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Don "The Snake" Prudhomme did pretty well with his Arrow… and somehow the success of a vaguely Arrow-shaped Funny Car implied that the street version of the badge-engineered Mitsubishi Celeste would also be, you know, not too slow. More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Today we're venturing up to the state capitol, where Alan Galbraith- the man responsible for Billetproof- spotted this '77 Arrow, parked right across the street from his '76 "Hurst Edition" AMC Pacer. Now, we don't have any proof that Arnold hisself drives this car when he wants to be inconspicuous, but what better choice could there be? The rebadged Mitsubishi Celeste has governor-grade style, yet doesn't scream for attention. More »
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Back when we had the 1980 Plymouth Fire Arrow DOTS, commenter and Project Car Hell Poster Child SeanKHotay included a link to the image above in the comments. Our laughter at the rebadged Celeste's inherent Malaiseness suddenly seemed inappropriate. Our memories, they are like elephants', and thus we now offer you a Plymouth Arrow Moment of Zen. Enjoy. [SpecialStage.com] More »
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I spotted this car just a few minutes after shooting the '54 Chevy, and I must admit I was far more excited over the 27-year-old Plymouth than I was with 53-year-old Chevrolet. At first glance, the Fire Arrow seems to be just another tape-striped Late Malaise turd in disco colors, but lurking under its oxidized, arrow-decal-bedecked hood is the mighty 2.6 liter Mitsubishi Astron engine! By the standards of its time, the Fire Arrow was a pretty quick machine. More »
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Further proof that the definition of a classic car is changing as time marches on is this Plymouth Fire Arrow on eBay. The seller built this Fire Arrow using the parts from a rough original, and a body from a regular Arrow. He even had of custom set of Fire Arrow decals made to replace the originals. The Fire Arrow was a Plymouth take on the Mitsubishi Lancer Celeste, and had nothing to to with the also sold-as-a-Plymouth Sunbeam Arrow. The rear-drive Fire Arrow packed a 2.6L four, a five-speed, and four-wheel disc brakes. '70s adverts for the Arrow featured Harry Nilsson's Me and My Arrow as the jingle. The song arose from a fable Nilsson conceived while on acid and gazing at tree branches called The Point! We're holding out for a tow yard auction Arrow to appear so we can replace the atmospheric 2.6L with a turbocharged Starion mill. [Thanks to Al Kirschenbaum for the tip ] [Plymouth Fire Arrow on eBay and Arrow History via Allpar] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=292710&view=rss&microfeed=true While 1976 had America churning out Dodge Dart Lites and Plymouth Feather Dusters complete with bicentenial red-white-and-blue vinyl interiors, Mitsubishi unleashed a Lancer variant known as the Celeste. We mention the Dart and Duster because the compact rear-drive Celeste was also sold here in the States as a Plymouth Arrow, and if you wanted to get sporty - the Fire Arrow. Out of the hundreds of thousands of videos of kittens playing Yahtzee, parrots serving pizza, and old Charlie the Tuna commercials on YouTube, there are precisely two that have anything to do with a Mitsubishi Celeste. Here is the clearer one. – Mike Bumbeck More »
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