forgotton cars

[racerbob]

'Cimarron by Cabillac'

That Chevy mini-van that lookied like a dust-buster...see I really forgot the name. And didn't Pointia and Olds have a version of it?

Ford LTD'Mercury Marquis, the mid-size ones based on the Fairmont.

R-body Mopars...79-81 Gran Fury, St.Regis, Newport and New Yorker.

Lincoln Mark VI, Lincoln Continental....the ugly boxy downsized models of the '80's

Eagle Premier, Dodge Monaco.

Buick Reatta
Plymouth Caravelle.

I got an R body for free to part out a few wees ago. 1979 St Regis, 4 door, 318/2bbl. I have it sitting on a trailer at a friend's house. I will bring it home to begin disassembly this weekend.

I will be sure to post a few picts.

Bob

PS: I had to google the name " dodge St Regis" to figure out what it was before i went to get it. Been a long time since I found a MOPAR I new nothing about!!

 

[74Dusted]

Where did all the 90's Plymouth Lazers and Dodge Daytona Z's go, they were all over the place in the 90's

one of my first cars was a 1991 RS Turbo Laser 5-Speed. My knees bashed the steering column every time I'd shift gears and I had to adjust the seat down & back to keep my head from hitting the sunroof (and I'm only 5'11")

Sadly that car is long gone. My dad and I sunk a fortune in it (it was my mother's car and she gave it to me, hoping I'd stay far away from powerful muscle cars).

I replaced the ECM, Upgraded the Turbo, Injectors, etc, did a full rebuild on the engine, with a nice Port & Polish, Repainted the Car in a dark metallic green (was an Electric Blue), dyed the interior Black, and installed a full Alpine Stereo System. A week after I finished the car, my folks split up and my mother took the car with her, gave it to the son of the guy she was seeing behind my dad's back.

I found out that he put the car through a fence (trashed the front end) and then blew the engine up :mumum:

My folks got back together about 6 months later, but I was out my car and money :banghead: Boy was my mother pissed off when she found out I had not only bought a Muscle car ('74 Duster), but that I also refused to sign the title for the Duster over to her. She kept insisting that it would be better off in her name... Yeaaah right, I lost one car because of that, I'm not stupid enough to try it a second time :finga:

I still keep an eye out for a Laser on occasion though, I wouldn't mind getting another RS Turbo 5-Speed car to putt around in. But they're so hard to find anymore. 10 years ago I would see them all over the place, and the junkyard had rows of them (all with bad bearings or trashed turbos). Now, You'd be lucky if you could find one at all.

 

[George R]

More recently, how about the 93-96 Intrepid? They were everywhere, now I hardly ever see one. My wife drove a 94 or a few years until we needed a bigger car. It was the ES model with all the bells & whistles, and leather gut. Good car.

George

 

[stansblue72]

My In-laws had a pontiac phoenix, what a pile of junk that thing was!

 

[Bulldozer]

More recently, how about the 93-96 Intrepid? They were everywhere, now I hardly ever see one. My wife drove a 94 or a few years until we needed a bigger car. It was the ES model with all the bells & whistles, and leather gut. Good car.

George

google u pull n pay in colorado springs and denver/aurora. you will find half of them in there. along with 2 dozen jeep cherokees and s10 blazers.

 

[WildCat]

seen a decent mustang II on the road this past week

at 2 different car shows seen a total of 4 different HUDSONS

2 Anglia's, but neither one looked like long distance cruisers

With the high gas prices I have seen some older econo boxes, one a red 4 door omni that looked great. Ask the lady at the business who's car it was and she had to think a few seconds then said, it is mine. They had corvettes and her husband bought it for like $500 and cleaned it up, and she would rather drive the Omni over the vette

 

[D Dodge]

last summer a guy brought in a citation 4 dr. wanted us to rebuild the engine. it was rusted out and looked like someone died in it. old man bought it new and wanted to keep it. we told him the cost of the rebuild was the same for a good used car. he didnt care, he wanted to keep the citation. so i built it and it cruises bedford everyday. also passed a plymouth cricket the other day. most people never heard of them

My cousin almost bought a Plymouth Cricket for his first car because it was only a few years old and was dirt cheap. He ended up getting a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, another one you don't see very often these days.

 

[rp23g7]

How about one of these? I see it everyday. My 87 Dodge Shelby CSX.

I worked at Thrifty Car Rental in 87 and remember getting the blue, grey and white versions of these, awsome little cars, wish i could have afforded to buy one back then.

How many did they make for production? I think they made 1000 of them for Thrifty, but only ever saw one production version on the road. A guy around here still has a Thrifty version.

 

[pishta]

Not 2 days after I started this thread I saw a convertible Dodge Aries(?) with woodgrain panels and a Pontiac T-1000 (chevette) on the same street. I done even see Honda CVCC's anymore. Throw away cars now, less liability?

