Charlie Who? Who Sheen?

Clint Howard, baby. RUGHEAD!

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/wraith/wraith1.jpg

duuude. 80s-cool concept car as pace car? awesome idea... they should still do that. seeing the corvette pace every major american race gets dull...

Oh my god. It's going in the JFG, right?

Christ - this is the second time this week I've seen a "Wraith" reference. I must have been 12 when I saw it, and much as I loved the car action, even back then, I knew it was a shitty-ass film.

At the hands of another company this did kind of reach street legal production, but it didn't look as good and didn't have 440HP:

http://www.allpar.com/cars/adopted/consulier-gtp.html

Reminds me a the Oldsmobile Aerotech:
http://www.fe3xolds.com/billporterfieldaerotech.htm

I wish I was old enough to appreciate the turbo K platform awesomeness in its prime.

Granted, the rest of the car was garbage, but those engines were really impressive, especially for the time.

This car and info was in Sport Compact Car this month. Too obscure to be unrelated.

call me ignorant, but can anyone define the term k-car ?

thanks

@bobbybidoua:
K-Series Is just a platform name

@Buckster

Thank you sir!

@bobbybidoua: Whoa! We've finally captured the coveted 8-12 demographic! Success! The K platform was the FWD architecture that saved Chrysler's bacon in the 1980s. Derivatives of it underpinned everything from the Reliant to the Caravan to the New Yorker.

The Aerotech is the automotive version of butterface. Did they think the headlights looked "good" in 1988??

@Davey G.:

My dad owned one of those... Chrysler New-York 1984 I believe... with that electronic voice sayin' shits anytime you didn't close your door or didn't fasten your belt

ahh memories!

@Davey G.:

Lee Iacocca's crowning achievement

The Wraith was a full on K-car extravaganza, I think almost all the other vehicles in the movie were Dodge 600s or other K variants.

I always get this film confused with another from around the same time...it also had a swoopy concept car, driven by a woman who was up to...something. Like I said, I can't remember. Black Midnight or something like that.

@bobbybidoua: K-Car: n. crap.

On another note, by girl-friend's (now wife) late-80's K sure coulda used 440hp. that thing couldn't get out of it's own way.

@MeatFarley: What the...Is that Kim Jong Il on the left in that pic?

@dculberson: Who cares? It went faster than a Veyron on 1/4 the cylinders and 1/4 the turbos and it was homegrown. Oh, and A.J. Foyt drove it on its record run. So don't be frontin' on the Aerotech, kids.

The K-car and its iconic turbo 4 needs to be represented in the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage in some way. This Interceptor isn't a production car, but Warren Mosler's Consulier GTP was. I nominate it.

Looks like Los Jalops are spending some quality time in the basement of the Chrysler Museum...

I always thought it was utterly moronic that they left the goddamn Chrysler Pentastar on the nose of the movie car. Nice to know that if you ever come back from the dead as a bloodthirsty vigilante wraith, Chrysler's got your transpo needs covered.

I swear I had the matchbox version of this, and I never understood it, until now.

@no_slushbox:

seconded

I went to elementary school with a kid who, after seeing The Wraith, insisted his first name was Packard. He'd actually get visibly upset if you didn't call him Packard.

@no_slushbox: Woah, way ugly though man... I don't know about that.

@bobbybidoua: Not to mention the goddamned "Your washer fluid is low" even when it is 3/4 full! I feel your pain, I had to drive a Champagne colored 86 NYer turbo to prom! The speak-and-spell voice also had an uncanny knack for interrupting the traffic report just as they started talking about something important.

Big, throbbing, mad props for the Wraith reference. Any movie with characters like Skank and Gutterboy has to go into the Jalopnik Fantasy Car Movie Theater. If we include the Wraith, we definately need to include Deathrace 2000.

I find it extremely interesting that Mr. Bumbeck has taken credit for a photo that I took at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum on September 30, 2006. For the record, the exhibit changed shortly after my picture was taken, so the background definitely was not as shown on the May 9, 2007 date that "his" photo claims. Interesting, also, is the fact that on the day after Mr. Bumbeck laid claim to the photo, a foreign language publication also published and took credit for the shot.(Por Oscar el 10 de Mayo, 2007- 6 comentarios » )A note requesting permission might have been in order.

For the record:[i.pbase.com]