to that. It's crazy to think they're built on the same platform. The hinges for the rear hatch look very similar, too.
My first car was actually a Pontiac with the soch inline six (that would be the six cylinder version of this engine), a Custom S, which is really a Tempest. If I remember correctly the engine was only made in ’68 and ’69, and the car was only made in ’69, or it might have been the other way around. The eninge was in fact designed by John Delorean, you know; the big GM hotshot that ended up fucking up with the Delorean. Sadly I had to sell the car because the block was cracked and I didn’t have the money to buy and swap in a v8. As far as I know the guy I sold it to sold it on to somebody who actually had another inline six. But yeah, if you get the chance, you ought to check out a Custom S, really pretty cool cars, learned to drive wishbone manual in one. Also; great vids, I really enjoy them.
Yes, the air filter where you had to replace the entire housing. The Vega I had years ago (don't laugh, I got it cheap) also had this kind of air filter. Rather than throw 12 bucks at a new one, I took it apart and made it so an air filter from a 1968 Ford (about 2 bucks and change) would fit inside. If I had a Chevette I would have made a similar modification.
i owned a 1985 chevette, drove it for years. was through 6 wrecks 1 transmission and had 300,000 miles on it before engine let go. people make fun of these cars, but they were a tank and ran very well, even though the horse power sucked. also in all the years that these were made, any motor or transmission would work in any year car. just had to transfer a few items if need be.
+Chris They're not weird, just a cheaply made car to be thrown away when it was worn out. When introduced, almost everything in it was an option, from back seat to rubber covers on the pedals and floor covering . It was heavily sold to various government agencies which was why it had those as options, the postal service didn't need to pay for such luxuries as carpeting or pedal rubbers.
Wow. Way cool. Have ridden in one many years ago, but never seen under the hood of one. Interesting to see the first attempt by GM at making an economy car.
I see the Chevette today as the U.S. trying to figure out proper health care funding. In the days of the Chevette, U.S. car manufacturers were trying to figure out how to build a small car by using big car and truck parts. Today, the U.S. is trying to figure out how to make affordable health care with old world solutions. Meanwhile, the rest of the world builds better small cars and has affordable health care.
This was still the era when GM cars DID NOT have "quirks" because the definition of a quirk in automobiles was anything that was done differently from how GM did it!
Seeing the Chevette up close and personal makes it more obvious why Honda and Toyota dominated the compact segment starting in the mid 80s. Chevy phoned in the design with as many reused parts as possible, selling people on the dream of affordable, reliable transportation with nothing to back it up. They made cars that sold well on the merit that they were cheap but provided all of those owners with a stinging subpar experience. When time came to get a new car (and I'm thinking that was only 2-3 years later based on this build quality) they were all set to move to those slightly less cheap but 10x as durable Japanese econo-box they'd heard about from their neighbor. It had real glass in the windows, factory installed carpets, and could make it up even the medium-est of hills. It delivered on the promise that the Chevette couldn't.
They didn't 'phone it in' so much as adapted their world car 'T' platform for the US market. The whole idea of this car was to deliver something efficient, affordable, and reliable, and brought to market QUICKLY. Chevette did it. It didn't really lose a lot of ground in sales until the 1980s. It was never meant to be flashy, fast, or trendy. And OF COURSE they reused parts where they could. Every other car on the market shares at least some parts with its stablemates. First-gen Camaros were essentially Chevy IIs in terms of suspension and steering, did you know that? Ford's first-gen Mustang was a Falcon under the sheetmetal. Reusing what's there is part and parcel of auto manufacturing. That alternator was dead common across all GM cars of the era. If you don't need to reinvent the wheel, WHY WOULD YOU?
so is the casing of the alternator just the same size or is it literally just the same alternator being underused? Could that make it last longer? Or does just regular ass corrosion from environmental factors make that a moot point?
