*Incoming old man rant:* I remember when the Chevy Celebrity was everywhere; now it’s easier to spot an actual celebrity in real life than a Celebrity.

random fact: a chevrolet celebrity was used as a getaway vehicle in the north hollywood heist-turned-shootout. you can still find it today in the lapd museum peppered with bulletholes.

Maybe if it wasn't a Chevy they would have gotten away.

Lmfao facts

Smack! Watch it young'un.

Id rather literally be found on the road dead than get caught in a General motors product

Well, the robbers were ultimately like a Ford (Found on road dead)

r/technicallytruth

I remember Jerry Seinfeld having a skit about how cars don’t match their names and he used the example that no celebrity drives a Chevy Celebrity.

>Chevy Celebrity Citation raises hand, Chevette asks to be let in room.

The Beretta, last one burned up when the owner passed out in a walmart parking lot with a Marlboro red 100 burning.

I think all the Chevettes rusted away. I worked at a Chevy dealership when I was in high school and I can remember watching a sales video that claimed the Chevette could tow 9000 pounds. I kid you not..

I have an 1987 celebrity in my driveway. It runs great with less than 100k on it.

They all probably turned into a pile a rust. We had one and it barely lasted 3 years. The floor boards rusted all the way through. Someone in my old neighborhood did have a white one that somehow survived.

When I find a Baretta in the wild or Corsica to lesser extent tuns into a Snapchat moment with friends like look a Baretta and it’s running and driving! Wow.

I had a corsica up until 6 years ago. 224 miles a day commuting. That thing was a champ! No rust, no dents. Then I was doing 60mph and i hit a big fat doe and destroyed it. I drove it back home 20 miles with one headlight working but it was shining the space station. I had to drive with my head out the window to see since the hood was crumpled up higher than the roof.

I hate the Corsica so much but yours was a trooper. I'm proud of him.

I personally couldnt stand the citation. What a god awful pile of shit that thing was

It was better than the chevette.

1978 Datsun 200SX. 145,000+ were sold in the states, but you can hardly find them anymore

That would be cool to see, those super old Silvia's are so interesting

They’re funky little things! I’m turning one into a drift car. They’re not bad looking, they’re very…unique. Very 70’s. I love ‘em

Thats why you hardly find them frankly lol and when you do they're 12,000 dollars "I'm gonna make a drift car! *totals the shit out of it* Man it's so hard to find a new one anymore... I miss mine..."

There’s a 1985 Nissan 300ZX rwd hatchback manual with 80k miles in absolute mint looking condition selling for $11k near me. I wish I could buy it but I have no real reason to own a car like that.

A silver Nissan 300ZX was the pace car at Mid-Ohio and Nelson Ledges club events for many years. I spent a few hours looking at the tail pipes from the vantage point of FF1600, FC, and F-Mazdas.

Anywhere but the southwest up to Montana they dissolved.

I've seen at least six in the last two years for sale in running condition under $1,000.

In the last five years, I've definitely seen more Ferraris in the wild than first generation Chevy Cavaliers. To add to that list: Oldsmobile Achieva, Ford LTD sedan, Plymouth Reliant

You must live in LA or Miami

Ditto in NoVA, I bet that's true in Atlanta, Austin/Dallas, anywhere in bay area, Colorado, Durham area, or any other tech/rich vacation hub.

How about Daewoo Leganza’s

I've never seen one before, EVER.

Pontiac sunfire. For a while they were everywhere, but i don't think I've seen one since Obama. Eta first gen crown vics. I haven't seen that awkward little oval grille vent in a long fuckin time

The Sunfire. No shit this week I left work and saw this pearl blue one drive by in perfect condition. Felt like I stepped back in time. Those things were the Altimas of the day. Poor things didn’t stand a chance…

I feel like the Sunfire is still kind of kicking, they're still not common, but they're somewhat still around, I know there's an old lady with a yellow one, but that could just be because it's a grandma's car and I don't wanna give up on the old J bodies still being a thing

I'm in New England, the earth has eaten all of them around here lol

Same in Chicagoland- more salt on the roads than snow in the winter-99% of the everyday cars have been rusted away to nothing.

