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You had shown me the old VW with the FI conversion and the Mini and IIRC, your wife had some kind of a Japanese SUV. Mopars are still my first choice, but my daily driver is a Prius. I'm not that crazy about leaving that much money at the pump. Still have my 2000 Dodge Dakota and my 2006 Jeep Wrangler, both bought new. BTW, Powerglides and Dynaflows are really Gay. |
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It still had peeling paint, creaky doors, a misaligned instrument cluster, and the other k car defects. And yes, your 89 spirit would blow the doors off my 86 toyota diesel pickup! Last edited by maxhifi; 04-12-2018 at 11:25 AM. |
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LADA cars are interesting, they were sold in Canada until 1997 when they no longer met emission requirements. The NIVA 4x4 is quite capable. Actually owning one may not be the world's best idea, but I too would like a chance to drive one... I've only been a passenger and it was not recently.
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LOL I mean they kinda are. Powerglides apparently are used in drag cars a lot because, well, they're real solid and only two gears. Dynaflows are fascinating... but that's about it.
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Practically everyone I know had to have the Powerglide transmission repaired once in their time of ownership. How about the early Mopars with the Powerflites that used the same oil for the transmission as the engine. The transmission fluid was changed every time the engine oil was changed. Dynaflows= slush-o-matics. |
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Better to have a Powerflite than an early Torqueflite from what I read. Apparently the pushbutton gear selector is a real dog to maintain. I read that Keith Gordon from Christine had a lot of trouble with it and the crew had to keep someone on hand to fix it.
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Back in the days when nobody knew the right way to do a new-fangled 'automatic' transmission. On the bright side, as long as you kept up on your oil changes, your trans fluid would always be fresh!
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In defense of Chrysler's pushbutton mech I've always heard, it was solid and reliable...It was a great step up from the other pushbutton shifter of the time the steering wheel mounted electric selector in the Edsel...Which supposedly liked to short and change gears when turning the wheel...That scares me a hell of a lot more than hitting the wrong button by mistake.
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It had a park position lever that had to slid to the right. IDK, if the neutral button had to be pushed before the park was set. The transmission stayed in drive while the engine was in fast idle. The transmission burned up. IIRC, the push button selector was outlawed by the government, stating all automatic transmission cars had to be uniform to minimize mishaps. |
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If I recall correctly, you couldn't do any real damage shifting from drive to reverse in a Chrysler pushbutton automatic. I think their was a safety that hitting the reverse button while the car was moving forward would put it into the neutral mode and not reverse. Been a long time since I drove one, and I don't ever recall making that mistake.
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My first car was a 1991 Dodge Spirit, aka a refresh of the Dodge Aries. Had the 'piss poor' Mitsubishi 3.0L V6 under the hood, which made the car quite peppy. Not as fast as the Spirit R/T, I'm sure, but it got up and went when called upon. I can say for a fact that the car would begin to shake violently if I tried to drive much faster than 95MPH..........
It had its quirks, to be sure. It resisted every single attempt I made to upgrade the stock AM/FM stereo (installed a 'Infinity I' cassette stereo, and got nothing out of the speakers; tried using a later version AM/FM/cassette head unit, but the brackets didn't line up correctly). The previous owner had been extremely obese, and had managed to break the front seat, though we got it fixed. One nice "feature" was that I could remove the key from the ignition while it was running, which came in handy when it was cold, as I could keep the engine running with the doors locked. I put a few dents and dings in it as a rookie driver, but it just kept on running. Even the infamous "A-Sick-Oh-Four" 4spd automatic just kept on going, apart from one time it glitched and got stuck in "limp home mode" (wouldn't shift higher than 2nd gear, which made highway driving "interesting".....). The one time I thought it was a goner, it turned out that it was bad motor mounts that were causing the engine to tilt when trying to drive in reverse, making a nasty racket as I backed up. It was somewhat ugly and didn't have much in the way of features, but it was a solid little car. I sure can't say that of its successor, a 1996 Chrysler Concorde that was handed down to me. Looked sleek, and had all sorts of bells and whistles, but had more reliability issues than Carter had liver pills. Dead transmission (before I started driving it), overheating issues, stalling issues, and culminated with the entire rear suspension collapsing as I pulled away from a stoplight. Should've just stuck with the Spirit. Here's a 'beauty shot' of it in its later days:
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