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    I was just emailing a close friend about the bright red, four-door '05 Chevy Aveo they won in the drawing at the Eureka, CA Grocery Outlet store's grand opening, of the new building they built where their old one had been.

    Someone my three hour, once a week care-giver the fall of '04; while in a full time AFSCME union job organizing other care-givers for California's IHSS/In Home Supportive Services program, in notoriously anti-union Humboldt county. I got AFSCME's "President's Award" normally given only to union members, for volunteer work done the summer of '05 helping collect petition signatures in support of the IHSS care-givers, with my friend and their two other full-time AFSCME union workers.

    This is someone unused to having any sort of a car; who'd been getting around on a forty year-old Peugeot green mixte' frame ten-speed fixed to work in only one gear, borrowed for $20 every six months from the Arcata, CA "Bicycle Library." Someone now with a job in San Francisco working for the huge SEIU labor organization, a professional community and labor organizer also a trained puppeteer; who certainly can use the car.

    A person twenty-seven when we met the spring of '04; and likes dressing flamboyantly or in disguises, often in black punk garb and short electric blue hair then, including a fine black leather motorcycle jacket whose dream the summer of '04 was to someday own a 250cc Honda Rebel. A graduate of Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA originally from New Hampshire; who has also authored a book on riding the Greyhound bus long distances, most comfortably, enjoyably and effectively.

    What I was writing them about today, is how typically many new car buyers are the least concerned with maintenance; the sort of people who buy due to fads and impulsively, planning on changing to another car within two or three years; as the cycle that sort of society is recommended, as most trouble free. So, often the oil isn't changed until by the second owner; or at best warrantee conditions are held to with visits to the dealer the car was bought from.

    What I was wondering, is if there might be any sort of Aveo specific website such as this one for the Festiva? I've read later Aveos aren't as good as those made and sold in '05; but, there seem to be enough of all types on the road, that there could be people out there interested in their Aveos, trying to share between themselves as here, to be able to make the best of them. My first "Aveo" web searches haven't come up with much.

    The woman my age who parks right next to me at the apartment complex we both rent in; drives an amazing white '65 Ford Galaxie hard-top with a 289 V-8 she got for $200 in 1988, which has been in her family since a new car. "Someone else's problems" she scoffs in scorn about my being the second owner of the Festiva; who is a humorous character, someone who has lived here all her life and remembers when where we now live, once was horse pasture. She has even rebuilt the motor herself on the Galaxie, so really someone pretty amazing; who works caring for Alzheimer's patients and has a daughter in her thirties.
    Last edited by bobstad; 05-14-2012, 06:05 PM.
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  • #2
    I'd totally sell that and buy 4 or 5 festys with $$$ to spare.
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    • #3
      Not my friend's way of doing things; unfortunately!

      Originally posted by zoom zoom View Post
      I'd totally sell that and buy 4 or 5 festys with $$$ to spare.
      They'd be the perfect Festiva owner; who I got to know giving rides in my car before hiring as my care-giver. Always making me feel a little guilty, since someone I felt more car-worthy than myself.

      Problem being, mechanical orientation would need to take place from a dead start; while in the midst of a demanding career. Not only with the SEIU; but, a variety of activist positions in the bay area, too.

      We miss one another; so a favored fantasy has us living together in the east bay, somehow. So insane to think about the day or so we each held the idea in mind emailing back and forth about three years ago, from about a thousand miles away; the notion soon went up like fourth of July fireworks, terrorizing in blind madness a couple of neighborhood dogs.

      My wrenches, their inspirations; and the world could seem limitless, at least on some fronts. They were in New York city and Morocco last summer, then Chicago in the fall. I only hope the Aveo gets a reasonable amount of TLC; that should remain serviceable if cared for, at least with some intelligence.

      With our fleet of Festivas on the other hand; what a force to reckon with! I already have another famous friend who drives a Festiva. "World class" musician Amy Denio. [http://www.amydenio.com] We have fun, telling getting great parking spaces in Seattle stories; who thinks I'm finding her leftovers often times, who has been at that there far longer than me.

      I remember when the Aveo was new, sitting in one of the aisles in the Eureka Grocery Outlet before the drawing. People shopping there who'd never see a new car up that close for any reason; were drawn as if by a magnet. I used to ride on my bike to the Eureka Chevy dealer, just to be able to sit inside a new Aveo there, a person couldn't do at the Grocery Outlet.

