Why America Gave Up On The PT Cruiser - Past Gas #11
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- We conclude our two part series on the PT Cruiser with an exhaustive list of things people did to make Chrysler’s light truck cool. Everything from Brian Setzer SEMA builds, a Viper V10 engine swap, to Chrysler’s own Turbocharged Cruiser GT. If you though the PT was cool in Part 1, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
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You guys really need some visuals when you're talking differences of cars. Get yourself a Young Jamie to pull that up
Though I tend to agree, it is a podcast and is not formatted for visuals.
@@BraveSirJoe but the episodes aired here were aired as podcasts months back, so to be fair they should have enough time to edit the podcast with visuals. But I don't mind because I listen to it on Spotify.
Yes!thank you
I realize I am kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to stream newly released movies online ?
@Brentley Legend meh I use Flixportal. You can find it if you google :P -enrique
I swear the guy in the blue shirt sounds and looks like Deadpool’s friend who works at the bar.
Dude is named Tj miller(deadpools friend) and I thought the same thing when I seen the first pt episode
Just less rapey
lol
Has it been a week already?
Nolan: guys.. we're wearing the same t-shirts
Hi/lo PT Cruisers!!
Lol... I see that a waste of money on all sides.
@@BlueRidgePhantom perfect
@@ExtraKawaii haha
Hi/lo on the manual transmission pt cruiser gt's that have the turbo in them. It's the same motor they put in the srt4s if I'm not mistaken. I think that would be pretty unique and rad
Hi/Lo but swapped!
Get a GT for Hi car and an SRT-4 for lo car, and see if the SRT-4 is still the better car in the end.
I am from mexico and I have Pt Crusier, They are good car, I will suscribe in the chanel
Coco will be thrilled.
okay cool
Yes. Good car.
I dont know how many times I've been working on a car getting frustrated with a part and say "Who in the hell engineered this damn thing?"
James, Nolan! Just want you guys to know that I have never listened to podcasts, EVER! That has changed, because listening to you guys talk about automotive history is frickin sick! It is still the only podcast I listen to. Wish you made them 2 or 3 times a week
11:01 I live in Metro Detroit only about 10 minutes from Woodward Avenue and if the sun is out and it’s warm even remotely, every car person is out driving around. It’s the main hangout spot for my friends and I and has been since high school when we got our first cars. One of the reasons I don’t want to leave Michigan is because I’ll miss cruising Woodward with the guys all the time lol.
Thanks for making an objective review. The PT is an icon of a bygone era of old school Detroit guys like Lee Iacooca and Maximum Bob Lutz, for all the good and bad that goes with it.
One could do a whole show on the factory special editions that Chrysler pumped out to keep up the interest among customers without actually spending money to update the car.
The Ron Jon Edition mentioned was an early one, however it was not the same as the factory woodie appliques that were available as a $1200 option, rather an aftermarket kit and taillights that were a dealer installed option package available to Florida buyers.
The Dream Cruiser was a series of 5 models that started with the Aztec Gold Series 1 in 2002, it was naturally aspirated 2.4 but had the front fascia of the GT that was yet to be released.
The 2003 GT was used as the basis for 5000 of the Burnt Orange Metallic Dream Cruiser 2, so it had a 215 hp engine in addition to the special interior featuring orange inserts in the leather seats and door panels.
2004 saw a more subdued and limited edition Dream Cruiser Series 3 with only 1306 of the two toned Midnight Blue over Bright Silver Metallic cars produced with the GT specs and interior that had a more reserved look with dove gray inserts with embossed headrests featuring the Chrysler crest. Even the glass was tinted blue. This was a $5000 option over the price of a loaded GT before dealer gouging, which was still going on with the PT, putting them out the door with TT&L over $32,000 2004 dollars.
The Dream Cruiser Series 4 used the 2005 GT convertible with a Deep Lava Red paint code and a special dark red canvas roof to make 1500 examples.
