My Mom had a 1994 Corolla and is was nothing but crap. After 130,000 my dad
got rearended and it put that POS to its death. I put more parts in that
thing than any car I have owned and my mom is very good about up keep. When
my wife bought her 1995 contour my dad said we should have bought the
corolla or some other import, well we just sold the contour with over
170,000 miles on it and it was flawless, I am not saying the imports aren't
good but not all American cars are crap. My wife and I have owened 5 Jap
cars over the years and they did real good, I did have a 626 that was
excellent to a point but did start to need many repairs, the body LOOKED
like it had no rust until one day when I went to jack it up and the jack
went right through the floor, after close inspection it turned out most of
the floor was done, to bad that was a nice car to drive.
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I hate to admit this, but when I was poor, young and dumb in the
mid-70's I owned two of the cars in this book - 1974 Mustang II and
1973 Chevy Vega.

The only thing good about the Vega is it had a heated rear window, so
your hands didn't get cold when you had to push it!

Now own a 2005 Honda Accord coupe.

Ed Ferguson



A neighbor of mine and I came home one day with a new car each. I had a
Datsun 210, and he had a Chevette. He proclaimed what a piece of ****
car I had bought. I said we'd see as the cars aged. His Chevette was
forever tossing timing belts (not chains) and wouldn't start half the
time. My Datsun ran for lots of years before I sold it, and I only put
on tires, brakes, and a distributor.
Yeah. Well, I'm still driving a 1989 Toyota Corolla station wagon,
last model with a carburetor, and a stick shift. I'm still running
on the original clutch, and most everything else. I put on a new
starter at 110,000 mi, I replaced the distributor cap and wiring harness
(all one part) at 135,000, and it is now at 156,000 miles, still running
fine. Other than tires, brakes and exhaust, that is the total maintenance
I have done on it! (well, of course, oil changes, air
filters, batteries.)

I had it rustproofed, although the dealer said I was totally throwing
my money away. Well, maybe, but there isn't a SPOT of rust on it,
ANYWHERE, even underneath, after 16 years, and they DO use road salt here!

Jon