Junkyard Find: 1988 Dodge Daytona Turbo

by Murilee Martin

May 14th, 2012 9:00 AM

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Remember the rear-window louver craze? Thanks to the large numbers of Daytonas and Lasers that clung to life long enough to enter junkyards in this second decade of the 21st century, we can relive the Louver Era!

If I ever turbocharge my A100 van (I’m considering it; there’s plenty of room for turbo plumbing beneath the engine), I’m going to use this genuine Chrysler boost gauge.

These cars weren’t known for reliability, but plenty of them are still around. I saw this ’90 last month, and the Chrysler G-body isn’t particularly rare on the street even after a quarter-century.

Should we refer to the late 1980s as the Louver Era or the Turbo Era?

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GS650G on May 14, 2012

If you look at the shit Chrysler was making just a few years earlier these cars were a quantum leap. Sure, the Japanese cars were better in many regards but Mopar was written off as dead in 1980.

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Kathy on Apr 22, 2023

Looking for 1988 dodge datona

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