The 2009 Dream Cruiser 5 was available with or without the 180 hp turbo, the GT had been dropped in 2007. It was painted a Bright Diamond White with a metallic black roof pane, wheels left over from the SRT-4, and a massively built chrome grill. Allegedly 1700 were sold.
The Street Cruisers that filled in from 2006 to 2008 were generally loaded like a GT but without the turbo engine. The Bright Yellow 2006 Route 66 was also offered overseas in black, the 2007 Pacific Coast Highway was in Surf Blue, and the 2008 Sunset Boulevard had a nice Sunset Chrystal Burgandy color. All the Street Cruisers had badging on the tailgate and the doors calling out their special-ness.
I could go in to the Platinum Edition, the Walter P. Chrysler Signature Edition, the Couture Edition, the Decade Edition, etc... but I doubt anyone is still reading by now.
Love the info thank you Jeff.
Pts have a cult following and owners are fanatics. I own 2 and a mustang gt. My fun ride is still the 03 gt turbo. Haters can hate but I roll my whip and 😃.
I'm still reading years later. Just finished maintenance and re-doing a ton of vacuum lines to clean things up. Upgraded the wheels to 18" to fit Wilwoods in the front, waiting to go on are lowering springs, exhaust, suspension, strut bars, etc. No flames though. lol
You guys should totally do an episode on scion.
I want a PT Cruiser. Extend the front end, put the 350sbc I got in it, used junkyard mustang rear and front, and throw as much torque at it to try and make it do wheelies. All the cool hotrodders ones look stock on the outside and lack the hotrod look. That's probably what kept it from gaining the "cool" appeal 1930s car have now.
My first car was an electric blue 06 pt touring, she could do little burn outs and drift for days, and had a lovely fast 0 - 40 faster than most cars, she was lit. I stepped up to the gt model after lwards and she did burn outs at every stop, and could win agenst most mustangs and fast modern fords, i went with a style of my own based more off of a 09 dream cruiser
Bumper of a silver pt (matches dash,
05 neon split 10 5spoke 17" wheels
And some other goodies on the interior
Nice
Head lights tail lights and fog lights can really bring out the apeal too :)
You M Fers seriously have me looking at PT cruisers as if I’m in the market for one 😂
Y’all should do a podcast on the $100,000,000 F1 spy scandal between Mclaren and Ferrari!
2 writers = 1 James
It's just math
I had one, paid $200 for it. Had 110K miles on it when I got it, had 171k miles on it when I gave (not sold) it to a buddy who needed a car. I never once checked the oil. Couldn't open the hatch the whole time I owned it. I did learn that if you jump them, they fly flat and land pretty smooth, so there is that.
The early models with the 4 cylinder from the neon are pretty reliable
Are you saying you drove on who knows how old oil for 61k miles?
@@xvaxxerx7223 Yup. It was a trashcar. I didn't expect it to last as long as it did, and eventually I got tired of it, bought something else and it sat for a bit before a friend needed a car and I gave it to him. In my teens and 20's I never paid more than $200 or so for a car. Of course back then, $200 bought something you could actually drive. I've been given three free cars. I've given five or six free cars away. I just gave away a 200K mile '97 Dodge Intrepid last year. Runs great, I see the guy driving it all the time. I just pay for AAA, and if I find something cheap as chips that drives ok, I'll grab it, drive it for a few thousand miles as a daily beater until it dies, buy another one. These days, my budget has gone up, I'll throw down $500 for something that looks like it will run for at least a year without major work. They are never pretty, but I make sure they aren't dangerous, I do have standards. You'd be shocked what you can get. 90's Buicks, Olds, Taurus. Go looking for grandmas car when grandma goes to meet god, and you can get some wicked deals. Nobody wants to drive their dead grandmother's car, and no dealer wants it, nobody else wants to buy it. Find it on Craigslist, go make an offer, if they aren't knocking, leaking or shaking, good to go for a 10/20/30,000 miles for a couple hundos. I usually have two or three heaps of shit behind the garage, ready for a battery and fresh fuel and a thrashing, so one dies, I call AAA and get towed back, throw the battery into the next one and go. I spend my money on my weekeEND cars, not on my weekDAY cars.
