Your fondest Chrysler memory?

I had one just like that. It had the three speed on the floor. I kept having problems with the shifter rod coming out of the levers, leaving me stuck during shifts. The car was rusted pretty bad when I got it. The engine was in real good shape, thanks to the previous owner. Most of them were automatics just like you say.

I later had a 1964 Valiant with the 273 V8 and 4 speed. It was not very common either. It had over 200,000 miles on it when I sold it.

-Kirk Matheson

Hard to pick- all those good times 25 years ago in high school with my

miss it

went MERCURY's after that........the classics 1951 1953 1954 1956 all purchased as used. A few more Mercs after those. Back to Chrysler in

back to Chrysler.......NEW 2001 PT 5 speed

Wasn't that shift lever something??! Curved way up and back over the bench seat. Never seen anything like it since.

Jeff

My 63 almost stock Imperial that could just barely lift the front wheel off the ground on takeoff at the dragstrip. 413, 390+ hp, 500+ ft.lbs.

not particularly chrysler but a plymouth, ~1976? vehicle stopped. duh. went out and lined up the linkage for the clutch. had no clue what i was doing. car went into gear!

another time. stuck on a bridge. not my vehicle. a commercial car. car just stopped. tow truck came. just poured some containers of tranny fluid into the plymouth, also ~1976. car started right up.

these were beat up vehicles with hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles on them. round and round went the odometer

my best was in a big rain, a friend's family valiant would not start. the year? 1980? no problem. just had an extra ballast resistor. put it in at night. very easy job even in the rain. i thought they should have praised me to heaven like a god. but they were too religious.

or my brand new dodge, there i am, still under warranty, taking out all the spark plugs to check compression in the parking lot of the dealer. was i nuts or what?

My first brand new car, fresh out of the Navy... a 74 Plymouth Road Runner. Metallic Forest green, white stripe, white interior. Had the slap-stick automatic, and a sun-roof. AM radio, with an under the dash 8-track, and a pair of amplified 6x9 Mindblaster speakers. (sigh)

Peace Deke

Ken

When we lived in South Africa in the sixties we had a family friend who was like a very friendly uncle to me. At some point he wanted to buy a new car. IIRC he had narrowed the choice to two models and, knowing little about the differences, had asked little ol' me for an opinion (kids know best!)

I can't recall the other choice but I said to buy a Valiant...and he did...

DAS

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Mine was the car I had my first date in when I was in the 8th grade; a 1960 Plymouth Valiant. Light blue with a 170 CID slant six and a 3 speed on the floor. I drove it on the back roads to pick my date up and return her home. It was the first time my dad let me drive the car alone. My family drove that car for another 15 year and then sold it to a guy who's kid was going to college. He drove it to school for 4 year and then we lost track of it. You couldn't kill that thing. I had over 250K on it the last time we checked. --- By the way, 6 years after that date (and many girls later) I married that first date. We've now been together for more than 35 years.