My introduction to the Chevrolet Cobalt was actually a pretty strong argument for the car. While occasionally using an early 2000s Chevrolet Cavalier government-special sedan as a motor pool car (and wondering where my life had gone wrong every time I had to drive that insufferable pile of mass-produced shit), a friend of mine had gone ahead and blew some of the money he had made on deployment on a brand-new Cobalt SS, the one with the supercharger. It looked decent enough. It sounded snotty enough for a four-banger. And the one time I rode in the car, when my Diplomat spit the driveshaft out while driving down Interstate 5 in Tacoma, I was impressed with the grunt this little bastard actually had. The car would up and move out with no delay and a hint of blower whine. Unfortunately, that car wasn’t destined to live long…a Ford backed over the nose of the Cobalt so hard that the bumper removed the blower from the engine. Yikes.
Since then, the Cobalt has had a weird reputation: not as bad as the Cavalier, not as good as the Cruze, still not worth giving that much thought to. I kind of liked the little thing…I know, it’s GM at it’s worst in the mid-2000s, but the Cobalt looked like someone in the small-car division actually gave an effort or two. Would I own one? Maybe, if I had found an SS model before I had found the Cruze I have now. But this Cobalt has something better going than my Cruze will have: a RWD conversion and an LS swap. This car is known as the “Salty Cobalt” and Urban Hillbilly Videos caught it taking some swipes at the track at US 36 Dragway as part of the King of the 28’s event.
Super clean build AND it hauls the mail. Nice car!
Ford is so fast it had to run the race with the chute out!
Thanks for the love guys
Sweeettt !