All those sayings about a person never getting a second chance are a load of rubbish marinated in hogwash. Sure, there’s some things like first impressions and losing your virginity in which it’s a one shot deal. But karma is an equal opportunity thing and she’s on my side this time.
While loathe to admit it, I have written this 1971 Satellite up once before. Let’s not dwell on this as it was a poetic yet not particularly earth-rattling take; sometimes you hit a home-run and other times you strike out. Hmm; home runs and striking out sounds awfully related to first impressions and virginity. Anyway…
Since the cosmic forces of the universe put me back in touch with this Plymouth a second time it’s only right and proper to give it appropriate attention because we all know there’s no such thing as a third chance. Is there?
While gazing at our inaugural year fuselage styled B-body, there is an elephant in the living room that needs to be eradicated immediately before it makes a big mess. It’s a colorful elephant, quite unlike the white one that often emerges at Christmastime.
It’s a purple one in this case.
No, Virginia, this isn’t the factory color of this Satellite although it theoretically could have been. If it isn’t an exact match this color is something reasonably close as you can see upon finding In-Violet Metallic on this paint chart.
It’s right in the middle of the top row of colors. Some of the more boring colors, about four of which look like diaper gravy, were relegated to the bottom row.
It wasn’t like this violet color wasn’t being recommended as it could be found on the cover of the 1971 Satellite brochure, seen here on the totally different appearing, and shorter wheelbase, Satellite two-door. Pretty, ain’t it? This picture also reflects upon Plymouth’s shrewdness; Sassy Grass and Snow White were also available and can be found in this picture upon close examination. Plymouth knew they only had one chance to make an eyeball capturing brochure.
But the $64,000 question is whether or not a four-door Satellite was ever painted purple. Now before anyone is too prematurely flippant by saying “Absolutely not Jason; what are you thinking?” keep in mind this was 1971.
In that fine year of 1971 one could actually find some color pigments on a car lot, as seen above, and not have to endure the fifty shades of ambiguity that is currently in vogue. Plus, Chrysler being Chrysler they’d likely consider making something unique to land a sale long before Ford or GM would do so.
Such has been documented over time. Allpar has a short snippet about a 1971 Plymouth wagon that was built with a four-barrel 383 and a four-speed. It was special ordered.
Here’s why I mentioned one ought not be too rash in rendering a judgement; other four-door Satellites were originally painted in high-impact colors so why not our featured one?
The color of a car is definitely something in which you can get (an expensive) second chance as one can always repaint it. Which is obviously what happened here although to channel what Paul Harvey used to say, stay tuned for the rest of the (suspected) story.
For many in my generation the name Belvedere conjures up images of either a low rated comedy on ABC during the 1980s or it’s a throwback to Saturday morning airings of Warner Brothers cartoons, specifically a 1950 Merry Melodies cartoon about a dog seeking a new home.
Those of us in the terminally ignored Generation X finally got the opportunity to learn Belvedere had been a name used by Plymouth since 1951, branching off into being a separate model in 1954. By 1970 the Belvedere name was being used on base model cars and Plymouth decided this name had had its last chance. When these new fuselage bodied mid-sizers were introduced for 1971, the Belvedere name was consigned to the dumpster of automotive history.
All these curvy new midsize Plymouths were now named Satellite regardless of trim, with the 117″ wheelbase sedan coming in trims named Satellite, Satellite Custom, and Satellite (wait for it!) Brougham. Of these three, the top-line Brougham is the one few people even allowed a first chance, as only 3,020 were produced. In relative terms this was just over 25% that of the base Satellite and one-tenth that of the Custom.
At least Plymouth gave the Brougham a chance on the sales chart, dedicating an entire page of the Satellite brochure to it.
Introduction of these new four-door sedans saw sales remaining reasonably consistent in the transition from 1970 to 1971. Subsequent years saw more people giving them a chance as sales nudged up to around the 50,000 to 60,000 mark for a year or two. These mid-sizers were given a new lease on life (read as second chance), in a weird sort of way, by being renamed Fury for 1975.
Shockingly, sales of these four-doors peaked in 1978, the last year they were available, at 98,613. Yet this success needs two qualifiers; first, for 1978, this was the biggest Plymouth available as the C-body Gran Fury had been terminated. This jump in volume is pretty close to what full-size volume had been in 1977.
