Lowest Mileage 1977 Chevette on earth!? 800 original mile survivor!
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- This is a crazy original 1977 Chevette with just 800 miles on the car! Pristine red plaid interior. Very cool time capsule that still smells new!
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That's awesome! A 1977 Chevette was my first car, in the early '90s, and I drove it for many years. It was surprisingly reliable, and when it did need something fixed, was simple to work on. It had gas mileage that rivaled many of today's cars. It's a shame that they don't have some cars like these anymore -- they would be great to teach the basics of auto mechanics. I love that the car even came with the do-it-yourself maintenance guide. My only complaint was that the automatic transmission needed another gear. The small 60hp engine actually had more power to give, but was hampered by the lack of another gear. PLEASE don't mod this car, it is a rare example of what a lot of people deemed a "throwaway car" but was actually decent.
I bought a brand new 1976 manual baby blue Chevette while in college. It was a great car for the times... affordable, plenty of room for two, and crazy good gas mileage. When my buddies were getting 17 MPG in their muscle cars, I was getting 40+. It was easy to work on, and parts were cheap. The hatch back was ahead of its time. I had to pay respects to Boston, Rush and Kansas, so I installed an 80- watt, 6-speaker sound system that cranked. I'm still amazed I have my hearing. Yeah, it was a dog 0-60, but it got me where I wanted to go. I did look for a bit more hp so I bought a header, dropped the CC and straight-piped it. Sounded pretty good if I remember correctly. Dis it if you may, but I think Chevrolet did a good job with this one.
Your buddies were likely getting less than 10 mpg in their muscle cars...
We had two 1978 Chevettes, Dad bought new. Both were white. One had this classic red plaid interior and the other had brown plaid interior. It was the car I learned to drive on and later took to college. I recall telling all my friends in high school that I drove a Vette. I wasn't lying. I tried adding cool factor to it by adding a chrome exhaust extension and mudflaps. That did not help, but it was cooler than riding a bike. Haven't seen one on the road in decades. This video is a real piece of nostalgia for me.
Wow what a time capsule, theses Chevette's were pretty popular back in the day especially in the 80s .
More popular in the 70s.
My Dad tried to tell me I didn't know what I was talking about when I told him back in the early 90s that Chevrolet made that chevette. And the hell of it all is he worked at general motors in Indiana. he came back to me a couple of months later and said you know you're right we do make a chevette I never knew
I just love these little cars. I have a 4 door 78 and it's the smoothest ride ever for being so little
I had a 1976 in the early 80's. Put larger tires on the back to try and make it look faster than it was. Couldn't tell me that I wasn't the cool kid in that thing. Many memories.
I just commented above about trying to add cool factor to my hand-me-down '78 Chevette in high school. My chrome exhaust extension didn't make it go faster, but at least I felt COOL!
Love the classic GM fuel gauge that goes to 150% full. :)
My first new car was a 79 Chevette. Had to laugh though, when he said "this was blowing." The air had to; the controller had no "off" switch!
78 was my first car, almost identical to the one in the vid, but the color of mine was mint green with vinyl interior, bought it used with 70k miles for $600 in 1986. It was a small car built in the "big car" style. Thick metal fenders, solid axle heavy 5mph bumpers. I drove mine for 60-70k miles, the engine ran great up to the day I had to get rid of her in 1993. The floorboards rusted out, the windows were falling off track and the timing cover oil seal was leaking, but it got great mileage and never left me stranded.
I still like telling people my first car was a 78 'Vette....That "joke" never get's old.
What's funny, for anyone who owned one, the air filter and the canister that holds it are all one part, it was sealed as a single piece (I doubt you could find them today). @5:41 You can see the air filter. In the mid 80's it was quite expensive to purchase the whole unit. IIRC it was $30-40, which was CRAZY expensive at the time, easily the equivalent of $100 today. Tired of paying that much for an air filter, I split the housing on mine into top and bottom using vice grips to slowly separate the stamped steel into two halves. I took the now split air filter housing into an auto parts store and patiently tried standard filters that fit inside the ring of the housing until I found one. A $4 filter from a chevy Camaro. It was a little taller, so the two haves didn't quite fit together, about 1/2" gap all around, but who cares, it was sooo much cheaper!
