Thursday, August 30, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1992 Plymouth Sundance

Chrysler sold P-body compacts in near-identical Dodge and Plymouth flavors; we saw the '91 Dodge Shadow yesterday, and the very same self-service yard has this '92 Sundance.
In the early 1990s, cars sold in the United States were required to have maddening automatic seatbelts if they didn't have a driver's-side airbag. Chrysler opted to spring for the airbags in the Shadow/Sundance.
Here's another feature you won't see in most compacts of the period: hood hinge springs. Yes, Chrysler was willing to add several pounds of weight and (I'm guessing) $5 in cost to each Sundance, so that owners wouldn't have to fumble for a hood prop. Corollas, Sentras, and Civics got no such convenience.
The problem was that these cars didn't hold up under the rigors of street abuse for quite as long as their (non-Mitsubishi) Japanese rivals. This one nearly made 160,000 miles.
The Pabst-and-Marlboro diet of the car's last owner indicates that perhaps the process of depreciation had gone as far as it ever would.

15 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 01 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1992 Plymouth Sundance Down On the Junkyard - picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

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




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