Coming back from a recent sabbatical, we stopped to stretch our legs for a few minutes. As luck would have it, our heading back to the highway allowed us the prime opportunity to get stuck in traffic. It wasn’t for naught.
Some poor person was stuck in the backseat of this Geo Storm. Having once been in that position myself, I don’t envy them. This Geo made me realize we have never covered a Storm, so this is its likely debut here.
These young people soon took a side street, which led us to get up close with the tail of
this Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme convertible. I captured one long ago – it’s due for its day in the cyber sun. For once I didn’t mind being stuck in traffic.
As Storm and Cutty Conv.
Pretty good catches.
PS. Don’t break the rear quarter glass in that Cutlass Supreme, they are now officially made of unobtanium.
I kind of remember liking the Storm, for what it was. It was the kind of car that no longer exists, sort of a lightweight, inexpensive, sporty car. As for the Cutlass – these have always left me cold, though I will admit that I have had no firsthand experience with them. Any convertible that requires a targa bar or other nonsense loses convertible points with me. But I look forward to your CC on one of these, maybe I will learn that I should like them more.
A Scion TC would come close. Misses out a bit on the light weight portion but so do 95% of moderns cars.
The Storm is in no way close to a TC, other than its a small sport coupe. It had no real sporting pretensions other than it’s styling, marketing and the name ‘Storm’. I do agree that the cheap and cheerful sporty coupe/hatch that was so prevelant in the ’80s and early ’90s is gone and I’d love to see a resurgance. It is weird to see that random Scirocco, EXP or Plymouth Lazer still trolling around. Heck, even the early millenial Tiburion is a rarity, don’t get me started on the S-Coupe.
Great find! I haven’t seen a Storm in ages! Gotta love how small the tires were that came on cars this size in the 90s.
A relative’s first car was a ’92 Cutlass Supreme coupe (this was around 2000 or so). It too had a very small back seat, although it could seat 5 unlike the convertible with its rear “buckets”. I remember it was the first car I rode in that my feet could touch the floor.
The Storm is a rare beast around here
That’s cause the Storm was a junkie for the rust monster. Add to it, most people that owned one generally bought them because they were cheap and did not bother to maintain it. I remember Geo as the first disposable car.
I liked the Storm/Impulse well enough, but the rear bumpers tend to fall off:
http://youtu.be/BMUZM3nDjH0?t=1m18s
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I don’t need to watch the video to know is the infamous snow tow one.
Of course they will fall, if you pull the car like that…
When I lived in Wisconsin, that used to get sent around about the time of the first snowfall each year, to remind each other of what *not* to do (and to make fun of those less experienced with the white stuff). I wondered how quickly someone would recognize it.
The funniest thing about that video is all the guys standing around. A little effort on thier part, and the car could have been lifted off the snow bank damage free.
Well, maybe not the funniest. That slow motion shot is pretty hilarious….
Exactly–if someone had just been a little more diligent with a shovel, then we don’t have this um, classic video.
You could also say, if someone had been a little more diligent about finding the correct place to put a tow hook…
I have a set of Storm pictures in my queue, and you’re right, it has not been written up as a Curbside Classic.
I’m still gathering further information off the internet, and I’ll try to cut and paste an article together in the next week or two.
D/S
That’s a base Storm. And looks mint. Nice find.
Further, it appears to be either a 1992 or 1993 model, judging by the “lip” underneath the rear bumper and the “Storm” badges in a more streamlined font compared with the initial style. Up front, a revised, single-piece fascia with the same mini-bulb headlights found on the contemporary Grand Prix replaced the earlier pop-up headlight covers.
My second car was a 1992 base Storm. French blue metallic, and unfortunately saddled with the 3-spd automatic and aftermarket air conditioning that snapped accessory belts with alarming regularity about every 15,000 miles.
My first car was an Impulse XS. Great little car. I loved that little bugger.
You know, I found one on a small car lot about 8 or 9 years ago. Did consider it rare as I’d seen precious few over the years. Was overall quite decent shape and I took it for a test drive. The salesman thought I would buy it, but I told him I already have a few too many cars. And, no place to keep another. Anyway, there was nothing obviously wrong with it. Seems like it had close to or just a little over 100K miles. Was obviously well cared for. Am sorry now that I didn’t take any pictures of it.
can’t imagine there are too many storms left…the exwife had one. it ran OK, to me it was a nondescript sort of car, there were certain styling tricks that made me think small scale 80s camaro.
A Storm. A few years ago, the lady in the appartment above me had one. It was about to break in two when she finally changed for a ’05 Civic.
I probably have already mentioned that when we were looking for a good Civic for the daughter they were a bit hard to find, but every used car lot had a Geo Storm.