Another "funny" feature of the car is it came with the old style click-n-lift jack that was common on much larger cars at the time. It would hook into a slot under the ridiculously strong bumpers. Well on my 1978, the muffler, which you can see really well @12:18 actually blocked the mount point for the jack on the right side. Whatever genius owned the car before me put a hole in the vertical face of the bumper so they (let's be honest here, it was definitely a man) could stick the jack in the bumper face (the part you could see) rather than just hacksaw the pipe back and expose the slot for the jack.
When I take my 2019 accord for an oil change, and new air filter and shuck out over $100 (I use synthetic) I remember back to changing my oil in my Chevrette 4qts @less than $1 per quart and park plugs that cost, 75 cents. Plugs on my Honda are $40 each!
I could do a FULL tune up, plugs, plug wires, distributor cap, EGR valve, oil and transmission fluid for less than the cost of a single spark plug today!
Good times!
Thanks for the video! My first nice car was a 2 yr old 1978 Chevette 2dr with a 4 speed gear box and boy do I miss it. :-)
How cool is that!!!! Keep this car original please please please! We have three in the family
Somebody took the dash apart and replaced the speedo/odometer assembly at some point. From the repair history you describe, it seems like the car probably had closer to 20k miles on it.
Right, I've seen 800 mile original cars before, this is not a 800 mile car, not even close. 🤣
Thanks for showing us the 4-ways and that the amber sections of the taillights were indeed functional and not fake like the '76-77 Vega ones. Between that and people fixing them with flashers from '80-up models without the amber sections, that's how urban legends get started. Edit:timestamp 1:22
I had a new 78 Chevette, dark blue with a manual shift. I also said the "I have a Vette" thing....I always thought it strange that the steering column didn't face straight ahead, but instead angled noticeably to the right. After 3 years I had a Fred Flintstone hole under my feet and could see the pavement below as I drove. I used a cookie sheet pan to solve that problem. Had it until late 1983. No AC, but it didn't really bother me. Great memories--oh, to be in college again.
I loved these cars so much I bought two of them. My first one eventually rusted out and I bought the second one. Both had the standard transmission. Great little cars. I used mine mostly to commute back and forth to work on the highway so more often than not it was only myself driving.
Had one just like this when I was very young, actually my first new car!
I bet all of the ladies are impressed when you tell them you own a Vette.
I actually did that in high school. I was the first among my friends to get my license. That joke lasted until we got to the parking lot, and I revealed the 'Che' and not the 'Cor'.
My very first car was a 77 Chevette. It was like green with black special edition sticker on the bottom. Many of my friends called it the “special ed” car. It was very reliable even though I beat the hell out of it! I wish I could find one just to have one again.
We had Chevettes in my high school driver's ed. class, this was back in 1983. Four 10th graders and one teacher squeezed into a Chevette. Fun times, LOL.
I bought a new chevette in 1982. Simple, cheap and very crude. It was fun little car to tear around in.
My first car was a 1976 Chevy Chevette I got it in 1983 . Lone it had it for about 6 years great gas milage .. I can't tell you how many people i could get in I remember driving to a concert in a snow blizzard it did very well in the snow . It had over 450 k on it when i gave it to my sister . I wish i could post a picture of it here:))
What other kind of blizzard is there
I would buy that today!!!
maybe it's just me, but that little car seems to have some get up and go! I remember them being really anemic, but you have that humming nicely!
Thanks for sharing and showing this time capsule. My older sister's brother in law drove his yellow four door Chevette to her wedding and I got to ride to the reception in it
Thanks for watching! It’s a fun car to reminisce about
This is what we used on the drivers education course in high school..... lol
Awesome find, I have a few low mile Chevettes in my collection. Got 43 cars, down from the 68 cars I had.
I love the Diesel Chevettes in your collection for sure! 😃
Wow...that should be in a MUSEUM! I had a '76 that was wasted (Northern Ohio) with rust.
Locked the keys in it once (in front of my workplace entrance) but fortunately it was sufficiently rusted out such that I was able to get my arm through the license-plate floor and roll the window down. And they're rear wheel drive!
