@@Pyjamarama11don’t know why you’re putting judgements on this person’s living situation, that has absolutely nothing to do with this video and it’s not related to the car whatsoever. The damage done to the interior of the car is from water damage. The sun beating down on the fragile fabrics and plastics also are a major cause for the condition of the interior and nothing else. It’s just how these cars were made.
In Chrysler commercials of the 1980s, Lee Iacocca said their cars were just as good as the Japanese. "If you can find a better car buy it!" Of course, Chrysler's buils quality is nowhere as Honda and Toyota
Around 15 years ago, i was very close to buying a Dodge Daytona Shelby Z, can't remember what year it was, but it was in great shape all except for... it looked like it was left out in a hail storm. Little dents scattered around. I just wanted a car to drive and thought it looked kinda fun. I sort of doubted the Shelby name on it. Still though. Anyway someone else bought it before i could, it's another sort of interesting vehicle i 'almost' had.
@@Dankcatvacs You didn't own one back then like I did. Good looks was all it had going for it. The least reliable car I've ever had. More in a comment elsewhere in this thread.
As a child of the 80s as soon as I saw this thumbnail I knew this was a much watch for me. Nostalgia overload on this one. I was too young to drive yet but I saw a 1986 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z with red on top and silver on the bottom in the showroom when my dad was buying a new car and I wanted one so badly. Tried to talk my dad into getting that one but he wasnt having it lol.
I loved these back in the 80s because they were very attractively styled. This year/bodystyle car, in jet black or "arrest me" red and with a 5 speed and a non-destroyed interior, was a bad ass machine back when I was 11-12 years old in those days.
I very clean one just popped on Bring a Trailer. It’s very clean with a 5-Speed. I must resist the urge to buy it. Would look great next to my Fiero. Great review Zack.
Back in college I had an 87 LeBaron with the 2.2 turbo….Car and Driver at the time called the engine “lumpy but lovable” and that’s a pretty accurate description. It was rough noisy, buzzy with tons of turbo lag, but when that turbo finally kicked in, it was fast and brought a smile (once you wrestled it back into a straight line from all the torque steer).
My first new car was a 1985 Daytona, white, non-turbo (insurance in Chicago was crippling if you bought the turbo) with a 5-speed. I bought the rear wiper and defroster. Took forever to get delivery because the dealership messed up and ordered it without tinted glass! I kept it until 2015, when I left it idling for an extended time, not realizing the electric fan had failed - so I baked the motor. Oh, well! I liked it. With the manual it was engaging, held a lot of gear (I drove it to Massachusetts with a 4x8 trailer kit in the back, which I assembled there to haul back some furniture), got good gas mileage, and was different. Plus mine was clean.
My sister had this car when she was in college and it was terrible blind spots everywhere and I would never get one and I'm glad that she didn't get into a bad accident with it
I had a 1984 Chrysler Laser (the twin to the Daytona) and when I finally let it go in the early 90s (after hitting a deer) it looked better than this. It was fun while it lasted.
My neighbors had one of these when i was a teenager, same brown and beige but it was an 84' My father had a 90' Shelby Daytona VNT. it was quick but the torque steer was a little over the top.
No way in hell. I had one. It was pretty slow, even for the era. At the same time I had a hot-rodded '84 VW Rabbit (1st gen Golf) that left it in the dust. The Daytona would have beat a stock VW though. I can only imagine how slow the normally asperated version of this and other K cars were.