Second, Plymouth was the best selling police car in the United States during the 1970s and a likely not insignificant number of those 83,000 base model 1978 Furys likely saw duty with the constabulary or some other type of fleet.
Looking at the brochures, it’s obvious Plymouth didn’t dare take a chance showing their mid-sized car in anything other than some shade of green.
Taking a chance on building a graph in a spreadsheet, here’s a better representation of Mopar mid-size four-door sedan sales from 1970 to 1978. This does not include wagons. For comparison, I’ve included the Dodge version based as Coronet (1970 to 1976) and Monaco (1977 and 1978).
An aside…
While legends certainly grow, since many people feel the need to give them ample chance and opportunity to do so, one legend about the 1978 Fury comes from where I work. Ancient scrolls relate somewhere north of 100 of them were purchased that fine year. While the intention was for a car as austere as possible, damned if Plymouth didn’t ship everyone of them with five whitewall tires on or in it. It seems somebody in a key position had what Freudian scholars call a “come undone” about it and every tire was removed from every wheel and turned around backwards before the car entered service.
Despite the digression talking about fleets, I would be negligent if I didn’t take this chance to mention a 1971 Plymouth fleet vehicle to complement our plum beautiful featured one. Watching too much television as a child has had its advantages…
Jack Webb, ever the one to portray a high degree of accuracy in his television shows, used a 1971 Satellite on Season 4 of Adam-12. Hands down that was my favorite car of the ones used on that series, so naturally it was the one used for exactly one season, the shortest amount of time any particular car was used during regular production of the series.
Yes, there was another 1971 Plymouth used on a different television show at the time, but it was a brown wagon. One need not chance a guess to know it was gas powered and had an automatic transmission.
This missing door panel brings the narrative back to our featured car. Adam-12 was set in Los Angeles, which is out west. Eugene is also out west and sometimes the cars we see from Eugene have been divorced from their door panels.
I live fifteen miles north of Eugene and have seen this very Plymouth several times along US 54 heading toward Eugene. Spotting it is easy as it’ll never blend in with contemporary traffic.
As alluded to earlier I have a strong idea about a partial history of this delightful old Satellite, yet I can’t fully prove it.
In late 2012, when my family was in the depths of inability to sell a house as part of a work-related relocation, we rented an old farmhouse just west of Jefferson City (our new location) as a stop-gap measure. During the time we were moving in, I saw a dark green 1971 Plymouth Satellite parked nearby at the rural water service’s office. I had two or three other sightings during this period.
Each time it was being driven by an elderly gentleman and I made a note to keep an eye out for it.
Fast forward three to four years and one Sunday brought about an ad in the newspaper for a one owner 1971 Plymouth Satellite. The online version of the ad had a picture revealing a dark green sedan; the mileage was advertised as 45,000 with motivation being from a tough as nails 318. The price was the nebulous yet tempting “best offer”.
Despite the temptation, the timing wasn’t there for me.
The odds of there being more than one dark green 1971 Satellite sedan in a county of 76,000 aren’t tremendous forty-odd years later but stranger things have happened. This chain of events did facilitate a very strong suspicion. Sometimes a person is hesitant to take any chances on a mere suspicion.
Sometime after seeing that ad, I started seeing this purple Plymouth on various local highways. The joke earlier about seeing it near Eugene isn’t a fabrication; there is a town by that name south of me and I’ve seen this Satellite covering a sizable swath of area. Other than the chance encounter that gave me poetic (yet regrettable in retrospect) inspiration, I’d not seen it parked again until I was able to get these pictures.
Seeing this Plymouth for sale in a parking lot bolstered my theory. Advertised as having 50,000 miles I’m pretty well convinced this is the formerly green Plymouth that taunted me six years ago. It’s nice to close the loop.
Since a new owner is being sought, let’s hope this old Plymouth gets another chance for a vibrant life. That purple color alone goes a long way toward its vibrancy.
Found August 2018 in Jefferson City, Missouri
I remember one in my home burg in what the chart calls Winchester grey, one of the few around back then still LHD it must have been imported near new, A mate of mine had a 71 Holden Kingswood sedan in purple, factory colour it oxidised many different shades but the door shuts were still the original colour.
I wonder how long the SoCal family posing next to the green ’78 Fury in the brochure shot put up with constantly being mistaken for an unmarked cop car before finally trading it in?
