what a nugget of a car
Photography Credit: David S. Wallens
Entrant: John Powell
Event years: 2004
Budget Spent: $1535.00
The ’80s were a different time: ALF, feathered hair and not a ton of horsepower from the factory. The “performance-tuned” 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24, like the one that John Powell trucked down to Florida from Wisconsin two decades ago, came from the factory sporting a 126-horsepower V6. And we liked it that way.
John ran the car mostly stock at the event. The big mod was a set of used drag radials. The Cavalier posted a 16-second quarter-mile time–not horrible for a stock car in the ’80s–and finished mid-pack in the nearly 80-car field.
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what a nugget of a car
really a nicely shaped car. Reminds me of a VW Scirocco.
There used to be so many of these. Now there are none. I wonder what happened to this one.
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