Yeah I had one they're talking about the issue with the frame barely clear in the crank pulley and the dog bone motor mount
I had a 2008 and refered to it as the "PART TIME" cruiser because we never knew when it would work it quickly became a hole in the ground that we had to throw money into every month . The longest stretch of time without a break down was 4 months and it only had 30k on it when we bought it .the resale value was garbage
Still have a '01 Touring. Looks good, flexible interior but a mechanical nightmare. Just dropped $2k on it to get it back on the road. The wife has a perverted love for it.
I've had mine for 16 years and never knew about all of the engineering advancements came about to be through these cars and the Prowler.
So these podcasts seem like they are basically the raw script for up to speed
“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.”
Yo! Nolan
Could you do a video about your Podcast studio (BTS) ? Your equipment, workflow etc? Like do you do postprocessing or just stream out the video and the audio of the video becomes the podcast? That would be nice! Regards .
I live in Colorado. The pt group is huge. We had a silver pt.
The Ron Jon came w a free surfboard
I keep seeing less and less likes on donut podcasts since the first one, these are underrated tbh, the first podcasts that i find enjoyable
Whats Very nice about reading information from google and acting like they know it long time ago,
GUY’s seriously you can do much better, I presented on high school better than this amigo 😅
Cool and info on the pt.and good times laughing about the time laps of the car. Lots of great info on your show.
michael scott did drive a PT but his car for most of the series was the convertible Sebring lmao
🇲🇽 Hécho en Mexico! 🇲🇽
yuck
LMAOOOOOO
I am from Austria and how americans say Graz is just too funy to me. 😂🇦🇹😂
zocker 5 Was meinst Du? Wo ist die Pointe? Deutsch ist nicht meine Muttersprache, deshalb frage ich
@@Cirrusrus They speak the z like a s, but we austrians speak it like the z in bmw's z models (z1, z3, z8)
zocker 5 Ach DAS !! 😂 Das habe ich überhört. An SSalzbörg bin ich aber gewöhnt. Danke!
2:40 lmao I love these guys 😂😂😂
8:43 Brian Sett Sir not Seltzer...kids today...
I am so confused didn’t this come out last year in November???
I remember when this car was released, no matter where i went it was a universal joke, know as a dishonour to the hot rod... god i cant even look at it
Bathurst D. Byson did you listen to this at all...all the boomers and hot rodders lined up for this thing
You guys should put up pics and stuff of the things you guys talk about and look at. We wanna see what you guys are looking at.
I got mine in high-school in 1995 and modded it quite a bit with wheels, Borla exhaust, shifter (it was a manual!) and electroluminescent gauges. Drove it until 2007, when I traded it in for a Charger Daytona RT!
There is nothing on this earth that can be done to make the PoonTang Cruiser the slightest bit cool.
My favourite PT is the PT - SD
c100 & a7's and atomos recorders for this simple interview?! cool dedication to quality guys!
are you guys recording to the convergent D7 or just a monitor here? How are you accurately matching Canon colours to Sony's?
You guys look like you belong in Dungeons & Dragons podcast
I like your video. Last year i baught pt crusier and in one year i spend like 4 thousand on this car . i changed battery transmission oil timing belt . then in december heater core burnt car was over heating so pend anorher thousand to fix heater core then alignment done exsaust was so lound so i change that then tires were not good so i changed all four tires and break pads and rutors . then break lights went off . once the rediator fan was stop working .many times car get over heated .now i hope engin transmission stays ok i will put then if i have to just because i love old style car nice interior but who have that much extra money and time to keep fixing things so my question is did chrysler design this way so people love and hate it ??
Tom gale impersonation sounds an awful lot like kip bud lol
There's a 800whp pt cruiser you can find out there. It's pretty crazy.
