I’m feeling a bit OD’d on Olds, and GM is getting a bit over-represented in our repository. Spring is creating a surge of Pentastar love, so let’s give CCCCC a one-week break and have a CC all-Chrysler Week, including a bit of company history. Even in a week, it’s going to be just a very random smattering of Mopars. There will always be more…
Great idea Paul. I would suggest that you do a week for as many brands as you possibly can but I know it might be hard to find a week’s worth of cars for many of the brands.
Should be lots of fun – and interesting too!
Yay! …as long as that doesn’t translate into K-Car and Caravan week. ;P
Don’t worry he’s already done a weeks worth of those at various times in the past. What would really shock me is if he found say a 1979 Newport somewhere in Eugene. I’ve only ever seen one once in the wild and I was a 14 year old kid and happened to be walking along the right street at the right time and a garage door was up that had never been up before. Of course the rear bumper chrome was peeling even on this garage kept example.
This is going to be fun. Maybe a Sport Suburban will make an appearance….
Two words, Paul: Green Hornet!
Ooops, make that four words: Ma Barker!
This may be an appropriate place to post these pics of the Plymouth convertible I owned from 1968 to around 2002.
These were taken in about 1995 – the paint is original; upholstery replaced with original material.
I can’t get the href to work; here’s the link: http://homepages.tscnet.com/pmadsen/58ply.jpeg
Wow, that’s a beautiful car. ISTR that in the novel, Stephen King described Christine as a four-door ’58 Fury with a column-shifted automatic. He made a similar gaffe in another book, about an Oldsmobile Toronado — he apparently didn’t realize it was FWD. 🙂
King also had a passage in the book in which a door-lock button would move up and down by itself, which is a neat trick considering that these cars like all 50’s Mopars locked the door on the inside by moving the door handle in the opposite direction from the open position, thus didn’t have lock buttons.
Oh yeah, good catch. 🙂 Always amazed me that he didn’t research his cars better, especially seeing as he clearly admires them quite a lot.
Darn, that reply switcheroo thing that always happens after login bit me again… Hopefully it’s obvious I’m referring to Stephen King, not to Paul!
Hurry up and do this before they go out of business for good this time!