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Post by ant7377 Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:41 pm

Interesting video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wrdi4Qpbw
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Post by 77mali Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:01 pm

Well...here we are loving those cars Iacocca called "crap"...flaws & all...burned out or drunk @$$ assembly line workers & corporate mismanagement...I'll still take my G3 Chevy over the Japanese cars of the day.Very Happy 
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Post by ant7377 Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:30 pm

Yeah,I hear ya. Take a look at how many 77 Honda's are out there. Iacocca is the guy that gave us the K car, lots of those still around too.
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Post by ant7377 Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:30 pm

Watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1HLvHtCXc
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Post by pila Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:44 am

He was a cool dude when it came to getting Chrysler going etc, but the K car was a real piece of $hit. We had a company car that was a K car, so it's not just my opinion about them. That engine ate camshafts also, after about 40 K miles. Consumer Reports gave them a good write up, when they were new, but that was before any mileage on them.
Calling our cars crap tells me that they were just trying hard to sell their junk.

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Post by Sleddogg Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:48 am

Kind of a prophetic video, that second one, especially since it was produced by Pontiac.  Just a few years later they (along with Buick and Oldsmobile) were swallowed up into the "corporate" generic GM business model.  The final scene...unceremoniously  discarded by the brass when things got tough.  *sigh*
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Post by ant7377 Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:09 am

I remember our neighbor trading in her mint 70 Monte Carlo for a K car,awful.
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Post by 77mali Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:56 am

ant7377 wrote:I remember our neighbor trading in her mint 70 Monte Carlo for a K car,awful.


YUCK.
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Post by Sinister Sat Aug 03, 2013 1:36 am

Thanks Nadar we now have safe cars at $40,000.000.
Millions of Americans out of work and a stale economy...
Thank God for safety!donotcare 
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Post by ant7377 Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:22 am

Sinister wrote:Thanks Nadar  we now have safe cars at $40,000.000.
Millions of Americans out of work and a stale economy...  
Thank God for safety!donotcare 

Yup, thats right. I agree.
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Post by dynchel Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:20 am

Sinister wrote:Thanks Nadar  we now have safe cars at $40,000.000.
Millions of Americans out of work and a stale economy...  
Thank God for safety!donotcare 
And you forgot, the average person can't fix their car anymore....if it dosent start call a tow truck, its more than likely not a mechanical problem you can see to fix.Mad
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Post by 77mali Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:33 am

Not only that but if you do happen to know what the problem is & can fix it you have to move 10 things out of the way in order to get to it. Rolling Eyes 

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Post by magic marouke Wed Aug 07, 2013 4:55 pm

What do you mean by a K car ?
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Post by thatfnthing Wed Aug 07, 2013 5:01 pm

magic marouke wrote:What do you mean by a K car ?
American cars in the 70's Kcar10

Or, if you really make the neighbors jealous:

American cars in the 70's Kcarra10
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Post by 77mali Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:18 pm

thatfnthing wrote:
magic marouke wrote:What do you mean by a K car ?
American cars in the 70's Kcar10

Or, if you really make the neighbors jealous:

American cars in the 70's Kcarra10


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....MY EYES!!!.....WHY?!!
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Post by thatfnthing Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:44 pm

I was not about to deny anyone who had not seen one the joy of the K car in all its glory.  If he hadn't gotten to suffer through them in real life, he can at least sympathize with those of us who had. Smile

Although I think I just got banned from Google image search.
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Post by dynchel Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:50 pm

I also like how Chrysler chose to put some of its most memorable model names on them...Charger & Daytona.  It always makes me laugh when someone says the new chargers aren't "real" chargers, they choose to forget those turds existed.
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Post by 77mali Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:29 pm

'Scuse me...goin' cruisin'...in my K car.

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Post by dynchel Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:35 pm

Lol. My buddy had a 4 door '81 Aries K in high school. He didn't think it was lame(!)
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Post by 77mali Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:47 pm

I had my 77 Cutty back then...it's nick name was "the magnet".  If that car could talk...Very Happy
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Post by ant7377 Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:21 pm

That pic of the one with the wood on it reminded me of my girlfriend in HS Lebaron wagon with that wallpaper all over it. Awful.
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Post by dragons_lair59 Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:26 am

We can't forget the biggest epic fail in design and name the dodge daytona charger aka k car in a prom dress or the omni
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Post by Limey SE Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:05 am

OK have to stop ya there Sam Dodge Daytona Turbo 2.2 with a grab and go stick was a formidable Car on the track with very few mods, My buddies 2.2 turbo went best at 10.56

this is Just like his But Black

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Post by Limey SE Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:06 am

and autocross very serious competator if set up correctly
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Post by dragons_lair59 Thu Aug 08, 2013 3:27 am

But the majority were not turbos and were pos' s the same problematic 2.2 was in the k cars and omni's known for eating cams, blown head gaskets, and cracked heads
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