Junkyard Find: 1982 Plymouth Sapporo

Murilee Martin
by Murilee Martin

It was just a couple of months ago that I shot this blue ’82 Sapporo in a California junkyard… and now here’s another Sapporo in the same yard.

Where have these cars been hiding?

This one managed to get close to 200,000 miles, which is excellent for a Malaise Era Mitsubishi product.

Yes, Malaise Era cars looked best in brown.

Rear-wheel-drive with a big Astron four-cylinder engine. The Sapporo and its Dodge Challenger sibling didn’t sell particularly well, but they had a certain goofy cool.










Murilee Martin
Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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  • Lboggie Lboggie on Oct 29, 2012

    Hello where can I locate the dodge challanger/sapporo in the caption picture I need parts badly thanks. email gladitor169@yahoo.com thanks What is the location/email address?

  • Nico Maxmillan Nico Maxmillan on Jan 13, 2013

    Hello I would also like to place an offer for the body parts as it is hard to come by in Malaysia. Please kindly email me at nimillan26@gmail.com thank you. Restoring one here, hope everyone else succeed in their project :)

  • Master Baiter "That said, the Inflation Reduction Act apparently does run afoul of WTO rules..."Pfft. The Biden administration doesn't care about rules. The Supreme Court said they couldn't forgive student load debt; they did it anyway. Decorum and tradition says you don't prosecute former presidents; they are doing it anyway. They made the CDC suspend evictions though they had no constitutional authority to do so.
  • 1995 SC Good. To misquote Sheryl Crow "If it makes them unhappy, it can't be that bad"
  • 1995 SC The letters on the hatch aren't big enough. hard pass
  • Ajla Those letters look like they are from AutoZone.
  • Analoggrotto Kia EV9 was voted the best vehicle in the world and this is the best TOYOTA can do? Nice try, next.
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