GM used the same alternator in virtually all their products in the 1970s. The Chevette didn't need anything bigger than 60 amps (the fuel pump was driven mechanically, and a carbureted model doesn't need fuel injectors, and the 'computer' of the era didn't really do much of anything). There was absolutely no need to put a special alternator on those cars, so why design something special just for the Chevette? I think the A/C-equipped Chevettes got a slightly larger 70A alternator (as is the case with most GM models of the era), but I don't think A/C was an option until like 1978 or 1979. I'll agree that the 'integrated air cleaner assembly' was a horrible idea; it was probably an attempt to force the owner to go back to the dealer to buy the necessary part (at an inflated cost, of course). My Chevette had that air cleaner, but the previous owner had cut it apart to replace the filter element , and used a fairly ingenious trick involving a fuel hose to put it back together. He slit the fuel hose and used it around the outside of the air cleaner housing as a sort of gasket.
Common fix back in the day. As I recall a replacement filter was about $25, a lot of money then. I know I cut mine open, but can't remember how I sealed it back up.
I think Pontiac had an OHC 6 cylinder engine in the mid sixties. It was used on the Lemans and later on the Firebird. It was a pretty good engine but it's weakness was the plastic timing chain gear which often broke.
i had to look it up but you are right. But it seems even at that GM was late to the game on SOHC as ford and Chrysler were testing the waters on the racing circuit in the late 20's.
thank you for yet another awesome video! its very interesting vehicle indeed. also is it true that these were called vauxhall somewhere? thought because gm and gm made opel from 1990 to 19xx.. idk but so i heard
My dad had 3 chevettes a 79,81, 83 i believe all had over 100 k miles they were all 4 speed manuals learned how to drive the last one he had no power steering no power brakes I used to drive the hell outta that car she ran good even when he sold it you could see the road through the passenger side floor 😂
hahahah I drive an 82 chevette auto transmission with stock AC and stock radio and console w/ 4 door...apparently that combo is one of the rarest. I got it for $850!
+Alfred Munkenbeck I'm curious to know how this car would have been if it hadn't been a parts bin special. Nothing drastic but just parts made for a 4 cylinder, I'm sure a transmission designed for a 4 cyl would've made a huge difference.
+uncreativename They put those big components on because the engine kept shearing transmission input shafts and and twisting off the pulleys with that whopping 23hp. V8 parts were the only thing that could handle the output of that modern (for the time) 4cyl. It was a beast of a 4cyl, right up there with 4AG's and B18's
There was a logic to the big starter and half-a-v8 distributor. This car was supposed to be cheap to run, so it used a lot of off-the-shelf bigger Chevy components that you could get absolutely anywhere for less than any comparable parts. But then they screwed the pooch with that disposable air cleaner.
What engine is this? The wikipedia page for the Chevette lists it as a Isuzu inline four. But from this video it seems like it's something that GM made in house?
+Stephen Morrish (PendragonUK) They wanted to reduce per-unit cost by crappifying it. And people assigned to the small car projects at GM at the time absolutely resented being there, they wanted to be working on bigger, upmarket vehicles.
Tery Aki It's not like the Kadett was awesome or anything, It was a cheap Euro run about. The 1970's were still the 1970's... but it wasn't crap on purpose. This car looks like it was sabotaged in the design process.
+Tery Aki sabotaging seems more appropriate than crappyfing, lol. I've never seen something such a huge amount of wrong stuff in a small car. Even Europeans makers like Fiat had truly shitty models, but at least even those were put together in some rational way.
my grandpa had a Vauxhall chevette similar but better built and styled than this. had a crap 1.3 60hp engine but the low weight made it quite fun to drive....
Crosley beat other American auto manufacturers to the SOHC game way back in the late 40's. Not sure if these were the first to use over head cam outside of racing or specialty applications in the U.S. but definitely beat GM in having the first OHC. GM was throwing crap at the small car and seeing what stuck. OHC means higher revs and so they figured that might help make up for the utter lack of HP out of it if you could over rev it. That little engine had to work hard.
This is Rob who bought the Yellow Chevette "Squirt" in this video. I just set up my TH-cam page "The Chevette Collector" I have Squirt and my 21 other Chevette's on there. Please check it out and anyone interested in Chevette's subscribe!