A few points: Chrysler didn't have a straight 6 to drop into this to match the z car (granted they had the slant six, but power to displacement that engine was very low output around 100 horsepower out of a 3.7 L engine compared to some versions of the 2.2 that generated a little over 100 horsepower. It makes sense that they wouldn't use a slant six into this beyond the fact I don't think it would fit). When Chrysler developed this it was on a tight budget. They barely had the money to develop the minivan. What they had was a front wheel drive K platform with the engines that it had. It's also worth noting that Chrysler probably went with front wheel drive on this because it was the rage during the '80s. They're attempts of the Dodge Mirada was a rear wheel drive V8 and the car completely failed. If I remember things correctly, the prior year they had just discontinued the so-called Dodge Challenger which was a rebatched Mitsubishi that was rear wheel drive four-cylinder and it wasn't all that great a seller. In the later Chrysler conquest which was also a rebadged Mitsubishi rear wheel drive wasn't that great a seller. I don't blame them for trying something different which ended up working, besides we're only talking about about 142 horsepower here and the most powerful version ever to come out was the IROC RT which generated 224 horsepower, It's not like this was packing a 300 plus horsepower V8 engine. On styling, They can't be too precise in their copying otherwise they're going to be sued. Be thankful that they chose to turbocharge the 2.2 so then it could have at least some level of performance. This is what they had and it sold well throughout the '80s. It wasn't until the '90s that the popularity began to diminish whenever Chrysler started to offer DSM models within their own dealers taking sales away from it not to mention the stealth. They were a decent offering on a price point that Chrysler could afford to develop. Also remember, during this time frame, the company was reeling from the two fuel crisises so their priority was to try to make as desirable cars that they could at a price point that were good on gas. Something they would benefit a lot from today.
At the time, a coworker of mine had one of those. Its tires were much more aggessive looking than on the one in this video (and somewhat more so than on my ‘85 Laser).
Having grown up in that era, this car really says "hooligan" to me. Edit: if a car is all black people call it "murdered out". What would you call a brown on brown car?
Oldsmobile is another car company that didn't age well. When new, they were great. 7-10 years of use and they're worn out. Styling, if you can call it that, was unique. Don't get me started with Plymouth, Mercury, Pontiac, Saturn, etc.
I had an '86 Daytona Turbo Z. Much more upscale options, but otherwise similar. IMHO, it was pretty slow even for the era. My hot-rodded '84 VW would leave it in the dust. It was also the least reliable car I've ever had. The head gasket failed twice while under warranty and again after that. Another time, the cam seized in the head and stripped the teeth off the timing belt while going down the highway. That was under warranty fortunately. The electronics failed randomly, a different module every time. Even though it looked pretty cool, I was glad to be rid of it.
@ShootingCars Quite a few to name 😅.... 1998-2002 volvo s40 2006 volvo s60 2.5t 2007-2010 volvo s80 V8 2000-2003 nissan frontier SE V6 2016-17 honda odyssey SE 1994-2000 dodge ram (update) 1995-97 Nissan skyline R33 2006 saab 9.3 hatchback MORE VOLVOS!!!!!! 2002-2005 jeep liberty 2012 jeep rubicon Sahara edition 2005 volvo xc70 ocean race edition 2007 volvo V70 wagon manual 1988 volvo 780 coupe 2007 saab 9.5 sportcombi wagon 1997-2001 ford f150 2001 ford f250 superduty xlt tritonv8 2006 subaru impreza WRX 2003 lincoln navigator stock 2020 subaru forester sport 1994-2004 ford explorer/expedition 1972 dodge polara 1981 cessna 172RG cutlass 1992-95 1996-00 honda civic stock 2001-2006 ford escape 1996-1999 toyota t100 2016 toyota corolla sport 1998-2003 nissan maxima stock AND MUCH MORE!!!!!! Sorry about the long list, but i wouldn't tell you this if you weren't the BEST CAR REVIEWER THERE IS!!! Bro posts the everyday cars we see that nobody else will review unless it's some special edition thing. I love that about your channel. (Although I would love more acceleration shots tho). I really appreciate you getting back to me. Think of this as like a small wish list. You don't HAVE to do the cars but I would LOVE to see them especially if you review them... thank you very much for reading
Why say it has poor build quality when it has had a hard life. Not fair to the car My dad's Dakota has same seats still 30 plus years old . Age happends Love the car, dash layout, turbo gauge , Stop Zack this is way better than any rotary pos
Survivorship bias. This car has survived this long but most didn't. Chrysler has never been known for quality. Mazda rotaries are reliable if you know about the rotary's quirks.
