While Ford and GM each had the resources to develop their own Michigan-designed subcomplexes for the dawn of the 1970s— Pinto and Female Star, corresponding- Chrysler could not afford the huge price tag for such a project. Instead, Chrysler’s European operations were tapped into some of the best-selling models across the Atlantic, giving us Plymouth Cricket (known as Hillman Avengers in the UK) and Simca 1204 (also known as Simca 1100 At France). American car shoppers looked down on those two models, but then Chrysler found real sales success by making a deal with Mitsubishi sell Colt Galant with left hand drive. This has become Dodge Colt, with sales beginning in the 1971 model year. Although the 1971-1978 rear-wheel drive Colts were once as popular as Corollas or B210s on American roads, they are all gone today. That makes today Search Junkyard, detected in a yard in the Denver area Last week was particularly interesting.
This car show signs of being in the hands of a speed enthusiast, including a after-sales steering wheel and one-piece racing seats with five-point harness slots. The gray primer is another clue.
Rear-wheel drive Colts were pretty quick for their time, and they could be built honest fast with basic engine upgrades. This Mitsubishi Saturn The four-banger had a single-tube tip, a hot-rod ignition system and a dual-barreled Solex carburetor (manufactured by Mikuni). We can assume there could be some sort of cam upgrade under the valve cover.
The gear shifter is gone, but the original transmission in this car is either the base four speed or optional five-speed manual. ONE three-speed automatic was available for $270 (about $1,275 today). Thereafter, front-wheel drive Colts (and Mitsubishi Mirages) can be purchased with Twin-Stick acceleration system, giving the driver eight-speed transitions and a chance to perform Twin-Stick Beer Faucet.
The years 1977-1978 Avoid Colt two- and four-door sedans based on Mitsubishi Lancer and slightly smaller than the 1971-1977 cars, while the wagon version switched to Galant Sigma platform.
The label indicates the car started out as the cheapest 1977 Colt, the two-door sedan “Mileage Maker” (Dodge agency call it a coupe, so that’s what I call it in the title). A proper hardtop coupe (Colt GT) was available in 1977, but it cost $3,988 compared to the two-door Mileage Maker’s $2,984 price tag (that’s about $18,855 and $14,110 in the year). 2021). Meanwhile, as cheap as possible Toyota Corolla listed at $2,788 and a Datsun The B210 Honey Bee is priced at $2,959.
The ashtray is full of change, which means I’m one of the first customers to come to this car later yard staff put it in rows.
I extracted a handful of coins and found that the latest coins were minted in 1992 and are still nice and shiny. That tells us that this car almost certainly passed almost 30 years ago, when it was only about 15 years old.
It seems like a car will only get 34,593 miles in 15 years on the road, so I think this Colt has done 134,493 miles by the time it ends its career. I doubt this car could come from the late Bill Good’s collection, a Denver inventor and Colt racer who passed away a few years ago. A friend of mine ended up with a few dozen of his Colts, but found good homes with only a few and had to throw away the rest.
For model year 1979, Colt (and Plymouth Champ brothers and sisters) take the front wheel Mitsubishi Mirage background and never look back… until neon replaced it in 1995. Mitsubishi started selling his car with his own badge here starting from model year 1983, does that mean the Dodge and Plymouth Colts have to compete with Mirages are almost identical for over a decade.
Mr. D (Datsun) and Mr. T (Toyota) can’t seem to recognize Mr. M’s Dodge, this will be instant recognizable as a Mitsubishi anywhere in Japan.
