My dad bought my mom a 1982 LeBaron convertible, white with maroon vinyl interior and digital radio, as her birthday present in early 1983. I came along nine months later, so I guess she liked it. We were an all-Chrysler family until the turn of the century, actually. My dad had a 1986 LeBaron GTS turbo, which he replaced with a Plymouth Acclaim in 1991. Mom upgraded to an Eagle Vision in 1994 and then a purple Sebring JX convertible after we moved to Florida in 1997. Sadly, the quality issues they had with the Sebring and my dad's 1996 Grand Caravan ES put them off of Chrysler altogether. Their next vehicles were a 1999 Volvo C70 convertible and a 2003 Honda Odyssey, respectively. But that original 1982 LeBaron stayed around and became my first car after I got my license in 1999!
I had a 1994 Chrysler LeBaron LX Convertible. I loved that car. I kept it until the repairs started to be continuous instead of preventive. I miss it every day. Such a great car.
You did one of my recommendations... epic! I'm sad you missed the opportunity to mention the rich Corinthian leather. Or Jon Voight's car. I miss my 91 GTC. It was truly a unicorn. Black with gray interior... loaded... and a 3rd pedal.
I had an '89 Lebaron Turbo GT Convertible - white with red interior and a five speed stick! Made in Mexico. The cable shifter wasn't awesome but it was otherwise a terrific car.
@@dontelindsey5846 Someone who lived down the street had a black one, but it wasn't a convertible but still cool looking car, I dug the flip up headlights too.
I had a 93 Chrysler lebaron with red landau top, I really loved that car, for me it was luxurious and sporty. That 160hp 3.0 v6 was great and got good mileage. The transmission went out on it and I couldn’t afford to repair it. So I got a 90 Cadillac sedan deville from one of they buy here pay here places and and I’ve been driving cadillacs ever since!
I absolutely love this channel on older cars from the 80's and 90's that's my generation!! Plus please never change your sound track music you use on your videos so cool.
My older brother's 1st car was the Woody LeBaron. His friends literally called it Woody and laughed at it. It grew on me and if I could find a really good condition one today I would consider buying it.
I had a, I think it was a 1989, turbo coupe. IT HAD THE GREATEST SEATS EVER! I still remember what a high beltline it had. You sat down IN it and I loved it. Was wrecked 3 times and kept going. My brother finally finished it off when he went off the road and hit a culvert. BUT THOSE SEATS! I've been looking for seats as comfortable a those grey leather, bolstered, tilting head rest beauties ever since.
There's a good many cars I remember fondly that aren't around much anymore, the Chevrolet Lumina, Ford Windstar, Ford Freestar/Mercury Monterey, Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique, Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz, Buick Century, LeSabre, Park Avenue, Ford Taurus/mercury Sable and the venerable Volvo 850, some are still commonplace because they're reliable or ended production recently, though the cars I remember are the older generations which are not commonly found on the road anymore
I’m such a fan of your channel & content. It’s amazing that at 40yo, I’ve seen or experienced every old scene through this video - from John Candy in ‘Planes, Trains, & Automobiles’ to the electronic toys I had that spoke to the T&C stationwagon. My favorite uncle passed a few months ago and speaking at his memorial, I recalled my memories of riding in the jump seat of his T&C stationwagon as a youngster, and his specific influence on my love for automobiles. Ironically, right before he died, we talked about that stationwagon and he said it was the worst car he ever owned because he loved it, but lived in the repair shop. 😂 Thanks for the enjoyable nostalgia! 🔥
I owned two 1989 Plymouth Acclaims. I had mixed feelings about whether they were good cars or not but I kept one to over 200,000 miles. Thanks Pat for another great video. There was a lot of history in this issue and I particularly like the humor.
I liked the talking car part as a kid. Drivers door is ajar! Key in ignition! Headlights are on! Etc. Definitely ahead of the time. And whomever gave the two thumbs down, you're definitely not car people and don't deserve this amazing, growing channel! Go away! Ha ha
My family was big into Chryslers and Dodges. They did have an 83 Lebaron Wagon with the voice alert. I had 2 Daytonas. My 85 had the voice alert. I almost bought a Lebaron GTC but got the 2nd Daytona instead. All nice cars for that era.
My grandfather had a K-car Lebaron convertible with the turbo back in the 80s. One of my aunts had a white on white last gen Lebaron convertible in the 90s. There's a green last gen Lebaron convertible at a house in the neighborhood I live in. I love the smooth, sporty, aerodynamic design of the last gen.
