Back in '93 I won a trip to LA for a week, courtesy of Radio 1 and the Simon Bates Show. (correctly answering a bunch of questions about the film Sneakers, before you ask), and I had one of these for my time there:
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Buick Skylark, the same colour, and ugly as sin. Great to drive around LA, though, 3.3 V6, and went pretty well despite the soggy auto box. Only used half a tank in a week's driving. Sounded really good when I wellied it, too.
Rented a Toyota Corolla years back in Canade which had a broken boot. Got upgraded to a Pontiac Grand Am. 3.0l v6 2 door sports coupe. V cool to drive around but auto box was shocking.
Best moment, Mountie 'do you know how fast we clocked you at?'
Me 'er no.'
Mountie '130 km in a 90km zone'
Me ' er ok (secretly inside Pheeeew, been doing 170 earlier)'
Still gash compared to any kind of European or Japanese 3.0l coupe though.
My Dad and Uncle have had a few American cars between them, Dad had one of these:
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'66 Fastback
but replaced it with one of these:
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'03 Mach 1
Uncle currently rebuilding one of these:
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'63 Ford Falcon
Tried my best to convince him to get the station wagon but to no avail.
