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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! We had as close to a tie as you're going to see in the Hell Garage, last time around, with the '77 911 Turbo just barely beating the '78 911 Turbo in the poll. Now it's time to return to some mano-a-mano PCH Superpower action, and not only that- it's time to look at crazy orphan cars from across the ocean, cars that will make passersby shun you like the freak you are admire your rebellious spirit. France versus Britain! Simca versus Humber! You got your Reliants and your Lloyds, but when you're talking about weird British marques that Americans can't identify… well, it's tough to beat a Humber. You get your Rootes Group-ish Chrysler-influenced styling, Lucas Electrics, and ahead-of-its-time technology (well, not really, unless the time is being set in Detroit) with the Magnificent Humber Sceptre ! Just look at that fine hunk...
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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! The air-conditioned Renault 12 won handily over the Peugeot 504 in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll . We're going to take a break from PCH Superpowers- don't worry, you'll see more of France, Britain, and Italy soon enough- and head on back to Detroit. Well, Detroit and Kenosha, because we're going to look at a pair of cars that definitely tempt me into making a soul-for-pink-slip deal. Yes, sick and wrong as it may be, my favorite cars from the Golden Age Of The Musclecar are the '69 AMC SC/Rambler and the '70 Chrysler 300 Hurst, which means I've been keeping an eye open for deals… and they're out there! AMC already had the AMX in 1969, and a fine car it was. But back then, real musclecars were based on midsize or compact sedans, and they had back seats and proper trunks; the two-seater AMX did fine on the race track...
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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time we screeched up the corroded roll-up door of the Hell Garage and crawled inside, we saw the pair of Fiat 1200 Spiders stomp all over the Fiat 124 Coupe . We still love Italian cars, of course, and we don't want to leave Italian Hell yet… so, after all the discussion about today's Nice Price Or Crack Pipe $12,500 Chryslerati , we pretty much had no choice but to go with a Detroit-Italian matchup today. Yeah, you know what's coming: TC versus Allanté! The Cadillac Allanté was status-symbol priced ($54,000, or 87 grand today), had a Pininfarina-built body, and V8 power, yet was a red-ink-hemorrhaging financial disaster for The General? How could that be? Well, it looked great, but the (non-Northstar) V8 was a dud and it was driving the wrong wheels, plus the average age of Cadillac buyers back then was approximately 106. You know what we...
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Murliee Martin had to leave early to go pick up a guitar player down at the crossroads, so he asked me to step in and fill his evil shoes. And it's quite apropos as a certain friend of Jalopnik just referred to me as, "That dark spirit Jonny Lieberman...
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Looks like Canada beats Italy in yesterday's Project Car Hell poll , though not by what we'd call a decisive margin. But that was yesterday, with yesterday's priorities; today we're going to honor Jalopnik Pimp Week by posing a Pimpmobile Dilemma for...
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