My first ever car purchase was a 1991 Le Baron convertible. Dark Quartz color with grey interior, base model. I worked for a company that made parts for the AA body (4 door Spirit, Acclaim, & Le Baron). My car was made in St. Louis, but I was at the Newark assembly plant when the 1991 Model year kicked off, they had just wrapped up the test builds of the Coupe and Convertible at the factory. I also got to see the AA Chrysler Saratoga being built for export. The Top was down more from September to May than it ever was during the summer. (You can heat a convertible to a tolerable level in the cooler months, but the AC could not keep it cool in the summer with the top down. South Carolina summers are HOT)
Love this video. I had a ‘94 LeBaron convertible that I really liked. It was a good car. But some I’d like to see are first generation Prelude, CRX, Isuzu Impulse (all of which I owned at some point) and perhaps a Buick Somerset before it became Skylark. Thank you for your videos. Brings back some good memories!
Only yesterday I was thinking about the first gen 96' Dodge Neon my friend had and how I hadn't seen many recently and how all the people who got them in the mid 2000's were young dudes who put body kits on them with unfinished primer on the kits. Then yesterday evening I see a 2nd gen red one that had a bad rattle can paint job, but at least not all modded out. Then a few hours later another 2nd gen with crappy black paint job and the wrong wheels. The red one was on someone's front lawn, looked like it had been sitting a while, dusty. With a few other project cars on the driveway. Obviously the lowest priority vehicle they had. The black one was at a fast food restaurant, so it was was still roadworthy. I always thought the new Dodge Dart was supposed to be the new Neon. I liked it's looks, but they canceled it a few years back. A work colleague had gotten that Dart brand new in white and drove it everywhere across the west to see every national park within driving distance over the next few years. Plus a ton of other road trips, seemed to have served him well I believe he still has it.
They were good for the short term like rentals, or a lease, but for long term ownership man did they have some quality issues as they aged like the bodies prematurely rusting out, and bad fuel pumps just to name a few issues off the top of my head.
Thank you for this video. I had the. 1987 LeBaron coup GT Turbo. The same silver color and trim in the beginning of the video. Brought back many memories.
These K-LeBarons were actually really nice... compared to many contemporary cars. They had great sounding radios/cassette-decks, very comfortable, and probably one of the best-handling vehicles I've ever driven in snow/ice. I had a used 84 or 86 2-door with that plush-ass, half-reaching vinyl top which I always kept Armor-all-ed. After driving a Chevy Citation, this thing was like a Rolls Royce. Aluminum heads were finished by about 100,000 though. It was actually very reliable, had the O2 sensor replaced a couple of times, that was it.
I am just old enough that I can remember all of the LeBarons, I heard of the Lancer (one of them is the reason why I am on disability, long story and I was not driving the Lancer, but I was in another K car when the accident happened,I digress) by Shelby, but I heard that Lancer was sold as a Lancer Pacifica. My favorite LeBaron was the 78 LeBaron medallion LE coupe, sharp car.
Great videos! Maybe consider doing a video on the original Ford Taurus SHO. My father bought one new off the lot in 1988, his first ever new car and it was amazing! He traded in an old KP61 Toyota Starlet, itself an interesting vehicle, one wheel drive ( hilarious to drive in northeast winters btw), so you can imagine the excitement when he brought the SHO home. Also maybe one on the original Plymouth Voyager, my mother traded in an old 1977 Pontiac Bonneville for an extended wheel base Voyager in 1989 once the Pontiac's transmission started to go out. Not as much fun as the Taurus but still a nostalgic car. Cheers!
My grandmother had a early/mid 80's LaBaron, new. Then traded up to ab used 1986 New Yorker. That car was luxury on wheels to a 15 year old kid in the early 90's. I would absolutely LOVE to have one of those cars today.
I agree. My parents bought a brand new 1984 Cimarron with all of the options. It gave my parents and family 355,000 miles of decent reliability, performance and economy. It was a simple frayed and worn "throttle valve cable" that ruined the transmission. My brother was driving it at that time and had that cable been replaced immediately when the gas pedal got mushy feeling, it would still be operating today. I feel it's a much better car than folks stereotype it to be.
My dad had a thing for 1980's LeBaron Convertible Turbo's, and predictably, for Chrysler TC by Maserati's. I sold all 5 of them for him on EBAY, as well as a Buick Park Avenue 3800 Ultra supercharged; after he suffered a series of TIA's and could no longer see well enough to drive. Like these cars, he is gone now, and so is the world he knew.
Great videos! Wow, what a throwback to my younger days. We had so many of these cars in my house growing up! I had a 97 Talon TSi AWD, followed by a Eldorado ETC of the same year. I would love to see a video on either! Cheers!
At 1:54 seconds in your video, the Aspen on top looked exactly like my parents yellow 1977 Volare which is shown there on the bottom in blue, it had the wire wheel covers too and they got stolen three separate times and each time Geico gave my mom a new set each time
My father had a 1980 LeBaron. It ran without major problems for many years. As it passed 250k, rust set in, the driver's seat started to sink, and the doors started coming apart. Eventually he got rid of it, but it was still running smoothly.
