Believe me, I’m not nominating the Chevrolet Chevette as a classic. But General Motors thinks it deserves a place in automobile history: the Sloan Museum in Flint has retained Chevette No. 00001, with 14.4 miles on its odometer, and has made the historic hatch available for a 30-years-celebration viewing. I learned this during a daytime journey to Pender Island, BC, where a companion praised a rusty Chevette even as I dubbed it “a bunch of crap.” Perhaps I should have recalled that I’d once produced a TV commercial announcing the 4-door model. Filmed in the Paramount Studios lot it revealed a Chevette driver (Tim Rooney, Mickey’s son) forced, by a red light, to stop on a Manhattan crosswalk. Impatient New Yorkers opened the rear doors and slid through, adding appropriate compliments as they exited on the other side. “A bunch of crap” wasn’t one of them.
April 25th, 2006
Chevette, Forgettable or Worth Remembering?
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