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Toronado - thank you JamesP and 1Mach1 - and, yes, they were all horrible cars.
It is amazing how really bad those cars were and how bad the dealers were at servicing them. We had a '81 or '82 Buick LeSabre that was broken all the time. My Dad, who did not part with money easily, finally - even under warranty - took it to a mechanic he knew locally and paid out his own pocket to have him fix the carburetor just so that the car would not stall out all the time.
Whenever I see Danny on "Counting Cars" get excited about a late '70s / '80s GM product, I wonder if he ever actually owned one when they were new.
You certainly had to pick and choose your car correctly back then.
When my father bought a pile of junk Mercury back in the 70s, it leaked like a sieve. He took it back to the dealer tons of times but they couldn’t find anything. He had to take a day off of work to go there and watch what they were doing. They had mirrors everywhere trying to figure out where it was leaking from.
My father saw with just his eyes that it was leaking down the block from the heads---on both sides! The idiots at the factory had forgotten to torque down the heads and it was leaking directly from them! No one could tell that at the dealership?! :doh: