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    Listen To Your Heartbeat In A 1988 Celebrity Eurosport

    The Snake Wants To Put You In A '78 Plymouth Arrow!

    Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!

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    Image of quayzar quayzar
    11/16/09

    In reply to Listen To Your Heartbeat In A 1988 Celebrity Eurosport
    Only America could make a car that had Euro in the name that was never sold in Europe. #eurosport
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/15/09

    In reply to Listen To Your Heartbeat In A 1988 Celebrity Eurosport
    Uh, yeah. Of course. The exotic chick has never seen an automobile before, so she's startled when this dull, square, uninspired beast lumbers through her tropical paradise.
    Yeah, that must be it.

    Either that, or the driver is her Dad looking for her because she's SO in trouble for skipping school again. #eurosport
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    11/15/09

    In reply to Listen To Your Heartbeat In A 1988 Celebrity Eurosport
    The babe can haul on my lanyard anytime she wants. The Eurosport was way too little, way too late. I don't think I'll be returning that call. #eurosport
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Snake Wants To Put You In A '78 Plymouth Arrow!
    Forgot to mention that I've got one of The Snake's Childs & Albert connecting rods, courtesy of a friend who drives the oil-recycling truck that hits all the NorCal race tracks. Pretty cool wall decoration. #celeste
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    Image of MOPAR-MAN MOPAR-MAN
    11/14/09

    @Murilee Martin: It sure is! I have a Brooks rod and piston assembly that I got from my friend who was the bottom end guy for Dale Creasy Jr.'s funny car. I used to keep it on my mantle. #celeste
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Snake Wants To Put You In A '78 Plymouth Arrow!
    The main thing I remember about these cars is that in one of their ad campaigns they used the insidious & thoroughly annoying Harry Nilsson song: "Me and My Arrow", which he composed for an animated show called "The Point". Now, just seeing this thread reminded me of that, and I know that stupid song is going to be in my head all morning until I get rolling to run a few errands & have the chance to blast some Dream Theater in the car at 127 db in order to clear my synapses.

    I couldn't find one of the commercials containing that song, but here's a YouTube link to a version of it, if you would like to be annoyed along with me... #celeste
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    11/14/09


    @HoonThatFerrari: I always thought of the song as charming, but then again I liked Nilsson and can listen to "Coconut" ("she put the lime in the coconut and drank 'em both up") without wincing. Now that I've planted that annoyingly catchy song into your head, maybe you'll forget "Arrow". Maybe I need help.

    There were some people who wanted "Me and My Arrow" banned from the radio. Apparently, they misheard the lyric "Me and my arrow/straighter than narrow" as "straight up and narrow". Nasty little uptight imaginations set to work and interpreted the lines to mean someone talking about their erection.

    The Mitsu-based Arrow was not the first time Chrysler inflicted the name upon us. From 1968 to 1970, a version of the boxy Hillman Hunter was imported as the Sunbeam Arrow. It was pretty dreadful.
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    11/14/09

    @tonyola: "Lime in the Coconut", huh? Great... thanks.... now that's going to require a lot more than blasting Dream Theater to clear my synapses - that's going to take plugging the Strat directly into the Marshall & wailing on Ritchie Blackmore compositions 'til 3am. #celeste
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    11/14/09

    @HoonThatFerrari: Glad I could help. I can now rest knowing that I can take satisfaction in a job well done. #celeste
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Snake Wants To Put You In A '78 Plymouth Arrow!
    This is one of the most attractive Mitsubishis ever. That is not a compliment. #celeste
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    11/14/09


    @Alfisted: I'd happily take a late flared-fender Starion on looks alone. #celeste
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/14/09

    @tonyola: That is one of two exceptions (at least of those brought to the US) I thought of. #celeste
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Snake Wants To Put You In A '78 Plymouth Arrow!
    OMG the cutaway was to Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme!

    Interesting how this Arrow actually looks like a little Javelin/AMC/Eagle mixed up with a Japanese Honey Bee--and they didn't even have PhotoShop back then! #celeste
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Snake Wants To Put You In A '78 Plymouth Arrow!
    Either the guy in the video is 7' tall, or that Arrow has zero headroom. #celeste
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/08/09

    In reply to Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!
    I liked, and still do like, the later version of this car with a four-headlight treatment.

    Gotta love a 2-door car with not only the requisite A- and B-pillars, but also C-, D-, E-, and possibly F- is you want to get picky.

    Always like the tail light treatment on the later ones, too. Everything was angular, but not in a CTS-sorta way. #1979
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    11/08/09

    In reply to Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!

    They called it 200-SX so we Americans would think of sex...
    Had they kept it Silvia, we'd have pictured Sylvia Miles from "Midnight Cowboy"... #1979
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    Image of DrLemming DrLemming
    11/08/09

    In reply to Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!
    GM's legendary but rather old-school styling chief Bill Mitchell hated small cars. He once said that styling them was like tailoring a midget. The Japanese proved him wrong.

    Nissans and Toyotas of the 1970s were like shrunken American cars with an extra serving of whiz bang. The 200-SX is a good example, because it looks a whole lot like a 1968-72 mid-sized GM coupe but with exaggerated features such as an exceptionally sharp fender crease, extra-large stretch pants taillights, and a swept-back C-pillar with requisite "head wound" plastic vent.

    Sure, the 200-SX was awkward and overstyled, but it helped prove that small cars could be as baroque as big ones -- and that the Japanese could dish out cheesiness even better than the Americans. #1979
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    11/08/09

    @DrLemming: But even in the seventies, did anyone find that kind of styling sexy, or did it really need the little extra -SX in the name? #1979
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    Image of 62imperialcrown 62imperialcrown
    11/08/09

    In reply to Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!
    OK, Toyota was looking at the Mustang when they designed the Celica in the next post - what was Datsun looking at when they designed this, the Avanti? #1979
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    11/08/09

    @62imperialcrown: I'm thinking more along the lines of Citroen or something. #1979
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/08/09

    In reply to Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!
    Imagine pitching a car to the general public today with "5 forward gears." Of course, back in the day, a 4 or 5 speed = "sporty," no matter how tiny the mill was. #1979
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    11/08/09

    In reply to Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!
    It was a hard time for cars of all kinds. This was a fairly good attempt for the era. #1979
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    11/08/09

    In reply to Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!
    97hp + 2300lb is positively driveable by today's standards, really (not fast, but in real-world driving, you'd never notice). A bit more compression and less emissions controls could probably make that Datsun a lot of fun. #1979
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