Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Omni

Even after Chrysler debuted the company-saving K Platform in 1981, the older Simca-derived Omnirizon continued to be built in large quantities. Sightings of te Dodge Omni, Plymouth Horizon, and their many siblings and cousins are very rare today, but I still run across the occasional example in the wrecking yards. We saw this '78 Horizon not long ago, plus this '84 Turismo, and today we'll take a look at an even later Omnirizon.
You could buy the Omni until 1990, just a few years after Chevrolet stopped building the Chevette. By that time, the straight-outta-1978 lines of the Omni were looking embarrassingly dated.
The Chrysler 2.2 engine had replaced the Simca and Volkswagen units used in earlier models by the time this car was built.
This car was about 1/100th as much fun to drive as the Omni GLH, especially with an automatic transmission slowing it down. Still, it functioned just as well as a Colt or Aries in the Point-A-to-Point-B driving world.

14 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 01 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1986 Dodge Omni Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin

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




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