"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
10/26/2020 at 19:30 • Filed to: None
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"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
10/26/2020 at 19:30 • Filed to: None | 4
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They still exist, both in the wild and on Autotrader :
mazda616
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 19:32 |
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I’d love a convertible one.
ranwhenparked
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 19:36 |
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My dad had a 3-door Shadow hatch as an unmarked car for awhile in the ‘90s, in an ice blue color. One time, his foot slipped off the brake pedal in the driveway and he drove through the garage door, only made a slight ding in the leading edge of the hood. I don’t recall riding in it much, since it usually only had one useable seat, but it must have been fairly reliable, since it stayed in the motor pool for 10+ years. I do have plenty of memories of high school friends and my drivers’ ed instuctor’s various later K-car derivatives, which would indicate that none of them were in any way spectacular cars.
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Boxer_4
> mazda616
10/26/2020 at 19:40 |
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I mean, I think this one is only 5 or so hours away from you... can you fit a 4 post lift in your shed...?
Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 19:41 |
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The convertible is cute. Green/gold is so 1993.
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Boxer_4
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
10/26/2020 at 19:44 |
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The 3 doors and convertibles are where it’s at with those. As far as economy cars go, I always thought they looked good.
Green and gold work well together.
adamftw
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 19:59 |
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My first car was a 92 Sundance, and it was an uninspiring pile of trash that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. It’s one saving grace was that it was a hatchback.
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Boxer_4
> ranwhenparked
10/26/2020 at 20:19 |
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There were a myriad of K-car derivatives around when I grew up - my parents had a light blue Reliant K coupe (the car I came home in), my aunt had an emerald green Spirit, my grandparents had a red Sundance and white Acclaim, and my best friend’s mom had a white Acclaim and prior a Sundance (which I never saw). They were never spectacular cars but I will always have a certain fondness for them.
I most remember my grandparents’ Acclaim, which was really my grandmother’s car. White with a red velour interior, and early model with the better looking finer egg crate grille . I remember sitting in the back seat on trips we would take when I would visit and playing with the in-door ashtray.
That car was involved in one of the first online purchases I remember - a hubcap from hubcaps.org - except for the YouTube videos now, the site hasn’t changed one bit!
Mark Tucker
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 20:24 |
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An ex-girlfrienf of mine had one of these. The only thing I remember about it was that she complained of an air leak under the dash, causing a draft on cold days. I checked it out and told her I couldn’t feel any draft, and she said, “But you weren’t driving in a skirt, were you?” Touche...
Jayvincent
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 21:03 |
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h- o-l-y c-r-a- p! I wouldn’t have thought that was possible.
FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 21:49 |
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How did one of these survive so long in PA without completely rusting away?
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 21:50 |
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Make mine a Duster hatch , green, with the gold trim.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 23:21 |
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Considering their massive numbers back in the day, it is not surprising that some survived, while the fact that all K cars were kind of terrible makes it surprising that anyone bothered to keep one this long.
My driving school had one, it was the *counts fingers* fourth car I ever drove (not counting other motor-propelled things, like riding lawn mowers, which I was driving when I was like 2) , but by far the longest I had driven one continually at that point and the first time on a public road (I won’t count that time I shifted my dad’s car into neutral and rolled it across the street when I was a small child) . I still remember that weird feeling of my first time driving it: terrifying, exhilarating, and disappointing, all at once. As I became more comfortable, the gutless little thing was that much more disappointing, but it was what it was. My instructor was the highest strung dude ever and thought I was a bad driver for some reason. 12 months later, having barely driven anything else on my permit because poor and most of the fleet was broken, I perfectly ace my driving test in a rental car with which I had about 2 hours of practice... That was another disappointing car for entirely different reasons.
In any case, somehow the fact that these were seemingly built to be disposable does make the survivors more interesting than cars that people cared about. These things all rusted to an oblivion within 10 years of production where my parents live and I lived for my early adult life. By 2005, seeing one intact on the road would have been pretty shocking, let alone now.
horizonsofkhaos
> Boxer_4
10/26/2020 at 23:33 |
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My parents had a 2-Door Plymouth Duster that they bought in either 92 or 93. I have always had a soft spot for those little cars because of that
. I never see any on the road these days. I almost want to find one just for nostalgia’s sake.
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Boxer_4
> This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
10/27/2020 at 17:36 |
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mazda616
> Boxer_4
10/28/2020 at 17:48 |
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LOL if only