 

[ramenth]

Yeah Whens the last time you saw a Vega, Pinto, even a Mustang 2, Cordoba. There are lots of lost cars out there.

I see a B-body Cordoba cruising the streets around here all the time. For a J-body all I have to do is walk out my shop's front door.

Z34

I'm surprised to say that there's one that's being used as a daily driver here. See it a couple of times a day.

Saw a Pinto II, I mean Mustang II just yesterday. K-cars? Hardly ever, same with Chrysler F,M, J-bodies (Dippies, Gran Furies, RWD 5Th Aves, Imps, Aspens, Volares. Miradas, et cetera).

There's a Mustang II stalking the streets around here every summer and I'll see him out on nice days in the winter. Car's pretty quick.

Got a guy who lives around the corner from me who has a M-body 5th Ave. It's his daily driver. I also see an older couple cruising around in a black one with a red gut. The car looks like it just rolled off the show room floor.

Like I said, earlier, I can walk out my front door at the shop and see a J-body Cordoba. Turn the corner and there sits my Diplomat.

I'm surprised to have to say this, too. There's a Grenade-a being used a daily here in town, too. I also know where one sits in a garage. The car's cherry. Sit's next to a '57 T-bird.

There's a few I don't see much of anymore. The early Ford Lightning's with the 351. The huge Caddy de Villes from the '80's. First Gen Ramchargers. Bronco II's are almost non-existent these days.

 

[krazykuda]

I just gave a 91 LeBaron GTC coupe away to a girl who needed a car. 2.5 turbo, 5 speed car.

I've got an 89 LeBaron GTC coupe in my back yard that I have to strip this summer, also a 5 speed but has a 2.2 intercooler engine.

 

[krazykuda]

whatever happened to the old Rampage and the Plymouth version of that?

 

[jacksdodges]

They never made a rag top Shelby Dak. I bought my Shelby Dak new in 89 and have heard this for the last 23 years and nobody ever came up with a real one. There are none in the Shelby reg. I talked to the people at the Shelby automobiles inc. Whittier Calf.plant where they converted them about a problem with mine. I ask them about the rag top and they said they NEVER made one. When you bought a Shelby Dak you got two owner manuals,one was the regular owners manual the other a 11 page Shelby owners manual. Nothing about a rag top. I was just looking at my Shelby owners manual and the phone # is still written in it. Sorry no verts were made.

 

[magnumdart]

Not too many Capris or Monzas running around any more.

 

[OneOfMany]

Saw a pretty minty Ford Escort a couple of days ago. Looked like one of those rarely driven grandparent models. Unfortunately, a couple of winter/springs and it will end up like the rest of them.

We know what St.Regis' are here.. they were usually decked out in white & black with colored lights on the roof

Have to say that I see way more P-body Cloud cars on the road than any comparable car from other marques. They really seem to last.

Saw a Laser XT on a car trailer Sunday going in for paint. Hopefully will see it when it is done

Grant

 

[Nite Moves]

Yeah Whens the last time you saw a Vega, Pinto, even a Mustang 2, Cordoba. There are lots of lost cars out there.

I was stunned a couple weeks ago........A yellow Vega was sitting across from me at a 4way stop. Dam it brought back some memries.....Dam thing looked to be in great shape...

 

[rp23g7]

Not 2 days after I started this thread I saw a convertible Dodge Aries(?) with woodgrain panels and a Pontiac T-1000 (chevette) on the same street. I done even see Honda CVCC's anymore. Throw away cars now, less liability?

there are actually two Honda Civic CVCC's in my neighborhood, a baby blue one and a yellow one, 76's i think.

 

[Tony Fields]

One of my projects next summer is to strip my dad's old 89 LeBaron GTC with the intercooled turbo 2.2 and 5 speed. 73k original miles everything goes out and/or breaks.

My brother has a Conquest turbo for sale. He also has an 81 Charger 2.2 convertible with like 13k original miles.

That '89 GTC is a low production car. Just a little over 1000 coupes were produced and around 906 verts. Great cars!

 

[91 Spirit R/T]

I worked at Thrifty Car Rental in 87 and remember getting the blue, grey and white versions of these, awsome little cars, wish i could have afforded to buy one back then.

How many did they make for production? I think they made 1000 of them for Thrifty, but only ever saw one production version on the road. A guy around here still has a Thrifty version.

In 1988 they made 1000 Doge CSX-T's the T is for Thrifty. They had the Turbo one motor's unlike the 87 that had the intercooled TII motor. You might be seeing the one I sold a few years ago to a guy that lives in Renton, He has over 20 turbo Mopar's. Had a 89 CSX until a guy in a Dodge Ram, Rammed me. Was a very fun car to drive. I think they made 1000 in 87 and know they made 500 in 89, mine was number 499
I have not seen a Ford Granada in years, I think they wanted us to mistake them for a Mercedes.