You Beretta You Beretta You Bet

The Chevrolet Beretta was sold from 1987 to 1996, and it sold well... OK, it sold well the first 3 years with half of the total 906,230 Berettas produced rolling off the lot before 1990.

Hindsight is wonderful, mind you, and at the dawn of the Nineties, Chevy was sure they had a winner in the Beretta - so much so, they chopped the tops off a few in to make Indianapolis 500 pace cars for the ’90 race.

You might recall that one of the Beretta's only (positively) memorable features was the vertical door handle in the B-pillar... maybe that's why there wasn't a Beretta convertible sold retail, as convertibles don't HAVE B-pillars, nyuk nyuk nyuk!

You might recall that one of the Beretta's only (positively) memorable features was the vertical door handle in the B-pillar... maybe that's why there wasn't a Beretta convertible sold retail, as convertibles don't HAVE B-pillars, nyuk nyuk nyuk!

What WAS sold retail were Beretta GT Indy Pace Car Edition coupes - about 3,140 of them, painted really teal-ly Turquoise Metallic with "fluorescent" Hot Pink graphics because of course they were.

Chevy’s braintrust must have thought Turquoise Metallic was also a winner (which it was, if only for a quick moment in time), splashing the cool neon hue onto the alloy wheels and bringing it inside to trim the seats.

To quote one of the 164 commenters at the Bring A Trailer auction for the shockingly low-mileage (2,700 miles?!) vehicle pictured here, "It's almost impossible to get more early '90s than a teal Beretta". Tell it, brotha!