The TMC "Spotted" Thread

[Scrape]

It's gonna melt LOL

Spotted a big block Vette on Kennedy today. Looked oh so sweet running through the salt filled puddles.
WTF are people thinking???

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It's probably a safe bet that Zippy has never seen one of these I really wanted to get out and shake this guys hand 'cause I've been digging up shit like this for years and driving it around for next to nothing other than gas - this one was stinking up West drive in beautiful Brampton like a two stroke on a Sunday morning, and it was wearing Alberta plates - seemed to run really descent...lol Glad I saw it... can remember back in the seventies when a '76 Eldorado was about 32' long and those yachts where difficult to sell - the local Caddy dealer was giving away the Pontiac version of this with the purchase of a new caddy...lol - it's pretty safe to say that most people living in Brampton could never make it across Queen street in a '76 Eldorado but may be able to handle one of these...the birth of the economy car!

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[ZR]

Cool to see.

[Zippy]

It's probably a safe bet that Zippy has never seen one of these

IS IT PICK ON ZIPPY MONTH? WHAT IS THIS.

lol you're right I've never seen one.

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Caught this on camera yesterday. Luckily with my phone mounted and stopped at a light.

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[RedSN]

Safe to say I’m older than Zippy, but I don’t remember a Scooter version of the Chevette.
What made it a “Scooter”? Just a sticker?

edit: wow! more basic than even a basic Chevette.

The Scooter was offered as a base model with a $2,899 suggested retail price, two front passenger seats, an optional rear seat, deletion of most exterior chrome (e.g., window surrounds), painted rather than chrome bumpers, an open glove box, black carpeting, door pull straps in lieu of arm rests, fiberboard door panels, and a passenger seat without fore-aft adjustment. A total of 9,810 Scooter models were manufactured, compared to 178,007 regular hatchbacks.

[ZR]

Don't recall what the "Scooter" package included but have seen a few with the decal.

[ZR]

Looked it up, Scooter was the cheapest of the cheap version.
As for the cars themselves, poor brakes (I mean Flintstone slow you down only poor) n broken coil springs were super common but car itself was decently reliable n drove fine for what it was.

[RedSN]

....n broken coil springs were super common

LOL I thought they were just lowered?

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This Scooter has the third brake light - could be the end of the era for these - I remember ford doing kind of a similar thing near the end of the era for the aerostar - cheapen them up and sell them like hot cakes to make way for the next replacement model - in fords case the "windstar" never owned one but never heard good things about them - but the aerostar was a really nice van - had two and they where very reliable - scooter I don't know never had one - had a lada tho...lol not much difference