Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Omni
Published: August 21st, 2012
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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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A very attractive twenty-something girl in our office drives a 80's vintage Omni. It's a little rough, but still in pretty good shape. Don't know her well enough to know if she's driving it for the retro-cool, or because it's what she can afford, but she rocks it rain or shine.
Remember Omni days.. better drive ability than a Chevette cause FWD but Civic & Tercel were better quality. To be fair to Chrysler Omni/Horizon had more insulation & safety engineered in than most imports of the day.
Look at what I found: http://tinypic.com/r/2q8rp7q/6 Screen capture of overheating Horizon from the movie "Trippin'" starring of all people, Donald Faison (Turk) from Scrubs.
Biggest shock of this post was remembering that Dodge dealers were still selling this car, fresh off the showroom floor, in nineteen-freaking-ninety.