CC reader Dan Minick sent me this, which is from an expired for sale listing at Hemmings. So this is the only shot available, but maybe that’s just as well. What can I say, other than someone has a lively imagination and/or a good sense of humor. Maybe you can add something more cogent. To the comments, not the car; that’s impossible now.
My CC on a stock 1985 Chrysler Limousine is here.
David Saunders, here is your entry for next year’s Great Beater Challenge. At least if it is priced where it ought to be.
I didn’t think it was possible to do anything to these that would make them look worse than when they rolled out of the dealership. I was wrong.
Actually, I think the looks have been improved!
That round thing they glued on the front fender, looks like the air intake on the side of the older Ford L9000 trucks,.They where called the Louisville Line. Couldn’t pull up a pic. This beasty looks like a JCWhitney catalouge threw up on it, and most of it stuck. 🙂
I squint and see the abandoned attempt at fender-mounted spares like from the 1920s.
I imagine the creator looking at it and thinking “I need more spare tires!”
I thought the worst “limo” on CC was this one from a few years ago:
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cohort-outtake-yes-cloning-this-would-be-treason/
After seeing this Chrysler, I’m not so sure anymore.
The Chrysler is slightly worse in my book, because it was a factory model.
?
When the factory that built these limos switched to building tanks:
A few, bright-yellow, ‘Mr. Yuck’ stickers would add some color!
Happy Motoring, Mark
The sidemount mini-spare tire is…interesting. And not one, but TWO continental kits!
At least it has the correct number of exhaust tubes coming from the engine, although in the wrong positions.
Love how they recycled the fender vent, by moving it to the front door.
That trunk lid is a veritable hommage à Virgil Exner!
Possibly a new lemony snickett movie? This reminded me of an editorial from Andy Rooney when Chrysler started building tanks for so many million apiece. He had an Idea. This was when full sized Imperials were around. He stated “I have a better idea, equip 20,000 Imperials with machine guns. which would you be more afraid of, one tank. Or 20,000 Imperials with machine guns?
My eyes! My poor eyes!
There have been numerous postings on CC over the years that I wish I could “un-see”! This, unfortunately, is one of them.
Shouldn’t there have been a warning in the title to put on some sort of protective eyewear, like maybe solar eclipse glasses, or those really dark lenses you get from your eye doctor?
Nah, I’ve actually seen worse. Many years ago driving through Atlanta on I-75 I actually saw a ride far worse. The Man had “ground effects” made from Aluminum siding,, cut apparently with tin snips, and attached to the really beat up 80’s Buick, with..wait for it…Wire ties! The stunning ground effects flapped like a lame pigeon trying to take off. This was years before camera phones, and I was laughing too hard to take a regular pic with a camera.
But is it TURBO?!?!?!?
Based on the side pipes, it’s the rare V4 turbo.
This, apparently, is the interior. Subtle, compared to the outside. I think the asking price was something like $7,200.
Close-up of the front end:
I’m actually disappointed by the lack of steer horns on the hood.
$7200???
At $2700, I’d be tempted, just out of sheet weirdness.
$27.00? maybe.
I’m with principaldan: should have steer horns for that price.
$7200? To borrow a phrase from another car site, crack pipe.
I’m reminded of the Dolly Parton comment she made about herself, ” Do you realize how much money it costs to look this cheap?”
Wouldn’t take much more to be a good art car.
And I Thought GALANT Limos That We Used To Get Here Are Ugly.This One Is Fugly
Whoever did this threw the whole accessory catalogue at it while blindfolded and then checked to see where it landed. Michael Jackson used to have his children’s faces covered when he brought them out in public; the driver of this vehicle should follow his lead!
I always said there was only one vehicle that was so ugly in my eyes that I would walk first before owning one. An Aztek.
Now there are two.
Gaylords, ’61 Plymouth front ends, and every other car I thought was ugly just became beauty queens.
“Mr Iacocca, your personal limo is waiting outside…”
As he once said’… “give ’em Leather, Give ’em Opera Lights!”
I can just see 50 clowns piling out of this thing at a clown funeral.
Yeah, but what if they all look like..”.IT”??..YIKES!!!
…after dropping by ‘Circus Liquor’.
That *this* even exists! ??
Needs garden hoses-the side-mounted “rims” look like reels. It’s the world’s worst fire chief car, then…
I do have small collection of classic American cars but never was Chrysler fan. Just last year I did buy All original 14600 miles 1980 R body Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue cream/ beige combo. 360V8 2B Leather , power front seats , power windows , Factory AC Factory , AM/FM radio . As I understood theses Downsized R body chryslers are essentially modified version of earlier Chrysler B bodies. You dont see much of them for sale or around anymore for sure. To my surprise its Not bad at all.
One thing the owner has done right, he’s trying to unload it.
Thereby breaking the family tradition of passing it down.
I think there need to be ocean liner funnels on the roof. I think two would do nicely.
What is really needed is blackout windows to shield the occupants from the hordes who are clamouring to buy this automotive wonder!
I love that it sports duel sidemount spares (with no tires) as well a trunk mounted toilet seat spare as well as a Continental spare on the back. The real spare is probably in the trunk. This would be an easy car to find in the Walmart parking lot at the beginning of the month.
With customization by Homer Simpson.
It might be fun to own one of these K-car limos. But not this particular one! Dang, that’s ugly!
My eyes, OMG that hurts.
Horrible car. My mother had one for a while. I never got a straight answer from my parents about why they bought it. I think the whole thing was an embarassment.
That said, seven people (four not yet teenagers) could travel in one, somewhat cozily.
Build quality was pretty horrific. I recall reaching out to touch either the radio volume knob (on the front radio, rather than the back one) or perhaps the heater control, and getting a shock that coincided with the memory on the radio and the archaic trip computer being reset. (For some reason, my mother bitched at me rather than the person who decided to buy that… thing.)
There were some good K-cars. My mother’s was not one of them.
That thing has been for sale, on and off, for a long time.
It’s about time someone spoofed Chrysler for trying to gussy up the plain Jane K-cars into something they were not.
We justifiably blast GM for what they tried to market as quality and luxury in the 80s, when Chrysler was probably even more crass about it.
Bill Shields,there are a half dozen or so cars that I can think of,that I would
only drive with a bag on my head I have had some crummy cars but I
don’t think any of them have been drop dead make you retch ugly
This has been posted on craigslist chicago for years. Referred to as Penny the talking car.
http://jalopnik.com/experiment-to-see-if-everything-in-a-jc-whitney-catalog-1760648676
Currently down to $4900:
https://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/cto/d/chrysler-executive-limousine/6296225852.html
Dude. What the hell is the owner trying to say? That ad is really badly written
This is one of those times that I’m reminded that businesses often do not make smart decisions, and in fact make some really inexplicably stupid ones! (I’m referring to the building/marketing of these ‘limos’ in the 1st place….I’m also thinking “Pontiac Aztek!”)
I found this on my local craigslist, but im not sure why its there
https://cleveland.craigslist.org/cto/d/1985-chrysler-executive-limo/6296224273.html
Its got all the images though
Is it possible to UNSEE this? Looks like I`m gonna have a nightmare tonight.
It’s Lee Iacocca’s personal, 90 horsepower, mobile outhouse.
My first reaction was a demented cross between a “pimp mobile” and “Back to the Future” car?
Would fit right at home in Paul’s town. LOL.
Man, that’s ugly! About as ugly as the Chrysler 300 of the last few years.
$500?? tour lemoans