Junkyard Find: 1990 Geo Storm GSi

When you think about cheap factory hot rods of the early 1990s, do you think of the Geo Storm GSi? Probably not— the Isuzu-built Storm has been nearly forgotten by now— but the GSi had some pretty impressive performance numbers. How about 130 horsepower in a 2,392-pound car? The '90 Storm GSi listed at $11,650 (and that's the pre-dealer-markdown-and-factory-rebate price), which gave buyers a pretty good bang-for-buck ratio when compared to, say, the 108-horse/2,291-pound/$10,245 Honda Civic Si. Of course, you see 1990 Civic Sis all the time these days, and this is the first Geo Storm I've seen (outside of 24 Hours of LeMons races) in several years. Storm trivia: what notorious whackjob mass murderer drove a Storm? Answer: Timothy McVeigh, who daily-drove a Storm until a week or so before he did his crime. The Storm, which he dubbed "The Road Warrior," got rear-ended at a gas station, and McVeigh ended up using a '77 Mercury Marquis as his getaway car. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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