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Old 11-02-2020, 11:35 AM   #33 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Geo Metro
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Last 3: 70.09 mpg (US)

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90 day: 54.46 mpg (US)

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Wrong trans again, but still impressive...

I like this one because it's an original owner first gen 1987 Firefly!


And it's a bit of a barn find (parked indoors for the last 10 yrs).




Not particularly low kilometers in absolute terms, but extremely low for a 33 year old car @ 148k kms = 92k miles.


But then it's the wrong transmission, of course. As most of these tend to be.



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1987 Pontic Firefly 3 cylinder 39 miles per gallon engine runs strong , needs carb adj or replace. body good . front floor pans cut out replaced with riveted steel . Car drove and parked in large dry garage 10 years ago .gas tank religned no leaks.original owner. plated/ insured fire & theft , wanted to work on car when retired yet must remove from present garage.. no place to work on at this time . (add will be removed if i find space to work on car.) $1500 ( car is located in Toronto, at this time) 1 litre Mitubishi engine factory



https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/...ner/1529019782


I like that he doesn't know who made the car. (First gen were made in Japan by Suzuki. After that they were made in Ontario by GM.)
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