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jay125 wrote in post #19532125
You used your personal touch to put new life into the Citation it seems. It was waiting to die until it's replacement showed up, then right on queue.
Everyone I knew who had one had nothing but issues. Looking at it online, it was successful, quirky, flawed and ultimately one of few generations of cars which attracted the US Governments attention due to the number of complaints. My friends dad admitted it was a rush job from GM and didn't receive the attention or time needed to be a more successful offering. The X-body included the Citation, the Phoenix, the Omega and the Skylark. It appears people now are finding them and bringing them back to life. Maybe the re-birth will redeem the integrity and respect it deserve(s)(d).

$200 is $200. The bank wasn't even going to entertain my offer until they realized I was the high bidder. I drove it home with it killing at every red light as the clutch was gone but the battery was new. So I would crank in gear until it started and just power shift. I pulled the engine to replace the clutch. Front wheel drive was new to me. But in the end, it was a great score. My brother had it sold, it was making noise, so I revved it until the engine seized. That was the Citations end. The color matched my Corvette, Silver and grey.

It's going to be 90+ all week with no rain in the forecast. Add the humidity and it's pretty miserable. I love my central air. I have elderly neighbors who had no a/c, I gave them one of my window units I used before I had the central air installed. Our city does the cooling centers and also provides fans to people who have none. Summer starts tomorrow but its coming in with a vengence. I think this one is going to be brutal season again.

Ah.. The 90s What a great decade.

gjl711 wrote in post #19532235
Ah.. The 90s What a great decade.

I'd happily go back.

Chet wrote in post #19532256
I'd happily go back.

So would I. The 90s were a pretty awesome decade.

Here's both a sad car story and a sad coming of age story.

I used to have to date in my father's AMC Pacer.

I would post a picture here, but I don't ever want to see that car again.

icopus wrote in post #19532317
Here's both a sad car story and a sad coming of age story.

I used to have to date in my father's AMC Pacer.

I would post a picture here, but I don't ever want to see that car again.

Was the Pacer really that bad? I always kind of liked the concept, a small car with big interior. I dated in my $100 VW Beetle and she married me. I was much more flexible back then.

Too much glass for privacy. Like being in a fish bowl. Dates hated it.
But you're right, there was a lot of room under the glass... if I could get
them there.

gjl711 wrote in post #19532339
I dated in my $100 VW Beetle and she married me.

It looks more like you lived in it.

OhLook wrote in post #19532404
It looks more like you lived in it.

We traveled all over. I bought the car when it has 120k miles. The spedo broke at just over 250k and I drove it for some time yet. Learned real quick how to do road side repairs. The car never let me down. It always got me to where I wanted to go though it may have needed a bit of coaxing.

I rode in a Pacer a few times. It was a mobile fishbowl. A ball with wheels. It was fancy silver with the woodside paneling. Quite the ride. I was doing yard work in high school, and one of my customers owned it and would drive me home after pointing out everything I did wrong and nothing I did right. I figured she deserved the Pacer. I only had three rides in that thing. I found clients who liked my results, and paid better and didn't own a Pacer. I don't remember the last time i saw an actual Pacer though. AMC made some pretty neat cars, the Rebel, Jeep, Hornet, Javelin, and the AMX series, to name a few.

The 90's were a time of life changes for me. I left Michigan and EMS, and everything i knew and moved to San Francisco and reinvented myself. Everything to me was new. It was a pretty exciting time for me. I miss the 90s. For me, the 90's was the last decade of change and learning. We moved to just outside Little Rock, Arkansas in 95. President Clinton would come to our town with the whole presidential motorcade to golf at our golf course. I guess he had a membership? That would tie up traffic horribly. So basically the 90's was a time of life changes for me that I have fond memories of, and landed me here in 2000.

gjl711 wrote in post #19532339
Was the Pacer really that bad? I always kind of liked the concept, a small car with big interior. I dated in my $100 VW Beetle and she married me. I was much more flexible back then.

This photo could be an album cover.

Our drought condition is getting worse, so naturally we have a day full of severe storms ahead.

jay125 wrote in post #19533626
Our drought condition is getting worse, so naturally we have a day full of severe storms ahead.

And you are complaining??

My grass is mostly brown. My pine trees look almost dead. We could use a good storm or 10.