Chevy Musings

Bob,
It's in Northern Bay Area CA, Fremont to be exact. Took a tour of it a
few years ago, seemed very efficient as you might imagine from the
Toyota influence. At that time they also were gearing up a line for the
Pontiac Aztec (a little hazy on that model designation)

bobcaripalma.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:
> Not Korean, Jeff: Californian.
>
> It's a product of NUMMI: New United Motor Manufacturing Industries, I
> think it was. That was a GM/Toyota partnership to produce Corollas and
> Novas on the same line in Van Nuys(?) CA. (Don't hold me to that
> location.)
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Well then... Now I know 100% more about this car than I knew this morning...
This one has some rust holes that we fixed with some nice rtv silicone.
Put 5 gallons of gas in it to double the value of the car...
It also smoked real real bad when we started it up.
Replaced the v/c gasket and put some fresh oil in it.
Sent the eldest daughter out and told her to run down to the turnaround at
the end of our road and come back and turn around in our circular
drive...and repeat.
Told her to set the trip odometer and come back in when she had 25 miles on
it (that's about one round trip for her to drive it to work and back.
She dutifully went out and started to make laps...
Every lap the little car smoked less and less.
By the time she did 25 miles, the engine smoked only a little on
acceleration.
Not too bad for a car with almost 300,000 miles on it....
Engine was clean inside too, as my neighbor was dutiful on oil changes..
She's happy, and I am done messing with it.
Kids...Sheesh..
Jeff



<bobcaripalma RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote...
> Not Korean, Jeff: Californian.
>
> It's a product of NUMMI: New United Motor Manufacturing Industries, I
> think it was. That was a GM/Toyota partnership to produce Corollas and
> Novas on the same line in Van Nuys(?) CA. (Don't hold me to that
> location.)
>
> They were good little cars for awhile here in the midwest, but they had
> enough rust issues by the time the head gasket blew that they died
> inside and out at about the same time: 10 years or 100,000 miles,
> whichever occurs first.
>
> I had at least a dozen of them to sell as used cars, the last one
> probably 7 years ago, and always did well with them.
> Some people liked the Chevrolet name...but you could convince the
> anti-US snobs that it was a Toyota because it said Toyota on the
> engine, so everybody was happy. BP
>
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<bobcaripalma.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Not Korean, Jeff: Californian.
>
> It's a product of NUMMI: New United Motor Manufacturing Industries, I
> think it was. That was a GM/Toyota partnership to produce Corollas and
> Novas on the same line in Van Nuys(?) CA. (Don't hold me to that
> location.)

They were known as Toy-lets by the time they arrived in Canada in 1987. I
remember all the hype that went with the opening of that plant in CA which
was a 'revolutionary' way to build cars in North America. Even the 1985
Nova brochure (which I picked up at a dealer while in SD for a Stude meet)
had the presentation quality (i.e. onion skin paper separating the covers)
commonly found on the 'prestige' Lincoln and Cadillac brochures, showed the
factory workers in white suits doing morning exercises. Seems to me, after
the Nova; which was a Corolla with a Chev interior, the factory went on to
produce the Geo Prizm.

Craig.
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jab-ph wrote:
>



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At that time they also were gearing up a line for the
> Pontiac Aztec (a little hazy on that model designation)
>
>


<gag, spit, sputter...>

JT
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