      When I found my friend had won the car; that was the buzz the morning about fifteen IHSS care-givers, including the three AFSCME union workers and two of us care-recipients including a far more disabled youth the son of one of the IHSS care-givers; all took a rented Econoline passenger van from Eureka, CA to the state capital Sacramento, CA May 10th, 2005, for a joint union rally of SEIU and AFSCME union members all IHSS care-givers, in support of the IHSS program; which Republicans like to hate as what they call "incipient Socialism" that allows people low-income elders and/or disabled people to stay in their own residences rather than expensive Republican owned care-facilities, families would be forced to afford or else abandon people to the street in many cases.

      When I saw the once stunningly shiny and attractive Aveo, that is heart warming now to recall; since my friend already had transformed the car to a well lived in demeanor, like an old shoe the family dog liked chewing on. Cluttered with possessions, coffee mugs and all sorts of incidental litter: Definitely a working class rig.
      Last edited by bobstad; 05-14-2012, 08:34 PM.
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      • #4
        tell them to hurry up and ditch that psuedo daewoo piece of junk before it breaks down. Everyone I know who had them liked them a lot at first but then the things started to break down and they had to buy all kinds of special tools and spend tons of $$ on hard to find parts that all cross referenced to daewoos! ick...
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        • #5
          ^ +1. they are trouble, end of story.
          Trees aren't kind to me...

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          • #6
            I've never heard anything good about them.

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            • #7
              I personally dont like them.
              I reviewed a rental we once had (2010).
              - a poor quality video - and I wasnt really acting well in it.
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              • #8
                Well; this thread is one I'll forward a link from, to my friend. Though with the standard admonishment about never looking a gift horse in the mouth, too. No reason that they can't use the opinions here; to work at getting the most out of none of their money, getting a brand new car for free. I wonder if Aveos have a good resale value? Probably something if so, which could take a nose-dive without notice at any time in the future. Given what people have to say about Aveos here.

                I remember that in the '60s all General Motors products paid special attention to having interiors which were often irresistibly attractive, as well as compelling styling generally; and those '05 Aveos carried on the tradition, deftly. Most people given to mechanical expertise always favored Ford or Chrysler products; though the small block and later large block Chevy V-8s and the prior Chevy inline 6 motors, all have many fans and great reputations.

                Once, I ran into a lady, someone from the local Yurok nation of native Americans; with a six month old 2000 Toyota Corolla, she had 40,000 miles on trying to get warrantee service, from the same independent repair shop I was at; featuring a good deal getting cars tested for smog control standards passing California's test. Required of every vehicle at least once upon change of ownership, I'd been there with the Festiva for a second testing; since buying my car back then, I'd nearly lost with a bent connecting rod on the north end of Tillamook, OR the previous winter. We had to spend time in the waiting room together as someone worked at some sort of a tool; reminding us both of a dentist's drill, the sound was so invasive and disturbing to endure.

                One of the workmen at the shop seemed if not a little racist, willing to be critical of the woman for her car's interior he'd mentioned to me in an aside as if she were despicable for the fact, looked as if she lived in her Toyota. Driving probably close to seven thousand miles a month, is not difficult to imagine of someone a Yurok with a brand new car; likely in some position of responsibility, where nation members and their facilities, residences and places of interest, exist spread all over a far flung geographical region. Known as the last place in the country native Americans were subdued; because of their remote and often inaccessible geography, on the coast and inland regions of northern California's redwood forests.

                My friend with the Aveo is also involved in that region as well as in the bay area; where their BA is from at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. Easy to imagine is that Aveo having the piss driven out of the thing constantly; perhaps driven into the ground long ago by now, though my friend has sometimes thanked me for advice sent via emails about working to sustain the longevity of the car. I'll try to keep folks posted here on news of the car and that vehicle's fate and usefulness. I'm always someone to think with good maintenance many a vehicle without any great reputation, can be made to give good enough service.
                '91 Festiva L/'73 Windsor Carrera Sport custom

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                Art is the means whereby(a) society advances: Religion is the definition of the parameters of art. Poetry is the actualization of these...

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