Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Junkyard Find: 1991 Dodge Colt Vista 4WD

Unless there's a super-rare find that requires immediate action or it's half-price day, I usually avoid hitting Denver junkyards when it's snowing and/or below freezing out. Thanks to the magic of high altitude, it feels more like December than late April here… but checking the online inventory at my local self-service yard revealed a potential engine-donor for my '41 Plymouth project. Disregard the snow, pack up the tools!
The '41 Plymouth is a bare frame with Lexus SC400 subframes mocked up on it at the moment, and I've decided to go with the Vortec 4200 six as its powerplant. I'll be buying a complete donor vehicle, preferably a 2006 or newer Trailblazer/Envoy/Rainier/97-X/Ascender, but having an engine that I can strip down to a bare block for chassis-fit purposes would be a big plus. Sadly, the '02 Trailblazer I found in the online inventory turned out to be picked completely clean of anything I might want.
With so much snow on the cars, I didn't see many photographic opportunities. However, a Mitsubishi Chariot aka Dodge Colt Vista 4WD looks best when covered with the white stuff.
Chrysler used the Colt name for quite a few members of the Mitsubishi family over the decades, and it will always be a disappointment that they didn't call this car the name they used for the Chariot in Europe: Space Wagon. Space Wagon!
213,000 miles isn't too bad for a Mitsubishi of this era.
Supposedly there's a 98-horse 4G63 engine in there.


It appears that Japanese-market Chariots of this generation had some sort of weird marketing arrangement with Disney. C-H-A-R-I-O-T!

For added incomprehensibility, here's the European Space Wagon Trance Remix.

Calling it the Colt Vista led to boring North American ads.

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




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