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 ...
My grandparents had a 78 Monte Carlo. The only problem they had was with the chrome strips on the plastic bumpers kept becoming loose and falling off.
While not very fast, they did look distinctive and different unlike today’s cars.
I had issues with a few Chrysler products and won’t buy another one. I remember test driving a LaBaron around that time, it had like 10K miles on it and drove like it had 100K. Total rattle trap.
My mother always said "The bigger they are, the nicer they are."
Yep - I had a Dodge Aries...bad seams and coating under wheel well let water leak into trunk when driving on wet roads, lousy gasket let water fill up[ left taillight assembly, alignment couldn’t be adjusted to specs w/o special kits, VW Rabbit engine had paper head gasket which blew at about 50K miles, A/C crapped out around same time. Heating/A/C air system fan motor stopped working and the 29 cent piece of plastic with coils on it, that fed power to the blower motor, cost about $40 to buy so I could replace it. Lousy acceleration and gas mileage wasn’t commensurate with lack of power.
Other than that it was a nice little car.
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