I have a fifth avenue now, junk lean burn and spark control

I got good memories of this lineup too. Learned to drive a stick in a brought home before they were on sale Omni[[Dad worked at Chrysler]. Took my last with-the-family vacation driving from Det to Tampa in a Aries Wagon with 6 people{!} Bought and ordered my first new car, an 81 024 black w/sunroof. Brother had a beautiful 2 tone Challenger. Always borrowed my Dad's 84 E-Class for concerts with friends. And his Lancer ES. Best friend HAD to have a convertible, so a Dodge 400 ES got a lot of 420 smell in it{!} Got a BIG ticket racing my buddy's Spirit R/T with my Shelby Charger. By the end of the 80's our family had probably 10 more K ish cars between us. My Shadow ES, Sundance for my little sister, Daytona Turbo Z and a Lebaron Coupe that brother had. My mom had a Dynasty LE that became the concert car[went to Blonde Ambition in that]and my Dad switched to Dakotas after we moved out of the nest, using it to move apartments all the time. Still a MOPAR and hopefully always will be. One day a 72 Roadrunner or a Cordoba will be in my garage...

Wiibaron I vote you for the Cordoba - that rich corinthian leather

lilredexptsc those and mini vans were all they could make then in those days

Yes! I had an 85 5th ave with pillow top leather seats. Had a 318 with the 3 speed torqueflite. That car was a tank

Gary Ruth I learned how to drive on the same car. I used to lock the power windows and gas my friends on the way home from school.

Yup

No not at all

Not too much in the 1990s it was mercedes pustlhing for that merger

Chrysler did more with less! 💪

@@BeingMe23 Including phasing out the Dodge big-block V-8s formerly made at their Trenton Assembly plant in favor of the 2.2L and 2.5L four-cylinders.

Why?

Yeah, why?

I luv it lol

That was 1983 bro

The '83 Chrysler lineup was spectacularly bad.

Also, look alike SUVS, crossovers and trucks. There's barely a difference between any of them.

@@dadgarage7966 it was also relatively good amazingly, seems impossible but it was actually worlds ahead of chevy and ford crap and not way worse than honda and toyota of the time

Yeah. Our ‘81 Horizon had fuel pump issues. They always tended to fail while waiting at traffic lights.....or in heavy rush hour traffic...... good times.

People always jump on the comments section and rave about how great these cars were, too. "All cars have problems", they'll say as if these things were even close to Honda or Toyota at the time.

Bah hahahahaaaa. Also true

@@carryfreak5059 Vapor lock or fuel pump failure requiring replacement? Just curious. Was it mechanical or electrical?

@@erickrobertson7089 fuel pump

Wow!

A door is in fact, a door. Not a jar.

I love that boxy luxury look too! Which is why I still drive my 1987 5th Avenue. It is aesthetically falling apart now, but I still love it and hope it will outlive me...

It was digitized speech so they would not need a voice synthesizer in the car. They digitized it and compressed it to save space so they could get all that information in the car. They lacked the memory to add other languages, so you had to pick the one you wanted when you bought the car.

Mmmmm-it's coming right for us.

I want that in my car

Sounds like a speak n spell

That was a nice car

I thought I was the only one who could see “cues” and “inspiration” from Mercedes-Benz here and there in the K cars !

We used to have a 1976 Chrysler Cordoba. It was so luxurious.

I guess you both got a deal lol!

If you find an Imperial, Get a Cordoba/Mirada/Fifth Avenue drive train to put in it. The Imperial was LOADED with computerized gear, EARLY 80s computerized gear! Low production means those components are not an easy find.

The New Yorkers are the easiest talkies to find

@@jamesslick4790 or drop an old 440 V-8i in it.

@@barnabyjones6995 Yeah, I guess one COULD put a B.B. in an M body too!, My original post was mainly a simple "drag and drop" thing, But hey, Any mod that keeps these fairly rare Imps afloat, I not gonna complain! 👍😊

My first car was a Dodge 600 in shit brown lol. Bought it off my dad after he bought it used. It was 11 years old when I sold it. Great first car, but as a teen… not a chick magnet. 🤪 Funny story, as it had the shifter in the center console my buddy thought it was fun to put it in neutral when I stopped at a light. Ha ha! Watched him close after a couple times lol.

Challenger ?

What a sloppy piece of FWD crap!

El “Magnum” turbo era la sensación! Jajaja. Aunque fuera la misma caja de zapatos que el Dart K pero sabían vender la idea de que era lo máximo. Me gustaban esos coches. Aunque se notaba que era la copia más barata de lo que según ellos copiaban a Mercedes.

DaleDenton69 had 2 (turismo and Daytona) and neither one had a speck of rust on them even after 16 years of pa winters.

No worst than gm and Ford.

Better ask if they have anything without electrical problems.

It's the salt that ruins metal.

Do you have anything that actually works?

The darkest times are right now because everything is made in China.

How about all the recalls in recent years ?

It's a miracle Chrysler even survived the dark ages from 1974 to 1990. Ford and GM were barely hanging on at times and they were building better cars than Chrysler.

@@scdevon The minivan saved them

The stuff now is nowhere near as bad as 73-88. Those cars were awful in every way.