The Caravelle Salon was the twin of the Diplomat (M-body), that name was used in Canada in place of Gran Fury, and then there was the FWD Caravelle, the twin of the Dodge 600 (E-body) which also came in a 2 door coupe, exclusive to the Canadian market.
Thanks for this video. I suggest exploring the Imperial marque (1955-1975) that you reference here, including the flagship Imperial LeBaron, and also another longtime Chrysler nameplate, the New Yorker.
How about the dodge/Plymouth colt? My dad had one when I was a kid. He got it when I was in kindergarten, and I learned to drive stick on it when I was 16. By the time it was done when I was 19 (someone rear ended my dad doing about $150 of damage totaling the car), the clutch was optional. The (lack of) options were crazy. No AC, given on a $7000 car. But then no tach, no clock, no radio. If you wanted the door to stay locked when you shut it, you had to hold the handle when you closed the door. Otherwise had to lock it with the key. Still a lot of good memories!
Love this channel it always shows unusual and undesired cars and made us realize that these cars actually good cars that really work.. great video coverage .. 😎👉🏾👍🏾🛎
I had a 1995 Chrysler Saratoga from 2011 until 2017. Saratoga was the name under which the LeBaron Sedan was sold in some European Counties. It was on of the most reliable cats I ever had.
😆😂🤣 Adding a captain Kirk screaming to Ricardo Montalban "KAN" was a amusing detail to the video. You make lol. I remember the Lebaron was the first convertible car since 1975 after the federal ban.
In my opinion the LeBaron convertible was the best car they ever had. I remember a friend was about 11 and she said she wanted a LeBaron when graduated high school. We laughed saying “that car could look like anything by then!” And by the time she graduated the car was gone!
Were customers confused by all the different product lines, names, deviations etc back then or did it all make sense. Looking back...it seems very complicated with all the Chrysler brands.
I had several cars during the time period covered but the one I'd like to revisit via video would be the Dodge/Plymouth Neon. I owned two of them and they were fun little cars. If it wasn't for a pernicious head gasket issue, my ownership would have been trouble-free. I had the base model but I lusted after the SRT-4 when it came out. The SRT-4 was a serious little hot rod for its day.
I had the 89 hardtop as my first car. Wasn't bad but no power. It was also fun to floor it and watch the electronic speedometer go crazy until you settled down to a steady speed.
The LeBaron was quite literally the S Class in Mexico, I have an uncle that was a millionaire winemaker. He drove a black LeBaron and I remember thinking how incredibly luxurious and elegant the car was. It was truly amazing to see it parked next to the VW Beetles that crowded Mexican streets back then.
Awesome show! I'm loving this content! I used to have a 86 lebaron 2.2T and also had a 93 Lebaron landau 3.3L. I really loved that 93. It was not a bad car and had quite a bit of pep too!
Love this channel. I had an interesting first car that I don't know to much about and have seen so few of. It was a 1979 Dodge Magnum. I think the Cordoba was a sister to it. It had a 360 in it with a lean burn carburetor this was nothing but problems. But it had a sunroof. Turd brown and all rusty when I got it in 1989.
Could have a look at the Austin Metro, then just Metro, then Rover Metro before finally becoming the Rover 100 series of cars. Facinating story behind them, particularly when you factor in the various permutations on replacements and derivatives that never made it.
Hey, nice work with these old models... especially the Pontiac Grand Am. You should consider doing an episode on the GM A bodies of the 80s (or maybe the Bonneville) in the future (I personally owned a Pontiac 6000 and two Bonnies).
Great video I enjoy watching it ! I remember these back in the day from the 70s onwards growing up . My parents borrowed of these from a family friend , a sedan version back in the mid 80s . Please can you do a video on GM full-sized cars of the 80s down the road my parents and myself owned these cars back in the day .
While the depiction in Planes Trains and Automobiles was not flattering, it wasn't wasn't inflamatory. Car caught fire and still ran and went down the road.
I owned an 85 brown coupe with chocolate brown courdoroy seats. Very much a fancy looking K-car but nice to drive. Other than my size at 185cm was overwhelming the power seats I tilted back for my long legs. My mother on the other hand had a new 88 a few years earlier. I bought mine used in the 90s. Hers was a white coupe with blue leather seats & interior. Had I my old LeBaron today I'd have shoved a block of wood under the seat to keep it from falling. Wish I had thought to do it then.
I own a 1988 Chrysler Lebaron coupe GTC turbo in gray fully loaded at the time with 30,000 miles in gray with black leather.. been in the family since new
I miss my 1983 Renault Alliance DL sedan. Strangely, it was the most trouble-free car I ever owned. I traded it in on a 1988 Mercury Tracer wagon when Renault left the country.
