Mystery Car: Quick, What the Hell Is It?

by Murilee Martin

September 13th, 2011 1:37 AM

I usually limit my cars-in-the-wild photography to street-parked machinery, but I had to make an exception for this fine motor vehicle that I spotted in a Denver parking lot. I’m pretty sure I’m seeing Chrysler K-platform ancestry here, but… words fail me.

Quite a bit of labor-intensive customization has gone into this machine, and I can’t tell whether it’s a K-based kit car with further modifications or a 200-proof, one-of-a-kind dream project.

If I had to guess, I’d say there’s a late-80s/early-90s LeBaron in there somewhere, with custom grill, custom hatch, custom taillights, and custom everything. Your thoughts?

#1980s #Chrysler #ChryslerKCar #Custom #DownOnTheMileHighStreet #K-car #MysteryCar

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Modestholdings on Sep 14, 2011

Difficult to tell without being able to use my nose. But I'm pretty sure it's a piece of shit.

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Facelvega on Sep 14, 2011

I don't know what everyone is complaining about, it's not as ugly as a stock cougar. Really just take off the spoiler and hood ornament, change out the lights and a few other surface details, perhaps repaint and get some new bumpers, and it would look fine. Well fine-ish.

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