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I have heard that the dodge 2.2 was the best motor in the K's. In the photos
of the K's for sale that are still around and running it always seems to have a 2.2. As for the smog era cars, and I like that term, My uncle's last Chrysler was a 74-76? Dodge Monaco like the ones on Blues Brothers, and it kinda came apart like in the movie, just not all at once. It use to take a lot of cranking to get it running, it had no power, 6mpg, lights and horn were active together at times, turn signals came with audio accompany. It was the worst car he had, he followed that with a 4WD Eagle, AMC I think at the time. By the time that car died mostly of rust. I had got my '89 Prelude, the wife got her '91 accord, and I talked him into an accord too, they had that car till he died. On some of the sites about the Blues Brothers movie, they said they got those cars for $100 -200. from the city as they were replacing them. Also hollywood got hundreds of '77 Coronets for $35. because of smog system problems that chrysler did not want to pay to redesign and fix. I remember seeing on PBS about the decline of the auto industry 70's edition that chrysler and others would take delivery on stuff like engine blocks by the thousands and by the time they needed them for production the discovered there was a casting problem and could not use them, so they would have to idle the factory, re order new run and wait.... The bad blocks rusted. Same kinda story for GM and using known bad or under designed bolts in the early Quad-4's. They all knowingly made and sold crap for way too long.... .
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