@WBizarre So that's where the Jeep angry eyes came from.

@pip-bip Very cool! I always liked late-80s Chrysler stuff....I know it's terrible, but some of them had some cool styling.

Also, K-cars may have been bad, but they also ran FOREVER. Friend of the family had one back in the day that had like...400k kms on it before he replaced it!

@pip-bip Sadly not, sticking to tropical North Queensland this time. Someday I want to see the Australian cities! 😁

A name (and design) that should have been applied to a better car.

Not sure I've ever seen one in the wild here in the US. It's fun to imagine one with a modern turbo Four, assuming the survivors (they were said to have been a favorite food source for the tinworm) aren't too valuable for such shenanigans.

@pip-bip Some people think these old big Chryslers are uglier and not as nice as other American land barges of the time, but I've always really liked them....especially the 300G and 300H that had those vertical-but-slanted headlights 🙂
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@Old-Busted-Hotness oops - didn’t realize the poly came out that early

@ranwhenparked a bit?

@MidEngine Grandma. My wife’s grandma, technically. But the main babysitter for our kids.

@CoolMinivan-Nobody said in Pacifica update (again).:

@Mazda616 Another point for incompetent dealer techs.
Glad to hear they're going to get it sorted and better yet, that they took the time to go over previous work and find the issue.

Right? I am surprised and disappointed that the “crooked car dealership” trope still exists today.

There are 3 car dealerships in our town and each one sucks in its own way. No wonder everyone seems to go the 45 minutes to Evansville to buy and service cars.

@Mazda616 I just had a customer ask me today if the car would be brought somewhere else to have tires put on, and a front brake service. Seemed like a weird question to me but i guess it happens. I'm guessing the dealership ran out of space, and had to buy more property to expand, but couldn't get the property adjacent to theres.

@Mr-Ontop said in night oppo:

@ranwhenparked Do you think that car sizes will get smaller again like they did in the 80s?

I'd say no because I think the push for small cars of the '80s was a direct response to the oil crisis of the 1970s and the success of small Japanese cars in the US/Canadian market. I don't see a similar shock coming any time soon.

@pip-bip You did give fair warning, so I have nobody but myself to blame for the present emotional climate...

@ranwhenparked
And has vanished since! Still a few in France I suppose.

@pip-bip I traveled up and down the US' east coast in the back of a Plymouth station wagon, back in the day. My dad never loved anything as much as he loved that 3-way tailgate. Thanks for the late night memories!

@ranwhenparked that's brilliant.

@pip-bip Night

@pip-bip -- Lovely vision of American luxury of the period. '64 was the first model after they'd brought in Elwood Engel, who'd recently done one of the best Lincolns. The looks of this era of Imperial have held up very well in my opinion.

@RamblinRover said in late night oppo:

@nerd_racing
What are you saying, that the front end was just a hasty mutilation of the Valiant with almost no independent design direction, and in consequence looked a little wacky?

How dare you.
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That brow ridge hood was so bad... then the "hitler stache" grill... ugh.

@pip-bip Make way, coming through!

@pip-bip
I think @Highlander might be an ideal trialist.

@Urambo-Tauro said in hour rule:

@pip-bip Nice Saturn!

It's like any other Chrysler of the era. When you start it, it will run roughly for a few minutes, making a lot of noise and spewing a lot of exhaust. For the next 10 minutes, parts keep falling off. After that, the engine cuts out and you have to coast the rest of the way.

@Nauraushaun
Is that cause it's probably not running?

@Cé-hé-sin Yeah, Dasher became Quantum became Passat.

Because reasons...

Vento/Bora/Jetta 🙂

@pip-bip Just think, if Chrysler had bothered to renew the copyright on Auto-Pilot cruise control, we could have avoided this Tesla brouhaha.

@WBizarre My race van has a balance shaft delete...because race van. It also has a manual and at some point will have a turbo.

@fintail said in Zionsville car show (big photo dump):

@Just-Jeepin Chevy van is some inspiration for @Rusty-Vandura

Rusty will always be patinaed.

That's the next gen Dodge Challenger 😂 😂

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly Bet it comes with a captain's hat though.

@Old-Busted-Hotness -- In freedom units that comes out to somewhere between the 413 and the 426, so yes, that should motivate the 2300-pound car quite nicely, if you could figure out how to max-wedge it in there along with enough reinforcement to keep the torque from popping the windshield out of the frame...

love how it pretends to be practical when it's not even really practical enough for normal roads.
thankfully it's a shop because nobody would be daft enough to build this

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera
I've seen many and been in one, although not with that name. It was a Chrysler Avenger.

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4 said in For The High-School and Teenage Oppos:

I honestly liked the Intrepid the best from a styling standpoint.

We had a 96 Stratus. There was a lot I disliked about that car, but the amount of interior room was definitely not one of them.

@Just-Jeepin That's pretty nice, I'm more of a Country Squire guy I think.

@WBizarre Chrysler plz.

@Just-Jeepin @Urambo-Tauro Eyyy! While I enjoyed my time in one, for $12k it better have a supercharger. I’d pass on this no matter how low the miles.
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@pip-bip That’s not a Charger, that’s the Dodge Electric Shaver. The Charger supplies it with the energy it needs to go fast.

@Just-Jeepin My first thought, too.

@WBizarre Based on the drag slicks in the front, I daresay that's not simply a PTC any longer!

@pip-bip Ypsilon! Doesn't look too bad in red, actually.

@BicycleBuck Oh, an IQ! Nice.

I wish I could have found one of those when I was looking.

@pip-bip That's not a bad-looking supermini. It probably could have sold well in Europe, but I reckon Daimler wouldn't let them because Mercedes-Benz already had the A-Class.

@Genesis_Haysenhox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Viper_GTS-R

@pip-bip I had a friend in college that had a Eclipse GST, that thing could haul!

@silentbutnotreallydeadly This is trying to reassure the typical Jeep Grand Wagoneer buyer that it's OK for them to check out an Eagle when they bring it in for servicing, because the typical Grand Wagoneer owner owned at least 2 other cars, and those 2 other cars were invariably West German

@pip-bip Fun fact - a '64 Valiant is allegedly what the art department had in mind when they designed Homer Simpson's car in the '80s

@pip-bip no, also no, and another no.

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Mt Elliot near the city airport. Neat, but a shame Dodge has left Detroit completely.

@cobrajoe but this includes cost of rhd conversion and luxury car tax plus profit for seller

@farscythe I know

@wasgtithengtothennovathengtinowa4

Noted.

@just-jeepin ouch. I know when I worked for Chrysler/dodge/ram/Jeep dealer we sled waaaay more Jeep’s than anything else. At least half our then FCA sales were Jeep.

@pip-bip This is just proof that everything looks better in illustrated drawings.

@pip-bip

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It sounds like Chrysler was running a porn channel.

@pip-bip said in night oppo - GIB! edition:

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This is only good if it has the 318.

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Thats all they make! 1 van and stretching the model line up by offering a Hybrid and a very outdated Mercedes

@boxer_4 I tackled the brand ownership history to some degree as part of my Jeep truck series.

https://opposite-lock.com/tags/jeep trucks