I had an ‘85 Laser XE Turbo, and I’ll agree about the poor build quality, at least for initial quality. I special-ordered mine (got all the options except for AT/radio/tint), and it came from the factory with 7 different water leaks into the cabin. Took a small group of coworkers to lunch, and my group supervisor sat in the back seat. “Hey, the seat’s wet back here”. Found another leak! Long-term quality wasn’t too bad. The only real problem I had later on was that the driver-seat recliner puts all of its force on one front corner when you lean against the seat-back, and the seat-frame weld on that front corner couldn’t handle it. My cloth upholstery held up quite well for the 140K (maybe 150K, don’t remember) miles that I had it.
@@ShootingCarsyes. This was a dodge Aries with sportier body panels. The rx7 was a real machine! Like you said this is just ok enough to drive to Shop Rite. This car needed a new head gasket every 30,000 miles, unless you never pushed it. It wasn’t just terrible to drive, it wasn’t even available to drive so much of the time. I had one of these in the 80s, used, and a chevette. I liked the chevette better because it brought me wherever I wanted to go, whereas this piece of crap ruined several holidays for me.
I had an ‘85 Laser, and I think the car they were really trying to copy was the 928. It has the same general “fishbowl” shape of the rear cabin, and the upper trim levels even had rear sun visors, just like a 928.
Man, that interior looks nasty. I wouldn't want to touch anything without gloves but other than that, it's a great video.
Imagine what their house is like ...
@@Pyjamarama11don’t know why you’re putting judgements on this person’s living situation, that has absolutely nothing to do with this video and it’s not related to the car whatsoever. The damage done to the interior of the car is from water damage. The sun beating down on the fragile fabrics and plastics also are a major cause for the condition of the interior and nothing else. It’s just how these cars were made.
It's how it showed up here. Sitting abandoned for many years didn't do it any good.
Yeah Ikd how he does it
😂😂🤢🤮
In Chrysler commercials of the 1980s, Lee Iacocca said their cars were just as good as the Japanese. "If you can find a better car buy it!" Of course, Chrysler's buils quality is nowhere as Honda and Toyota
Bro was lying through his teeth.
80s Chrysler at that
Chrysler build quality from this era didn’t suck!! Toyota and Honda build quality sucked in this time!!!
@@ChryslerFan88 My dude, you are delulu
It's amazing that it's still running
I'll be honest. When I was 16 years old this was the dream car I thought I could actually reach. Lowkey I still want one.
Awesome car unique unlike the crossover crap of today
You better call karl then
Around 15 years ago, i was very close to buying a Dodge Daytona Shelby Z, can't remember what year it was, but it was in great shape all except for... it looked like it was left out in a hail storm. Little dents scattered around. I just wanted a car to drive and thought it looked kinda fun. I sort of doubted the Shelby name on it. Still though. Anyway someone else bought it before i could, it's another sort of interesting vehicle i 'almost' had.
@@celsovera91 I said it looked like carl's car when i saw it, i was going to paint it with "2 wycked" on it and everything.
@@Dankcatvacs You didn't own one back then like I did. Good looks was all it had going for it. The least reliable car I've ever had. More in a comment elsewhere in this thread.
As a child of the 80s as soon as I saw this thumbnail I knew this was a much watch for me. Nostalgia overload on this one. I was too young to drive yet but I saw a 1986 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z with red on top and silver on the bottom in the showroom when my dad was buying a new car and I wanted one so badly. Tried to talk my dad into getting that one but he wasnt having it lol.
I loved these back in the 80s because they were very attractively styled. This year/bodystyle car, in jet black or "arrest me" red and with a 5 speed and a non-destroyed interior, was a bad ass machine back when I was 11-12 years old in those days.
Yes! My neighbor Rob still has his from Highschool!
I very clean one just popped on Bring a Trailer. It’s very clean with a 5-Speed. I must resist the urge to buy it. Would look great next to my Fiero. Great review Zack.
Good news! This thing is out of my life and someone else's restoration project. Hurray!
I'm trying to convince my friend who's got a Lebaron to buy it
Inb4 FOLKS
@@steverado87 FoLkS!!!!!