I'm not even sure what that engine is, it's evidently not the any of the Isuzu engines the Holden Gemini had, they had a normal single valve cover & a proper 4 cyl distributor.
Ah...so _that's_ why the Chevette is heavier and slower than a Holden Gemini - 5 mph bumpers, standard auto, US smog pump, a/c...and unnecessary weight from V8 leftovers!
the original Volkswagon golf or rabbit looks like at NASA deep space probe under the hood compared to this rolling design flaw... although it still may be a better car than the Mustang 2?
+TheCatMilton ................ I agree working at an independent shop when it was a fairly new car we had to be careful not to pull the door handles off interior and exterior ... :D
Bret H A 2.3 turbo and 5spd manual transmission from a 80s thunderbird or Mustang SVO would make a mustang II a much more fun car. It would also hopefully keep the handling characteristics similar. The only thing that really bothered me was the lack of power. It felt a little bit slower than my 1983 BMW 320i when floored.
+Tom S. Why doesn't (insert carmaker) just build an electric car with phone batteries in the floor like a Tesla S today? As people try and bodge it. This is why if you were buying a small car in 1976 you would have bought a Datsun or VW Rabbit as people did
They must be rare as I can hardly even find any images on the net only-carz.com/vauxhall-chevette.html There is one here, the baby blue one halfway down the list. Probably the nicest looking out of all the Chevette's GM or Vauxhall. Be nice to re-power one with something that had a bit more poke. They did a 2.3 liter in that range...
You've got the un-serviceable air filter backwards
You're supposed to remove the wing nut, lift up the filter housing slightly then slide another Chevette under it.
Saab Sonett Broh
works the same with the ignition key if you lose it just have another car made
+Amesie's Automotive Corner
Saab sonett, brah.
+Amesie's Automotive Corner PS. Love your videos bro.
+Bret H i lol'ed
+Amesie's Automotive Corner Wow..This is amazing, theres some funny comments on youtube but normally its some stupid or cliché joke, but this...is hilarious.
"There was an overhead cam Firebird, but it didn't take off." PUNS.
Over and under engineered at the same time...
My thoughts exactly.
+Marquis M. Myes. Less developed, more dropkicked into production. Is the red minter Chevette for a later video?
+Daniel van Slooten It's on my channel. It's a 1.6, 4 speed, 86 HO motor bored .060 with a Weber carb and MSD ignition.
+Fuel Injection Sucks sounds tasty!
+Marquis M.
You can almost hear the confused '70s GM engineers going "how I make small car?" as Justin lists off each bizarre design quirk.
I nominate this for best camera work of the century.
+Poe Tay Toe It's in line with the subject :)
+Poe Tay Toe part of me wants to say it's him with a steady hand, the other half wants me to say it's post-production image stabilization
+Kevin definitely his steady hands. But what is super annoying and kept me from watching the whole video, is the noise when he zooms in and out.
+Poe Tay Toe That's not zoom noise. That's autofocus noise on his Nikon DSLR. He's using a kit lens, which has relatively noisy AF motor
Source: I have the same kit lens on my D3300 which makes the same noise.
That silly air filter was introduced on the Vega (another brilliant idea from that fine car). That aftermarket unit was as common in parts stores as a rebuilt and sleeved short block. Yup, you would walk into your local parts store and there sat a nice looking Vega engine on display - which just about lasted as long as the air filter did!
The camera auto focus sounds like a tiny rave mouse.
it's just there with some tiny glow sticks.
+harry lonsdale 😂🐭
UNTS UNTS UNTS SQUEAK
Somebody is filming using a Nikon camera with auto-focus enabled and recording audio with the internal mic... just in case you're wondering what whirring sound is when the camera focuses. I have a Nikon D3300 and I've learned to shoot video with manual focus. Supposedly using an external mic such as the Rode DSLR mic will eliminate the noise, but I wouldn't be so sure.
+Nathan Roe If you're using an external mic, it will essentially eliminate the noise as long as you don't have it right by the body point where the AF motor is.
The sound of the shutter moving is so relaxing..
