Heep's Canadian Spots - Updated April 03

15,866 · January 28, 2010

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January 28, 2010

Well, it only has to warm a 1.3

15,866 · January 28, 2010

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4.1k · January 28, 2010

I don't know what it is (Chrysler badge?), but it is fantastic. Like a cut and shut roofwise, and with flip up headlights and all that chrome... wow.

3,258 · January 28, 2010

Proper cop car spec, wonder if this started out as a undercover vehicle?

Volare/Aspen - a rare car these days north of Texas, due to rust 'issues'.

January 28, 2010

I don't know what it is (Chrysler badge?), but it is fantastic. Like a cut and shut roofwise, and with flip up headlights and all that chrome... wow.

It's a 1990-1993 Chrysler Imperial. Terrible car but I love them, would love to have one. They never sold well and there's practically none around any more. Every cheap chintzy styling gimmick in the book on these things. Based on the New Yorker, which itself traces its roots back to the humble K-car...Yeah that Volare looked shocking solid, metal-wise anyways. Relatively rough in all other respects so it's amazing it's not a pile of rust dust.

1,639 · January 28, 2010

ThatÃ‚Â´s an Imperial too? Or another one?

Oh, and IÃ‚Â´d like to know what cars these are:

Celebrity?

Thanks!

1,371 · January 28, 2010

The second and third one are A-body GM cars (the third is a Celebrity, the second an Oldsmobile Cutlass); I reckon the first one is a B-body Oldsmobile Eighty Eight from '85 or so. Slightly bigger than the A-bodies, but built along much the same lines. A bit of a failure - they were designed to replace the big RWD barges, but didn't take off as expected.

4.1k · January 28, 2010

It's a 1990-1993 Chrysler Imperial. Terrible car but I love them, would love to have one. They never sold well and there's practically none around any more. Every cheap chintzy styling gimmick in the book on these things. Based on the New Yorker, which itself traces its roots back to the humble K-car...

Cheers Heep!

January 28, 2010

ThatÃ‚Â´s an Imperial too? Or another one?

Almost, that's the much more common Chrysler New Yorker that the Imperial was closely based on. Imperial had a longer, pointier snout with even more excessive chrome, a slightly revised interior, more vinyl on the roof, and full width horizontal taillamps (unlike the vertical units on the New Yorker).

As for the other cars, the first is an '86 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (same platform as the Eighty-Eight, but bigger and posher), and r.welfare was spot on with the others, an ~'86 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera and an ~'89 Chevrolet Celebrity.

March 2, 2010

I don't think there's anything particularly spectacular this month, sorry, mostly American this time. But here's the lot anyways:

For Mr. Bean-style driving?

V6 J-body!

Love those asymmetrically placed taillamps

Love these future shite

At the old giffers home

Looking rather under-tyred!

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17,519 · March 2, 2010

Yup, thats the shite right there.Do like the two-tone chevy GXY 447, perfect for taking bodies to the dump.

2.4k · March 2, 2010

What's that red Galant badged as??

3,258 · March 2, 2010

What's that red Galant badged as??

An 'Eagle' - a brand created by Chrysler for all the old American Motors products that weren't Jeeps. Mostly based on Renaults and Mitsubishis:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_(automobile)#Eagle_vehicles

March 2, 2010

Yeah, Eagle 2000GTX. I think those Galants had the Eagle badge in Canada only - Mitsubishis were sold in the U.S. from the '70s or '80s, but Mitsubishi as a brand didn't enter Canada until 2002 or so, so every Mitsubishi we received prior to that was badged as Eagle, Dodge, Plymouth, Colt...

March 2, 2010

I had an Eagle Premier as a company smoke in the early ninetys when I worked in the States. Frightful car with Renault V6

March 2, 2010

Cracking spots....I've always loved this sort of thing...

I used to watch all the US shows when I were a nipper, just to see cars like this, usually with the villains peeling out of some side street like this....

This is hot....

And am I right in thinking this is the same as a MK2 Cavalier from the A posts back.....? Kinda looks like it......

April 3, 2010

And am I right in thinking this is the same as a MK2 Cavalier from the A posts back.....? Kinda looks like it......

Yeah, GM J-platform. This one's a Chevrolet Cavalier. I'm not sure just how similar or different they are from your Mk2 Cavalier, but they're definitely on the same platform. This one is odd in that it's an estate with the 3.1 V6, usually only the sporty ones got that engine.