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Replying to: ghulet (Jun 19, 2009 11:58 pm) I've noticed that phenomenon, too. At first I was thinking that maybe Chryslers were bought by mostly older people, who held onto them longer and took better car of them, but I'm sure a lot of old people bought Mercurys and Buicks, too. Maybe Chrysler's clientele was still older, though. Another possibility, is that maybe the Chryslers were just built better? Now I can't speak for a Mercury from that era, but having had a '67 Newport, '68 and '69 Darts, and a '67 Catalina and '69 Bonneville, I'd say the Chryslers were definitely built better. Oh sure, fit and finish wasn't quite as good, but the Mopars had a more solid feeling to them...like they were thicker and sturdier, somehow. However, I also heard that the quality level went way down when Chrysler redesigned their full-sized C-bodies for 1969. I also notice the same thing with the big '74-78 Mopars, that Newports and New Yorkers seem to have an excellent survival rate. I always figured that since they were unitized, rust would have gotten to them quicker than a body-on-frame GM or Ford full-sized car, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I've heard the '73-78 Fords and Mercurys were horrible rusters. Lincolns seemed to survive pretty well, though. In the later 70's, when downsizing was all the rage, I think there was a group of holdouts that still wanted their full-sized cars to be mastodon-sized. And they tended to go for cars like the Lincolns, Newports, and New Yorkers, and they held onto them. I think a lot of people figured these cars would be worth something in the future, as a symbol of the last "true" full-sized cars, a product of a bygone era. Cheaper cars, like the LTD and Marquis, just got used up and discarded for the most part. And the mammoth Gran Fury and Royal Monaco only made it through 1977, on mainly taxi and police car sales. Dodge and Plymouth left the full-sized car market completely for 1978. |
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In my (not so little) town of about 30,000 residents halfway between Denver and Colorado Springs, I saw two cars that were related to one another, by brand and one other circumstance. The first was a Cadillac XLR, the second an SRX V6 AWD. Different parts of town. "So what?" you're probably asking yourself. They were both painted in that ghastly Mary Kay pearlescent pink color! I cannot begin to imagine how much MK product one would have to sell in order to qualify for an XLR! |
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I saw a beautiful, perfect white convertible. Short. Cute. It's similar to this in the picture in shape. link title But it had a wide molding along lower part of the door with bright red script lettering on the molding--obviously a specially named model. I couldn't read it and don't know if it was Plymouth, Dodge, Chrysler. The driver parked it in the driving lane on the two lane road near the stop sign and was getting out so at first I watched him to see if he was ill or what.
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jun 23, 2009 5:35 am) One of my friends had an '86 LeBaron convertible, in that same cream color as the car in the link you posted. One other possibility...could it have been a Dodge Shadow convertible, perhaps?  Or a LeBaron GTC?
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 23, 2009 5:55 am)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jun 23, 2009 5:57 am)  Some of the fancier models might have had the model name written in the molding in a different color, like the GTC maybe?
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.....Chrysler/Maserati convertible thing (I saw one in Chicago the other day), although imazizol97's descrition doesn't fit: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/CHRYSLER-TC-MASERATI_W0QQitemZ300323388582QQcmdZV- iewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks?hash=item45ecab3ca6&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=6- 5%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A317%7C240%3A1308
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Replying to: ghulet (Jun 23, 2009 8:50 am) 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 23, 2009 6:32 am) It's better than 20 years down teh road and he's still kicking - and still driving convertibles. |
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| I saw an 80s Volvo 700 series turbo today that was really a blast from the past. Black with tinted windows and period style black and alloy BBS style wheels, and it was pristine, looked brand new. Can't be many left like that. | |
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