we should all have a minute of silence to note the loss of chryslers best known spokesperson

http://www.youtube...atch?v=vIL3fbGbU2o

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! we should all have a minute of silence to note the loss of chryslers best known spokesperson http://www.youtube...atch?v=vIL3fbGbU2o

no one could sell rich corinthian leather like Khan.

and to think, corinthian leather was a made up type by chrysler!

Hes off to a fantasy island of his own

7 corinthians gave their lives to upholster this Cordoba!

hah... the "small" Chrysler. I could fit a Tercel in the trunk.

Posted by bandi hah... the "small" Chrysler. I could fit a Tercel in the trunk.

and still have room for a minibar.

i had a ford salesman in the 80s tell my father "chrysler and the ricardo montalban styling" i have to agree, ever been in a late 80s fifth avenue? its like driving a coffin!

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! i had a ford salesman in the 80s tell my father "chrysler and the ricardo montalban styling" i have to agree, ever been in a late 80s fifth avenue? its like driving a coffin!

Oh god yes! My grandmother had a 1988 Fifth Avenue...she loved it because it looked like a inside of a church according to her! (she works in a church so that might explain it).

I always thought the Ford Taurus Station Wagon from 1993-ish with the wood paneling option was more like a coffin.

the taurus i will agree but the fifth avenue has that interior bunting that really seems like a coffin, sad thing is they have a good motor and police car heritage yet no pickup

My first driving experience was in an 1985 or so Dodge Diplomat, and I always described it as feeling like you were driving a shipping container.

It may have just felt so big and boxy because I was 13 or 14 at the time though.

i had an 86 Dodge 600 coupe shortly after I moved back from tennessee. I paid $300 for it with 66,000 miles on the odometer. I felt like it was trying to be a Monte Carlo and failing miserably. It was such an unhappy little car that you had to love the little shit. It was like an ugly puppy... Even the interior was trying to be Cadillac and ended up being cheap funeral parlor.

Wow, I thought the steering wheel in my '84 Tercel was bad.

Same wheel as my '86 Daytona had! Gotta love Chrysler burgundy interiors.

and the overstuffed upolstery, those cars, from the K cars to the magicwagons all felt like you were in someones cheap lazy boy

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! and the overstuffed upolstery, those cars, from the K cars to the magicwagons all felt like you were in someones cheap lazy boy

as gaudy as the interior was... it was comfy to drive.

come on, i always got a sore back from those cars, really compare the k car to the j body, the difference was night and day

pre-2000 J-bodies had awesome seats.
after 2000, suck city. GM fooled with the mounts putting them too far forward, too high and overstuffing them. The effect was a claustrophobic stuffing-you-into-the-windshield and dashboard effect.

the best seats i ever had were in my 83 j2000 and my 92 sunbird (they were identical. my 01 sunfire the seat is too high, especially with the power sunroof

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! the best seats i ever had were in my 83 j2000 and my 92 sunbird (they were identical. my 01 sunfire the seat is too high, especially with the power sunroof

what's funny is the Lumina and Monte Carlo are the same car, however, the seat placement in the Monte Carlo is different. Even with the power seat, you sit a little lower and have more leg room.

worst seats i can remember were in my buddys buick century, it was available with a front bench seat, seat backs in those cars used to collapse all the time