by "bwp240" (bwp240)
Published 12/20/2017 at 11:10
by "bwp240" (bwp240)
Published 12/20/2017 at 11:10
Tags: K cars
; Craigslist
; Npocp
STARS: 1
For some silly reason, I keep learning about all of these limited edition, specially made and borderline stupid cars. And most of them are from Chrysler Corp.
This example I found on my local Craigslist is a 1986 Chrysler Executive Sedan/Limo .
I was first introduced to the concept of a K-car limo through a mod of the great racing classic Midtown Madness. Somebody created a funny pack of K-cars that could only be dreamed up by Red Green. These included a monster truck, ricer racer, a police car, and the aforementioned limo. It was silly, large, and slow so you weren’t really going to be advancing much into the game, but to go into Cruise mode and try to lose the cops pretending you are escorting some financially strapped mob boss around Chicago was fun enough.
Then while doing random Craigslisting, I stumble upon this. It is a real K-car limo. Surely Chrysler wouldn’t be dumb enough to build such a vehicle. By now I should have learned that this is the 1980s, Chrysler is doing some dumb stuff.
The Chrysler Executive Sedan/Limo is for lack of a better term, a lengthened K-car. Quite literally... Some say that it was simply 2 K-cars cut into thirds where 66% of one car was mated to 66% of another, creating a K-car limo 32% larger than a K-car (the wheel base of the limo is actually 27% longer).
The car is powered by the Mitsubishi 4 cylinder which gives something of this size the acceleration of a tectonic plate. However, one thing it did beat other limos on was fuel economy. The car is very light compared to other limos, but one weight that it could not shake was that it was still a stupid K-car.
The only real way to tell the difference between the limo and the sedan is by the number of passengers it could carry. The pictures in this listing are inconclusive. We can see that the interior is period 1980s with more stuffing in the seats than a FAO Schwartz bear.
For $1000 you can ride around in this bed of K-car luxury or you can take bets with your friends to see how long and where the car breaks in half from rust. Either way, you would still be cooler than the guy with the TC by Maserati.
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"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/20/2017 at 11:13, STARS: 1
So they made a bigger version of their smaller luxury sedan.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/20/2017 at 11:18, STARS: 0
‘luxury’ lol
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/20/2017 at 11:19, STARS: 2
LeMons!
"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
12/20/2017 at 11:22, STARS: 1
I’ve seen one of these in person. When I was a kid. It was silver and parked in front of a funeral home in Somerset, PA.
It also had the “turbo” badges.
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
12/20/2017 at 11:29, STARS: 1
Opulence. I has it
"punkgoose17" (punkgoose17)
12/20/2017 at 11:37, STARS: 0
This is awesome in a horrible way. On the outside the Limo has the opera light and the executive sedan has a little window between the front and back doors.
I cannot find any pictures on an actual Executive Sedan. (Who would buy one of these for their own use?) It seems they built about 300 executive sedans and 1,800 limousines, or 200 and 1,500 respectively.
More info from my trip down the rabbit hole:
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1983-1986-chrysler-limousine-and-executive-sedan.htm
http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthread.php?119385-Does-anyone-remember-the-Chrysler-Executive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Executive
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/20/2017 at 11:39, STARS: 3
It’s got seats like a cigar lounge how could it not be luxury
"cmill189 - sans Volvo" (cmill189)
12/20/2017 at 11:54, STARS: 0
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
12/20/2017 at 12:02, STARS: 0
I would so ride this to prom.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/20/2017 at 12:03, STARS: 1
OK, true - and perfect for this guy:
"SPAMBot - Horse Doctor" (spambot2002)
12/20/2017 at 12:28, STARS: 0
I miss Midtown Madness!! One of my favorite games growing up as a kid. I guess GTA 3 replaced about 98% of the game play though.
"Sovande" (sovande)
12/20/2017 at 12:29, STARS: 0
When I was a kid my dad got a new job and one of the perks was a company car. The guy who held his job prior to him taking over had leased a Chrysler New Yorker. It was baby blue with a vinyl roof. My dad sucked it up and drove it until the lease expired, embarrassed the whole time. I have some good memories of floating down the highway in those ridiculous leather seats. They may have looked goofy and been crappy cars, but man, it was really nice to road trip in compared to the Volvo’s I had grown up in.
"So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky" (badams109)
12/20/2017 at 13:08, STARS: 0
Went to FCA’s employee car show and someone had a pretty clean one of these. My best guess as to why is that they had just found this ‘ one shared platform for everything’ idea and there was a LOT of cocaine in the 80's. But they were absolutely real and terrible.
"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked)
12/20/2017 at 13:11, STARS: 1
If you can find a better limousine, buy it.
Please don’t look too hard.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/20/2017 at 13:27, STARS: 0
“If you can find a better FWD 4 cylinder limousine, buy it”
Mergio would be proud.
"SpeedSix" (speedsix)
12/20/2017 at 13:39, STARS: 0
As far as poor car decisions go, this one isn’t that bad.
The extended Limo (the one you’ve shown) is actually about the same length as the Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham (D-body) of the 1980s.
"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked)
12/20/2017 at 15:00, STARS: 1
And with the best safety recall record over the past two full model years of any American automaker.
"bwp240" (bwp240)
12/20/2017 at 15:29, STARS: 0
Funny thing is the 1984 Limo actually was turbocharged (per Allpar)
"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce)
01/26/2018 at 15:51, STARS: 0
Similar to how people will ride around the country on a low powered scooter to “enjoy a leisurely pace” I would definitely drive one of these on a road trip where you never travel on a highway. 55mph and under the whole time. Convert part of the rear to a sleeping area and crash at paring lots of walmarts and meijers and whatnot. Or get a 24 hour gym membership to use showers and whatnot around the country.