When Chrysler took over the tattered remnants of AMC in 1987, they created the “Jeep-Eagle” division in order to sell Kenosha-ized Renaults such as the Medallion and the Premier. Chrysler back then wasn’t content unless Mitsubishi got involved, and so they slapped Eagle badges on a Mitsubishi Mirage built by DSM in Illinois. This was very similar to the Geo-ization GM applied to Toyota, Isuzu, Suzuki, and Daewoo products sold in North America. You don’t see many Summits these days (you also didn’t see many of them 20 years ago) so this find in a Denver junkyard was a rare event. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1990, 1990 Eagle Summit, 1990 Mitsubishi Mirage, 1990s, Badge Engineering, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, Eagle, Eagle Summit, junkyard, Junkyard Find, mirage, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Mirage, Summit
Tagged as 1990, 1990 Eagle Summit, 1990 Mitsubishi Mirage, 1990s, Badge Engineering, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, Eagle, Eagle Summit, junkyard, Junkyard Find, mirage, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Mirage, Summit
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