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If life as a complete is getting too overwhelming, then in the present day’s Good Worth or No Cube Corsica could be the panacea for that agitation and festering angina. That’s, so long as its price ticket doesn’t piss us off.
The three Rs we’ve been instructed we’re speculated to dwell by are not “studying, writing, and ‘rithmetic.” As a substitute, it’s now “cut back, reuse, and recycle.” Southern California-based Powell Motor Company was method forward of the sport on this trifecta by constructing the 1957 Powell Sport Wagon we checked out on Friday from elements sourced at native junkyards. That recycling concerned utterly restoring the elements, one thing our Powell wanted as soon as once more. Such a frightening process, coupled with the Powell’s relative obscurity, made its $8,000 asking worth equally difficult to assist. In the end, that fell in a large 88 % No Cube loss.
Have you ever ever partaken in an excessive sports activities exercise? Maybe you bungee-jumped off a bridge or zip-lined a chasm. Possibly you’ve tried to traverse Los Angeles’ metro system whereas avoiding getting stabbed or second-hand smoking some fentanyl-laced meth. If you happen to’ve achieved any of these issues, then kudos to you for surviving and never ending up a vegetative burden on society because of your adrenaline-addicted life-style selections.
Do you have to as a substitute extra generally select to shrink back from hazard, controversy, and excessive coronary heart charges, in the present day’s 1993 Chevy Corsica must be proper up your previous people house.
Anybody on the lookout for an affordable option to get round and completely nothing extra ought to discover this one-owner, clear title equipment of a sedan exceedingly interesting. It’s additionally, dare I say it, fairly kitschy in in the present day’s market as few of those stay, having lengthy been considered as kind of a disposable digicam sort of automobile.
The Corsica’s mannequin run started with ignominy, with Chevy deeming the mannequin solely match for fleet gross sales upon its debut in 1987. After exactly zero clamor from customers, Chevy made the Corsica accessible to the broader market the next 12 months.
Primarily based on the J automobile (Cavalier), the Corsica was designed to fit between that automobile and the bigger Celeb/Lumina in dimension and worth. Modeling this middle-of-the-pack pretension, the Corsica’s drivetrain choices included the Cavalier’s fours and the Celeb’s V6s.
As a later mannequin, this one has the biggest engine provided in a Corsica, Chevy’s 3.1-liter V6 with multiport gas injection. A four-speed computerized ensures that the engine’s 140 horsepower doesn’t ever get too out of hand.
In response to the humorous description within the advert, the automobile was initially offered in Colorado, and therefore, it’s strong and free from rust as a result of that Mountain Time State shuns salt for street de-icing. It’s now provided by the second-hand seller in Lincoln, Nebraska, the place, apparently, they do salt the roads.
Painted in equipment white over what the vendor says is a “whorehouse purple” velour inside, the Corsica is in surprisingly respectable form for its age and goal in life. Certain, every bumper nook reveals some car parking zone scrapes within the paint, however that appears to be the one aesthetic challenge the automobile suffers.
These late-in-the-game fashions have an airbag within the steering wheel and common seatbelts reasonably than the door-mounted belts of earlier editions. These by no means appear to suit fairly proper. In fact, passengers don’t get an airbag, so select your companions correctly.
Mechanically, the automobile appears to be OK, too. The advert solely tells us that the engine “by no means will get too sizzling and isn’t actively leaking something on the bottom.” It’s a Chevy OHV V6, so there’s not a lot to go mistaken with it or to fret about if one thing does.
In case your kink is rental automobile stylish, this Corsica has a lot to supply. It additionally has attraction must you be of restricted means or are a Scrooge McDuck-style skinflint, as the value is a mere $2,500. Is an previous Corsica—clear as it could be—one of the best use of even that paltry sum of cash?
What do you say? Is that this Corsica a superb purchase at that $2,500 asking worth? Or do the value and the automobile have you ever merely saying goodbye?
You resolve!
Fb Market out of Lincoln, Nebraska, or go right here if the advert disappears.
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