The strut towers in my Impulse are so similar to that. It's crazy to think they're built on the same platform. The hinges for the rear hatch look very similar, too.
This would make a great car for meets. Nobody would know what the hell is going on so you could always explain something on the car. Nice.
The Chevette, when the son of a GM engineer builds a car from spare parts in the barn in the backyard.
I've seen an unservicable filter box once before, on a Renault 5. Never though anyone non french would be weird enough to make those.
My first car was actually a Pontiac with the soch inline six (that would be the six cylinder version of this engine), a Custom S, which is really a Tempest. If I remember correctly the engine was only made in ’68 and ’69, and the car was only made in ’69, or it might have been the other way around. The eninge was in fact designed by John Delorean, you know; the big GM hotshot that ended up fucking up with the Delorean. Sadly I had to sell the car because the block was cracked and I didn’t have the money to buy and swap in a v8. As far as I know the guy I sold it to sold it on to somebody who actually had another inline six. But yeah, if you get the chance, you ought to check out a Custom S, really pretty cool cars, learned to drive wishbone manual in one. Also; great vids, I really enjoy them.
I think that air cleaner was the concept for the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars
Yes, the air filter where you had to replace the entire housing. The Vega I had years ago (don't laugh, I got it cheap) also had this kind of air filter. Rather than throw 12 bucks at a new one, I took it apart and made it so an air filter from a 1968 Ford (about 2 bucks and change) would fit inside. If I had a Chevette I would have made a similar modification.
What is that weird rubber bandy boing boing noise when you zoom in and out?
camera focusing
It's not junk, it's an ANTIQUE!
Need a 3 way comparison test with this beast, a Ford Pinto and an AMC Pacer
Pacers are HUGE. They are not a compact. Common misconception.
+Fuel Injection Sucks And the smallest engine the Pacer came with was more than twice the size of the engine in this ...
Maybe a 4 cylinder AMC Gremlin
i owned a 1985 chevette, drove it for years. was through 6 wrecks 1 transmission and had 300,000 miles on it before engine let go. people make fun of these cars, but they were a tank and ran very well, even though the horse power sucked. also in all the years that these were made, any motor or transmission would work in any year car. just had to transfer a few items if need be.
I kind of want one of these just because they are so weird
+Chris They're not weird, just a cheaply made car to be thrown away when it was worn out. When introduced, almost everything in it was an option, from back seat to rubber covers on the pedals and floor covering . It was heavily sold to various government agencies which was why it had those as options, the postal service didn't need to pay for such luxuries as carpeting or pedal rubbers.
My Dad told me he bought one of these... and then immediately blew up the engine driving though the Rocky Mountains.
love the squirt vanity plate on the front.
Wow. Way cool. Have ridden in one many years ago, but never seen under the hood of one. Interesting to see the first attempt by GM at making an economy car.
Is interesting to see how different the American chevette is from the chevette made in Brazil, although it uses the same platform and engine.
Have you guys ever reviewed a Triumph Spitfire? I've got one, and I would love to see what you guys have to say.
Jeez, seeing all these oversize parts it's really easy to see how you really could just fit anything you want in there in a swap.
If only we could see the magic behind the MEAT
I see the Chevette today as the U.S. trying to figure out proper health care funding. In the days of the Chevette, U.S. car manufacturers were trying to figure out how to build a small car by using big car and truck parts. Today, the U.S. is trying to figure out how to make affordable health care with old world solutions. Meanwhile, the rest of the world builds better small cars and has affordable health care.
I like the sound of the BORG implants man, resistance is futile!
This was still the era when GM cars DID NOT have "quirks" because the definition of a quirk in automobiles was anything that was done differently from how GM did it!
Trans is a GM TH-180 or 3L30 used in mostly fiats, holdens, rovers, opels, etc.
Add an overdrive unit and electronic controls, and it becomes a 4L30E, used in BMWs, Isuzu 4x4s, and others.
lol that idle speed at the start of the vid.
Seeing the Chevette up close and personal makes it more obvious why Honda and Toyota dominated the compact segment starting in the mid 80s.