OMG, look at the great choice of colors, not a single grey or silver, much less 2-3 shades of same. Though I am surprised how the blues and purples look similar to these old eyes.
Is it just me or is this example ambitiously priced?
And this story indirectly proves the theory that somewhere between 50 and 75 per cent of Chrysler products in this time period were painted green.
You did have *four* (quite similar) shades of green to choose from, even. Today, few cars offer even one.
Can anyone clue me in on what that “microphone” on the options list is for?
“Can anyone clue me in on what that “microphone” on the options list is for?”
It is my memory that the early cassette units Chrysler offered were units that would record as well as play. 1971 was very early in the life of the cassette and I think Chrysler was going for the “executive market” by pushing a tape recorder so Mr. Important could dictate letters on the commute into work.
I do not believe I ever saw a car equipped with one of these early cassette units (which was floor mounted on the transmission hump), let alone one with a mic.
I can confirm this. I spend a lot of time at the warehouse listening to old Chrysler promo videos as I work and that is an option touted in most from the 70’s.
Giving dictations whilst driving, just the thing not to get distracted. Like Mr. Important would be driving a base Plymouth Satellite…
I was hoping it was for making cassette recordings of singing along with the radio.
Governor Jerry Brown of California drove a base model ’74 Satellite. As of 1993 the car was sitting at the Towe Ford Museum in Sacramento. It was about the only non-Ford I remember seeing there.
Moonbeam drove a Satellite? How appropriate 🙂
Jason, that ride must have worked with the ladies.
peak Fonda
Jason, a few years before, I came across Jerry’s blue Satellite at Martin Swig’s SF Chrysler-Plymouth on Van Ness Street. My, that car got around!
Yes, it sat on the transmission hump. I wanted my parents to get one for our ’72 Coronet Crestwood, but they weren’t having it. On the other hand, the dealer, who was a family friend, did give me a ’72 Dodge data book, which featured our car in same Sherwood Green Metallic we had. They did like green back then.
It should be noted that these Chrysler cassette players/recorders were not installed in the dash. Rather, they were mounted on the (required) console between the bucket seats. So, yeah, they were definitely not intended for music cassettes (although they could still be played), but for recording.
One should also remember that, in the seventies, in-car recorded music was almost universally played on good ole 8-track players. It took a while for the transition to pre-recorded music cassette tapes.
Asking price does seem high, but my view of it is colored by remembering when you could pick up cars like this for a few hundred dollars or less.
Just seeing that car with the purple paint job, tail stripe and aftermarket wheels had me snorting morning coffee and laughing like mad. The only thing missing is the extended spring shackles to jack up the rear end four to five inches, which was quite the style in the late 60’s/early 70’s.
What’s missing regarding this car is the realization that, back in the day, this is the kind of car that a loser would be driving. There were enough two door coupes, sedans and hardtops available to ‘street rod’ at the time that to be seen driving jacked up four door just screamed ‘loser’ at the top of your lungs. It either showed that you had no understanding of style, or, worse, you couldn’t afford to buy your own car so you ended up with Grandma’s hand-me-down.
It cracks me up that everybody who owns some kind of old car anymore just has to pretend he’s an extra in “American Graffiti”.
Check out the last two photos again. The shackles are there, but they aren’t providing much lift. Weak leaf springs I think.
Yep, they’re so short I didn’t notice them. Back in the day, you were usually talking shackles twice as long as that on a hopped up car. Try to visualize 6″ clearance between the tire and the top of the wheel well, while the front was either stock clearance or ever slightly lowered if possible.
Don’t ask about handling (a buddy of mine had a ’62 Bel Air sedan – with a Stovebolt, no less) set up the same way. No, he wasn’t exactly the sharpest crayon in the box when it came to style, and it was painful to see the money he’d toss into that car. Definitely straight line ONLY. That back end would start swaying on any kind of turn, including 20mph intersections.
Aren’t 62 Chevy’s coil sprung in the rear?
Yeah, and he found a way to jack it up.
Whenever I see one of these Satellite sedans, I always remember there was a short-lived action/adventure television show back in the day called Chase which prominently featured an airplane, motorcycle, and car.