For me it was always the 2001-2005, afterwards it was a miss. 2006-2010 just didn't look nearly as cool.
Why am I here learning about PT cruisers? Again.
The pt 10 that is why. I am glad I watched it through.
A friend of mine had one. He called it "The PTSD Cruiser" and hated the damn thing, it never worked properly
you guys need to show example pics of the thing you’re mentioning pleaseeee!!
Still love my PT gt got it cheap and has enough room
Lmao only the real donut fans are here. 820 views. I love you nolan. You're a thicc boi but thicc bois are very nice.
Ethan Martin that didn’t really turn out right lmfao
@@ethanpod8139 It came out exactly right ;)
Only old people can afford new cars.
Chrysler could use a new pt cruiser small economy crossover hell a small Chrysler pick up
I’ll make that Pronto concept
I loved my 02 PT. I really hated the 07 PT we had. It was garbage.
The blocks we're all cast iron they were never made in aluminum. Got about 8 on the shelf.
Ik it's been done already, but it wouldn't hurt to create a Hellcat swapped PT Cruiser, or in this case the HC Cruiser lol
Come on now Chrysler, you knew your target demo for the PTC was old people, why not go with elderberry instead of cranberry for that flame style name?
You won't believe how good of a burnout car the stock pt can be
Our local Indian reserve has one in every backyard...
Look over a few RT Podcasts. They cater to audio podcasts listeners just fine but they also have visuals, so when discussing items you're looking up on the laptops show them on the video too. You can still explain it etc for audio listeners but it also caters to the visual ones too.
Yes please, I feel the need to search almost everything.
Damn seems like all yall wanna be babied nd have it all handed to u. Look the shit up its not that hard to take a min to look up some pics. Plus you may learn some more shit along the way that they dont mention.
Brandon Dunn don’t come out of here with that “you gotta do the work yourself hurrr” most people are watching the video on RUclips so to stop the discussion just to look up some random pic every 5 seconds really takes away from the video. There’s no excuse to not do better. This is merely constructive criticism, but hey what’s the point if we’re not all gonna be geniuses and actually make a change rather than put people down for simple requests? Did you even learn anything from this podcast?
@@brandonshurtugal didn't notice your comment at the time. I'm not watching these to learn information for an essay or to write a report on the subject or the video itself. I'm watching or listening for entertainment purposes. To make it a better experience having images etc show up would be beneficial. However, with the better sound design of their latest podcasts these are definately more audio and visual and that in my opinion isn't a bad thing. The intro sound fx on their Hell's Angels episodes have been great and on point.
Can you guys do a past gas on Will T. Ribbs aka Uppity
Donut for breakfast
I am from Germany where it is 6:30 pm right now
So "convert it to 3 wheels" possible means you make a lowrider that can lift a wheel?
And jump possibly?
(I know that's dumb because you need a long car for that but I wanted to leave that here)
I don't give a flying fart about the critics, i LOVE IT
I'd almost rather get into a wreck in an 80s car than a pt cruiser it's a 50/50 flip on serious injury also I've been in two or three pt cruisers and they all shake like crazy side wobble
Put up pictures of what you’re talking about for the love of herspoweerrrssss. Thank you
I watched. Love you guys but my opinion has not changed. Lol
Hi guys! Please consider doing a past gas on Camel Trophy!
Pt Gt had mufflers And the 5 speeds in the Pt Gt are Getrag 288s which are damn near indestructible
The PT Cruiser was the ultimate boomer car
Show us the cars you're talking about, EVERYTIME
I'm here
Thank you guys for sharing this hilarious piece of car history. I can't believe the PT Cruiser was such a hot item back in the day.
it wasn't.
PT cruisers are good for 1 thing. The 2.4L turbo motor and throw it in a neon lmao
My wife told me if I admit to liking the pt cruiser she will only be able to love me 99%
neat
I worked at a restraunt a couple years ago that would have a pt group come in all the time. Fuckin weirdest people in that group. It blew my mind when i found out their group was based around the ugliest car ever made imo
Casey Kasem was a good "Get" ..... He's been dead for years .
