My Chevrolet Citation
The first car I owned was a 1980 Chevrolet Citation, with a
V6 engine.
Chapter 0: Cheap
My father sold me this vehicle for $1. Although it was great, it was not as
great as the greatest vehicle I will ever have owned.
But it had some major pros:
- Front wheel drive - one of the first models with this
- Large hatchback with fold-down seats - holds most of a college kid's
possesions
and it had some cons:
- Curious fuel pump design, which fails by a gasket which wears out and causes
fuel to be pumped in great quantities directly into the crankcase
- Tragically insufficient electrical connectors which seem to be designed to
be snapped together at the factory only; if disconnected they break and cannot
be re-connected