Subscribed. It would be nice to see a video on the GMC Sonoma Cyclone. GM had a manufacturing plant where I grew up so there was a couple of those trucks around town at the time. Last time I've seen one was at a used car dealer in the late 90s.
That 2 door model with the hideaway headlights was beautiful. I don't know how reputable, but they were the nicest of the lineup. The convertible was also one of the nicest for any brand. Once again, I'm unsure about the reliability.
We had a Lebaron convertible, the one with the hideaway headlights. Think it was an 89 or 1990. Great looking car. The V6 engine was terrible… exhaust smoked terribly and I was told it was valve lifter guides and was gonna cost $$$ to fix. I was forever dumping gooey oil thickeners in the crankcase to tighten things up. The wife drove it most f the time and didn’t get as upset with the smoke. She traded it in for a Grand Cherokee about '96 or so. I do recall the automatic top was flawless. I’d had two converts before that, a Corvair and a Camaro, both with manual tops, so the motorized top on the Lebaron was a real luxury😊
My brother bought one of those Shelby Lancers back in the day, he was one of the 500. It was OK, he had just come off of a Mustang Turbo and this time wanted something brand new. He wasn't one to hold on to cars long, probably had it a year or two and sold it for something else. One of his other interesting cars was the Cougar Eliminator (351W), That was a cool automobile; he had bought it used, hopefully whom ever he sold it to took care of it and gave it the love it needed. Wasn't bad but the trunk floor was pretty rotten from memory. As I remember the story they were delivered to your door and 500 of those were made.
I remember it most as John (with an 'h') Voight's car.
lol. Seinfeld.
I'm shocked Seinfeld didn't get mentioned🤣
Yeah, I thought this would come up much earlier. John Jon Voights's Le Baron is the most famous of all.
Always check the teeth marks in a pencil, you may become rich. 🤪
Was thinking of the same thing. Funny how a car can be associated with a crazy TV Show.
My dad bought my mom a 1982 LeBaron convertible, white with maroon vinyl interior and digital radio, as her birthday present in early 1983. I came along nine months later, so I guess she liked it.
We were an all-Chrysler family until the turn of the century, actually. My dad had a 1986 LeBaron GTS turbo, which he replaced with a Plymouth Acclaim in 1991. Mom upgraded to an Eagle Vision in 1994 and then a purple Sebring JX convertible after we moved to Florida in 1997. Sadly, the quality issues they had with the Sebring and my dad's 1996 Grand Caravan ES put them off of Chrysler altogether. Their next vehicles were a 1999 Volvo C70 convertible and a 2003 Honda Odyssey, respectively.
But that original 1982 LeBaron stayed around and became my first car after I got my license in 1999!
I had a 1994 Chrysler LeBaron LX Convertible. I loved that car. I kept it until the repairs started to be continuous instead of preventive. I miss it every day. Such a great car.
You did one of my recommendations... epic! I'm sad you missed the opportunity to mention the rich Corinthian leather. Or Jon Voight's car.
I miss my 91 GTC. It was truly a unicorn. Black with gray interior... loaded... and a 3rd pedal.
“Jon Voight, the actor or the periodontist?”
I had an '89 Lebaron Turbo GT Convertible - white with red interior and a five speed stick! Made in Mexico. The cable shifter wasn't awesome but it was otherwise a terrific car.
😂 Ricardo Montalban 😂
@@jacknasty6940 KHAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
@@garynelson4485 'Manual Shift Linkage' was critiqued by Consumer Guide magazine in that era.
My new favorite channel, I Remember thinking The Lebaron convertible was really cool when I was a kid.
I'm a 90's kid and thought the flip up headlights were cool
@@dontelindsey5846 Someone who lived down the street had a black one, but it wasn't a convertible but still cool looking car, I dug the flip up headlights too.
I did get a ride in a J-body Lebaron convertible(the one with hidden headlights). It was an interesting ride.
It Still IS!!!❤
I had a 93 Chrysler lebaron with red landau top, I really loved that car, for me it was luxurious and sporty. That 160hp 3.0 v6 was great and got good mileage. The transmission went out on it and I couldn’t afford to repair it. So I got a 90 Cadillac sedan deville from one of they buy here pay here places and and I’ve been driving cadillacs ever since!
My mother had a 1980 LeBaron coupe. It was beautiful with wire wheel covers and opera lamps. I loved that car!
You forgot to mention it's infamous role in Seinfeld as George Costanza's "Jon Voight's" LeBaron
Don't you mean John Voight?
@@Hotlog69 the periodentist?
Or was it John Voit? :-)
And Jon Voits pencil!!
It caught on fire.
Still binge watching your videos. Great stuff man!
