Monday, July 16, 2012

Junkyard Find, Cold Blasted Edition: 1991 Mitsubishi Galant

I'm always on the lookout for weird Mitsubishi products when I'm visiting wrecking yards, but the dawn of the 1990s brought less distinctive styling to Mitsubishis and they tend to hide in the background as I'm walking the rows of cast-off machines. The bullet holes in this 21-year-old Galant, however, caught my eye. We'll return to the cars of the Brain Melting Vintage Junkyard soon, but today we're going back to the "traditional" Colorado self-service yard.
I'm pretty sure that Galant sales figures didn't have Toyota or Honda execs losing any sleep back in the day, and my recent experience with a rented '11 Galant convinced me that the Camry and Accord still have nothing to fear.
This one didn't make it to 200,000 miles, though 150,000 seems respectable for a Mitsubishi.
As for the bullet holes, it appears that someone went all gangsta-style on this car and fired a bunch of handgun rounds (I'm sure there's a reader who can identify the year, make, and model of the firearm just by looking at the holes) through the windshield into the front seats. The holes in the seats are at heart level, but the lack of blood and/or police-impound stickers indicate that the car was unoccupied during the shooting.
The slugs passed through the windshield, front and rear seats, and the sheet metal behind the seat before coming to a halt in the trunk.
I used to see this sort of thing all the time in Oakland junkyards during the crack wars of the early 1990s, and you still see the occasional bullet hole in junked California cars. This is the first I've seen in a Denver yard.
Will Galants of this era ever have any collector value? As Chou En-Lai (perhaps) said about the significance of the French Revolution, it's too early to tell.

22 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 01 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 16 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 17 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 18 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 19 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 20 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 21 - 1991 Mitsubishi Galant Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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