I'd offer but my wife would divorce me.
Hi Karl!
This model was featured as the "hero car" of the female co-star in the TV series "Hunter"
Yes, And she had the car phone hook up inside. 🚗 📞 😊
Back in college I had an 87 LeBaron with the 2.2 turbo….Car and Driver at the time called the engine “lumpy but lovable” and that’s a pretty accurate description. It was rough noisy, buzzy with tons of turbo lag, but when that turbo finally kicked in, it was fast and brought a smile (once you wrestled it back into a straight line from all the torque steer).
Thank you for saying nice things about my Daytona Pacifica. Also good seeing you at CudaPete's
My first new car was a 1985 Daytona, white, non-turbo (insurance in Chicago was crippling if you bought the turbo) with a 5-speed. I bought the rear wiper and defroster. Took forever to get delivery because the dealership messed up and ordered it without tinted glass! I kept it until 2015, when I left it idling for an extended time, not realizing the electric fan had failed - so I baked the motor. Oh, well! I liked it. With the manual it was engaging, held a lot of gear (I drove it to Massachusetts with a 4x8 trailer kit in the back, which I assembled there to haul back some furniture), got good gas mileage, and was different. Plus mine was clean.
This car hasn't been cleaned since 1986 either.
Beautiful, beautiful car. Back when that was new, very edgy styling.
OH GOD
The owner couldn't even be bothered to take a wet rag to the center console before the video?
I'm shocked it's still running after nearly 40 years.
hey! good to see you here, I see your comments on Raitis Rides all the time!
A miracle considering the owner clearly abuses it
@@Pyjamarama11 long story short the car was basically abandoned with me and now I have to find it a new home.
My first car was a 1989 Dodge Daytona 5 speed.
My sister had this car when she was in college and it was terrible blind spots everywhere and I would never get one and I'm glad that she didn't get into a bad accident with it
I had a 1984 Chrysler Laser (the twin to the Daytona) and when I finally let it go in the early 90s (after hitting a deer) it looked better than this. It was fun while it lasted.
I personally think that 88 is really good looking.
This looks like i would expect one to look. Even in California you never see them on the road.
Your manners are impeccable
I had one like this in burgandy/red! (turbo!)
As weak as it was, it is what made me love turbo cars.
The last year of the air/oil cooled turbos . And a 10 second 0-60
I’m reasonably sure all the turbo 2.2’s had water cooling. I had an ‘85 Laser XE turbo, and I somewhat recall that as one of their features.
This was based on the Chrysler G platform, which was derived from the Chrysler K platform.
You are my good narrator I like your videos
I almost bought one that was manual. I was interested in the 3.0L V6 and also I believe one with the 2.4L Turbo option.
My neighbors had one of these when i was a teenager, same brown and beige but it was an 84'
My father had a 90' Shelby Daytona VNT. it was quick but the torque steer was a little over the top.
Frank Sinatra drove a red one in Cannonball Run 2, and it out ran Dean Martin's C4 Corvette. 😂
No way in hell. I had one. It was pretty slow, even for the era. At the same time I had a hot-rodded '84 VW Rabbit (1st gen Golf) that left it in the dust. The Daytona would have beat a stock VW though. I can only imagine how slow the normally asperated version of this and other K cars were.
A few points:
Chrysler didn't have a straight 6 to drop into this to match the z car (granted they had the slant six, but power to displacement that engine was very low output around 100 horsepower out of a 3.7 L engine compared to some versions of the 2.2 that generated a little over 100 horsepower. It makes sense that they wouldn't use a slant six into this beyond the fact I don't think it would fit). When Chrysler developed this it was on a tight budget. They barely had the money to develop the minivan. What they had was a front wheel drive K platform with the engines that it had. It's also worth noting that Chrysler probably went with front wheel drive on this because it was the rage during the '80s. They're attempts of the Dodge Mirada was a rear wheel drive V8 and the car completely failed. If I remember things correctly, the prior year they had just discontinued the so-called Dodge Challenger which was a rebatched Mitsubishi that was rear wheel drive four-cylinder and it wasn't all that great a seller. In the later Chrysler conquest which was also a rebadged Mitsubishi rear wheel drive wasn't that great a seller. I don't blame them for trying something different which ended up working, besides we're only talking about about 142 horsepower here and the most powerful version ever to come out was the IROC RT which generated 224 horsepower, It's not like this was packing a 300 plus horsepower V8 engine.
