Reply #4: the 85 was a MOST impressive vehicle

[quakerboy]

I inherited a maroon one in about 95. That was my first car. And I was a teen, with no instruction on how to keep a car working. And too much fear of father to ask what the noise meant. Turns out it meant that the car had burned through its oil, and had none left. in the end it ran about 3 months on very little oil, and then another 4 months with NO oil before I happened to drive my dad anywhere and got larned. By that point it was pretty well thrashed, fun pinging noises and whatnot. But for all that it ran 4 months with NO OIL, it still moved itself down the road. Thats impressive in my book.

We had a 92 and a 96 as work cars. Neither of did anything quite as stand out, but both worked adequately, particularly given the price my the owner picked them up for.

Its a car. Generally a cheap and yet still durable one. I wouldn't get one by choice, but you do what you gotta do to get to work.