No oil cap, there was a rag stuffed down there instead.
Windshield wipers go back and forth very slowly.
The previous owner said that when she bought the car it was red, now it's a nice ash color.
I bought my 1986 Pontiac Parisienne for $150, it is going in the demolition derby. When I first took the car for a test drive there was no oil in it and the radiator was bone dry, she still did 75, despite some smoking. When I started to tare the car apart I was surprised at how hard it was to get all the chrome off, we had to pry the rocker panels of with a crow bar. This is one well put together car.
And now you have to live yourself: For the rest of your life, you'll drive cars that are uncomfortable, unreliable, unsafe pieces of crap compared to these classic boats.
Unreliable maybe, but certainly not unsafe. Modern cars are significantly much safer than cars, even large cars, from the past (excluding death trap SUVs).
I'll take a Civic Si with six or eight airbags and a safety cell over Detroit iron from the 1980's everytime.
Death trap SUV's? That's absurd, if SUV's were death traps, nobody would buy them (remember they are still among the most popular vehicles) and the government would have banned them, so that was a silly assumption, if I was going to be in a wreck (especially with my family in the car), I would sure rather be in a large SUV with front and side-curtain airbags then a Honda Civic, any day!
To the Honda driver/fan: Do I want/need crumple zones in my old full-size car?? = No thanks- I'll use yours! LOL.
I firmly believe my old Detroit steel will plow right through a brand new SUV when one finally pulls out in front of me.
Note: A Comments RSS Feed 
is available. New comments appear in the Members Area before the main site