Here are two humble Chevettes posted by canadiancatgreen at the Cohort. Sort of. If we stick to badge engineering, what we have is one Chevette and one Pontiac Acadian. Curiously, they reside next to each other. A Chevette/Acadian fan?
The Acadian is actually a diesel, as the rear badge shows. The Chevette’s diesel version was called a unicorn in a previous CC post. Would an Acadian diesel be the rarest of unicorns?
As rare as these are getting, each has been covered before:
Curbside Classic: 1981 Chevrolet Chevette Diesel – Christmas In June
Curbside Classic: 1980 Chevette Scooter – A New Category Of Vehicle
Well, as I said in Paul’s post about the diesel Chevette back in 2022, I spent one of the most miserable road trips of my life in a diesel Chevette, that was actually the color of this Acadian.
This whole thing is causing flashbacks.
I would, on the other hand, take that yellow Fiat in the 2nd picture. 🙂
I do note that the Acadian has no license plates. So perhaps its road-tripping days are done.
I have a hard time imagining that it’s just waiting for its next owner.
It’s waiting for YOU.
What a great find! Rare in deed.
I know i’ve posted this before, but any Chevette story brings back the memory of a company car I was given back in the day. It was the cheapest model (ever?), I think it was called a Scooter. Cardboard door panels. Rubber floors. But, it was free to me!
Any sees a diesel Toyota Camry running around these days.
This summer we took a two month road trip that covered a lot of kilometers in rural western Canada, BC and Yukon. That is GM country, at least when it comes to small and mid-sized FWD passenger cars between ten and 30 years old. And Pontiacs are popular … more Bonnevilles and GrandAms than their Chevy equivalents, even several Solstices, G3’s, Torrents, Montanas and at least one Aztek. Cavaliers and Cobalts were everywhere. But I don’t recall seeing a single Chevette or Acadian.
Yes the old Pontiac Buick GMC dealers were once thick on the ground in western Canada.
In HS a friend of mine had a dark blue coupe with a roof rack and fake paneling. What would the equivalent now be if there even was one.
A Kia Rio? Or a used Elantra from about 2012?
You’d have to add your own paneling though.
A diesel Acadian is likely the most rare of the factory build North American Chevette variants.
Whenever I see one of these, I have to pinch myself that they managed to get 4 doors into the wheelbase of the Vauxhall Chevette 2 door hatch. Not the largest doors ever fitted to as Chevy….
I still have 2 Chevettes stored in the countryside, one of them is Canadian. I think that they changed the name from Acadian to Chevette in 1983 or 84.
Might use them for dirt track racing next year, I think that it would be fun with rear wheel drive.
Pontiac changed the name of the Acadian to T1000, then 1000, in Canada to match the US badging. Previously American Pontiac dealers didn’t sell a Chevette clone.
I had a final model year (87) chevette in high school. I wish I had never sold it. I loved it but all of my friends without a DL kept saying I needed a bigger car. The follow up car was a nightmare. I would love to find another one. But to keep up with modern traffic I would swap the 1.6 four cylinder for a 2.8 V6 It’s to bad GM didn’t think to do that as a factory option for a chevette SS
Those row houses just scream “depressing”.
I own a diesel Chevette. Bought off ebay 20 years ago for $170, I dragged it home. Came close to pulling the engine and scrapping it but then decided to park it in the woods. After nearly 10 years in the woods I dragged it out last year and it started right up with a fresh battery. So now it resides in a storage building.
You never know when something like that may need to be pressed into service running on all sorts of mixtures of old fuel oil, veggie oil, or old motor oil.