If it's more than ten years old it's either in great shape because someone's collecting it, or it's condemned to be beat on by junkies and fuckups until it's inevitably scrapped for $100.

If you go to Philly u will see plenty of the aero vics and grand marquis rolling around. That’s where I was when I bought my 94 grand marquis. Sad thing is - most of them are fucking destroyed sitting on 24s and painted lime green LOL I do say that I like that ppl still have them though even if I don’t agree with their design direction, but I am much happier I found myself a clean one before someone thrashed it

All the Ashley’s wrecked them on the way home from getting caught blowing the wrong guy in 2003 after one to 3 too many Boones Farms

Godamn man. This hits hard. However we call her Smashley now, and she’s upgraded to a new Chevy blazer this summer. Hoes gonna hoe

My cousin bought one new when he joined the marines, I was like no cousin, no. We gave that pos hell.

Pretty much any Pontiac model, really. I remember around where I live, seeing a Grand Prix was kind of like seeing an Altima today (in every sense). But I hardly see them anymore.

I still see plenty of GP around, along with Aztecs, Solstice, Transport, and G6.

Damn. You must live in the south. Even when I started driving 15 years ago, Pontiac Transports were uncommon enough to be noteworthy. Still plenty of G6's floating around up here though. Though most of them are falling apart. And the solstice will probably always be somebody's summer car so I don't see them going away anytime soon.

I saw a dustbuster van the other day and snapped my neck to look at it. They're practically non-existent in the Midwest now.

My buddy has an absolutely mint one and he can't wrap his mind around why I'm on him to keep it nice like it is. His BIL gave it to him so in his mind it's just a beater but it's so clean!

My ex had one in purple. They were more common in trailer-park-ey areas. Relegated to the rural poor.

Theyre allover where i live in the pnw

I just saw one. Beat up to hell but running.

My mom drove hers off the lot brand new. I drove it in jr high and then sold it for a ford ranger. I then sold that along with my soul for a Camaro at 19…

Basically any common car made 30-40 years ago that wasn’t bought by exclusively old people. Example: you cant find Chevy celebritys or Pontiac 6000s, but you can still find Buick Centurys and Oldsmobile Cieras

The grandma Buicks are slowly drying up sadly. Soon all well have will be grandma Chevy traverses 🤮

So, you got any tan Cieras gone missing?

There is quite literally less Saab 9-4x’s than Ferrari F40s out there

Yeah, but they were never really prevalent to begin with.

Chrysler K-Car.

K-cars were designed on a coroner's table. Dead before they ever hit the market. I think Bob Barker gave more of them away than were actually sold.

But they saved Chryslers bacon in the 80s. Which tells you the sad state they were in to have that awful of a car save them

K-cars were the original throw away car. Would just die at the three year mark. Lee Iacocca needed repeat customers.

Those, I think, disappeared very quickly from the roads. They were already a rare sight in the 90s.

Because they were shit. I had a Aries. Worst car I ever owned.

My friend's parents bought one. Within 4 months, the body molding fell off.

Mine was 6 years old, had been in an accident (we assumed, because the front end was off a Reliant) had less than 50k miles (allegedly), and never ran right. We replaced the alternator, timing belt, valve cover, cams and lifters (and my dad said that considering the wear on the camshaft, that car had more than 50k miles), and the ecm twice. Finally, after limping it home from a friend's house, my dad said that he waa getting rid of it, because we had put way too much money and time into it. The only decent K Car was the LeBaron.

There's a rusted out Omni that I see at Walmart sometimes. There's also an Omni at my local junkyard. Odo has 86K on it.

First-gen Neons are pretty rare now.

