24 cars blue sky: Junkyard Find: 1988 Plymouth Colt Premier Sedan

16 - 1988 Dodge Colt Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin We see the occasional Colt hatchback in this series— say, this '84 Plymouth Colt Turbo or this '88 Dodge Colt hatchback— but the Colt sedan is stop-the-presses rare by Junkyard Find standards. Chrysler called this car the Premier, and it's full of unusual-for-a-badge-engineered-econobox options.

Of course, we can't talk about the Colt without watching this Redd Foxx Colt .45 ad, featuring a much earlier version of the car.
04 - 1988 Dodge Colt Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin

04 - 1988 Dodge Colt Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin

Just over 155,000 miles on the clock.
10 - 1988 Dodge Colt Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin

This seat seems to have manual adjustment controls, so what's the joystick for?
06 - 1988 Dodge Colt Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin

06 - 1988 Dodge Colt Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin

Nine-band equalizers were considered essential to a quality cassette experience in the late 1980s.
01 - 1988 Dodge Colt Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin