Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Junkyard Find: 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Turbo

21- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

Chrysler hadn't been making the K Platform for long before they branched it out into the bewildering K Family Tree that confuses everybody to this day. Iacocca's Chrysler-saving (or demise-postponing, depending on your point of view) platform gave us both the worst car in human history and a Dodged-down version of the swanky LeBaron GTS. Here's an example of the latter that I saw in a San Francisco Bay Area self-service yard.
15- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

The Turbo I 2.2 engine made 142 hp in this application, which sounds pretty bad now that the Misery Package™ rental Corolla makes 132, but keep in mind that the Slant-6 in the '83 Diplomat made just 90 horses and the base 318-cubic-inch V8 in the '85 was rated at 140 hp (the cop 318 was good for 175 horsepower that year).

10- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

The word "TURBO" carried magical connotations during the 1980s, as did creepy car-stereo ads and graphic equalizers on factory stereos. That scratchy joystick-based balance/fader control lingered well into the 1990s in Chrysler products.

25- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

You'll find one in every car, kid. You'll see.

The cassette tape levitates right into the deck, while dancers leap over the car.

The performance sedan that will thrill you all the way to the redline… hold you to the dotted line… cover you down the line… and impress you with its bottom line.

Self-driving Lancers were all the rage. 00- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 01- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 04- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 05- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 12- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 13- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 14- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 15- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 16- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 17- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 19- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 21- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 23- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 24- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 25- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 26- 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

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