Don't bother it's all rated PG-13...
Forgotten Chrysler products?
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Don't bother it's all rated PG-13...
The "GTO", the G8, and Chevy SS were never designed or meant to be high volume vehicles. The GTO had allocation and distribution issues, the G8 had more quality control issues than any five recent GM cars (water leaks, wind noise, rattles, and electrical problems), and the SS was north of $50K MSRP. As neat as the specs might have been, or the concept might have been, "one time buyers", usually.
When the SS was first shown at the Dallas New Car Show, there was a huge crowd of admirers. I respectfully observed that many were probably NASCAR fans. When you mention "Chevy" and "SS" in the same sentence, for some people, they get a little crazy.
CBODY67
When the SS was first shown at the Dallas New Car Show, there was a huge crowd of admirers. I respectfully observed that many were probably NASCAR fans. When you mention "Chevy" and "SS" in the same sentence, for some people, they get a little crazy.
CBODY67
DCMC
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The Sno runner was left out, not a
car but motorized.
Same with the Chrysler outboard engines and boats from the middle 1960s. Not cars, though.
CBODY67
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By gross do you mean excessive, qty of 144, or simply nasty?
Also is the new Caprice, isn't it? Copcar only, IIRC.
Fratzog
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The thread title says Forgotten Chrysler Products. A lot of Chrysler engineering in this "product".
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I also thought when they referred to forgotten Chrysler "products" this would not only include cars.
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Carmine
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You beat me to it. I actually have the model in the upper right corner. It's the "Imperial", written in the same font as the contemporary car. A friend gave it to me. Now all I have to do is find a place to install it in my house with central AC, lol.
3C's & a D?
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Wow! Thanks for the heads up, I didn't realize that beast existed. That is the basic concept of the G8, and offers great "bang for the buck" however I prefer the "conservative" styling of the G8, "Ram air" hood aside. As noted this is a rare breed. Oddly, I see G8's as daily drivers often, even in northern climes.
commando1
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I checked it out for you. Wasn't worth the effort.
goldfish65
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Here's a forgotten Chrysler product, a catamaran. A goofy roommate of mine had one, it was like a Hobie Cat, around 18 ft long if I remember and I scoffed at him thinking he could sell such an oddball sailboat for $1000 around 1980 but he did.
MarPar
Meat Man with a Hat
Put it in the garage!
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
My next door neighbor has his pilots license. He flies over the orange groves looking for old irrigation pumps and buys them. All the Hemis are gone he said with maybe a few wedges still hanging in there. Mostly Ford 6's left and abandoned.
Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
It occurred to me, but it would be no more than a prop... there's no way I could expect it to cool that much open-ceiling un-insulated space with a 2 car garage door which would need to occasionally opened. I'm saving it for "keeper house" of the future.
Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
Now that is cool!
Who wrote that article? Man it had a lot of errors! Largest engine in the Magnum was the 5.9, Mitsubishi built the 2.2, the Trailduster was a 4-passenger vehicle? And there were others. Beyond that I rather enjoyed it.
I kinda want a 702 GMC... IDK WTF I would do with it though.
Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
We definitely part ways there. I detest such hackery and never went past the first page. Now I'll have to explain to another generation of the automotive illiterate that, "No, Madesoshitty didn't make the 2.2, etc."
Frankly the discussion in this thread was far more interesting than reading the musings of some 20 y/o kid named Bartlett or Wyllie. And I didn't catch a virus from the 25 ugliest skanks on Twitter.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
You have a serious problem, my friend.
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