I was hemming and hawing until I got to the, ".....opera lights and opera windows,...." part, and then I was sold! NP! And thanks Graverobber, for an entertaining read and a great post!
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I voted NP by a hair. The early Cordoba is one of my favorite malaise machines. I think the styling has aged exceptionally well. It bothers me a lot that the till on this sweet barge is not original, but the wheels have me thinking, "maybe this is the low-rider I should build some day" (I've always wanted to indulge that guilty pleasure).
Not a bad price at all for this boat. Sure, I'd massage the engine and suspension and install duals, losing the catalytic converter (no emissions here in the sticks). Turn it into a road beast. You could cover some miles in this thing. In fact, a good road trip next year would be to the Concours De Lemons to enter this.
@CptSevere: There was a white one over in Benson that drove around for years with a "For Sale" sign in the back-window that eventually faded to almost the same color as the car.
Egads. I misread the lead-in as "Klan Endorsed" and the all-white car unfortunately did nothing to dispel it at first glance (SKI doth not have the brain-kickstartability of Brefass Scotch, apparently). Might consider changing the headline...
I love how this car is a blatant stirpot of every other automakers' faux-lux cliches of the era. Rolls grille, chrome-louver markers, round headlights on a box front, opera windows, coach lamps, inset taillights... and yet somehow manages to pull it off.
The asking price is in line with other well-preserved luxo-barges of the era. Not a bargain, but not obscene... its relative obscurity and infamy compared to other more popular badges of the time might even be worth a small premium to certain buyers.
I'm going to say "nice" but this guy left out the mileage--what's "low mileage" in a car that's 35 years old?! If it's "low" why not disclose it as a selling point? Because "low" here probably means "low six figures." And he's also a Craig's List a-hole who posts way more than 4 pix.
For 5 large you might be able to buy that house for sale across the street in the pix but the Cordoba probably has more square footage and a much nicer interior!.
That's a big comfy car in good shape with plenty of room to put something more useful under the hood. Its price is a little high, but this will be my first nice price in a while.
I'd buy it just so my sister could relive the burgundy over burgundy '78 lean-burn 318 she had.
I give her a hard time about that car to this day, and she had it back in the late-80's.
This, everyone, is when a mid-size car was a MID-SIZE CAR.
Actually, I prefer a Magnum, with the half-assed hidden headlights. I wonder how much space is left over after dropping a 6.4L hemi in it... Probably enough to store muy contraband while crossing the border...
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Khan-endorsed?... Khan... KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!
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I love how this car is a blatant stirpot of every other automakers' faux-lux cliches of the era. Rolls grille, chrome-louver markers, round headlights on a box front, opera windows, coach lamps, inset taillights... and yet somehow manages to pull it off.
The asking price is in line with other well-preserved luxo-barges of the era. Not a bargain, but not obscene... its relative obscurity and infamy compared to other more popular badges of the time might even be worth a small premium to certain buyers.
Nice Price.
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For 5 large you might be able to buy that house for sale across the street in the pix but the Cordoba probably has more square footage and a much nicer interior!.
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I give her a hard time about that car to this day, and she had it back in the late-80's.
This, everyone, is when a mid-size car was a MID-SIZE CAR.
Actually, I prefer a Magnum, with the half-assed hidden headlights. I wonder how much space is left over after dropping a 6.4L hemi in it... Probably enough to store muy contraband while crossing the border...
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This one looks really clean, and has nice wheels to boot.
These are great cars to buy if you're looking to put together a Mopar muscle car without spending the big bucks on a '68-'72 B-body Charger.
My '76 Charger shares most of its important dimensions with the earlier muscle cars, making parts swappability a breeze.
No, my car won't fetch 6 figures at Barret-Jackson, but it'll lay the same strip of rubber at the local cruise-in.
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