From the former owner…<\/p>\n
Our family had a new Sandpiper in Algonac, Mi. My mother owned it from 1977 to 1981. I had from 1981 to 1983 or so…. \u00a0 as I was just finishing high school in my previous car was a 1971 Ford torino, I didn\u2019t take well to the cream colored car or interior.\u00a0I promptly got a new brown interior out of an almost new 80 and had it painted this GM brown with gold metallic and no evidence it was ever cream colored. \u00a0I liked the 78 grill better.\u00a0I got some shortened springs, had rear sway bar fabricated, added 2\u201d exhaust, replaced the 1 bbl with a holly 2 bbl a friends dad got me new from holly. It was a bit rough but ran like a Go cart and handled well.\u00a0 Eventually I took 4 lug 13\u201d cragars and had 14\u201d installed for SCCA solo II autocross C street prepared.\u00a0 It was run for a year and decided a Civic was a better car for college (and even autocross). \u00a0 GM did build some v6 prototype Chevettes in the mid 1980s. \u00a0The Michigan winters were not kind and when it started showing its age, a Honda Civic was better suited to get me through college. \u00a0I\u2019m sure I have some other photos around. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever survive the rest of the 80s.<\/p>\n
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