Chevy phoned in the design with as many reused parts as possible, selling people on the dream of affordable, reliable transportation with nothing to back it up. They made cars that sold well on the merit that they were cheap but provided all of those owners with a stinging subpar experience. When time came to get a new car (and I'm thinking that was only 2-3 years later based on this build quality) they were all set to move to those slightly less cheap but 10x as durable Japanese econo-box they'd heard about from their neighbor. It had real glass in the windows, factory installed carpets, and could make it up even the medium-est of hills. It delivered on the promise that the Chevette couldn't.
They didn't 'phone it in' so much as adapted their world car 'T' platform for the US market. The whole idea of this car was to deliver something efficient, affordable, and reliable, and brought to market QUICKLY.
Chevette did it. It didn't really lose a lot of ground in sales until the 1980s.
It was never meant to be flashy, fast, or trendy.
And OF COURSE they reused parts where they could. Every other car on the market shares at least some parts with its stablemates. First-gen Camaros were essentially Chevy IIs in terms of suspension and steering, did you know that? Ford's first-gen Mustang was a Falcon under the sheetmetal. Reusing what's there is part and parcel of auto manufacturing.
That alternator was dead common across all GM cars of the era. If you don't need to reinvent the wheel, WHY WOULD YOU?
Saw one for sale a few months ago. An 83 or so that was in absolute pristine condition. I kind of wanted to buy it lol
GM still hasn't figured out how to do Overhead Cam.
+555Tbird yes they have, on their DOHC 3.6 V6
I love the noise your messed up lens makes when trying to focus. Those springs..?
so is the casing of the alternator just the same size or is it literally just the same alternator being underused? Could that make it last longer? Or does just regular ass corrosion from environmental factors make that a moot point?
It reminds me of the girl that asks you were you want to eat and tells you no to every choice you make until her original Decision comes up 😂
GM used the same alternator in virtually all their products in the 1970s. The Chevette didn't need anything bigger than 60 amps (the fuel pump was driven mechanically, and a carbureted model doesn't need fuel injectors, and the 'computer' of the era didn't really do much of anything). There was absolutely no need to put a special alternator on those cars, so why design something special just for the Chevette? I think the A/C-equipped Chevettes got a slightly larger 70A alternator (as is the case with most GM models of the era), but I don't think A/C was an option until like 1978 or 1979.
I'll agree that the 'integrated air cleaner assembly' was a horrible idea; it was probably an attempt to force the owner to go back to the dealer to buy the necessary part (at an inflated cost, of course). My Chevette had that air cleaner, but the previous owner had cut it apart to replace the filter element , and used a fairly ingenious trick involving a fuel hose to put it back together. He slit the fuel hose and used it around the outside of the air cleaner housing as a sort of gasket.
Common fix back in the day. As I recall a replacement filter was about $25, a lot of money then. I know I cut mine open, but can't remember how I sealed it back up.
I think Pontiac had an OHC 6 cylinder engine in the mid sixties. It was used on the Lemans and later on the Firebird. It was a pretty good engine but it's weakness was the plastic timing chain gear which often broke.
i had to look it up but you are right. But it seems even at that GM was late to the game on SOHC as ford and Chrysler were testing the waters on the racing circuit in the late 20's.
+Terri Bel Bliss The pontiac OHC i6 used a timing belt
thank you for yet another awesome video! its very interesting vehicle indeed. also is it true that these were called vauxhall somewhere? thought because gm and gm made opel from 1990 to 19xx.. idk but so i heard
+hp5man okay thanks for filling in info:)
+hp5man yeah, some old cars are very reliable.. if treated right, my -99 astra hasn't failed me yet
What camera is this? It makes a very pleasing noise when focusing.
The 89 2.3 4 cylinder Mustang engine and the 5.0 V8 use the same oil filter, fuel filter and fuel pump.
+blackericdenice is it different for the SVO?
rubberwoody IDK but you can check on autozone.com if they have the same part number.
