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[CobraBob]

Historic Cheap Cars

Morris Minor

Fiat 500 Topolino

Peal P50

Zaporozhec

Banner Boy Buckboard (the Ariel Atom of the time)

 

[SecondhandSnake]

I kind of want to build a Banner Boy Buckboard now.

An old friend of mine used to own a Dodge Shelby Charger. A shadow of the original Dodge Charger. Back then, the Shelby Charger was a decent "performance" car. He planned to keep it forever. THAT ended up to be maybe 5 years. LOL. I have to admit I liked it, at the time. Such was the state of automotive performance back in the '80s.

They were no muscle cars. But the Mopar Turbo I/IIs really were some of the first sport compacts. And the SRT-4 line really carried on in that tradition, even if all the attention went to the imports.

Another historic cheap car:
The Chrysler K-car. The brainchild of Lee Iacocca (of Mustang fame), it was a cheap unibody, FWD platform that went on to be used in fifty different variants, and basically saved Chrysler from bankruptcy. It basically popularized the current econobox platform.

This included-
Dodge Aries

Dodge Daytona

Featuring rich Corinthian leather, the Maserati TC

Plymouth Voyager

And popularized by Jon Voigt and Cake, the Chrysler LeBaron

Maybe for some future installments, the other Shelby cars of those years like the CSX and Daytona, the Daytona IROC with it's Mitsubishi V6, the Chrysler Decepzione, and the later SRT-4 cars.

 

[geoffmt]

Wife is teaching her students about alternative fuels in her 4th grade class, since the DSG is an E85 car, it counts. So she is bring the little rascals out for me to do a small presentation. Tomorrow they get a Tesla that my buddy owns. I’m willing to bet they find the Tesla a whole lot more of a cooler car is a mess. But they’re only fourth graders so what do they know


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[SecondhandSnake]

That's awesome. Get them hooked on the smell of sweet, sweet E85.

...but in reality they'll be all over the Tesla asking if it has TikTok on it.

If she wants any extra info or suggestions on alt fuels let me know. That's my area of expertise at work.

 

[CobraBob]

I kind of want to build a Banner Boy Buckboard now.



They were no muscle cars. But the Mopar Turbo I/IIs really were some of the first sport compacts. And the SRT-4 line really carried on in that tradition, even if all the attention went to the imports.

Another historic cheap car:
The Chrysler K-car. The brainchild of Lee Iacocca (of Mustang fame), it was a cheap unibody, FWD platform that went on to be used in fifty different variants, and basically saved Chrysler from bankruptcy. It basically popularized the current econobox platform.

This included-
Dodge Aries
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Dodge Daytona
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Featuring rich Corinthian leather, the Maserati TC
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Plymouth Voyager
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And popularized by Jon Voigt and Cake, the Chrysler LeBaron
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Maybe for some future installments, the other Shelby cars of those years like the CSX and Daytona, the Daytona IROC with it's Mitsubishi V6, the Chrysler Decepzione, and the later SRT-4 cars.

Darn you for bringing up the cheap/cheap Chrysler K-car. I have worked hard for many years to free my brain from memories of the K-car. LOL. You're right, it should be in the list of cheap cars.

 

[9397SVTs]

Don't forget about this hotrod.

 

[SecondhandSnake]

Darn you for bringing up the cheap/cheap Chrysler K-car. I have worked hard for many years to free my brain from memories of the K-car. LOL. You're right, it should be in the list of cheap cars.

It's part of the zeitgeist. You can't escape it. Seinfeld, Cake, Reliant K, even the Barenaked Ladies.

If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a K-car, a nice reliant automobile.

Don't forget about this hotrod.

I knew about a lot of the other turbo Mopars, but I never knew they marketed the Spirit that way, or that it was a Turbo/manual car. Crazy that it really was competitive with those other cars, much the same way the 2.3T SVO bested the 5.0 GT.

And how can we forget this weird bastard-
Merkur Xr4ti

 

[9397SVTs]

It's part of the zeitgeist. You can't escape it. Seinfeld, Cake, Reliant K, even the Barenaked Ladies.

If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a K-car, a nice reliant automobile.



I knew about a lot of the other turbo Mopars, but I never knew they marketed the Spirit that way, or that it was a Turbo/manual car. Crazy that it really was competitive with those other cars, much the same way the 2.3T SVO bested the 5.0 GT.

And how can we forget this weird bastard-
Merkur Xr4ti
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The Spirit RT could surprise a lot of cars back then.

Car&Driver test results:
C/D TEST RESULTS
60 mph: 5.8 sec
100 mph: 15.6 sec
1/4 mile: 14.5 sec @ 97 mph

 

[blownstang01]

Was working as a service manager at a Lincoln / Mercury dealership when the Merkur's came out. What a shit show.

 

[kazman]

And don't forget it's much older brother...

 

[SecondhandSnake]

The Capri was such an odd nameplate that they used. First used by Lincoln, then Ford in Europe, then Mercury in three completely unrelated cars.

1st generation? European Ford.

2nd generation? Fancy Mustang.

3rd generation? An Aussie Ford with a Mazda drivetrain.

I'd still do terrible things for the foxbody ones. Terribly disappointing when you get a lead on one and it turns out to be the third generation kind.

 

[CobraBob]

......

And how can we forget this weird bastard-
Merkur Xr4ti
View attachment 1702464

Oh man, back in the day that was my dream car for a couple of years. I wanted one so bad. Never did own one.

 

[Weather Man]

Scary!

 

[geoffmt]

Scary!

Driver did very well for that shit show


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[CobraBob]

 

[Weather Man]

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My daughter to a T.

 

[9397SVTs]

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I don't see a difference.

 

[Black02GT]

I don't see a difference.

Agreed, that bottom one looks like one of those shifty jumping mother****ers, I don't trust them.

 

[CobraBob]

My daughter to a T.

LOL. My wife HATES spiders!

 

[TerminatoRS]

I've never liked spiders. Watched Arachnophobia too many times growing up.