We had a bright orange 76 Chevette in our family. It was the go-to car for quick errands and for the young drivers in the house. Very economical. Being so light and rear wheel drive I used it to do doughnuts in my high school parking lot when it snowed. The car was so simple. Love the 80 mph speedometer! I don't think it could go that fast, though.
wow the owner has that car very clean she looks sharp
Wow, this is incredible! Clean all throughout, low miles, not even broken in. Even the radio works. Too bad it lacks A/C. Many cars then did. This is a keeper.
I'm glad I'm found this video of your Chevy chevette I had one as my first car in 1986 and I would love to find another one but unfortunately they are just so rare anymore I'm not exactly sure where I would find another one.. mine was in 1980 Chevy chevette 4 door four-speed manual transmission '96 horsepower ice Cold Air conditioning and probably get 35 miles a gallon on a tank fuel back in the day when it was only 89 cents a gallon drove me everywhere.. also the beauty of the Chevy chevette unlike cars today which is about the same size it was actually rear wheel drive which you don't see in a lot of compacts everything's front wheel drive and it's a pain to work on rear wheel drive is a good standard.. an excellent example video thanks for posting..!!
Thanks for watching!
1977 was the year I got my license to drive, and I remember cars like this vividly. The muscle era I was ready to jump into went away and this was what greeted me. I opted for an air-cooled VW Super Beetle. It had some character and with chiseled out tailpipes it sounded relatively cool. But friends of mine had Chevettes, and they made it from point A to point B on minor amounts of gas. This gave me flashbacks...
OK.... Everybody sing: "Chevy Chevette, it'll drive you happy!" (Rinse and repeat.) 😅🤣😂
It's even too good to be a candidate for an American Chevette WRC car, like the Vauxhall Chevette HS that Jimmy McRae famously drove. His HS is an incredible car!
Wow thats clean nice find.
GM built these T body cars all over the world for many years. They were good basic transportation and a very good price point. Being rear wheel drive they actually had somewhat sporty handling due to good weight balance. The models with the Isuzu diesel had no problems getting well over 50 mpg.
No LS swapp please keep it ORIGINAL!!!! It's awesome, true time capsule!! Is it for sale?
Thanks! And yes, it’s currently being auctioned. Here’s the link if you are curious:
bringatrailer.com/listing/1977-chevrolet-chevette-3/
That’s a nice piece of *1970s something* there
My first car was a 76 Shitvette. Nuclear green. Black vinyl interior. I started driving it in 84. Miserable POS, but you could take 90 degree turns at 35 & jump RR track bumps all day long.
Nuclear Green, what a name for a color haha
They were good cars for what they where made for...cheap transport.
That's right. No frills transportation.
Love her
OMG that buzzer 👺
Wow that's amazing, those cars just didn't last. Incredible to see one as new-looking and original like that.
I had 5 of them ❤
I'd rock that thing
Guaranteed conversation starter.
I've seen 800 mile original cars before, this is not a 800 mile car, not even close. 🤣
We had a 1980 model, midnight blue metallic, 4 speed manual, am radio, no ac, it got great gas mileage, it was a very basic car that was fun to drive
The chevette is perfect for the Miata drivetrain
Stanley Turrentine's Sugar from his '77 album, The Best of Stanley Turrentine brought me to this time capsule Chevrolet Chevette.
I email gm every year BRING THEM BABK GREATEST CAR
That thing is still running the quarter mile from a motor trend test in 1977.
I would by that today just for the fun of it!
You have optional "Ralley" wheel covers. Very rare.
back in the day, dealership just "STUCK" their sticker to the paint on the car....Hilarious!! the gull.....
My mom test drove a new 76 in green 🍏 but it had a 1.4L and she didn't end up buying it. I wasn't impressed because we had a Chrysler Newport at the time. Not that 12yr old me had any say in the purchase lol
Man that is flawless! How much are you willing to sell it for? I want it
Had 1977 for 5 years, then bought a Cavalier. I used it to commute about 20 miles and it was adequate. It just came to my mind and I looked up Chevette on RUclips. Your story is incomplete, why would this utilitarian vehicle have only 800 miles on it? To me that’s why I clicked on the video, a Chevette is hardly a classic vehicle, a Corvair I could see.
Dang- that engine sounds like my rav4
1.6L of fury!