I’ll never forget how the car was a nondescript 1971 Satellite 4-door sedan and always wondered why they chose that car. I mean, wouldn’t a Road Runner have been more appropriate?
The ‘Chase’ Satellite actually was a 1973, jacked up, big rear tires (probably some form of N50-15 steamroller),slotted mags, and a 6-Pak scoop attached to the hood. I guess it started the 1970’s cop show trend of undercover cars that blatantly scream “I’M AN UNDERCOVER COP!” (see also ‘Starsky and Hutch’).
BTW-in the ‘Chase’ pilot, the Satellite was nowhere to be seen. They used a 1973 Charger SE instead.
Good lord, Chrysler loves the color purple. I can’t imagine anyone buying a purple car and then beating themselves to death six months later for doing so!
Funny that a Challenger still is available in purple to this day.
Yuck!
As far as the example above, I don’t know how a prospective buyer could make that car attractive short of a paint job. Might be worth a try, however. Perhaps a nice, deep metallic shiny purple? Ha ha ha!
While purple isn’t my thing, my new Challenger is TorRed, my old one was Hemi Orange, I know a lot of people who love love love it, and were disappointed I didn’t take it as there was an identically equipped car at the same dealership my car came from. My “Yuck!” color is the currently offered “F8 Green” followed by the dull as can possibly be “Destroyer Grey”, which looks like shiny primer.
I could live with purple, I couldn’t live with green.
This. Every time I ever saw one of these sedans, from the moment they first came out, you could just tell that it really wanted to be purple. It was styled in an attempt to be one of the cool kids, something from the space age. It was 2001: A Space Odyssey for your driveway. Chrysler painted them all green gold brown and blue, but you just knew that they were never happy that way. They wanted to be purple, every single one. And you have found us one that has finally made it.
I hate to be the guy to throw cold water, but the exposed inner door looks more light green to me. But the lighting isn’t good and it is not always easy to distinguish light from dark in the Great Green Spectrum that was on Mopar color charts in those years.
The funny thing is that I would kind of like this before it got monkeyed with. When you can tell that a paint job is horrible from a picture, then it is really horrible. But put a 1966-70 model next to it (as was often the case when these were plentiful) and all of my enthusiasm would disappear.
Like you, I much prefer the 1968-70 generation.
The photo of the Satellite Brougham in the 1971 sales brochure highlights the problem of these cars (along with the Dodge Coronet of this generation).
Namely, even the upmarket versions still look plain (and the interior isn’t much better). A Torino of this vintage looks much more “upscale” – and a credible alternative to a full-size car – in its top-of-the-line trim versions. These Satellites somehow manage to look like taxicabs and police cars, even if a vinyl top and white wall tires are added.
It didn’t help that our neighbors had a 1973 Satellite, along with a 1970 Plymouth Duster. The Satellite was a light metallic orange color with a matching vinyl roof, while the Duster was painted a bland green color that looked like olive drab (it was an original factory color). They NEVER washed their vehicles, and within two years every exterior body panel except the roof had a major dent! (And I’m not talking about mere door dings.)
Our next-door neighbors had a 1971 Dodge Coronet. I remember riding in it and thinking how noisy it was – far noisier than our 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 Holiday sedan. It was as noisy as our 1973 AMC Gremlin!
I had a 1970 Challenger in plum crazy and the paint would just pop off in spots up to 4-5 inches round revealing primer. The primer spots never rusted so it was tougher than the paint.
This makes me too sad to say to much. I do love slotted mags, though. Yeah, That’s all I’ve got for today:(
This screams late 70s high school kid car to me.
I find my self confused about something. It’s the grille. Your Jefferson example has the ‘flattened’ grille, where it is more or less flush with the headlights. However the brochure cover (“Coming Through”) – 4th image down, depicts the sunken grille, where it is recessed from the headlights. I much prefer the recessed look, but what model or option combo made the difference as to which grille a car got? An image I got off CC a while back shows the recessed look. Any clues come to mind? Allpar.com was unrevealing in this mystery.
The recessed grille was on two-doors, regardless of trim level. The flattened grille was on four-doors, regardless of trim level.
Thank you that helps!
Keep in mind that the two doors had essentially totally different bodies. The whole front end was different, as was the rest of the body.
Thanks Paul
…which Plymouth played up:
Ah, and this ad also answers the question I had above about why there’s an optional microphone – it “adds yet another dimension to the [cassette] unit – you can talk to yourself.” Uh, okay….
