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Are Starions cheap now?
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Aren't them mostly unobtainium by now?
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03-02-2018, 12:41 AM
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I see some options I hadn't thought of, keep this going!
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03-02-2018, 01:12 AM
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03-02-2018, 05:59 AM
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Aren't them mostly unobtainium by now?
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I have no idea. I don't keep up on cars of that era very well. I'm either about pre-smog cars, or '96-up ones with OBDII...the stuff in between kinda falls flat for me but as I hear more about this stuff by osmosis, I gather it's starting to become more and more popular. I'd never in a million years have thought 80s anything would get popular again.
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03-02-2018, 09:42 PM
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I'd never in a million years have thought 80s anything would get popular again.
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Even though the auto industry was just recovering from the oil shocks, and taking its first steps in some technologies that are now widespread, at least there were still some real station-wagons by then... |
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03-02-2018, 11:00 PM
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Even though the auto industry was just recovering from the oil shocks, and taking its first steps in some technologies that are now widespread, at least there were still some real station-wagons by then...
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True enough. Wagons basically made their last stand in the 80s...as cool as some automotive nerds find Audi or Mercedes wagons these days, they were a bodystyle in decline even then.
I guess I have a bit of an aesthetic bias...the 80s didn't turn out cars, or fashion in general, which I respond positively to. Even musically I can at best say I'm very dichotomous or digital: I love it or I hate it, with no room in between.
But it's also that transition, speaking strictly about cars, after our government went heavily after both emissions and fuel economy. It brought forth a lot of tech with no standards, a Wild West of tech. There's no OBDII consensus, no commonality to the ways in which auto tech was pushed to innovate. There's essentially a dead zone of zombie cars which continue to run for which I couldn't ever justify ownership.
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03-03-2018, 02:53 PM
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The greatest car of the 80s is a Regal Grand National especially than 86 or 87 or really especially the 87 GNX. I rather have a 87 GNX than a 87 Ferrari 328.
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03-04-2018, 03:51 PM
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RWD cars with good MPG ==> The greatest car[s] of the 80s
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https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewforum.php?f=35
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=206491
40mpg enough? Look for the $500 barn find and resto-mod it.
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03-05-2018, 12:44 AM
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There's essentially a dead zone of zombie cars which continue to run for which I couldn't ever justify ownership.
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At least some of those oldtimers were still easy enough to fix by oneself at the shade of a tree. |
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03-06-2018, 04:00 PM
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Right wheel drive, standard, under 3k? Best luck! 35 for sale within 200 miles of Cleveland.
https://m.autotrader.com/cars-for-sa...cleStyleCodes=
Personally, I don't recommend the smallest engine. Especially in large vehicles, they have to work extremely hard. Think little ecoboost in an F150. Yes, idling in traffic, and puttering around is fine, but people who use them see almost no benefit in fuel, as anecdotal as that is.
I found great success with the V6 in 2011-2016 Mustang, but it took work as well. My 2005 3 cylinder Insight sees 50+ all year, any condition, as I thrash it about. Personally, I would get a truck, and modify it to high heaven, if I was going with your requirements.
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