My dad had 3 chevettes a 79,81, 83 i believe all had over 100 k miles they were all 4 speed manuals learned how to drive the last one he had no power steering no power brakes I used to drive the hell outta that car she ran good even when he sold it you could see the road through the passenger side floor 😂
hahahah I drive an 82 chevette auto transmission with stock AC and stock radio and console w/ 4 door...apparently that combo is one of the rarest. I got it for $850!
7 fuckin years ago. I remember the day this dropped!
Literally the least desirable car I've ever heard of, and I'm usually into weird cars. Bury it.
+Alfred Munkenbeck I'm curious to know how this car would have been if it hadn't been a parts bin special. Nothing drastic but just parts made for a 4 cylinder, I'm sure a transmission designed for a 4 cyl would've made a huge difference.
+Alfred Munkenbeck I'd whip it over many things.
+uncreativename They put those big components on because the engine kept shearing transmission input shafts and and twisting off the pulleys with that whopping 23hp.
V8 parts were the only thing that could handle the output of that modern (for the time) 4cyl.
It was a beast of a 4cyl, right up there with 4AG's and B18's
Bob Hope Don't forget the b234R's.
+Bob Hope Yep, I sold a lot of extractor kits, bolts and crank pulleys (and on occasion, radiators) for those. Memories...
Interesting! So why did GM go back to push-rods for the Iron Duke?
+Ian Thompson Because these broke timing belts all the time.
me3333 Gotcha! Didn't know
Was the "Iron Duke" not around when the Chevy 2's were introduced, 1962?
Droid running camera confirmed.
GM did make a OHC i6 motor a few years prior.
There was a logic to the big starter and half-a-v8 distributor. This car was supposed to be cheap to run, so it used a lot of off-the-shelf bigger Chevy components that you could get absolutely anywhere for less than any comparable parts.
But then they screwed the pooch with that disposable air cleaner.
+nlpnt
Small block Chevy parts were and still are dirt cheap.
My 1984 Pontiac 1000 had full sized spare and bumper jack
god i hope you guys review a mustang SVO sometime, or a shelby dodge something.
maybe a shelby shadow
will you drive my chevy cruze eco yet?
What engine is this? The wikipedia page for the Chevette lists it as a Isuzu inline four. But from this video it seems like it's something that GM made in house?
+David Hedges Its unique to Chevettes.
+David Hedges
At least according to Wikipedia, they're Japanese motors on an American chassis. ;)
+RJARRRPCGP Brazilian would be more accurate.
Mr Regular, use manual focus when filming, it's your friend!
+Michael Foley Seriously. The noises made by the autofocus were distracting the hell out of me.
you can make some dub techno of those camera sounds!
This is awesome.
this is amazing!
Do a regular car reveiw on a Chevy Monte Carlo SS
I just don't get it, why didn't GM just go to one of their European divisions for an economical compact car? the Opel kadett/Vauxhall Chevette.
+Stephen Morrish (PendragonUK) They wanted to reduce per-unit cost by crappifying it. And people assigned to the small car projects at GM at the time absolutely resented being there, they wanted to be working on bigger, upmarket vehicles.
Tery Aki It's not like the Kadett was awesome or anything, It was a cheap Euro run about. The 1970's were still the 1970's... but it wasn't crap on purpose. This car looks like it was sabotaged in the design process.
+Tery Aki sabotaging seems more appropriate than crappyfing, lol. I've never seen something such a huge amount of wrong stuff in a small car. Even Europeans makers like Fiat had truly shitty models, but at least even those were put together in some rational way.
The OHC I-6 Pontiac motor came out 66'ish. I think..
it's not really an RCR video without the springy noises coming from the camera
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my grandpa had a Vauxhall chevette similar but better built and styled than this. had a crap 1.3 60hp engine but the low weight made it quite fun to drive....
Crosley beat other American auto manufacturers to the SOHC game way back in the late 40's. Not sure if these were the first to use over head cam outside of racing or specialty applications in the U.S. but definitely beat GM in having the first OHC. GM was throwing crap at the small car and seeing what stuck. OHC means higher revs and so they figured that might help make up for the utter lack of HP out of it if you could over rev it. That little engine had to work hard.
