During my current trip to the “pick-and-pull” junkyard (which you can review here), I developed five picks for automobiles to highlight. I’m back once again with a couple of much more that captured my eye the exact same day. Presented in indexed order, here’s the rundown.
2005 Chrysler Crossfire
This oddball two-seat, rear-wheel drive cars comes from the Daimler-Chrysler collaboration and shared most of its architecture with the first-generation Mercedes-Benz SLK. It pertained to market in 2004 and also was offered as a sports car and a roadster via the end of manufacturing in 2008, offering a total of simply over 76,000 units during that window of time. Base and restricted designs employed a 3.2-liter V6, while high-performance SRT-6 versions were outfitted with a supercharged version of the exact same (the last creating 330 horsepower). Power was sent rearward via either a Mercedes 5G-Tronic five-speed automatic or a six-speed Chrysler manual transmission. The Crossfire roadster I ran into was geared up with the six-speed guidebook.
1989 Dodge Caravan
The minivan that began everything! This multi-purpose hauler was marketed as both a freight van and a guest car. It was created across five generations starting in 1984 by the Chrysler Corporation, set up concurrently with the Plymouth Voyager as well as the Chrysler Town & Country on the same” S”system. The first-generation Caravan borrowed some framework aspects from various other vehicles on the Chrysler K platform. Powertrains varied and ranged from a 96-horsepower inline-four right to a 150-horsepower 3.3-liter V6 in the final model year for the first-generation in 1990. My minivan encounter was with a woodgrain-paneled 1989 Caravan with captain’s chairs for the very first and 2nd rows (upholstered in remarkably wonderful red fabric).