Bye Bye Pentastar

You make a damn good point - if I wasn't a MoPar man, I'd be into Fords - love the Galaxies from the early to mid-sixties.
 
And I'll never buy one of those Fiat turds for as long as I live. Same goes for anything Government Motors produces.

There are enough '68 Chryslers, Dodges and Plymouths around to keep me happy until I drop dead. After that, who cares - I won't even know they ever existed, or that I ever existed, for that matter.

Trust your car - to MOPAR.
 
F Preston said:
And I'll never buy one of those Fiat turds for as long as I live. Same goes for anything Government Motors produces.

There are enough '68 Chryslers, Dodges and Plymouths around to keep me happy until I drop dead. After that, who cares - I won't even know they ever existed, or that I ever existed, for that matter.

Trust your car - to MOPAR.
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I agree !

No need to drive a modern car.
I will be in california in the next days and don't even like using a modern rental car.
If a good friend in southern CA won't drive his cars more I will offer him my help to do so.:poke:

Carsten
 
To me, a "new" car is something from the '90s. I've owned three 2001-newer vehicles - an '03 PT Cruiser GT and an '06 PT ragtop; and an '06 Dodge Ran 2500 Cummins Crew Cab. We still have the ragtop after nearly 10 years, and it's a decent car. Would I go out and buy anything from 2010 or newer? No way in hell! It is mostly because of the GPS nonsense that is on nearly every vehicle newer than 2010. Don't want it, don't need it.
 
bluefury361 said:
70bigblockdodge said:
every car guys hero Lee Iaccoca QUOTE]

He's one hell of a businessman ...... but not a car guy and not a hero in my book.
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And I'll pick a businessman to run a car company every time over a car guy running a car company. It takes great acumen to identify niche`s.


And and I'll add this, I don't like chrysler because of the stupid f'in logo. Logo's don't matter much. I mean if it were like a purple fist dildo they screwed on the hood of all the new cars, yeah I'd take issue. But the fiat logo or chrysler wings.. Meh wgaf.
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Own one or not, EVERY car company copied the basic concept from Chrysler, and all made money over the past 30+ years off that. I, too, have never owned a minivan and probably won't, simply because I prefer station wagons and SUVs over minivans, any day of the week. But a minivan has been a useful tool for many, and essentially replaced the station wagon in the mid-'90s...much to my disgust.
 
Wow you are poo-pooing on the guy that conceptualised the most successful car model and introduction ever. No he did not take a falcon apart in his garage and hand beat out every new body panel to make a mustang, but his vision and delegation of duties to make a car model that is still alive, where is the falcon? He went no further in ford because the "family's ego, Henry#3 was looking stupid, shoe fits, so Lee was out the door. At Chrysler he did not invent the mini van but he saw the worth in the idea from the people working for him, again involved with a vehicle that is still around and being copied. His job as CEO is not to design cars, it is to put competent people in place make sure they stay that way, or out, alao assure the stock holders all is well. I would say that a guy that had his hands in two highly successful vehicles that prior to them the market segment did not exist is defiantly a car guy. BTW it was beancounters that killed the 1st gen hemi, almost killed the Corvette, and who knows how many other great cars that didn't get off the drafting table. If he is self centered and whatever else, who cares? He is not my neighbor. I hope Sergio is the same way and when anyone comes knocking to buy Chrysler now that it is afloat again, which BTW paid back the loans at almost 20% interest that the government wasted I'm sure, he can use his ego and self center attitude to tell them to f@#$ off they can't run it as well.:soapbox:
 
Boys and girls, Iacocca SAVED Chrysler. He paid off the 1978 gub'mint loan a decade ahead of schedule. He streamlined the company and got rid of a LOT of excess waste. He envisioned the "K" car, which, BTW, sold MILLIONS of units. So did the minivans, and the "K" derivatives, which were built into the early '90s. The man is a car guy AND an astute businessman - you know, the guy you WANT running a company! Not like that bimbo who is left holding the gub'mint bag over at GM now. Especially if you are a shareholder, and/or a returning, satisfied customer.
 
Not like that bimbo who is left holding the gub'mint bag over at GM now. Especially if you are a shareholder, and/or a returning, satisfied customer.[/QUOTE]

To call Mary Barra over at GM a "bimbo" tells me you know nothing about her. She is fantastic, and so is Sergio. Both are once again great companies, and will continue to get better. They are once again making world class vehicles. Yeah, Iacocca has a big ego, but I don't mind that if he is also capable and gets the job done, which he did.
 
F Preston said:
And I'll never buy one of those Fiat turds for as long as I live. Same goes for anything Government Motors produces.

There are enough '68 Chryslers, Dodges and Plymouths around to keep me happy until I drop dead. After that, who cares - I won't even know they ever existed, or that I ever existed, for that matter.

Trust your car - to MOPAR.
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When I think of Ford I think of big ol tractors.
 
70NPORT said:
When I think of Ford I think of big ol tractors.
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I love old Chryslers like a man loves a woman - they are all I have ever driven, with one small exception:

I had a girlfriend in the seventies who had a blue on blue '64 Galaxie 500 XL coupe - 390 4V, four on the floor, bucket seats and console.

Flew like a bat out of hell, and would burn rubber - even in second gear!

My GTX could do the same - until I wrapped it around a tree, drunk as a skunk.

Cindy was tiny - and she could shift that toploader with the best of 'em.

If MoPars didn't exist - I'd be a Ford man.

Those were the good old days.

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Yeah, me too and I have posted photos before.... 67 Galaxie then a 64...for me.

Either way, Mopar Ford or Chevy its gotta be BIG
 
Exactly - my younger brother had a 427 Impala fastback - roomy and flew like a bat out of hell.
 
Same here, I've said it on this forum before, if it weren't for Mopar I'd be a Ford guy because of the 1960s Galaxies and that '68 Mustang fastback.
 
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