My grandfather had an ‘87 LeBaron and he loved it.
Bro!
That Shatner insert was freaking hilarious!!!
The rest of the video was cool too.
Those 82-84 Lebaron Town and country convertibles were cool and are collectable today.
Khhhhaaaannnnn....freaking hilarious, keep them coming with the great content.
I laughed myself silly 😂😂😂😂😂
I absolutely love this channel on older cars from the 80's and 90's that's my generation!! Plus please never change your sound track music you use on your videos so cool.
Loved the Video. I think that the Chevy Citation and all the other names it had deserves a Video
Chevy Citation, Oldsmobile Omega,Pontiac Phoenix,and Buick Skylark were the X- body cars.
@@corvetcoyote443 They all deserve a video. The Chrysler K-cars also deserve a video as well.
"the door is a jar"
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I so excited 🤪 My Grandfather was “Mopar or no car” He bought Grandma a brand new 1987 Lebaron.
This channel is exactly like old car memories channel but on 2x speed 🙂👍👏
My older brother's 1st car was the Woody LeBaron. His friends literally called it Woody and laughed at it. It grew on me and if I could find a really good condition one today I would consider buying it.
I had a, I think it was a 1989, turbo coupe. IT HAD THE GREATEST SEATS EVER! I still remember what a high beltline it had. You sat down IN it and I loved it. Was wrecked 3 times and kept going. My brother finally finished it off when he went off the road and hit a culvert. BUT THOSE SEATS! I've been looking for seats as comfortable a those grey leather, bolstered, tilting head rest beauties ever since.
One of my favorite channels right now, keep up the great work!
There's a good many cars I remember fondly that aren't around much anymore, the Chevrolet Lumina, Ford Windstar, Ford Freestar/Mercury Monterey, Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique, Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz, Buick Century, LeSabre, Park Avenue, Ford Taurus/mercury Sable and the venerable Volvo 850, some are still commonplace because they're reliable or ended production recently, though the cars I remember are the older generations which are not commonly found on the road anymore
I’m such a fan of your channel & content. It’s amazing that at 40yo, I’ve seen or experienced every old scene through this video - from John Candy in ‘Planes, Trains, & Automobiles’ to the electronic toys I had that spoke to the T&C stationwagon.
My favorite uncle passed a few months ago and speaking at his memorial, I recalled my memories of riding in the jump seat of his T&C stationwagon as a youngster, and his specific influence on my love for automobiles. Ironically, right before he died, we talked about that stationwagon and he said it was the worst car he ever owned because he loved it, but lived in the repair shop. 😂
Thanks for the enjoyable nostalgia! 🔥
I owned two 1989 Plymouth Acclaims. I had mixed feelings about whether they were good cars or not but I kept one to over 200,000 miles. Thanks Pat for another great video. There was a lot of history in this issue and I particularly like the humor.
I liked the talking car part as a kid. Drivers door is ajar! Key in ignition! Headlights are on! Etc. Definitely ahead of the time. And whomever gave the two thumbs down, you're definitely not car people and don't deserve this amazing, growing channel! Go away! Ha ha
My family was big into Chryslers and Dodges. They did have an 83 Lebaron Wagon with the voice alert. I had 2 Daytonas. My 85 had the voice alert. I almost bought a Lebaron GTC but got the 2nd Daytona instead. All nice cars for that era.
I got a 93 LeBaron convertible with less than 110,000 miles and l drive it everywhere and still love it!
My grandfather had a K-car Lebaron convertible with the turbo back in the 80s. One of my aunts had a white on white last gen Lebaron convertible in the 90s.
There's a green last gen Lebaron convertible at a house in the neighborhood I live in.
I love the smooth, sporty, aerodynamic design of the last gen.
My first ever car purchase was a 1991 Le Baron convertible. Dark Quartz color with grey interior, base model. I worked for a company that made parts for the AA body (4 door Spirit, Acclaim, & Le Baron). My car was made in St. Louis, but I was at the Newark assembly plant when the 1991 Model year kicked off, they had just wrapped up the test builds of the Coupe and Convertible at the factory. I also got to see the AA Chrysler Saratoga being built for export. The Top was down more from September to May than it ever was during the summer. (You can heat a convertible to a tolerable level in the cooler months, but the AC could not keep it cool in the summer with the top down. South Carolina summers are HOT)
Love this video. I had a ‘94 LeBaron convertible that I really liked. It was a good car. But some I’d like to see are first generation Prelude, CRX, Isuzu Impulse (all of which I owned at some point) and perhaps a Buick Somerset before it became Skylark. Thank you for your videos. Brings back some good memories!
Please do a video on the Dodge/Plymouth Neon.
