94 is a damn good run, and he certainly left a legacy. For example, I’m certian he drove up to the pearly gates in a K-Car!
RIP.
For some reason an image just popped in my head of Jimmy Carter doing CPR on him.
I think our President lost a friend.
Chrysler products were nothing but trouble for me back when he was in charge of the company. Still won’t have one to this day.
I happily owned a ‘65 and a ‘66 Mustang. Just loved those cars. Thank You L.I.
I first heard of Lee Iacocca in 1965 when a disc jockey on Boss Radio 93 KHJ, the 50,000-watt rock blaster in Los Angeles called him “the little old Mustang maker.”
Sooner or later we all go to the big scrapyard in the sky. 94 is more than a LOT of us can hope for...
RIP, MR. Mustang. And Thanks for the memories
K-Car!
As a programmer I always remember the old joke: What do you get when you mix Lee Iacocca with a vampire?
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RIP, Mr. Iacocca
Another capitalist pig that will be missed. RIP Mr. Iacocca.
Bought a Jeep in ‘88 because I wanted one before this POS had a chance to ruin the brand.
Lasted 585,000 miles before I traded it in.
Bought a ‘98 Jeep after this POS changed the brand into a cheap piece of crap!
125,000 miles of crap!
Father of the mustang?
Nope!
Father of the exploding Pinto.
To this day, Chrysler products are crap because of this guy.
If memory serves, under Iacocca, Chrysler payed back the money to the government early in fact.
Lee said “We borrow money the old fashioned way - we pay it back.”.
Honoring your agreements seems to be a thing of the past as well.
Rest in peace, Mr. Iacocca. You did America proud.
I remember him walking into a building, besieged by reporters after he had extracted huge concessions from the United Auto Workers. Some reporter yelled at him:
“You got what you wanted from the workers, but what did the workers get!?”
Iacocca stopped dead in his tracts, wheeled around and looked the reporter right in the eye and growled:
“A job, you idiot!”
RIP Mr. Iacocca. It would take a miracle for me to live to be 94.
A true original.
RIP.
RIP.
I read his autobiography a number of years back - neat story; another Chrysler exec and he were going to a meeting in South Carolina, the exec suggested to him to list his name as Iacocca Lee to engender him to the southerners.
I do think he saved Chrysler.
The K car was just good enough to sell. The U.S. Government bought a lot of them too.
When I bought an 81 Ford pickup, in Virginia Beach, I noticed The Dodge dealer still had some 79 and 80s for sale but they had only reduced them a Little. I actually got the Ford cheaper than a two year older but new Dodge.