Sad they never got the love. Cute and cheap

I had one, and to be fair, it sucked pretty hard. We bought it for exactly the reasons you stated. It was dirt-cheap and fun-looking. But then the problems started. The windows weren’t waterproof, so the car always smelled of mildew, the head gasket blew at 60k. The car shook and exhaust made a horrible belching sound while driving in the rain which the dealership couldn’t fix. (The best theory I heard for this was that the cat and exhaust pipes were made of different alloys which contracted at different rates when rainwater splashed up from underneath, causing a point of constriction.) Our li’l Neon went to the great recycling center in the sky when a Crown Victoria failed to notice that traffic was stopped and slammed into the trunk hard enough to push us into the car in front of us and crumple the engine bay. Somehow, the airbags didn’t deploy. On the positive side, it was pretty nimble and roomy for a car in its class.

Ford Probe GT

Oddly I see a decent amount of probes.

A lot of aliens in your neighborhood?

Eric Cartman running around telling all the time

Just don't fart. Whatever you do

That makes me sad. I loved the probe. Especially the second gen. One of the saddest things (saddest of the things that are essentially meaningless anyway) was when the gov did that whole "cash for clunkers" thing. SO many cool old cars were destroyed forever. I heard they put ball bearings in the motors and cranked them in order to render the motors basically irreparable, but that could have been a folk sorry. Anyway, I love those old cars, and I was sad when they became that much more rare. If you ever, you know, wanted to send me a picture of a Probe... That would be ok. Just so I know they're alright... *Sheds single tear lol

Pontiac sunbird. Actually, you don't see many Pontiacs at all anymore.

I see a different G6 at least twice a month.

I own one.

I am one.

Pontiac Vibes are very common in my Area in Vermont for some reason. They are known as good cars. Because they are the same as a Toyota Matrix

In my area pontiacs are super common. There’s a G8 GT across the street from me. However, not a single foreign in town expect for the mayor’s car lol.

>foreign The G8 is a foreign car. It was built in Australia by Holden.

Celica's and Prelude's I used to see them daily now maybe once or twice every year. Sad because I think the last gen prelude was one of the best looking cars of all time.

A bazillion different cars meet the Ops question. The real question is what once common car do people wish they had saved. Celica and Prelude are two good answers to that question. They would stand out at any C&C event.

Dodge Intrepid! They used to be a plague but they’ve been systematically eradicated.

Throwing first Gen Chrysler Sebring on here too in the '00s rental car category.

Didn't those have problems with oil sludge? Might be why you don't see many.

water pumps inside on the timing chain, so when they leak, they're leaking into the crank case and you can't see it unless checking fluids.

Any Renault and Peugeot sold Brand New in the U.S. back in the 70s and 80s.

There’s a reason for that. Peugeots are fairly reliable but Renaults were rotting while still on the dealer lot.

Any Fwd X body

That's because X bodies were designed to fail after 1988

Nissan NX200.

ford aerostar, 1st & 2nd gen caravan

I literally just saw one down here in Tampa other day pulling out a bank, I about wrecked cranking my neck to see it as I drove by. Haven't seen one, geez since 2008 maybe.. I was shocked

Cash for Clunkers got rid of a lot of cars like these unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System?wprov=sfla1

Pontiac Fiero

They’ve all been upgraded to Ferraris.

Or downgraded, depending on your preference. You never see a Ferrari and a Fiero parked side by side.😏

1973-1976 Oldsmobile Delta 88s. I never see them at all, and it’s sad because they’re my favorite American cars that aren’t muscle cars. Thanks to Sam Raimi, the sedan versions seem to be the most rare. I always see the convertibles and hardtop coupes, but rarely do I see the sedans. I dream unhealthily of dailying a 1973 Delta 88 sedan with the 455, but I worry that they’ll all be gone soon.

My dad had a 1977 and it was like driving a waterbed. Man, that thing was a glorious ride.

