1986: Chevrolet Celebrity is like a Corvette for the whole family

GM sold just over two million Chevrolet Celebrities (plus millions more Buick Century, Olds Cutlass Ciera, and Pontiac 6000 platform-mates), and the Celebrity proved to be a reasonably competent transportation appliance for the price. This 1986 Celebrity magazine ad, depicting the Celebrity Eurosport as it “carves a line through curves and dips,” presents the car as some sort of taut driver’s car, which it certainly wasn’t.

The Eurosport Celebrity came with a somewhat stiffer suspension than the base Celebrity, but you had to pay extra to get the 135-horse V6 engine. The base engine? The 92-horsepower Iron Duke four-cylinder, one clattery, combine-harvester-grade bank of the Pontiac 301 V8. In theory, a manual transmission could be had with the Celebrity, but I have yet to see such a car. Better to have bought the Cavalier Z24 with 5-speed and put up with smaller size and two doors, if you wanted a family Chevy that offered a modicum of driving fun for under ten grand.

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