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Junkyard Find: 1977 Dodge Tradesman 200 Mystery Machine

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The Chrysler Corporation sold vans based on the B-Series platform from the 1971 through 2003 model years, giving them Dodge , Plymouth and Fargo badging along the way. This is a Chrysler LA small-block for sure, and that's a Carter BBD one-barrel carburetor, so it could be the original engine. Such luxury!

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Era Ends as Final Dodge Challenger Comes Off The Line

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We've slowly been saying goodbye to the Dodge Charger, Chrysler 300, and Dodge Challenger -- now we can officially wave goodbye to the platform, including the Hemi. The send-off at the Brampton, Ontario plant involved a Scat Pack Widebody Charger and, befitting Dodge's muscle-car image, a black Challenger SRT Demon 170.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Lancer ES Turbo

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The branches of the Chrysler K-Car Family Tree are far too numerous to describe here, since so many different K-derived cars and minivans were built from the 1981 through 1995 model years for the North American market. The Lancer name has plenty of Chrysler history. 1986 Dodge Lancer ES Turbo in California junkyard.

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Junkyard Find: 1991 Dodge Grand Caravan LE

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We've had a run of European machinery in this series lately, with six of the last ten Junkyard Finds coming from across the Atlantic ( one from Sweden , one from Italy , two from West Germany and two from France ), so today it's the turn of that most Michigandic of machinery: A Chrysler minivan. Lesser Caravans got a Chrysler 2.5-liter

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

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Lee Iacocca 's Chrysler Corporation sold K-Cars in the United States for the 1981 through 1989 model years, saving itself from near-certain bankruptcy in the process. Chrysler did perhaps the best job of recreating the occupant experience of, say, a Plymouth Satellite sedan in a vehicle that got twice the fuel economy. liter Chrysler.

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The Final Chrysler 300 Recently Rolled Off the Production Line

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The Chrysler 300 is joining its corporate siblings in being discontinued after the 2023 model year, and the automaker recently announced that the last car has left the production line. The Velvet Red 2023 Chrysler 300C rolled off the line last week, sporting a 6.4-liter Image: Chrysler/Stellantis] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

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Chrysler managed the feat for the 1949 model year; we admired a Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan from that year in a Colorado car graveyard last summer, and today we're going to take a look at an example of one of the last of the stopgap postwar Chrysler products : this '48 Dodge in a yard just south of Denver.

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