Behold the Plum Crazy Charger. Kudo’s for FCA to continue to offer actual, real colors. (Mine is Tor-Red).
Nice SRT!
Kudos to FCA to continue to offer real colors AND offer them either no cost or CHEAP.
On the current Charger there are two extra cost paint options (all the others are gratis) and those two colors only cost about $100 extra.
Contrast that with GM who offers very few “free” colors and makes the extra cost colors $400 to $1000 extra.
I was pricing out an Acadia for the wife, and about dropped. White was the only standard color- everything else was $400+. Durango’s looking better all the time (to me). She has a strong preference for a Rav4.
Yes my wife bought a 1st gen Terrain as the 2nd gen models were being released and her’s is “Ebony Twilight” (but otherwise had all the options she wanted) – $400 extra for a paint color that I can’t tell isn’t just plain old black unless it is squeaky clean and the light is just right.
Mine is too! My Challenger, that is..
Am I a sophomore back in 1980 looking enviously at a senior’s car in the high school parking lot? Little did I know the car I’d soon have bestowed on me would both look better (’69 Camaro) and perform worse (tired 327 2Bbl & PG with highway gearing) than this maybe 245 hp Satellite.
I have a soft spot for this generation Satellite. In high school, for the last day of my driver training class, we got a new 1973 Satellite, 4 door of course, light blue with a white vinyl top, to replace the green LTD or maybe Galaxie or even Custom 500 that had served us well for the preceding few weeks. The Satellite was used for parallel parking practice, for which our teacher chose one of the steepest hills in San Francisco which still allowed parallel parking rather than nose-in.
My second experience was in 1976 or ‘77, when my college Manufacturing Engineering class took a field trip to a local manufacturer of large marine and stationary engines. Hard to believe in this day, but a few students were picked to drive state fleet cars filled with the rest of our classmates. Mine was a white Satellite, looked like it had been an unmarked police car in a prior life, and drove very nicely.
“It’s nice to close the loop.” … bumper. Hahahaha. Just had to say that.
Sorry.
Mmmmmm… slot mags. Polish them up, dude.
Although I wasn’t very fond of these cars when new, I have a present appreciation of them now that all I see are pickups and SUV/CUVs, painted black, white, silver or grey. I don’t think many new cars are even available in a shade of green, much less four (granted, that many green hues, and the browns and golds of the early seventies, were a bridge too far for me at the time). I thought that the 1968-’70 Chrysler B bodies, particularly the Dodge Charger, were a hard act to follow, and the fuselage Chargers with Brougham-happy triple opera windows in a half vinyl roof did nothing to convince me otherwise. I realize now how much these cars resemble the Australian Chryslers of the era, and that’s a good thing. I like the styling continuity from the U.S. to Australia. The basic design is sound, and has held up quite well. This purple predator is nothing if not a stand-out in a crowded parking lot, and it’s a breath of fresh air in that it lacks a lift-gate. Thanks for the write-up, Jason!
I saw that headline and thought it was going to be your second chance at classic car ownership after the Ford!
If it weren’t purple…
It would probably be a much worse color like F8 green or whatever it was back then. That’s better than the Avacado green my parents’ ’69 Caddy was, but it’s still a horrible color for a car. IMHO.
I like the mention of the last Plymouth Belvedere. It was the final remnant of the old Plymouth ‘hotel’ cars. Years ago, the Plymouth line consisted of three cars: Belvedere, Savoy, and Plaza, all supposedly named after famous hotels at the time. I don’t think the gimmick ever really caught on but, somehow, Belvedere clung to life for years after Savoy and Plaza passed on long before.
I think it had something to do with Chrysler maintaining the Belvidere, IL assembly plant which opened in 1965 and, to this day, continues building Jeep Cherokees.
Loved this! This Satellite is the “Grimace” of CC finds: big, goofy, (very) purple, and yet still somehow lovable.
I thought it was curious that Chrysler stylists gave the sedan a generic approximation of the Satellite coupe’s frontal styling, instead of just going for something completely different.
I also remember that cartoon featuring “Belvedere”, as well as “Mr. Belvedere”. I never watched the latter that often when I was in grade school, but it has now become something of a guilty pleasure when I need an ’80s fix on the retro sitcom cable channel.
