Chrysler LeBaron…The K car…A car that pulled Chrysler from the brink. A car that any normal person would run from, rapidly. A style so maligned it was the ‘other’ star of the 1987 comedy, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Nothing you would ever own, or then again maybe you would.
A car that your aunt, uncle, grandparents, maybe even parents might have owned. Having received one here at Aston Martin of New England (sorry, it’s not for sale, if it was I’d buy it) It’s a honey of a car, authentic town and country veneer contact paper, power roof, leather seats, a nice little 4 cylinder hummer of a ride. We ended up with this gem as a storage car for a client, and we were asked to get it back in running order as it had been resting quietly for a few years, so a freshening was in order. I was the lucky tech to get this job. One I actually looked forward to. Sometimes you need to get away from those V8’s and V12’s of Aston and see what Americans used to build when designers appeared to be having more fun than they do today.
It took about a weeks worth of this, that, and the other to get it back to a road worthy warrior. And what a ride! 10*F with the top down, heat cranking. A ‘classic’ of a different sort, but still a classic vehicle in it’s own right.
