Hope for Chrysler?
 

Not the car, that's for sure - the 2002 PT Cruiser my s.o. HAD to have.

But the customer service. I emailed Chrysler asking for a breakdown of the VIN.

An hour later, I got a call. Chrysler let me know that the VIN breakdown AND the build sheet were waiting in my inbox, and asked if I had any other questions.

Impressive.

Pete

By Gawd, if them Mopars wuz good enuff fer Richard Petty, they's damn well good enuff fer me!!!

Chas

I had a '93 Concorde, w/the 3.5 engine. VERY nice car, except for a design flaw in the way the door frame & the weatherstripping/window channel fit together...Just on SOME '93s... Never really fit quite right...But otherwise, it ran like a Scalded Dawg, & gave excellent service.

Well if I had a 1959 Imperial I'd be a happy camper.

Heck I'd 'settle' for a 66 New Yorker. Was that a big block I just heard? :D

But the PT...

My take, it should be called the PoC.Yes it needs control arm bushings. Yes it needs the strange rear suspension bushings. Yes it has the bumper discolorations from the factory. Yes it has the rubber band drivetrain.

But she likes it a lot. I'd better get a lift in the garage.

Pete

A 1959 Imperial Southampton...Oh, Man...

That is a beauty!

Pete

To the PT Cruiser say hello to Neon, just a different skin.

That series of Imperials were the first series-production cars, IIRC, to feature curved side glass...Seems like I remember something about it being difficult/expensive to produce, the next cars to use it were the T-Birds & Lincolns in '61.

Another thing that curved side windows did was make the doors very thick. You got a wide car outside but not so wide inside.

If my '09 Challenger R/T is any indication-----Yeah, Chrysler just might survive.

Dave

And 09 Challenger R/T?

Kewl. What's it got for a mill?

Personally, I'm scared to death of those little go fast sporty cars. 1st car I ever lost complete control of and wound up swapping ends with was a '67 Cuda. And I had a Camaro that would get away from you if you didn't pay CLOSE attention.

Best handling car I ever had was a '65 Skylark. I could pop that thing sideways, go through a 45 MPH corner doing 90, leave four black marks, stay in my lane, and straighten it back out so smooth that no one spilled a drop of their beer. But I drove like that everywhere I went for years. I should have been dead 40 yrs ago.

And believe it or not, people would ride with me more than once.

Have fun with your toy,

Chas

5.7 liter (345 cu.in.) Hemi, 370 horsepower. She WILL get up and strut. 0-60 is somewhere below 6 seconds.:D Handling is surprisingly good for such a big car, but not quite as tight as the '05 Mustang I had.

I took her out cruisin' last night, down at the oceanfront all shined up and pretty. She was turnin' heads everywhere we went.

Love that car.

Dave

P.s. You may have thought my username is about my politics. It's not. That's what I call my Challenger. She's "Deepwater Blue".

370 HP hemi ought to move out.

Only hemi I was ever around was in my buddy's '53 Desoto. Someone had converted it from a 6V positive ground system into a 12V negative ground system by installing a 12V battery hooked up backwards in it.

It had an electric fuel pump and a bad flooding problem. While I was testing it to see if I had the flooding problem fixed, the battery exploded like a stick of dynamite. The case was completely gone and the posts were hanging from the cables.

I finally got it fixed and back on the road. Talk about a learning experience. Kind of an interesting old tub, actually had a factory correct dual point distributor.

Chas