Posted on 06/27/2024 11:12:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
It used to be mine too. 🙂👍
I picked mine up in 2018 for $8k. 35k miles on it at the time. Almost at 90k now.
My list:
Mercury Marauder
Oldsmobile Rocket
Plymouth Valiant
Imperial
Dodge LaFemme
International Harvester Scout
Buick Electra 225
You could still sell it for what you bought it for.................
I remember my dad coming back from Korea et al afterwards and he bought this! a two-tone grey/pink pushbutton trans Desoto. It was a real head turner.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.a1611559e5afe096a0f24204d566b305?rik=9ejqpLEcic0%2bcA&pid=ImgRaw&r=0
Funny thing ... I almost turned a profit just a few months after I bought it. Got hammered by a hail storm. Poor thing looked like a golf ball. Insurance offered almost 9k if I surrendered the car. I took the 6,500 and repaired/upgraded it. I could probably get 10k for it now.
You might have a tougher road to hoe than just reviving a name, considering three of the brands you listed (four if you consider Imperial as a brand) are defunct (Mercury, Oldsmobile, Plymouth). I’m leaving IH off the list with Rio’s post about VW bringing back the Scout.
I would settle for old style black bumpers that were able to be hit without having to repaint. I have had both front and rear bumpers on my ‘03 Civic repainted due to parking lot scrapes that would have been inconsequential with real bumpers. What was rather surprising is that both of the people responsible for the damage were honest enough to leave notes. That was nearly 20 years ago in Seattle. I doubt that would happen today, given the schiffhole Seattle has become.
We had an International Harvester Scout Aristocrat.
It should have been named the IH - POS
It was truly horrible.
Well, Chrysler has a history of rebadging model names (Neon, Imperial, Voyager,) My trillionaire idea would be to start a new company called Orphan motors, With different models under appropriate names. One line would be the “Retro” line, featuring the new 2025 Retro Rocket.
The streets of Cody Wyoming are littered with very old IH Scouts. Maybe they were the only 4x4 dealer back in the day.
Yes, but not a sports car. A luxo barge. Still, the cars were still beautiful back then. Not like the week old bars of soap we see today.
After that, I had to drive my dog-eared 58 Chevy on dates. My social life took a nose-dive back to normal.
Normal (when it comes to social life for a 16 year old boy) ain't so good.;-)
Yeah, they forgot the GTO, the scumbaġs.
Ford re-imaged the Mustang. It looked like a mini suv and computer mouse.
How about Edsel? Pinto? 🤣🤣🤣
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