I saw the auction ended without a sale. Do you still have it and is it for sale?
I would rather have this car than a brand new supercar
*0-55mph 15 seconds **_0-60mph 33 seconds_** ... WTF?*
Cool. And it's a 2 door. Too bad it's an automatic, but still a really cool car.
If it was built, somebody has saved one in a heated garage, inside a giant ziploc bag.
Who in their right mind would buy an economy car and never use it? There must be a very unfortunate story to be told.
I had an '82 Pontiac T 1000 in the late 80s, and an '85 Chevette in the early 90s. I don't think one would survive a crash in them. Not built well.
It's like money in the bank lol
It was best to have a automatic transmission in these. The manual transmission had plastic shifter forks that would break off.
Nice car but NFW that's only 800 miles. It's not 100k either, someone unhooked the speedo or replaced it at some point.
I had one it was my first car!!! I want to get another one and put a V8 in it!!! 😎
Junkyard will give you a couple hundred for it.
I have a fix for your fuel gauge, if it's not the ground connection at the back of the body. Your issue is the connection, at the connection inside the top of the fuel sending unit, being corroded internally.
Perfect for a V8 swap
We had a 77, sport, sharp looking but it was an oil burner, engine was built in South America, it was junk!
Beautiful preservation! Now you need to drop an LS motor in it, make it real special!!!
I know that there are LS swapped Chevettes out there but I don't see that being in the future for this one haha
I never thought I would defend a Chevette, but this car is too cherry to mod.
Nice example. Def built @ GM Wilmington plant
I had two of them. One was manufactured at the GM plant in Wilmington Deleware. The second came from the Atlanta Georgia plant. The earlier ones came from the Wilmington plant. The one I had that came from the Atlanta assembly plant for some reason was a much better car, and the mileage odometer rolled over twice. I sold it years ago, and checked the VIN number last week. I found out it is still registered.
It's an automatic Chevette. It's probably taken it this long to accelerate enough to drive that many miles in that amount of time.
Amazing how generic and basic these cars were. My Dad had a 86 that went to 200k and then died, was a 5sp manual with just a basic AM radio and crank windows. Was definitely a great answer to the compact foreign auto manufacturer entries like the Volkswagen Rabbit, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sentre etc. Basic as Basic comes, typical GM ✌🏽🇺🇲
Hi Travis I followed this on bat. See it didn't get what you were hoping for. I'd like to make an offer on this..
Send me an email. Check my channel “about” and you should be able to send it there.
Zero to sixty in just minutes!
i had a 79
Is this car still available?
Do you still have chevette and is it for sale, dam nice car, my first car, trying to find one for over 15 years
Yes, it is still for sale. You can contact me via email if you click on my profile.
It got nicked by somebody pulling out something too large. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!
Those marks on each side in the back… I wonder if they figured out “the secret”? That being you can actually slide a 4x8 sheet of material into the back of first generation Chevettes. Absolutely s#it you not, try it and see. You can carry more than enough plywood to build a doghouse… in a car the size of a doghouse!
Nice shitvette! Should convert it over to AC.
Worst car I ever bought. It left me sit more than all other cars combined, and that in the first 40,000 miles. Many ignition problems. I traded it at 41,000 K for a Reliant K, which gave me excellent service.
Fuel gauge is wrong nice bag of weed in the glovebox very easy to switch out the odometer in one of those
Astounding how cheap GM could be..
These cars were charmingly economical
These cars were cheap to operate. I had two. Repairs and parts were cheap, and hardly cost anything. Also, in the 1970's and 1980's getting 35 MIles to the gallon was not easy. I always had 35 MPG combined city and highway gas mileage on mine.
So this car only lasted 786 miles? 😏 Sorry, I didn't watch until the end until my second time viewing it.
Only am radio😂
I own a 23,000 mile chevette it's nice but it's not nearly as nice as this one
It's a great conversation starter to just own a Chevette these days. Let alone one with such low mileage.
Jesus, was this in stasis or something???
0-60...maybe
Sell it to me
With an automatic this car was a slug. Awful car.
Roach
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I'll give 10k cash in hand if you still have this car
SOLD
@@VistaCollectorCars did you get more than 10k, you had the best looking chevette in the country, I've looked at dozens, non as good as yours