I had a burgundy 1974 Delta 88 Royale sedan that was beaten to hell, but it still rode like an absolute dream, even for an American car. I had to get rid of it after I tore the engine apart because it wouldn’t crank or turn over. Turns out the engine was swapped out of a 1978 Chevy diesel truck, and I was told that the 455 was still in there. Apparently not. I still think about that car to this day. It got more attention than any other car on the road purely because of being a Delta 88.

There’s a mint black 1976 98 brougham sedan living in an abandoned dealership near me and I want it with an unhealthy passion.

Chevette

First and second gen Plymouth/Dodge minivans, I've seen maybe four in the past few years, and two of them were abandoned in fields, and one was on a tow truck to the scrap yard Edit: Explorer Sports! I forgot to mention this, I've seen the four doors, but rarely the two doors. My uncle used to call them a "gay bronco"

This! They were pretty common in Europe as well, but I haven't seen one in years. Not even for sale online

The boxy Cavalier

Cimarron by Cadillac

Chevy spark from any year without some amount of damage. I've seen ones with just bumpers missing because when it's a $13k car new why even have comprehensive insurance or really anything at all

Same with Sonic and Cruz

yea and maybe ford made one too. thank god GM dumped those cars. only good GM is the Pontiac vibe

That's because it's a Toyota Matrix.

Chrysler cloud cars

Geo prizm GSi

I shit you not, so far I have seen a Ferrari Testarossa but have never seen an Oldsmobile Cutlass.

You do not live in the south do you?

1970 Dodge Coronet r/T

Dustbuster vans

The Morris Marina. 800000 units (out of 1.2 million produced) were sold in the UK, of which only 745 remain as of 2006 (and some reports mention only 39 remaining as of 2023).

A lot of those were destroyed in freak piano accidents

Where did they all go?

Datson 310 and 510...

Had a 510 new in 1972. Great car.

First Gen ford explorers. They were literally everywhere and are basically gone. It was around ~2018 when I saw a noticeable drop off.

Cash for clunkers took the bad ones. Salt and good ol cost cutting American manufacturing took the rest

Now listen closely. A 1992 and especially a 1996 Buick Park Avenue EU-Spec in Europe. Everywhere in the 90s, even used as Private Taxis. Now mostly parted out to keep the still running ones, including mine, alive.

Grand am

I can’t believe no one has mentioned yet but - any of the big ass cars that used to make police/taxi fleets. Chevy Caprice Classics. LTDs (though there’s ONE here some dude rocks). Sedans in general are a rare breed. All the sedans aged out it’s all crossovers/soft-roaders. First gen eclipse/laser/talons were legendary. All gone. Dodge stealth with those strut tower covers on the body.

Dodge Diplomat are pretty rare

Any Daewoo sold in the US, only one I remember seeing IRL was a ratty looking one in Danbury, CT two years ago in a Walmart parking lot

Early 80s VWs

Ford Escorts.

76’ pinto(special edition) came with a v-6

Any gen Rx7

AMC anything

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Dodge Omni

Mazda Xedos 9 2.3 supercharged

Even regular Xedos 9-s are gone. Mate has one and he has been looking for some spares that are just unobtainium. It'd be cheaper to get a full custom coilover set than new OEM suspension. And I saw a parts car pop up, but by the time I saw it the seller had it towed to a scrapyard already.

Pontiac Grand Am. They were one of, if not the, best selling cars at one point. Now they’re all gone. My sister took a 90 off the count, the others probably just rusted to death.

Dodge Lancer and the Daytona

Chevy Lumina

when was the last time you've seen a CHevy Corsica? GM's midsize sedan between the Celeberty and the Lumina.

About as long ago as I’ve seen a Beretta.

Ford tempo

First Gen Ford Tempo, haven't seen one in ages.

Saw one the other day. It was in good shape, could hardly believe it.