Lmaoooo “a nice Kia”
Lol come on guys Jeremiah "when you're dropping the engine in before the hood goes on " you're a car guy its a very small front wheel drive car the entire power train engine/trans is assembled on the sub frame then installed from the under side
I'd chop the roof, delete the rear doors, extend the frame in order to throw on a Dodge Dakota bed, drop it, wheels, tires, Hemi, rwd.
Lol... you wouldn't have any PT Cruiser left. But I agree.
so you want an ssr?
Nice idea
@@generaldissaray4109 Never once did I mention wanting it 😂😂 but if given a PT Cruiser and an unlimited budget, the vehicle I described would come to fruition PS, tell Professor Chaos the Simpsons did it already
You want a hot wheel my guy.
*Sees new podcast*
Opens RUclips
*Sees James isn’t in it*
Closes RUclips
I appreciated their effort...
Stop breaking the 4th law lmao it's blowing my mind🙃
I had one and i loved it and someone pulled out in front of me and i hit him doin 55 miles an hour and totaled it and broke my body but i loved it
Pt cruisers were ok. But the same transmission as the old minivans that were known for being prone to failure already. Also the bumpers were ugly, so unless you did an expensive bumper delete it looked pretty goofy, i used mine for years and loved it but i got rid of the thing before it ever needed anything major replaced @ 140xxxmi
they're great car until you have to have it fixed. It costs a small fortune if anything goes wrong with the engine to have it fixed
I think most people in the rest of the world just looked at the thing and didn't even know what the hell they were actually looking at. No matter who I talk to about cars here in germany, the Multipla and the PT Cruiser are considered the top 2 ugliest cars ever made.
This show would be 10x better if you could put prompts on the screen of the certain colors and certain PTs you are talking about.
Describing the packages is one thing but being able to see them would make this so much better
Google it. Not hard
It’s a podcast
Not really meant for RUclips
Then they shouldn’t ramble over details in a pic over and over. It’s extremely irritating if you want to just get a quick glance of what they’re talking about if you’re involved with something else that requires your hands. Either they should stop talking about pictures or show them. You guys aren’t helping by justifying the fact that podcasts don’t have to be visual but here we are. Not everyone has to be like joe Rogan but if they’re gonna read from the script they should put some effort into making it smooth
lol i
They stopped because only fat and old nasty chicks drove them ! Same as mini vans ! lol
I'm 14 and own one want proof let me know
wierd flex, but ok.
They are fun
That's embarrassing
First view!
So they had a V6, Turbo 4 banger, and a V10 Viper engine, but not a V8? Weren't they trying to please hot rod loving boomers? They used everything, but what they love.
The average boomer thinks they want V8s, but they don't want it to be noisy, wanna get good milage... So they don't want V8s. The car enthusiast boomer praises V8s, but the average one? They probably don't care.
30 min episode about the pt cruiser! 😑
AYEEEEEEE
Junk
Cause it's lame and terrible Nolan, just like the deftones
Part Time Cruiser... hippie mobile...
@@grievuspwn4g3 I'm sorry, I don't know the difference... so I'll agree with your statement.
I remember when the PT came out and my Father like it...I hated it...obviously being young you wont understand Nostalgia...my son will look at me funny when Honda remakes a ugly Integra and I talk fondly of it
Drop an LS into the PT Cruiser and call it the PT Bruiser
I guess everyone knows how to read!!!
If you are making podcast it should be your information not google info or try to interview someone expert on whatever you are talking about instead of reading stuff from the internet and acting like an expert your self…. So annoying. 🙃
For a podcast, please stop reading us a history lesson. Just talk about the PT Cruiser with a base outline.... stop reading to us!
Yes, thank you. I feel like unfortunately they were just stating the obvious and talking about it like they were unaware of it. Almost like they aren’t really car guys....... I mean come on, I was 7 when I stopped pronouncing it AhhDi (Audi)