Lowest optioned mopar you’ve seen

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Howdy all, i was thinking about a car my brother had a few years ago that was about as bare bones as i have ever seen. Lets see if anybody can top this:
67 fury 1 4 door sedan
Slant 6 with three speed on the column
Radio delete
Rubber floor mat
 
Howdy all, i was thinking about a car my brother had a few years ago that was about as bare bones as i have ever seen. Lets see if anybody can top this:
67 fury 1 4 door sedan
Slant 6 with three speed on the column
Radio delete
Rubber floor mat
If that car was in Detroit about 20 years ago I saw it.
 
1976 Valiant moredoor, bench seat, no AC, slanty, plain mid 70's Mopar green paint on the roof and all, IIRC it was AT and did have a radio
 
Had a '65 Valiant 100 in high school.
only options on the build sheet were :
Auto trans
Heater
Full wheel covers
Electric windshield washers.
It had rubber floors, No radio, no cigarette lighter and no coat hooks!!
 
My first Valiant, my Grandmother bought new. It was a 68 four door(lovely shade of brown). Had an automatic and power steering. 170 six. So is that three options? Was the 4 door an option over the 2 door?

The salesman asked if she wanted whitewall tires. She said, do they help the car run better? No. Then I don't want them. No radio, no lighter, certainly no AC. Still have that car, still love it.
 
71 three on tree rubber mat. Radio doesn't work.

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when i first met the wife, she was driving a dodge neon, that thing only had one bank of cylinders

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...Superstock hemi barracuda. Didnt even have window regulators :)
I have a 73 dart sport with radio delete. Not a low option car though. Its actually a full fender tag car but was an export, hence the radio delete.
Lots of roadrunners with radio and heater delete and generally lacked many other options.
 
I had a dodge neon too. It had "paint delete" and "head gasket delete". Like most of the early ones the paint peeled off in sheets and they blew head gaskets.
 
In 1989, I picked up a 69 road runner. 383 bench seat 4spd car. Had an AM radio. No power steering, non-self adjusting drum brakes on all 4 corners, no limited slip, no AC.
 
When I was in high school 47 years ago a good friend owned a Valiant 100
Zero options... nothing.
170 engine. Red with a red interior.
I recalled that he bought it from his next door neighbor for $10
 
I had a dodge neon too. It had "paint delete" and "head gasket delete". Like most of the early ones the paint peeled off in sheets and they blew head gaskets.
i think she went through several transmissions in that car too

come to think of it, one of those head gasket deletes happened while we were dating
she was supposed to pick me up at the airport in chicago
i musta been 17, 18?

anyways, i land, get off the plane and get all my stuff and head out to meet her
well, she aint there
so i mozy on over to this device, how do i explain this to you guys
its like a coke machine right, you can put money in it, and its got buttons you push
but instead of selling you a coke, it takes your money and allows you to make a phone call
it was called a payphone, and back then they were pretty common

so i drop a quarter into it and call her
she explains to me the dodge died and she cant come get me, but not to worry i can catch a greyhound

ok, no problem, ill ride a dog there, what do i know?
so i mozy on over to ground transportation and find a desk called "greyhound" and i explain to the lady how i need to find a way to Holland.
she says, Holland the Netherlands?
no, i just came from there, i need to get to Holland MI
(hilarity all around)
she says, ok, we got busses running that way all the time, in fact the last one tonite leave at 7.30 PM
cool, that'd be great, if it wasnt 8.03PM right now
what time is your first one tomorrow?
so i get a ticket for that one, go back to the phonecal vending machine and explain everything, no worries, she'll pick me up at the bus station

ok, its about 8.45 now, i got nothing going on, untill tomorrow morning, ill go find me a bite to eat and a place to sleep

i dont know if your familiar with a pre-911 o'hare airport, but even then it was not an oasis of rest for weary travelers
i couldnt find anything that looked comfy
finally i found a lobby in one of the terminals that had shag carpet
woohoo, this is as good as its gonna get

so i put my suitcase down as a pillow, lay my weary head to rest and im dead asleep

long before morning, im awakened by a tapping off my shoe, which turned out to be a member of the Ilinois state police (or so i remember, the details were kinda foggy since i jut woke up, but picture a white version of major Payne, and you're pretty close)

"if i didnt know vagrancy wasnt allowed in the airport?"

so i explained to him, in not a vagrant, just a weary traveler waiting for my buss out of here
of course, he didnt believe me (nevermind the suitcase and the broken english) and he took me down to a lower lever of the airport where they have a vagrant processing and detainment center
i get finger printed, my passport gets checked, my ticketstub investigated and i get determined to be...a weary traveler waiting on my bus out of there
(i know, at this point i was surprised to find that out too)

so now the officers tone changes, but not much, and i get issued a permit, and this here permit gives me official permission to spend the night at the 0'hare airport, but it expires when my bus leaves at about 8.00 AM

so they put me in a room down there and i go back to sleep for a few more hours, grab some breakfast and get on my bus, oh a full 20 minutes before my permit expired and rode that greyhound for nearly 5 hours, sitting next to a gentleman whom i would later recognize as John Coffey from the Green Mile, who oddly enough had a dime stuck in his ear (i never did work up the courage to ask him about it)

if i never mentioned it before, thanks Ma, for the great adventure
 
My '64 Dart 170. 170slant, 3spd on the column. Only option it came with was a heater, (if that was optional). No seat belts or anything. Probably the cheapest Dodge you could get in 1964.

