Is this a rare car?

[wikked]

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/4001573087.html

I've never heard of a turbo New Yorker.
Looks comfy as fuck.

[Irish]

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/4001573087.html

I've never heard of a turbo New Yorker.
Looks comfy as fuck.

Not really. They are.

[Nix]

I haven't seen one of those for a long time. I remember that chrysler/dodge used turbos on tons of their vehicles. Like the omni, caravan, lebaron etc.... It seems that after the GN came out around that era a lot of car makers started throwing turbos on everything. Like the thunder bird turbo coupe, I think even pontiac put a turbo or sc on their sunbird?

Edit*

You sparked my curiosity and I looked it up and I had no idea that Chrysler/Mopar used turbos on that many different platforms.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_2.2_%26_2.5_engine


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[Al]

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/4001573087.html

I've never heard of a turbo New Yorker.
Looks comfy as fuck.

I owned one!!!
The car didn't make much power, but the seats were some of the best I ever sat in.
IIRC, those are 16-way seats.
Those cars would also talk to you. "Door Ajar. . .Door Ajar. . .Door Ajar. . .Door Ajar"

I lent the car to a friend and he destroyed the engine in about 20 minutes. He's an ass.

[Prince Valiant]

Up until perhaps recently, and it may actually *still* be true, Chrysler had/has produced more turbocharged cars than any other manufacturer.

A large part of the reason for this was due to it's near bankruptcy in the late 70's/early 80's left little to no development for another engine for it's K-car platform, so turbocharging what it had, the 2.2/later 2.5's was it's most cost effective option. It wasn't a bad option either...yielding for it's time a decent 146hp when many of their v6 competitors ranged from 115hp-135hp. It was even because of their cash-strapped status that the K-car platform underpinned most their cars of that era even, rather than have multiple platforms.

Even when Chrysler began sourcing v6's from mitsubishi, the turbo 4's soldiered as it's performance remained a little better in it's smaller cars, and later 2.5 turbo's exceeded the v6's performance handily (150hp/210ftlbs vs 141/170). Heck, in the Dodge spirit, they offered both the v6 *and* the turbo 4 together....

As far as rarity of that New Yorker goes, given that 2.2's of that time produced ~ 96hp, more New Yorker's were probably produced WITH turbochargers than without...Hell, I think a rarer car would be the New Yorker's that actually came with the large mitsu 2.6 hemi inline-4 (that's how underpowered a 2.2 new yorker was considered....)

There is a local around here, Jeff, who has basically a two-door version of the turbo new-yorker (the first of the fwd "LeBaron") that while looking reasonably stock, runs low 12's, maybe even in the 11's now. Relatively simple car to modify...though to go as fast as Jeff's car, a bit more involved.

[Nix]

Does anyone happen to remember there being a black omni built up pretty damn good running around the Hwy area back in the 90s? That thing seemed like it was crazy fast or maybe my memory is shit.

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[EvolvedRegal]

Does anyone happen to remember there being a black omni built up pretty damn good running around the Hwy area back in the 90s? That thing seemed like it was crazy fast or maybe my memory is shit.

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If it was the GLHS omni, I think his name was Chewy or something like that.

[HITMAN]

My folks had an '87. it was a comfortable car and it ran 17.0-16.9 at the track. My folks went on vacation and I put 17 back to back runs on that car one night. I remember talking to Dr. Ford that night and laughing about how consistent the car was. A week later it got a bad case of 2.2 turbo disease, AKA a blown head gasket. We got it fixed and I never said a word about that little trip to the track until years after we sold that car. It was a fun, comfy car and it seemed fast after the two GM 5.7 liter diesel wrecks we had before it.

[eyeball]

Russ Jerome's black GLHt used to lurk around on Hwy 100 years back. That car was a blast. I think his son recently bought the old shell back minus the motor.

[Lash]

When I hear "turbo dodge" I shudder a little bit.
Cool cars and all though.

[Ricky Bobby]

I remember the glhs omni on hwy yrs back spanked the shit outta my buddy's Camaro lol

[-stew-]

Turbo K-Car. A nice Reliant automobile. I had one of the later generations of LeBarons, a 1988 LeBaron Turbo GTC convertible. Bigger, rounder and much better looking. White over white with red leather interior. Five speed. Fun car, although worn out and slow.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/jdmken/Photo0324.jpg

[Nix]

I remember the glhs omni on hwy yrs back spanked the shit outta my buddy's Camaro lol

Hahaha! No doubt that thing and Lilevos old mirage(?) Those I think are the two biggest sleepers i've ever encountered.

Stew: I never realized that the Lebaron had the option to have a 5 speed.

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[Moparjim]

My buddy Scott had a built black GLHS back then, we called it "the box" lol. It was pretty fast from a roll, probably had 12 second or even better power but he never got a good timeslip with it though.

[Russ Jerome]

Does anyone happen to remember there being a black omni built up pretty damn good running around the Hwy area back in the 90s?

The black one:
https://sites.google.com/site/miscmicsforlinks/Home/035.jpg?attredirects=0
Prior to that the blue one was on hwy often:
https://sites.google.com/site/miscmicsforlinks/_/rsrc/1246824256264/Home/051.jpg
The blue one struggled to go 13.9 but held its own in streetlight racing.
Excuses for black one include tire smoke but managed 12.0's at 120 on radials and pump gas.
I bought Scotts old GLHS too, have had several if only short term to strip for parts.

[Irish]

With an non-split bumper and a little more refinement, that intercooler might have been pulled off!

[JaMichaels]

Russ, do you still have my old 88 Shadow ES Turbo?

[Waver]

Does anyone happen to remember there being a black omni built up pretty damn good running around the Hwy area back in the 90s? That thing seemed like it was crazy fast or maybe my memory is shit.

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I remember the glhs omni on hwy yrs back spanked the shit outta my buddy's Camaro lol


If it was the GLHS omni, I think his name was Chewy or something like that.


Hahaha! No doubt that thing and Lilevos old mirage(?) Those I think are the two biggest sleepers i've ever encountered.

Stew: I never realized that the Lebaron had the option to have a 5 speed.

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The black one:
https://sites.google.com/site/miscmicsforlinks/Home/035.jpg?attredirects=0
Prior to that the blue one was on hwy often:
https://sites.google.com/site/miscmicsforlinks/_/rsrc/1246824256264/Home/051.jpg
The blue one struggled to go 13.9 but held its own in streetlight racing.
Excuses for black one include tire smoke but managed 12.0's at 120 on radials and pump gas.
I bought Scotts old GLHS too, have had several if only short term to strip for parts.

I think it is all the same one, and if it is, it was Black with a Purple Stripe going over the turbo vents. That was Scott's I believe (man I havent seen him for years). He had it back in 1997. A year later I found it on a shelby dodge website as being owned by a guy in minnesota. Russ, did you sell it to that guy? Wasnt it on its 2nd engine rebuild? I eventually bought one my self, however I sold mine a year later.

[The Shaolin]

Prior to that the blue one was on hwy often:
https://sites.google.com/site/miscmicsforlinks/_/rsrc/1246824256264/Home/051.jpg


I'm good friends with the current owner of this car :) He's daily driving it, chopped length and all.