Even though the Saturn S-Series has been one of the most common vehicle types in American self-service wrecking yards for at least the past decade, I've always walked right past the SCs and SLs when I'm looking for vehicles to photograph for this series. The rise and fall of the Saturn marque is a fascinating story, and the S-Series spent much of the 1990s being driven by fanatically devoted owners who appreciated the distinctly un-GM-like experience of buying their cars. The SC2 has been one of the quicker and more reliable cars in 24 Hours of LeMons racing as well, but even that wasn't enough to make me raise my camera when I passed a whole row of the things at U-Wrench-It. It took this red '97, with its metalflake flame job peeking through the snow at a Denver yard this winter, to give us a Saturn Junkyard Find.
Someone loved this car, but then it got wrecked hard enough to render it not worth fixing.
Perhaps King Credit has an in-house staff of flame painters, who apply flames to any vaguely sporty car that shows up in their inventory.
The flames are executed very nicely, with clean edges, gold pinstriping, and generous application of metalflake.
I didn't feel like freezing my fingers to lift the hood and verify that the twin-cam engine was there, but I'm assuming that nobody would bother to paint such beautiful flames on a lowly SC1.
Though I'd also say the same thing about an automatic car, and so perhaps I'm wrong and this car is a single-cam SC1. It has been crushed by now, so we'll never know.
About 10,000 miles per year during the course of its life, so this car's owners got their money's worth before the big crash.
from The Truth About Cars http://ift.tt/Jh8LjA
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