In case it wasn't completely obvious, the white car I posted a crappy photo of the other day is now my car.
I drove it today.
wow.
I feel like I'm in the lap of luxury. I'm going to make a comparison table:
| 1983 S10 Blazer | 1998 Plymouth Grand Voyager Expresso |
| smelled of gas fumes | Only does so while fueling |
| allowed exhaust into the passenger cabin | doesn't, unless the door is open |
| ~8 mpg | ~+20mpg |
| No power mirrors | Power mirrors |
| Has no passenger side mirror | All mirrors functional |
| Tinted Windows | Tinted Windows |
| Tailgate | Tailgate |
| No back window | Back window |
| No back window | Rear Wipers |
| Wipers, with intermittent setting | Intermittent setting on this car is actually intentional |
| AM/FM Cassette Stereo with line in via 1/8" patch cable | AM/FM radio, no cassette or line in |
| 2 speakers | At least 4 |
| 2 door | 4 (dual sliding doors) |
| Seats 2-4 depending on number of pop bottles in car | Seats 7 with room for lots of empty pop bottles |
| Carburetor | Carb free! |
| v6 something | v6 3.3L (?) |
| Power window (trying to operate the passenger side blows the fuse) | Power Windows – all of them even! |
| A/C and Heat (who needs a compressor though, anyway (IOW: AC setting existed, nothing else did)) | Dual comfort zone with A/C AND Heat, selectable with pushbutton instead of hand in the dash pulling cables |
| Car loses all cabin power (lights and accessories) when you hit bumps | Occasionally the power locks go crazy when you hit a bump, but that's probably something obvious |
| Starts up if you ask nicely | Starts up if you turn key |
| Grinding noise when you hit bumps | no noise at all. In fact, what bump? |
| Reeks of gas and other car fluids | Reeks of soccer mom |
| car, go? | cargo! |
| Floor of car contains more oil than persian gulf | probably enough baby puke or something like that to make a baby out of |
| shares the burden of a rainstorm | takes rain like a man |
Yea, so as you can see, it doesn't suck. It's actually pretty cool.
woo.
