Posted on 01/16/2020 12:19:08 PM PST by C19fan
In a 1982 commercial promoting the LeBaron, Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca famously declared, "If you can find a better car, buy it." A big boast, to be sure, but Iacocca had a lot to be proud of. Cars riding on its front-drive K-platform—like the LeBaron—saved Chrysler from death, helped the company pay back a government bailout in short order, and made a celebrity out of Iacocca. Now, keep all of this in mind when you consider this car here.
It's Iacocca's personal 1986 LeBaron Town & Country convertible, and it will be auctioned by Bonhams in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Thursday, January 16. If you can find a better car, buy it.
(Excerpt) Read more at caranddriver.com ...
There were a lot of bad cars built in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Nice!!! I still have and drive my 1992 Chrysler LeBaron convertible and I still love it!!
I had a 1983 LeBaron convertible too and it was a great little car.
the K-car. A real piece of sh*t. Any way you slice it.
There are certain makes of car from certain eras upon which blackwall tires do not belong, and this is one of them. What, does somebody think they’re making this car look sporty by avoiding the standard whitewall tires? That’s just silly. Do it right, era appropriate.
The center cap is missing off of the left rear wire wheel cover also.
I’d kinda forgotten how fugly many cars were back then...
My high school friend had a Ford Pinto.
don’t knock em, they were hot chick magnets- provided you parked in a hot poultry farm yard
Or you could go to the Barrett-Jackson auction - also happening in Scottsdale as we speak - and get a real car.
A family friend purchased the infamous Oldsmobile Diesel from that era. Nothing but trouble from Day 1.
My dad had one of those Chryslers...it was the first one with the voice that said “Your door is ajar!” (Might have been a “K Car”?)
My brother would invariably say to the inanimate voice “A door is a door, not a jar!”
He nicknamed the car “Einstein”, and it stuck...:)
We all called it “Einstein”!
This uncle would purchase used K Cars from federal fleet auctions and rebuild them in his driveway in Alexandria, VA. I believe at any given time he would have 4-6 K Cars in the driveway that he was repairing or cannibilizing. It used to drive my aunt and cousins crazy - the house had a very ample driveway, but they could never find a place to park at their own house.
LOL!
I would have like to drive one in green, like the one in Planes Trains And Automobiles.
I wonder if they will get more for it than they did for Jon Voight’s Chrysler?
One of my best friends had that Olds Diesel, what a catastrophe! And he was not a mechanically inclined person...what an abortion of a car!
Hahahahahahaha!
“Those aren’t pillows!”
My uncle “temporarily” had one back in HS. He didnt care. He got laid in it and had more “action” in it than the rest of popular kids in his school.
One valuable thing that was hammered into me..it’s NOT the car.
A family friend purchased the infamous Oldsmobile Diesel from that era. Nothing but trouble from Day 1.
I had the Chevy pickup with the same engine, it can not be emphasized enough what a piece of SHIT that diesel was, I believe I learned later that they built it on a car block.
The article mentions being able to pay back government loans in short order.
They never got any government money. The government only guaranteed the loans if Chrysler defaulted.
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