actually, RICH Corinthian leather is what Ricardo said in the commercials.
The earlier Cordoba looked nice to me before the stacked rectangular headlights.
No, he said SOFT. At least in the "new" Cordoba commercial. ;-)
(And he refers to it as the SMALL Chrysler?? I guess in the 70's, big cars were still BIG cars.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIL3fbGbU2o
And I agree about the headlights. Actually I don't think Cordobas are that ugly.
Ricardo Montalban,
Did use the words, 'soft', 'rich' and 'fine' Corinthian Leather in different commercials.
'It's better to look good than to feel good.'
Thanks Troy for posting the Cordoba commercial, I love all those! I should not have corrected you when I didn't know. Chrysler sold a lot of Cordobas. Wish they didn't all come with vinyl roofs other than the later 300 version.
HEY, I like my 300 Doba,,,,,and the whatchamacallit leather seats !
HEY, I like my 300 Doba,,,,,and the whatchamacallit leather seats !
I loved those V. Exner cars. It was the unique ideas that went into them like the daylight backlit dash , the big toilet seat on the trunk, and the long ram intake manifolds. Hey lets not forget the square shaped steering wheel. The rocket tail lights on the 62 Darts and Savoys.
I remember doing some work on a 300 Cordoba when it was fairly new.
IIRC, NOBODY was running dual cats with true dual exhaust until that car. Most "dual exhausts" were siamesed into a single cat, then split after into dual tail pipes. Maybe not fast now but in it's day, it may have been a hot rod.
bet this chick can catch a 100mph fast ball with no hands. ha ha ha
1962 'Look At Plymouth Now'
Do we really have to...........
Omni colt caravell . All ugly little cars.
Sorry I know there are a few of you that have one of these.But hands down this is the ugliest Mopar ever built....
wow that bottom one looks like something out of lost in space. heck they all do LOLAre you kidding? Lots of older Mopars had "unround" wheels, and they could be a PITA if you weren't used to 'em.
Let's not forget the "dashboard mounted" rear view mirror, so if you had more than two people in the car, the thing became useless.
Not really. Arguably the ugliest American car ever. We used to own one, and I thought it was ugly then. I was, however, thoroughly taken with the instrument cluster and controls. Dad liked the performance of the 61 well enough to replace it with a special order '64 Fury 9 pax wagon w/SG and 383-4v. Now that was a car!
That all said, look at these grilles. These two were separated at birth or Exner lives (through a proxy?)
No Memike, I don't think the '66 Dart was ugly. In fact that and the 64-65 Barracuda are my favorite early A's. (But then, I have restored 2 '66 Darts, so my objectivity is somewhat compromised.)
In fairness, I think just about every manufacturer has pumped out their share of homeliness.
Not limited to the early '60's either, LOL
The "whut were they thinking" dept
We all know it's not limited to the U.S.
Yup. That's right. Somebody you know DROVE one. In my opinion, these were only "less ugly" at the time because we had Pintos to look at
This came up in the search and I knew I'd never find another exuse
Nope!!! Not an improvement!! FAIL!!!
I'd say "yeah, it's definitely possible".....but I'd prefer to use the word "daring"......I mean, that's one angry *** front end on that '61! Also.....I wouldn't exactly say that other manufacturers were "hitting it outta the park" on styling in the early 60's either, seriously! I've often wondered what the hell happened between '59 and '61.....I think all manufacturers' cars looked just weird and crappy, and then started coming around again in 1962.
Some may think 66 Darts are ugly but I think they're cool. See similar lines? (I need paint and a superstock scoop.)
1962 plymouth fury 'commando sport'
the only way you could get a dog to pee on this car, is to tie a pork chop on it.