Only yesterday I was thinking about the first gen 96' Dodge Neon my friend had and how I hadn't seen many recently and how all the people who got them in the mid 2000's were young dudes who put body kits on them with unfinished primer on the kits. Then yesterday evening I see a 2nd gen red one that had a bad rattle can paint job, but at least not all modded out. Then a few hours later another 2nd gen with crappy black paint job and the wrong wheels. The red one was on someone's front lawn, looked like it had been sitting a while, dusty. With a few other project cars on the driveway. Obviously the lowest priority vehicle they had. The black one was at a fast food restaurant, so it was was still roadworthy. I always thought the new Dodge Dart was supposed to be the new Neon. I liked it's looks, but they canceled it a few years back. A work colleague had gotten that Dart brand new in white and drove it everywhere across the west to see every national park within driving distance over the next few years. Plus a ton of other road trips, seemed to have served him well I believe he still has it.
@@marcusdamberger Holy! That’s quite a stretch of reading 😅
The Dodge Neon was a modern-day gremlin
4:09 Please do a video on that generation Grand Prix. Or all the General Motors G bodies.
I remember when I was a kid my dad rented one of the 80's LeBaron convertibles, I was like wow when I got to ride in it.
They were good for the short term like rentals, or a lease, but for long term ownership man did they have some quality issues as they aged like the bodies prematurely rusting out, and bad fuel pumps just to name a few issues off the top of my head.
Thank you for this video. I had the. 1987 LeBaron coup GT Turbo. The same silver color and trim in the beginning of the video. Brought back many memories.
These K-LeBarons were actually really nice... compared to many contemporary cars. They had great sounding radios/cassette-decks, very comfortable, and probably one of the best-handling vehicles I've ever driven in snow/ice. I had a used 84 or 86 2-door with that plush-ass, half-reaching vinyl top which I always kept Armor-all-ed. After driving a Chevy Citation, this thing was like a Rolls Royce. Aluminum heads were finished by about 100,000 though. It was actually very reliable, had the O2 sensor replaced a couple of times, that was it.
I am just old enough that I can remember all of the LeBarons, I heard of the Lancer (one of them is the reason why I am on disability, long story and I was not driving the Lancer, but I was in another K car when the accident happened,I digress) by Shelby, but I heard that Lancer was sold as a Lancer Pacifica. My favorite LeBaron was the 78 LeBaron medallion LE coupe, sharp car.
I love LeBarons. I had 2 convertibles back in the 90’s.
My first car was an 85 LeBaron GTS Turbo loved it and your videos !
I only want one if it comes with "rich Corinthian leather"
1975 Chrysler Cordoba
That was the Cordoba.
Any difference with Asgardian leather?
Good one 3:18. Same thing Castanza shouted who again coincidentally owned Jon Voight's LeBaron.
3:43 Hoovie!!!! I didn't know he buried one of these too!
He got IT from a guy who owned 22 lebaron's,he wanted with no rust,of course the car was full of holes and even the engine required a lot of work
3:07 I just watched Star Trek II for like the thousandth time!! That's one of the Best Lines in All of Movie history!!❤😂😂
I’m loving all your videos! Hoping to see an actual K car video. I had a Plymouth Reliant wagon with the Mitsubishi 2.6 engine
Great videos! Maybe consider doing a video on the original Ford Taurus SHO. My father bought one new off the lot in 1988, his first ever new car and it was amazing! He traded in an old KP61 Toyota Starlet, itself an interesting vehicle, one wheel drive ( hilarious to drive in northeast winters btw), so you can imagine the excitement when he brought the SHO home. Also maybe one on the original Plymouth Voyager, my mother traded in an old 1977 Pontiac Bonneville for an extended wheel base Voyager in 1989 once the Pontiac's transmission started to go out. Not as much fun as the Taurus but still a nostalgic car. Cheers!
My grandmother had a early/mid 80's LaBaron, new. Then traded up to ab used 1986 New Yorker. That car was luxury on wheels to a 15 year old kid in the early 90's. I would absolutely LOVE to have one of those cars today.
Chevrolet Citation was my first car…would like to see that! Keep these videos rolling! 😎👍🏽
They were terrible cars.
I always loved the LeBaron convertible, now I would like to see the Cadillac Cimarron if you haven't featured it yet.
I agree. My parents bought a brand new 1984 Cimarron with all of the options. It gave my parents and family 355,000 miles of decent reliability, performance and economy. It was a simple frayed and worn "throttle valve cable" that ruined the transmission. My brother was driving it at that time and had that cable been replaced immediately when the gas pedal got mushy feeling, it would still be operating today. I feel it's a much better car than folks stereotype it to be.
My dad had a thing for 1980's LeBaron Convertible Turbo's, and predictably, for Chrysler TC by Maserati's. I sold all 5 of them for him on EBAY, as well as a Buick Park Avenue 3800 Ultra supercharged; after he suffered a series of TIA's and could no longer see well enough to drive. Like these cars, he is gone now, and so is the world he knew.