I agree. Love the imperial. My first one I owned was identical to the car shown here

They should have issued a 5.9L 360 CID V-8 exclusively for the Imperial from 1981-1983. It probably would have sold better.

Emerson Collie Yep. Every surviving K car I've seen has the Mopar motor, not the Mitsubishi. So much for "Superior Japanese" quality!👍

Yep, and you know what's pathetic? Many people in this comment section, will say that "Wapanese r bettah deez carz sux lol" Yeah,..

The problem is where you get your Japanese car stuff. While Mitsubishi sucked, Nissan/Datsun was doing well.

Emerson Collie Had the 2.6L Mitsi in an 86 Voyager. Other than needing a new timing chain (chain, not belt) never gave any real trouble. Ran rich when cold (dark smoke) and was slow revving (very slow revving after 140k or so) but it and the tranny both behaved. AC crapped out and headliner was shit.

Nope, the Ks were very reliable and hard to kill. Japanese cars of the era tended to rust away to nothing within a few years, whereas you still often see 2.2 and 2.5L K-bodies to this very day.

I had that exact charger

We can thank Teleprompter Head for that (Obama).

Production totals for 1983: Chrysler Cordoba: 13,471 Dodge Mirada: 5,597 The 1983 Mirada CMX would be totally collectible these days!

​@@ClassicTVMan1981Xit is

Adam - $1,400 to rebuild or replace a (probably) 904, or (maybe) 727? That seems high...

Our 81 Horizon with the 2.2 ran great. It wasn’t meant to be a heavy hauler.

Why?

No they weren't. Most of these cars came standard with one. Even Minivans had them at first. Yep that rubber folded boot was in millions of these cars...

Yeah, I think it looks really cheap. Looks like the gearshift got jammed through an accordion

I about had a hear attack after seeing that, I was laughing so hard.

@@grabber_blu_angel I'm glad you got a laugh out of my joke. The shift boot just looked like that to me

It was tough and that’s the way it was..

I still drive my 1987 Fifth Avenue and love it too...

Best enjoyed through the Chrysler Imperial 's audio system!

😔

Yep. I had a 1984 Dodge Aries wagon. Could even change the timing belt out right in the drive way without even jacking up the car.

@japanwatchconnection if i could go back i def would have, i was young and the price was right but big mistake

I always thought he sounded like a very old cigarette smoker.

Reminds me of my Texas Instruments Speak & Spell I had when I was a kid.

More like high on dope.. Oh I forget, dope is sacred.

Too bad wire wheels are history now. Personally I love them. Total class

What are you on about? The fastest Diplomats had a 0-60 time around 12-13 seconds with a top speed of 121. In comparison: Corvette: 0-60: around 7 seconds, top speed of 150mph, base model 911: 6.1s and 152mph.

There was no 1983 Corvette, so I don't know what you are talking about. However you are right, I was looking at theoretical specs, official top speed is 140mph for '84, 0-60: 7.0 secs. On the other side, the Porsche specs are right. Any 930 911 (even from 1975) could do 150. '83 and '84 930s could do above 170mph.

Right, the 1984 Corvette went on sale in March 1983!

The Charger Turbos (especially the Shelby Charger) were faster and handled better than the old iron Hemi chargers of yore. They smoked the Camaros and Mustangs of the era as well.

The turbo 2.2L was available for these starting in 1984, but that was also the last year for the E-Class sedan since buyers balked at the very sight of a lower-cost Chrysler-brand sedan; it was then replaced here for '85 by the formerly Canada-only Plymouth Caravelle, though just the sedan made it over here but not the coupe version since we already had the Chrysler LeBaron and Dodge 600 coupes.

Actually the 318 was the only passenger car Chrysler V8 left starting with 1982. But yes, guess he was thinking of the wrong automaker.

1981, actually; 1980 was the last year for the 5.9 non-Magnum V8 in anything but the Dodge trucks!

The Slant Six was standard through 1983, the 318 2bbl optional. In 1984, the 318 2bbl was standard across the board. The 4bbl ELE Police 318 was not available on retail cars. The E58 360 V8 was only available in 1980 on certain Chrysler Cordoba and Dodge Mirada cars. It was not available on any sedan, retail or fleet, nor was it available from the factory after 1980.

DaleDenton69 my turismo was rust free when I owned it 16 years after it was built and after 16 years of pa winters. Guess I shouldn’t of neutral dropped the auto trans into oblivion and junked it.

Actually K cars aren't all that rust prone compared to any other car, In fact vastly superior in rust resistance versus most 1980s Japanese cars.

Faux Craig Singhaus sad but true😂

I laugh at this every time I read it

James Slick I would agree I lived with them and noticed it.

Your lucky.i want a Chrysler fifth Avenue

@@calebproductions5970 You can't have mine that I've had since 1987 and I love this car...

@japanwatchconnection driving anything old makes me feel better driving some modern over computerized plastic bubble would depress me😂😂😂

back then it was

@@retrofirebirdgt5302 What is so brag-worthy about front wheel drive? It is garbage.

Right idea, wrong name. The Challenger name was almost tarnished by that fiasco. Thankfully that won't happen again.

It doesn't recognize your voice, it just makes a voice instead of an alarm when something goes wrong. Getting good voice recognition technology would take several years.

Capn Autismo As a American, I object lol most of these are non existent here. I see more foreign cars from the era on the road than these turds