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On 12/13/09 3:31 PM, in article ,
"Vic Smith" > wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:07:20 -0500, aemeijers >
> wrote:
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>>>
>> Y'all may wanna look up the timelines for those various models again-
>> they came later. Wikipedia has nice articles on all of them, with years
>> and production numbers and pictures.
>>
> Won't bother looking, as I don't want to be a GM historian, but I
> don't think the mates Pontiac 6000, Olds Ciera, Buick Century and
> Chevy Celebrity had anything to do with stuff like the
> Citation/Chevette.
> I had an '88 Celebrity, and it was a fine car.
> World of difference there. The 2.8 was the first V-6 I liked enough
> to buy, and mine was still running strong at 191k miles when rust did
> the car in. And I really beat on that car.
> By that I mean starting cold at -20F and doing 80 mph a minute later
> on the x-way, which was a block away. Did that often.
> Goosing it regularly, rocking it hard out of snow, etc, etc.
> It was the only time in my life where I abused a car, and that one
> took it.
> Aside from a few injectors and an ECU, nothing was done to the engine,
> and the trans was shifting fine when I junked it.
> I did do fairly regular fluid changes.
> But that car sure wasn't babied like I do most of my cars.
> The only real defect it had was the sticking rack, but that came late
> for me. Bought a new one for I think 90 bucks not long before I
> junked it, but never put it on.
> Gave the rack to my mech.
>
> --Vic

My bad. I was reading Citation but thinking Celebrity. My Oldsmobile was
an '82. By '88 they did get most of the bugs out, but they dropped the line
because nobody was buying (probably due to the well deserved reputations of
the earlier ones.)