I had a red 95 GTC with white top, the only convertible I've ever owned. I love that car.
My parents had a 92 LeBaron convertible and I loved the retractable headlights and cool (for the time) interior.
Great videos! Wow, what a throwback to my younger days. We had so many of these cars in my house growing up! I had a 97 Talon TSi AWD, followed by a Eldorado ETC of the same year. I would love to see a video on either! Cheers!
At 1:54 seconds in your video, the Aspen on top looked exactly like my parents yellow 1977 Volare which is shown there on the bottom in blue, it had the wire wheel covers too and they got stolen three separate times and each time Geico gave my mom a new set each time
Nicely done. I forgot how many models they had over the years with the same name.
My father had a 1980 LeBaron. It ran without major problems for many years. As it passed 250k, rust set in, the driver's seat started to sink, and the doors started coming apart. Eventually he got rid of it, but it was still running smoothly.
First car was an 89 just like you showed in red with the black soft top. Miss that car, need to find another one.
What about Plymouth Caravelle? A twin of Dodge Diplomat - perhaps only in Canada?
I had a 1985 Plymouth Caravelle back in the day and i live in the states.
The Caravelle Salon was the twin of the Diplomat (M-body), that name was used in Canada in place of Gran Fury, and then there was the FWD Caravelle, the twin of the Dodge 600 (E-body) which also came in a 2 door coupe, exclusive to the Canadian market.
Thanks for this video. I suggest exploring the Imperial marque (1955-1975) that you reference here, including the flagship Imperial LeBaron, and also another longtime Chrysler nameplate, the New Yorker.
How about the dodge/Plymouth colt?
My dad had one when I was a kid. He got it when I was in kindergarten, and I learned to drive stick on it when I was 16. By the time it was done when I was 19 (someone rear ended my dad doing about $150 of damage totaling the car), the clutch was optional.
The (lack of) options were crazy. No AC, given on a $7000 car. But then no tach, no clock, no radio. If you wanted the door to stay locked when you shut it, you had to hold the handle when you closed the door. Otherwise had to lock it with the key. Still a lot of good memories!
Would like to see 80's grand marquis station wagon as a video
The LeBaron was a nice looking car for its time.
I had a coupe, two convertibles, and a GTS version. Some of the most beautiful cars ever.
Love this channel it always shows unusual and undesired cars and made us realize that these cars actually good cars that really work.. great video coverage .. 😎👉🏾👍🏾🛎
My dad and I rented a maroon GTC turbo convertible on vacation back in La in 1989. That thing had some power!😜
Anything with James Earl Jones as the voice just makes you want to buy it.
I had a 1995 Chrysler Saratoga from 2011 until 2017. Saratoga was the name under which the LeBaron Sedan was sold in some European Counties. It was on of the most reliable cats I ever had.
Could you please do the Mazda Mx series cars??
😆😂🤣 Adding a captain Kirk screaming to Ricardo Montalban "KAN" was a amusing detail to the video. You make lol. I remember the Lebaron was the first convertible car since 1975 after the federal ban.
In my opinion the LeBaron convertible was the best car they ever had. I remember a friend was about 11 and she said she wanted a LeBaron when graduated high school. We laughed saying “that car could look like anything by then!” And by the time she graduated the car was gone!
Were customers confused by all the different product lines, names, deviations etc back then or did it all make sense. Looking back...it seems very complicated with all the Chrysler brands.
I had several cars during the time period covered but the one I'd like to revisit via video would be the Dodge/Plymouth Neon. I owned two of them and they were fun little cars. If it wasn't for a pernicious head gasket issue, my ownership would have been trouble-free. I had the base model but I lusted after the SRT-4 when it came out. The SRT-4 was a serious little hot rod for its day.
One of my high school literature teachers drove an early 80's maroon LeBaron drop top and it was completely mint.
I still have my 1993 Chrysler Lebaron convertible and it still runs.
I was once torn between buying a 92 Plymouth Acclaim and a 93 Nissan Altima. Glad I chose the Datsun
I had the 89 hardtop as my first car. Wasn't bad but no power. It was also fun to floor it and watch the electronic speedometer go crazy until you settled down to a steady speed.
Is it Jon Voights LeBaron?
No. It's "John" Voights LeBaron.
@@DMETS519 he spells it Jon, but w.e works for you.
@@jonnyfennessy9812 The John Voight LeBaron that George Costanza ended up was spelled J-o-h-n. That was the joke.
That wood grain in the thumbnail screams "Family Truckster"
Or the Gran Detroit Farm and Country in 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'
@@t.b.g.504 Planes Trains and Automobiles is a friggin hilarious movie, one of my favs.