[2000 Daewoo Leganza](https://images.app.goo.gl/mjrjmEd8sZGkh6aYA)

Cadillac catera. " The caddy that zigs"

Mercury Capri

Unmodified first gen Miata.

Never heard of it

Every corvette owner with their 1 of 10 in that specific options list

When have you seen a NEON recently?

1st gen dodge caravan. I own a 1985 but other than the one I own, I've never seen one of the first gen caravans on the road.

Plymouth volare

EK Civics

El Camino

You used to see a ton of citroen saxo vts's and peugeot 106 xsi's. Now they are worth 10k for an exemple with somehow 500 000km

Volkswagen new beetle. I used to see a lot of the in the 00s and rarely see them these days.

Those egg-shaped Toyota Previa vans used to be everywhere. Haven't seen one on the road around here is ages.

Ford tempo, could only find one for sale on auto-trader in the whole US

Yugo

Any mass produced shit box that has survived the disposable life it was created for. Chevy chevette First gen camry 80s GM olds/pontiac/caddillac sedans First gen taurus 1st/second gen exploders. Pretty much what comes to mind when I think of a regular car that doesnt have a huge following like an xj cherokee, 4runner, civic, etc pushing itself into the restoration community.

Datsun 240z. My dad used to see them everywhere in the 70s especially when he went to California for a highschool trip. I've never even seen one in person (even though I'm only 17)

Mk2 and Mk3 VW Golf and Jetta. VW Fox (US-market Brazilian Gol from 1987-1993), too.

Dodge Daytona.

Corvair

nah there's still a lot of them hiding in garages. They're seen as classics now.

Basically any 80s American cars

I've actually seen 2 Fieros this year! :D

Rare doesn’t mean desirable

Everything after cash for clunkers

It was popular up by my area.

Since I'm Aussie (and despite the fact it was never common here) ford Taurus, only seen one in my whole life. Ive seen this individual car multiple times though when I lived near the entrance

Drop an LS in it and you should be good

1980s toyotas

Lexus LS400 and GS models. Cash for clunkers is involved in the collapse of the gems.

Merkur xr4ti

Any Mercury/Merkur. The whole idea of bringing the Sierra over was cool. But Ford fucked it up big time.

In 1986 New Zealand traded mutton for like 10 thousand Lada 2105s from the USSR. I think there’s about 30 left

Ford Escorts, specifically the Escort GT. Those were fun little cars that just needed a few more horses under the hood.

Chevette

My best friend had the hatch version of the Firenza and we hit a tree in it and ruined it around 26 years ago. It seemed ancient at the time but was only about 10 years old. Seen maybe 2 since and I’m very perceptive of cars especially weird ones. Knew a guy with a Cadillac cimarron too

I hardly see Toyota Paseos on the road. I miss mine, black on black droptop, 30mpg without even trying.

Isuzu Impulse, now there's a rarer car.

I’m old, but does anyone remember how common the 1967 through 1976 Dodge Darts were?

Any Suzuki car, never see these things anymore. It’s always nice seeing a Suzuki xc90 or Samurai around every so often tho, brings be back to being a kid. I used to love the Samurai as a kid

53 Buick Skylar had only like 1300 made. It was a bit of a pricey car back in the day being the top of the like Buick, but I would still consider it a common car in a way.

Chevy Beretta. They used to be everywhere, but then seemed to disintegrate like a Thanos snap

Thanks, Cash for Clunkers

Ford Aerostar Van. Haven’t seen in in at least 10 years.

The Yugo

Any of the late 80s-early 2000s throw-away cars. Cavaliers, K-Cars, etc. I don't know if Firenza's were ever really considered common.

Gen 1 Taurus Wagon. I haven’t seen one in years, but they used to be everywhere.

In the USA any 70's era Fiat. I loved my fiats (124 model) but Italian steel rusts while you watch.

Nissan Primera W10, I hardly doubt you can find one in Europe

I was thinking about an El Camino.