Thanks Oldmobile!
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From: Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Thanks Oldmobile!
I'm coming home from work yesterday and get to the Ambassador Bridge (between Detroit, MI and Windsor, Ont.). I was cut off by a tourist in a minivan, had to slam on my brakes and was subsequently rear ended by a Volvo. Not a lot of damage, but enough.
A while back I bought a '91 Olds Delta 88 for a winter beater. When I discovered it only took about $15 a week in gas as opposed to the $70 the L takes, I began driving it to work instead. Thankfully that's what I was driving yesterday.
If not for that POS Oldsmobile I would have been driving the L, and instead opening endless threads on how to find a good body shop, where to get another bumper, fighting with my insurance company, the crappy job the body shop did, how my warranty was voided because the pushed in bumper was considered a perfomance modification, blah, blah, blah...
That Oldmobile saved me from the stress of all that.
THANKS OLDSMOBILE!!
A while back I bought a '91 Olds Delta 88 for a winter beater. When I discovered it only took about $15 a week in gas as opposed to the $70 the L takes, I began driving it to work instead. Thankfully that's what I was driving yesterday.
If not for that POS Oldsmobile I would have been driving the L, and instead opening endless threads on how to find a good body shop, where to get another bumper, fighting with my insurance company, the crappy job the body shop did, how my warranty was voided because the pushed in bumper was considered a perfomance modification, blah, blah, blah...
That Oldmobile saved me from the stress of all that.
THANKS OLDSMOBILE!!
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From: Canton, MI, USA
Oldmobiles are perfect beaters.
I have a 1994 Oldsmobile 88 that is my beater car. It doesn't get washed or waxed, has scratches all over it, and I park it anywhere I want to. I can leave it at the airport for a week, and I never have to worry about it getting stolen or screwed up.
Of course it is an embarrassment as an automobile, and my 15 year-old son is deathly afraid that it is going to be the car he has to drive when he gets his license. Hehehe.
I have a 1994 Oldsmobile 88 that is my beater car. It doesn't get washed or waxed, has scratches all over it, and I park it anywhere I want to. I can leave it at the airport for a week, and I never have to worry about it getting stolen or screwed up.
Of course it is an embarrassment as an automobile, and my 15 year-old son is deathly afraid that it is going to be the car he has to drive when he gets his license. Hehehe.
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From: Bealeton, VA
I am glad my L isn't a daily driver!!!
Here is what happened to me recently, its not a wreak story, but it could have been. I left my truck at my parents house for the winter because he lives on the water and it never snows there. I gave my dad the keys and told him to start it up once a week to warm it up and then shut it off. Come to find out that he drove it for two weeks straight and even got a ticket.
I found this out when I looked at the odometer. It was at 18,800 and when I left it at his house, it was 17,900!!! When I questioned him about the miles he admited to driving it. Now, I did leave it there AGAIN.......but I took the keys!!!!
I ws pretty pissed!!! He could have wreaked her!!!
Oh, and the ticket he got was a 67 in a 45!!! Wreakless operation!!
Here is what happened to me recently, its not a wreak story, but it could have been. I left my truck at my parents house for the winter because he lives on the water and it never snows there. I gave my dad the keys and told him to start it up once a week to warm it up and then shut it off. Come to find out that he drove it for two weeks straight and even got a ticket.
I found this out when I looked at the odometer. It was at 18,800 and when I left it at his house, it was 17,900!!! When I questioned him about the miles he admited to driving it. Now, I did leave it there AGAIN.......but I took the keys!!!!
I ws pretty pissed!!! He could have wreaked her!!!
Oh, and the ticket he got was a 67 in a 45!!! Wreakless operation!!