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Good Transportation for short trips around home, but otherwise very average is the way Star test driver Len Coates describes GM's little Acadian
Good Transportation for short trips around home, but otherwise very average is the way Star test driver Len Coates describes GM's little Acadian

Good Transportation for short trips around home, but otherwise very average is the way Star test driver Len Coates describes GM's little Acadian

Date5/18/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Good Transportation for short trips around home; but otherwise very average is the way Star test driver Len Coates describes GM's little Acadian.
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