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Chevette, Forgettable or Worth Remembering?
Filed in archive General Motors by Philip Powell on April 25, 2006
Chevette, Forgettable or Worth Remembering?

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.

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