this site is a bad influence..

i was out for a little sunday drive today, and i stumbled across this:

at a used car lot and thought "i could make a race car out of this".. it's a solid little 1980 Dodge Colt that i know for a fact that has been sitting in this spot for at least 5 years but maybe closer to 10 since i think i remember it sitting there when i lived in the area before. the writing on the windshield says $995, but i bet a guy could drag it out for scrap price..

You could make all the race cars out of that. Puerto rican drag, auto x monster, rally x- you name it!

I gots a very close relative to that in the driveway.

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that's a used-car lot? I'm guessing it doesn't get much business...

Do I remember that some of the Colts have the 2 speed rear end?

He may want more. I think it is holding up the garage.

Spitsix wrote: Do I remember that some of the Colts have the 2 speed rear end?

Close. This generation of the Colt/Champ siblings are front wheel drive, some had an option for a Hi/Lo range selection along with the 4-speed tranny so in effect you have 8 forward gear ratios and 2 for reverse. My Champ has the option. Shifting while reversing is always fun.

btabacchi wrote:

Spitsix wrote: Do I remember that some of the Colts have the 2 speed rear end?

Close. This generation of the Colt/Champ siblings are front wheel drive, some had an option for a Hi/Lo range selection along with the 4-speed tranny so in effect you have 8 forward gear ratios and 2 for reverse. My Champ has the option. Shifting while reversing is always fun.

so that's what that lever next to the shifter was for... one of my friends had a couple of these back in the 90/91 time frame, and i remembered the lever but not what it did..

and, yes, it was at a used car lot.. a lot with about 10 cars sitting on it that all look like they haven't moved for the better part of a decade.. there is an Isuzu something or other that looks like a slightly bigger Suzuki Samurai that has 20" wheels on it that i know for a fact has been sitting in the same spot for at least a decade..

just for fun, here's the overhead view of this used car lot snipped from google maps:

the Colt is right next to the building, the white blob out by itself is the Isuzu thing, and lined up is an assortment of rusted out late 80's/early 90's GM S series Blazers, full size pickups, and even a Suburban- all with prices over $2k written on the windows in very weathered white shoe polish..

the google street view from the highway looks slightly more impressive, and i think more favorable to the demographics of this board:

i wonder if the geniuses at google are impressed that their mapping technology is being used to show pics like these?

Isuzu Amigo. It's fun for a boy or a girl.