| One of the worst things about the Malaise Era (other than the ascendance of Captain and Tennile) was the lack of cars with convertible tops during the period. The last convertible Cadillac Eldorado rolled off the assembly line in 1976, but the decline of the convertible had started a few years earlier. The top-down drought held until the last of the Malaise years, when machines such as Rabbit Cabriolets and LeBaron convertibles became available. Chrysler kept making the K-based LeBaron convertible until 1995, but you don't see many of them these days. Here's a pair of early-90s examples I found side-by-side in a Denver wrecking yard. For 1991, the LeBaron was nominally built on the Chrysler J platform, but it was really the good old K at heart. By 1993, a restyle made the car look less like something that had stepped out of 1981. If I'm ever shopping for a cheap convertible with good parts availability, I know what I'll get!
from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com |
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