On styling, They can't be too precise in their copying otherwise they're going to be sued. Be thankful that they chose to turbocharge the 2.2 so then it could have at least some level of performance. This is what they had and it sold well throughout the '80s. It wasn't until the '90s that the popularity began to diminish whenever Chrysler started to offer DSM models within their own dealers taking sales away from it not to mention the stealth. They were a decent offering on a price point that Chrysler could afford to develop. Also remember, during this time frame, the company was reeling from the two fuel crisises so their priority was to try to make as desirable cars that they could at a price point that were good on gas. Something they would benefit a lot from today.
Damn, this thing reminds me of that bathroom scene from Trainspotting. Holy mother of filth!
The person who basically abandoned it here had it sitting for years!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very 80s and I like the interior with its gridlines, dirty though it is. The exterior looks like an amalgamation of 80s coupes.
I need to know if the tape player worked. Every Chrysler product from the 80s had one that played too fast for some reason.
Broken speedometer. I'm surprised the turbo wasn't burned out.
These things were so cool. Rear window louvers? Yes please!
It's like "The Starion we have at home"
This is one car I'd be fine looking like an idiot wearing a mask while driving
There was a Shelby version of the Daytona
At the time, a coworker of mine had one of those. Its tires were much more aggessive looking than on the one in this video (and somewhat more so than on my ‘85 Laser).
"...taking this to ShopRite and back." - someone's been spending a lot of time in Jersey 😂
Auto shifter is not good , That car should have had a 5 speed manual transmission it would have worked so much better
Man, I was soooo close to buying one in IL years ago.... after watching this, I'm glad I didn't!
Having grown up in that era, this car really says "hooligan" to me.
Edit: if a car is all black people call it "murdered out". What would you call a brown on brown car?
Rolling turd?
How do you know the mileage when the speedometer is broken?
They didn't even say they had to go the call was "lost" and no one called back
These things always looked to me like the perfect diy RWD project.
There was a "kit" back in the day from Chrysler to do just that!
Oldsmobile is another car company that didn't age well. When new, they were great. 7-10 years of use and they're worn out. Styling, if you can call it that, was unique. Don't get me started with Plymouth, Mercury, Pontiac, Saturn, etc.
If only it was rare wheel drive
You need to find a 1984 VW GTI , unless I missed one of your videos
I had an '86 Daytona Turbo Z. Much more upscale options, but otherwise similar. IMHO, it was pretty slow even for the era. My hot-rodded '84 VW would leave it in the dust. It was also the least reliable car I've ever had. The head gasket failed twice while under warranty and again after that. Another time, the cam seized in the head and stripped the teeth off the timing belt while going down the highway. That was under warranty fortunately. The electronics failed randomly, a different module every time. Even though it looked pretty cool, I was glad to be rid of it.
One of my friends was a Chrysler tech back in the 80's. He has zero nice things to say about the Daytona or J body LeBaron.
Nice Analog gauges.....
Do you take requests since you borrow some cars from dealerships
If I can find them! What did you want to see?
@ShootingCars
Quite a few to name 😅....
1998-2002 volvo s40
2006 volvo s60 2.5t
2007-2010 volvo s80 V8
2000-2003 nissan frontier SE V6
2016-17 honda odyssey SE
1994-2000 dodge ram (update)
1995-97 Nissan skyline R33
2006 saab 9.3 hatchback
MORE VOLVOS!!!!!!
