Tag: K-Car
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Turbo K-Car Variant Two-Fer!
Okay, the Shadow/Sundance was technically a P-Body, but that was a K-Car derivative. Regardless, what you get here is two turbo Chrylser products for $4,500. What’s not to love? Well, okay, build quality is questionable and the styling on the LeBaron (at least I’m pretty sure it’s a Lebaron – with the four headlights) is…
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Daihatsu Naked wearing Hummer Attire
Diminutive Japanese “kei cars” seem ridiculously small by US standards, but they make (somewhat) perfect sense when seen on crowded streets and in narrow parking lots of Tokyo. We spotted this Daihatsu Naked (yes, that is the actual model name…) near Atsugi Japan. It is difficult to appreciate the size of this car in the photos.…
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The fastest sedan made in America
Well, at the time, it was, as the ads proudly proclaimed. Most remember the original Taurus SHO and its ability to shock most vehicles sold at the time. For model years 1991 and 1992, however, the SHO was not the quickest domestic sedan. That honor belonged to the Dodge Spirit R/T. This beast of a…
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K-Car retro-rod
We’ve featured more than one 90s Thunderbird retro-rod and recently showed a 90s Camaro-based 57 Chevy wannabe. Finally, we have a Mopar example, this one based on, of all things, a Dodge 600 convertible, which may well be the boxiest of K-cars, possibly of all cars. Of all the weirdo retro-rods we’ve features, this one…
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Take your pick: Two Mark Cross edition LeBaron convertibles (plus a bonus Dodge 600).
Perhaps Chrysler envied AMC’s co-branded special editions of the seventies. That could explain the Chrysler LeBaron Mark Cross edition. One might even suggest that they envied AMC so much that they bought what was left of the company five years later. These early LeBarons offer pure K-car squareness lost in the later models. Interestingly, two…