The LeBaron was quite literally the S Class in Mexico, I have an uncle that was a millionaire winemaker. He drove a black LeBaron and I remember thinking how incredibly luxurious and elegant the car was. It was truly amazing to see it parked next to the VW Beetles that crowded Mexican streets back then.
Awesome show! I'm loving this content! I used to have a 86 lebaron 2.2T and also had a 93 Lebaron landau 3.3L. I really loved that 93. It was not a bad car and had quite a bit of pep too!
I've seen these cars around a lot. I'm a fan of the '90s ones. A friend of mine has a '92 LeBaron coupe for preservation.
Love this channel. I had an interesting first car that I don't know to much about and have seen so few of. It was a 1979 Dodge Magnum. I think the Cordoba was a sister to it. It had a 360 in it with a lean burn carburetor this was nothing but problems. But it had a sunroof. Turd brown and all rusty when I got it in 1989.
Please explain why at 2:23 the front of the engine is obscured.
Could have a look at the Austin Metro, then just Metro, then Rover Metro before finally becoming the Rover 100 series of cars.
Facinating story behind them, particularly when you factor in the various permutations on replacements and derivatives that never made it.
Could you do an episode specifically on all the K cars
I love your videos. You should do a video on the mopar minivans.
Hey, nice work with these old models... especially the Pontiac Grand Am.
You should consider doing an episode on the GM A bodies of the 80s (or maybe the Bonneville) in the future (I personally owned a Pontiac 6000 and two Bonnies).
I had an 89 convertible coupe. One of the problems with the canvas top was that holes quickly developed at pinch points.
Have you done the Chrysler Imperial yet? I'd love to see that!
2:08 Is that Car from the Vacation movie with Chevy Chase? The Wagon Queen Family Truckster???
Great video I enjoy watching it ! I remember these back in the day from the 70s onwards growing up . My parents borrowed of these from a family friend , a sedan version back in the mid 80s .
Please can you do a video on GM full-sized cars of the 80s down the road my parents and myself owned these cars back in the day .
While the depiction in Planes Trains and Automobiles was not flattering, it wasn't wasn't inflamatory. Car caught fire and still ran and went down the road.
I owned an 85 brown coupe with chocolate brown courdoroy seats. Very much a fancy looking K-car but nice to drive. Other than my size at 185cm was overwhelming the power seats I tilted back for my long legs.
My mother on the other hand had a new 88 a few years earlier. I bought mine used in the 90s. Hers was a white coupe with blue leather seats & interior. Had I my old LeBaron today I'd have shoved a block of wood under the seat to keep it from falling. Wish I had thought to do it then.
I own a 1988 Chrysler Lebaron coupe GTC turbo in gray fully loaded at the time with 30,000 miles in gray with black leather.. been in the family since new
I miss my 1983 Renault Alliance DL sedan. Strangely, it was the most trouble-free car I ever owned. I traded it in on a 1988 Mercury Tracer wagon when Renault left the country.
Subscribed. It would be nice to see a video on the GMC Sonoma Cyclone. GM had a manufacturing plant where I grew up so there was a couple of those trucks around town at the time. Last time I've seen one was at a used car dealer in the late 90s.
6:21 🎶 P-P-POP UP UP AND DOWN HEADLIGHTS🎶
love this content. Keep up the great work!
That 2 door model with the hideaway headlights was beautiful. I don't know how reputable, but they were the nicest of the lineup. The convertible was also one of the nicest for any brand. Once again, I'm unsure about the reliability.
We had a Lebaron convertible, the one with the hideaway headlights. Think it was an 89 or 1990. Great looking car. The V6 engine was terrible… exhaust smoked terribly and I was told it was valve lifter guides and was gonna cost $$$ to fix. I was forever dumping gooey oil thickeners in the crankcase to tighten things up. The wife drove it most f the time and didn’t get as upset with the smoke. She traded it in for a Grand Cherokee about '96 or so. I do recall the automatic top was flawless. I’d had two converts before that, a Corvair and a Camaro, both with manual tops, so the motorized top on the Lebaron was a real luxury😊
My brother bought one of those Shelby Lancers back in the day, he was one of the 500. It was OK, he had just come off of a Mustang Turbo and this time wanted something brand new. He wasn't one to hold on to cars long, probably had it a year or two and sold it for something else. One of his other interesting cars was the Cougar Eliminator (351W), That was a cool automobile; he had bought it used, hopefully whom ever he sold it to took care of it and gave it the love it needed. Wasn't bad but the trunk floor was pretty rotten from memory. As I remember the story they were delivered to your door and 500 of those were made.
Hi! Maybe Chrysler K-car or GM-U-van next time? Used to have one of them, great car for that time... Greets from Europe!
Awesome vid!!!