Am I the only one hearing "Air queener"?
This is Rob who bought the Yellow Chevette "Squirt" in this video. I just set up my TH-cam page "The Chevette Collector" I have Squirt and my 21 other Chevette's on there. Please check it out and anyone interested in Chevette's subscribe!
60's pontiacs had over head cam inline sixes
I can hear so much of the notheast in the other dudes voice
the air cleaner for a vega too
awesome, weirdness is good.
The Vega deserved more than it got...
0:54 hmm, would it be safe to assume not to trust a bumper jack on a 2 ton Cadillac?
In the 60's use to change transmissions using a bumper jack. What was I thinking?
I'm not even sure what that engine is, it's evidently not the any of the Isuzu engines the Holden Gemini had, they had a normal single valve cover & a proper 4 cyl distributor.
It is actually an evolution of the same motor from what I've read.
So really the drive train of this thing is overbuilt on this thing. The parasitic losses on this thing must be massive.
...wow. typo city at 6:30am
Perfect for a sbc v8 sawp
Ah...so _that's_ why the Chevette is heavier and slower than a Holden Gemini - 5 mph bumpers, standard auto, US smog pump, a/c...and unnecessary weight from V8 leftovers!
NEVER take that Chevette on the highway! (or any Chevette)
you interested in selling that chevette buddy
Interesting....
Gotta be around the time were GM really started sabotaging their own cars
+Ian Thompson This is exactly when that was happening.
Wow...u weren't lying when u said they slapped it together smfh.
Worst car I ever had was a damn 78 Rabbit...
+Martin Pescador in 1978, or are you judging a used car?
+Spearfisher1970 In 78; It was a new Rabbit-
Martin Pescador
I guess you had an early "Malibuized" version.
"Malibuized"....?
*****
Given cheaper interior materials, softer suspension. Like the Chevrolet Malibu of the era.
the original Volkswagon golf or rabbit looks like at NASA deep space probe under the hood compared to this rolling design flaw... although it still may be a better car than the Mustang 2?
+Bret H Having driven both, the mustang II is the better car. The mustang II was also somewhat fun to drive around too.
+TheCatMilton ................ I agree working at an independent shop when it was a fairly new car we had to be careful not to pull the door handles off interior and exterior ...
:D
Bret H A 2.3 turbo and 5spd manual transmission from a 80s thunderbird or Mustang SVO would make a mustang II a much more fun car. It would also hopefully keep the handling characteristics similar.
The only thing that really bothered me was the lack of power. It felt a little bit slower than my 1983 BMW 320i when floored.
its like a car but worse
This car is the most profound shitbox I've ever seen.
it's like a kid trying to make a Lego set out of duplo pieces. it's like Buffalo Bill trying to make a suit out of fat chicks.
shooting with a nikon? ask me how I know
+Jasshands1 no
Leave it to GM.
Turd gen T-bird?
This is aftermarket erererererere
God this is shit threw and threw to the end! Like factory consistent.....LITERALLY factory consistent!
birdup
Why didn't they just copy the overhead engines from Europe like the Japanese?
Those engines from that era weren't that much more impressive.
+Tom S. Why doesn't (insert carmaker) just build an electric car with phone batteries in the floor like a Tesla S today? As people try and bodge it. This is why if you were buying a small car in 1976 you would have bought a Datsun or VW Rabbit as people did
I think I just threw up in my mouth.
Can you review my piece of shit Suzuki
I had a Vauxhall Chevette coupe, gutless.
+Robert Ueberfeldt Pushrod 1255 yech.
They must be rare as I can hardly even find any images on the net
only-carz.com/vauxhall-chevette.html
There is one here, the baby blue one halfway down the list.
Probably the nicest looking out of all the Chevette's GM or Vauxhall. Be nice to re-power one with something that had a bit more poke. They did a 2.3 liter in that range...
It's better to just crush this abomination lol😂😂😂😂😲
vay ga not veeeega
Hey, it's Pennsylvania. Do you remember how they pronounce radiator?