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Back in late 1967 my grandfather bought 68 Dart 2 door, 225 /6 3 on the tree, rubber floor mat, radio delete, heater delete, manual windows & door locks, black wall 13" tires with dog dish hub caps. After he & my grandmother passed away in the 80's, my mother & her sister couldn't give the thing away. I wish I'd snagged it back then but I was into pre war street rods back then & had no interest in it.
 
No heat, glass, seats or radio or wipers for that matter
Ect Ect . It did have a set of wheel covers though ! OH and no gas cap.:rofl:







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Not an A car but you could buy a basic A100 van (or even the pickup version iirc) with only the driver seat. Manual everything including the trans, everything else was an option, no arm rests, no visors, no heater, lighter, side or rear door glass. They had to be the most stripped vehicle Chrysler offered.....
 
From the factory?? Drag Pack. Didn't even come with the title option.
 
in fact the last one tonite leave at 7.30 PM
cool, that'd be great, if it wasnt 8.03PM right now
what time is your first one tomorrow?
I got the same story, same town! Different mode of transport. I'm at the train station in Chicago at 7PM after I find my car ride back to LA left that morning (royal schedule screw up) so I'm up the creek. Plane is too expensive, bus is too slow (like 3 days to LA) So train is my only option. My luck, the next train out is 10 AM tomorrow. I aint sleeping in Union Station in 1990 as it actually closed back then at 10PM or something so I had to find a place to crash, I asked the ticket guy where the cheapest place to sleep was around here cuz I got like 30 bucks on me , and he writes an address on a piece of paper and tells me to get a $6 cab, no more. Older black cabbie picks me up and I hand him the paper...classic over the glasses double take at me and asks me "You wanna go here?" Yup! OK....nasty southside dive hotel with the buzzing red neon sign literally right outside my window. I end up hooking up with an off duty stripper in the hotel bar who's got a baseball sized wad of 1's and 5's and is a Dodger fan! Well, 6 hours later I'm running from a bouncer of the bar that she just stiffed for about about 50 bucks and I get separated from her. Well, I made it back to the hotel by blind reckoning and never saw here again. Train ride home was somewhat uneventful after that, 'cept winning 50 bucks in dimes in a slot machine in Vegas (?) and almost missing my train trying to to recover all 500 dimes in a sundae cup I had to dump. Train was pulling out and I come running out dimes falling everywhere as I jump into the conductors open door. It really was that close.
 
My old 70 Barracuda cuda I owned years ago.

Factory U code 440 car with the 18 spline 4 speed and Dana. Bucket seats (came standard) No console, standard non rally dash, standard 2 scoop hood, non vinyl roof, stripe delete, no radio, had the windshield washer foot pump thingy, with the Plymouth division dog dish hubcaps. White with black interior.

Today it would be my 72 demon.
Slant six, three speed by the knee, 7.25 open.
Rubber mat car, no radio, no stripes of any kind, also has the 2 speed wipers with the foot pump thingy. Standard bench seat, with the standard houndstooth pattern. White with blue interior.

Also currently have a 67 belvedere 1, 2 door sedan with almost no options. Has an AM radio but that's it. Original slant six car

I seem to attract really low option cars.
 
I got the same story, same town! Different mode of transport. I'm at the train station in Chicago at 7PM after I find my car ride back to LA left that morning (royal schedule screw up) so I'm up the creek. Plane is too expensive, bus is too slow (like 3 days to LA) So train is my only option. My luck, the next train out is 10 AM tomorrow. I aint sleeping in Union Station in 1990 as it actually closed back then at 10PM or something so I had to find a place to crash, I asked the ticket guy where the cheapest place to sleep was around here cuz I got like 30 bucks on me , and he writes an address on a piece of paper and tells me to get a $6 cab, no more. Older black cabbie picks me up and I hand him the paper...classic over the glasses double take at me and asks me "You wanna go here?" Yup! OK....nasty southside dive hotel with the buzzing red neon sign literally right outside my window. I end up hooking up with an off duty stripper in the hotel bar who's got a baseball sized wad of 1's and 5's and is a Dodger fan! Well, 6 hours later I'm running from a bouncer of the bar that she just stiffed for about about 50 bucks and I get separated from her. Well, I made it back to the hotel by blind reckoning and never saw here again. Train ride home was somewhat uneventful after that, 'cept winning 50 bucks in dimes in a slot machine in Vegas (?) and almost missing my train trying to to recover all 500 dimes in a sundae cup I had to dump. Train was pulling out and I come running out dimes falling everywhere as I jump into the conductors open door. It really was that close.
any chance the manager of that hotel asked you for a can of cheese wiz?
 
This isn't low optioned model but a strange one:

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1972 GOLD Duster.
Slant six, 3 speed on the column with A/C, AM radio.
3 speed with A/C ???
 
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