[geeks] Beater Cars

[Tim H.]

I am driving a 94 Geo Tracker (my wife really wanted it, she thought it was cute, and I gave in)  Over all opinion has only improved since we got it.  As long as you remember it is a pretend truck I definitely think it is the second best micro-ute, second to its close cousin the samurai.  It has a real frame, A solid rear axle, drives like a porpoise because of it's extremely short length (it is shorter than just about every car I have parked next to, including things like hyundai accel and such)  But it does very well (speaking of course relative to other stock micro-utes) off road because it's short length gives it good breakover clearance, and the front frame crossmember is prettty close to as low as it gets, so if you get started over something you usually won't high center.  Of course there is a lot of stuff you won't get started over.  Oh, and what other micro-ute can say it holds a SS690MP, as wel as a deskside sized Sun storage array at the same time?  I only wish I !
had pictures of that load.

Tim

On Mon, 13 May 2002 11:10:22 -0400 (EDT)
Kurt Mosiejczuk <kurt at csh.rit.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 May 2002, doctor obnox son of a bitch wrote:
> 
> >  Respectable cars:
> >  2 1992 Toyota corollas
> 
> >  Proud never to have stooped to owning:
> >  Geo
> 
> Okay, I'm going to be a bit defensive here.  You can't just say "Geo"
> when you are dissing cars.  I'm assuming you mean the Metro with it's
> little 3 cylinder sewing machine engine.
> 
> The Prizm is a GREAT little car, because it IS a Toyota Corolla but with
> the sticker of a Chevy.  I've got a '93 Prizm that's running like a champ
> at 108,000 miles and shows no sign of stopping.
> 
> I'm betting this is why Chevy retired the Geo branding...
> 
> --Kurt
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