29th Jun 2021, 19:31

My dad owned two in the mid ‘80s, one a panel wagon that smelled like cow dung, and that’s what it was, a piece of cow dung. The guy he sold it to later said the frame broke on the road. The other was a green sedan that I drove for a year in high school. It wouldn’t start if it were below freezing, the starter would intermittently fail, it had a top speed of 50 with the rods a-rattling blowing oil smoke out behind it, and rusted out halfway up the doors. God, what a shameful example of the American automobile. The best thing I can say about it is that it kept you warm and dry on a sleety October night, so it was a step up from a bicycle though not as dependable.