Posted by bandi Pretty!! My former boss bought a '72 Ghia convertible on eBay and flew me out to Florida to drive it back to Ontario. That was an awesome trip.

which part? being paid to be flown by your boss to Florida or being paid to drive a car you love back from Florida? It all seems pretty win to me.

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somewhere, Burt Reynolds is laughing is mustached ass off.

Posted by jeepdave http://greenville....to/4635110685.html

Would drive. Cannot grow mustache however, and it'd probably be illegal to drive it without one.

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Oh hells yes.

I want this for my '83 Bug like you wouldn't believe. But... I'm not paying that for it.

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Posted by bandi http://www.kijiji....avigationFlag=true Oh hells yes.

I had a 79 Horizon... it was powered by a 1.7L VW engine, Peugeot 4-speed manual transaxle and was a motherless whore to get parts for in 1993.
BUT, when it ran properly, that little bastard would hustle.

I had an '85 Omni GLH-S. That's #3 on the list of things I should have never sold.

The Omni I liked...I didn't realize it was produced until 1990 and it got also some K-car engines.

I've had 5 Omnis/Horizons and all of them had a 2.2 liter. I think after '85 it was just the standard engine.

They really weren't that horrible of a car if you could get over the little quirks like the exterior door handles getting harder and harder to use until they broke off (the little rod would bend out of shape and then the white metal door handle would fail). Oh and the headliners sagged so much it was like driving around in a tent.

I think you mean 86 glhs, that's the only year they made the "some more" in the Omni body. I had a 87 charger GLHS last year and just found a real nice on craigslist last night for $3500 that's very tempting.

Posted by bandi I've had 5 Omnis/Horizons and all of them had a 2.2 liter. I think after '85 it was just the standard engine. They really weren't that horrible of a car if you could get over the little quirks like the exterior door handles getting harder and harder to use until they broke off (the little rod would bend out of shape and then the white metal door handle would fail). Oh and the headliners sagged so much it was like driving around in a tent.

Headliner??? mine had a sheet of hard black plastic. The interior was el cheapo... two bucket seats bolted to a rudimentary slider of what passed for thin black carpeting. It was one of the basest cars that I have ever owned, but also one of the most fun. Quirks that made it entertaining? the engine mount was part of the starter assembly... it would loosen up constantly. That meant I kept having to pop start the car everywhere I went. I got good at it. The Holley 2bbl on it would freeze up all the time in the winter so when you DID get the car to start, 9 times out of 10 the throttle would stick wide open and stay that way until the engine heat thawed it. I went through two clutch cables a week because the bushing that the cable rode in on the pedal was gone... Mopar no longer carried that part and the cars were non-existent in salvage yards (this was pre-internet, folks).

Other than the quirks and headaches, my 79 Horizon is one of the cars that I truly miss.

I bet that old horizon had that terrible rod shifter where all the bushings wear/pop out, Oh the good old days....

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Posted by sleeperspirit I bet that old horizon had that terrible rod shifter where all the bushings wear/pop out, Oh the good old days....

funny story about that old Omni... I had struts installed at a Sears Autocenter in Plattsburgh NY. Technician came in and told me that he wasn't installing shocks in the car because the balljoint was falling out of the car. I signed a paper saying that they weren't liable and drove the car home (50 miles down the Interstate and another 20 miles on NY 9N). Stopped at a Big A Auto Parts on the way and grabbed a balljoint ($17 in 1993), drove the car to a friends, jacked it up, pulled the wheel off. As I am readying the picklefork to take the balljoint, i hear this Clunk-tink. I look back and what's left of the balljoint is sitting on the barn floor. Uh huh.

The car had character.

Posted by sleeperspirit I think you mean 86 glhs, that's the only year they made the "some more" in the Omni body. I had a 87 charger GLHS last year and just found a real nice on craigslist last night for $3500 that's very tempting.

You're right. I had that and an '85 GLH Turbo.

Posted by sleeperspirit I bet that old horizon had that terrible rod shifter where all the bushings wear/pop out, Oh the good old days....

I remember all of my manual transmission Daytonas had the shift linkage fall off of the transmission at some point. I think it was usually going into reverse- it was a ball joint with a nylon socket that would wear out.

Believe it or not those "help" section wiper transmission bushings at auto zone and some jb weld are a suitable replacement for those discontinued shifter bushings.

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