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I live in Arlington, Virginia, where I've spotted a green 1954 Chrysler Windsor parked on the street several times. I've been waiting for weeks for a clear, sunny Saturday, and today I was finally able to make it over to snap some pictures.
The car appears to be a daily driver. It's usually parked within a few spaces of the same house, and it's out on the street, rain or shine. As I said, it's a '54, it has a flat-head six, and that's about all that I know about it.

We're kind of on the fence with this one. Sure the possibility of identity theft is annoying and who hasn't had to deal with a compromised credit card these days, but is this really something to get your panties in a bunch over? First, a data tape was lost. Data, tape. Those with the wherewithal to read them these days probably aren't in the business of trafficking in stolen or lost UPS packages. No, they're too busy running server farms, reading about the latest in iPhone news on Gizmodo and filling out TPS reports in their cubicles. Second, blame Canada blame the Canadian mail system over Chrysler for the slow letter delivery. And if you still want to get in Chrysler's face about something, beat on them about the Sebring. [Windsor Star]

Ah, the custom stretch limo! Conjures up treasured memories of projectile-vomiting Bacardi 151 all over your prom date's Very Expensive Dress, don't it? Keep in mind, however, that renting a custom stretch is one thing... but owning one takes the whole Limo Experience to a new, even classier level. But stretched Town Cars or even Hummers are a dime-a-dozen; you need something as cool as the Toronado Limowagon if you want to haul your entourage in the style to which they're no doubt totally unaccustomed. Something with fins. Something like this 1957 Chrysler Windsor 8-door airport limo (go here if the ad disappears), which is priced at a get-your-eyes-checked $4,500! The seller figures there's no need to waste time listing everything wrong with this car; instead, he or she has posted a single hazy photograph and included the following two sentences of description: "Looks like Christine, the killer car. Needs complete restoration." There you have it! So many questions unanswered (and, by the way, wasn't Christine a '58? And a Plymouth?), but we're pretty sure you can count on any question involving synonyms for "iron oxide" being answered in the affirmative. But put on your triple-thickness rose-colored glasses and picture yourself behind the wheel of this car after a full bank account and sanity depleting restoration, trying to see around that enormous blower you'll have perched on top of a gasser-style 392 Hemi!

An 8-71-blown Hemi '57 Chrysler limo would be the bee's nuts indeed, but what if you rumble up to Wet T-Shirt Night at Rohypnol Ron's and, just as your betuxed homies pop open all those doors and get ready for a truly grand entrance, a dissenting voice from the awestruck crowd cries out "But that's an airport limo!" and then the spell is broken? What then? Well, you could play the trump card of a series of hemi-powered Limo Donuts in the parking lot... but what if you'd taken on a different stretch limo project? What if you'd purchased a custom stretch Ferrari? And not some Fiero-based "Ferrari" but the real deal? You'd think such a thing would be impossible to find, but just check out this 1981 Ferrari 400i stretch limo (go here if the ad disappears) and then try to tell us that the American Dream isn't alive and well! That's right, a stretch V12-powered Ferrari! It's a lot more expensive than the Chrysler, and the seller says it's "mechanically sound, clean but can use some minor cosmetic work." But come on, a 27-year-old Italian car that's been hacked up and then driven at 12MPH while the interior gets hosed down with every bodily fluid that Newport Beach promgoers and 4th-tier celebrities can emit? Hell!

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I realize that I have a ways to go before I catch up with Kitt, but here is another DOTS bonus vehicle for you from Windsor, Ontario. Seeing as this poll indicated that the people want to see more '70s Mercedes-Benz products, this 250 C should be fair game, slotting in right after your '72 280 SEL.

I spotted this particular car while out taking pictures of intersections for a friend who was putting together a traffic engineering presentation based on a work term he did with the city. It seems reasonable to assume that the elderly lady driving it was the original owner, and that the 1973 Ontario plates have been on the car since new. Watching her parking process was a little painful, as she started out trying to park in the space immediately behind my Escort (of 6+ available), changed her mind, made a multi-point U turn in front of traffic (alright, 1 oncoming car), and proceeded to parallel park behind the only vehicle on the other side of the street.

Overall the car appears to be in excellent shape for a 35 year old Canadian resident, with no visible rust, only 1 missing hubcap and a slightly bent up front bumper (hurray for real steel and rubber rub strips - bending the bumper back shouldn't be that big a deal). The interior was also in decent shape, with the only problem being a bit of cracking on the dash pad.

Chris Vander Doelen of the Windsor Star, the main newspaper of the Canuckian hamlet on the other side of the river from Detroit, claims he's got himself a source telling him when the get 'er done date for a Chrysler Group turnaround by Windsor's hometown hero, Tom LaSorda, needs to be under way. The CEO if the 'merican side of the German-American alliance, was born and raised in Windsor, and if Vander Doelen's source is correct,

"he's got until Feb. 14 — that's when the board meets in Detroit..."

LaSorda under gun to fix Chrysler woes [Windsor Star]

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