Poor Plymouth.
“Rode Hard and Put Away Wet” very often.
Sometimes the right color and a decent set of wheels can turn a frog into a prince.
$5000 for a 318 sedan though?
That’s a bit optimistic.
I don’t especially have a thing for purple or violet, but I’ve always liked Chrysler code FC7, PPG code 2210, that is “In-Violet Poly” on a Plymouth or “Plum Crazy” on a Dodge. It’s difficult for me to imagine a Chrysler product this colour wouldn’t look good on. Spirit or Acclaim? Yup. LeBaron or Sebring convertible? Yup. Dart or Valiant or Baccaruda or Duster of just about any year? Duh. D-150? Sure. B-350? Why the hell not. Belvedere, Savoy, Gran Fury, Caravelle, Monaco, Polara, Lancer? Oh, mais oui. The hell with a pink Cadillac; I’d happily drive an FC7 Imperial. The paintwork would have to be quite a lot better than this what’s on the subject ’71, but still: cool!
…or an A108…
Eeegads! Talk about fallin’ down a rabbit hole.
On a quiet pre-holiday Friday in the office I just clicked that link to the purple van post, which prompted (teased) me to click a further link in the text, thus taking me Paul’s rather poetic musings on his time with an A-Series van.
I regret it no one whit.
I agree, I have no predisposition to the color violet but the Chrysler shade of it is the best shade it could possibly be. There’s nothing gaudy about it, it works just as well as a similarly dark metallic color like F8 green
I’m still failing to come up with a car that wouldn’t look good in it. Other Chrysler products (Caravan, Voyager, Prowler, Neon, Duckota), sure, but also my ’07 Accord, the neighbour’s Prius, my mother’s Subaru…
I like the way you think!
“Plum Crazy and In-Violet” look great on almost anything MOPAR.
I wonder about the guy that came up with the Statutory Grape nickname though.
Excellent write-up Jason! A very enjoyable read!
The 71’s of this model were probably the sexiest car Plymouth ever did. The four doors . . . . . . well . . . . . . I think they were trying to legitimize “boredom”. My assistant dean of students (and landlord) had one. No wonder he thought a 240Z with automatic was exciting.
The 71-74 Plymouth’s with the squared wheel openings are the most attractive of the sedan bodystyle, the Dodge’s and 75+ Plymouth’s round ones really made the design stodgy looking, not to mention the facelifts. Slot/kidney bean mags compliment 71 Plymouth’s wheel openings better than any other car you can put them on. I never noticed it before but I appreciate that the 71s use the cool looking 3 box side marker lights, unlike the cheap looking 72+ tacked on units. Dressing this up in muscle car carb works just fine, though I would have done a RoadRunner style strobe stripe over the roof rather than a bumblebee stripe, which is a Dodge thing only as far as I’m concerned.
However, I always found the 71 sedan/coupe differentiation strategy incredibly cynical in execution, they clearly dressed down the 4-door to make the 2-door look better, rather than made each attractive in their own ways. The grille mounted turn signals in particular bother the hell out of me, the bumper or the lower valence would have been better placement. The interiors are really cheap looking too. I know this is a criticism for 70-71+ Chrysler products across the board, but at least E body’s and rally gauge equipped b bodies LOOKED attractive, this dash is just so bleak.
Im a Mopar fan that would be content to never see another purple car again.
That said, purple was available on base Satellites as evidenced by this (overpriced) Sebring for sale. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Plymouth-Satellite-/142893889592?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137 I don’t ever remember seeing a factory purple sedan though
I like my ’71 Satellites in standard ’70s green but of course, Im biased 😉
This could quite possibly be a twin to how the featured one began life. I like it.
thanks Jason. Its one of the swingin’ supersexy 3020 Broughams you mentioned.
Thanks for another great write-up
Looking at the interior of the purple car hurts my eyes and makes me question the seller’s claim of 50K miles. 150K maybe
Purple paint on a fuselage 4 door with slot mags from the factory ? no problem.
Sweet VK Valiant!
In ’73 I started driving for Yellow Cab in Cincinnati, Ohio. Not yellow but painted sorta orange were a fleet of ’71 or so Satellites. 4-door, Slant 6, TorqueFlites, with vinyl seats of course. No a/c. Indestructible!