Here's the situation: You're a Chrysler engineer. Your boss Lee Iacocca told you and your buddies to make a sports car that can run with the Trans Am and the Supra. Unfortunately, the year is 1984, so all you've really got to work with is the K-car platform. So what do you do?

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Some cars are very much of their time; for example, the Chrysler Laser.