2002-2005 jeep liberty
2012 jeep rubicon Sahara edition
2005 volvo xc70 ocean race edition
2007 volvo V70 wagon manual
1988 volvo 780 coupe
2007 saab 9.5 sportcombi wagon
1997-2001 ford f150
2001 ford f250 superduty xlt tritonv8
2006 subaru impreza WRX
2003 lincoln navigator stock
2020 subaru forester sport
1994-2004 ford explorer/expedition
1972 dodge polara
1981 cessna 172RG cutlass
1992-95 1996-00 honda civic stock
2001-2006 ford escape
1996-1999 toyota t100
2016 toyota corolla sport
1998-2003 nissan maxima stock
AND MUCH MORE!!!!!!
Sorry about the long list, but i wouldn't tell you this if you weren't the BEST CAR REVIEWER THERE IS!!! Bro posts the everyday cars we see that nobody else will review unless it's some special edition thing. I love that about your channel. (Although I would love more acceleration shots tho). I really appreciate you getting back to me. Think of this as like a small wish list. You don't HAVE to do the cars but I would LOVE to see them especially if you review them... thank you very much for reading
I sincerely hope some sends him a request to drive a clean example 240SX.
It's a literal mullet on wheels.....what trailer park was this towed from?
😂😂😂😂
One in northern Illinois according to the phone number's area code
It spent most of its life in the St Louis area
I hand am 87 Daytona Pacifica in the 90’s
Why say it has poor build quality when it has had a hard life. Not fair to the car
My dad's Dakota has same seats still 30 plus years old . Age happends
Love the car, dash layout, turbo gauge ,
Stop Zack this is way better than any rotary pos
It’s not better than an rx7 but thank you!
@@ShootingCars you love rxs but these 2.2 turbos seem to last longer .
Survivorship bias. This car has survived this long but most didn't. Chrysler has never been known for quality. Mazda rotaries are reliable if you know about the rotary's quirks.
I had an ‘85 Laser XE Turbo, and I’ll agree about the poor build quality, at least for initial quality. I special-ordered mine (got all the options except for AT/radio/tint), and it came from the factory with 7 different water leaks into the cabin. Took a small group of coworkers to lunch, and my group supervisor sat in the back seat. “Hey, the seat’s wet back here”. Found another leak! Long-term quality wasn’t too bad. The only real problem I had later on was that the driver-seat recliner puts all of its force on one front corner when you lean against the seat-back, and the seat-frame weld on that front corner couldn’t handle it. My cloth upholstery held up quite well for the 140K (maybe 150K, don’t remember) miles that I had it.
@@ShootingCarsyes. This was a dodge Aries with sportier body panels. The rx7 was a real machine! Like you said this is just ok enough to drive to Shop Rite. This car needed a new head gasket every 30,000 miles, unless you never pushed it. It wasn’t just terrible to drive, it wasn’t even available to drive so much of the time. I had one of these in the 80s, used, and a chevette. I liked the chevette better because it brought me wherever I wanted to go, whereas this piece of crap ruined several holidays for me.
This car appears in Demolition Derby 2 👍
The best car ever 😭
My goodness, it's so ugly and dilapidated.
I love it, how cool is that! I would rock this.
Porsche 944 lookalike lol
I had an ‘85 Laser, and I think the car they were really trying to copy was the 928. It has the same general “fishbowl” shape of the rear cabin, and the upper trim levels even had rear sun visors, just like a 928.
No imposter about it.
No fliplight option negative fitty ponies
Patina👌
Nice car
Awful era for Chrysler/Plymouth/Dodge coupes. Buy Mitsubishi Starion instead.
Thought this was a badge engineered starion.
Starion's are pretty sweet but they also have some crazy issues. I've had one before and loved it but talk about a nightmare EFI system.
Nice!
It's BROWN. He likes his cars brown. Brown food, brown drink.
Looks like it has Laser wheels
Sweet. 😊
Sealed beams are cheap. Replace them
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Your Mother is an imposter my good sir!
(you have two Fathers) 😲
oki so the turbo sounds sick...literally like ill sick...not a good thing
The 84-87 Chrysler turbo engines sound like this... The "log" style manifold and suck through design is not that great.
Is that even safe to drive??
Not any less than equivalent 80s cars
@ that’s not saying much
Gauges are dead lol
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dodge daytona cool car. it's a g body not k sorry.😅