the last one I drove in didn't even have a radio in it - I'm not even sure a radio CAME in the base model car.
Oh, god. It's that awkward thing between the Omni and the Neon. I'd forgotten that era existed they were so loathsome. That awkward period between when everything was a K-car and when everything was a Mitsubishi. Nobody bought those - if you had to have a chrysler product at the time it was either a truck, a Ram Charger or a Daytona/Laser. All of which were terrible, but not as terrible as the Shadow/Sundance, which literally never made it onto the road in most places. I remember the Shelby CSX as being the indicator that Caroll Shelby was a money-grubbing whore because what the actual fuck.n 1966, Shelby created a special line of Shelby Mustangs for the Hertz car rental company. Shelby repeated this method in 1988 with the creation of the CSX-T for the Thrifty rental company. The CSX-T was only sold to Thrifty. All 1,001 units produced were white with grey and blue trim.
He was Iacocca's friend, who was head of Chrysler at the time. I'm sure he was trying to do him a solid. You know, at the risk of his own reputation. I can understand actually overseeing performance versions of vehicles, but letting your name be attached to cars you don't have anything to do with just sounds crazy. I remember the Shelby CSX as being the indicator that Caroll Shelby was a money-grubbing whore because what the actual fuck.
I love that there are cars that were SO BAD that you have some sort of trauma-related memory blank. Another friend of mine had a Dodge Aries wagon: by the time it died you had to enter through the passenger side door because the driver door's lock was fucked, it started with a screwdriver, and didn't put on the parking brake DEAR GOD DO NOT USE THE PARKING BRAKe because if you did it would refuse to un-parking brake. Which someone inevitably did, at which point it stayed in one spot for 3 months until it was set on fire by an ex-girlfriend (not that we could prove she did it). my friend had a new-to-them car by that point, so we lamented the loss of the Sleater Kinney, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Relient K albums (the irony of the Relient K album was not lost on me) and moved on. RIP dodge aries.