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This car wasn't really lame, least not at first..... but God was it ugly.
Dodge Diplomat......
I was working graveyard shift and going to school in the mornings at the time (1987) so when I wrecked my old Nova one morning, I absolutely had to buy another car before I could sleep that afternoon, in order to work the following night. That doesn't leave much time to be choosy.
So I got the car..... drove nice, drove fast (best of all). It was an ex Washington State Patrol car. Still had the spotlight, but no lights or sirens. Unfortunately, it had rubber plugs where the old antenna mounts and rooftop light wiring went in, and thus, the car leaked every time there was heavy rain.
And this being the Pacific Northwest, that happened a lot.
Fortunately, because it was built as a police car, it had vinyl bench seats and all rubber floor mats, which means I could clean up the puddles with a shop vac and not have to worry about moldy carpets.
The car had over 100,000 miles on it, but those were mostly state maintained freeway miles, so the car was not showing it's age.
Wasn't much for picking up chicks, given the ugliness factor, but I could speed by cops at 100 miles an hour on the freeway, and they would look up and WAVE at me, thinking I was one of their own
Unfortunately, about the time the car hit 200K it fell apart fast.
Traded it in on a fucking K-car of all things which was even uglier......
That car was so much of a lemon, it should have been yellow, and it swore me off of Chrysler products to this day.
Dodge Diplomat......
I was working graveyard shift and going to school in the mornings at the time (1987) so when I wrecked my old Nova one morning, I absolutely had to buy another car before I could sleep that afternoon, in order to work the following night. That doesn't leave much time to be choosy.
So I got the car..... drove nice, drove fast (best of all). It was an ex Washington State Patrol car. Still had the spotlight, but no lights or sirens. Unfortunately, it had rubber plugs where the old antenna mounts and rooftop light wiring went in, and thus, the car leaked every time there was heavy rain.
And this being the Pacific Northwest, that happened a lot.
Fortunately, because it was built as a police car, it had vinyl bench seats and all rubber floor mats, which means I could clean up the puddles with a shop vac and not have to worry about moldy carpets.
The car had over 100,000 miles on it, but those were mostly state maintained freeway miles, so the car was not showing it's age.
Wasn't much for picking up chicks, given the ugliness factor, but I could speed by cops at 100 miles an hour on the freeway, and they would look up and WAVE at me, thinking I was one of their own
Unfortunately, about the time the car hit 200K it fell apart fast.
Traded it in on a fucking K-car of all things which was even uglier......
That car was so much of a lemon, it should have been yellow, and it swore me off of Chrysler products to this day.
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