Great CL Find - Old Lancer

Well...the American version at least. If I hadn't dumped all my money into the free SVT Focus I'm working on I would snag this up pronto.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/1841548633.html

...Want!

But....how is it NOT a ball of RUST?!

want... if it had a clutch

In reply to EvanR: True. I like it enough to invest the time and money to swap it though. I'd also un-Dodge it and go nuts on the interior.

I actually drove one of these when it was nearly new, 35 years ago. That one even had automatic, like this one, but was "done up" in a very tasteful burgundy with creme colored vinyl roof and burgundy/creme interior. These are very small cars, like you could almost stick them in your pocket instead of leaving in a parking spot, with a somewhat cramped interior....at least for 6ft 4in me.

Nowadays, they are more like Dodge Aspens/Plymouth Volares than the "miniature Dodge Coronet" that C&D dubbed them as being in it's road test in 1974. And like an Aspen/Volare, they are oddities that are rarely seen, have a little mechanical ??? cache? (these cars had a small engine with a 12 valve head and/or hemi-spherical cumbustion chambers (I forget which, tho I seem to remember a "hemi connection" in the period advertising), but are nothing memorable when it comes to actually driving one.

I'd rather have any other car in the background of this ad, BEFORE I bought this car....assuming the Mustang or N600 was at least as affordable as this car.

Aw man, i thought you were gonna talk about the ACTUAL old dodge lancer. The one that invented the Lancer name, and wasnt mitsu in any way shape or form..

But i still like those.. I got to check one out recently thats in the process of a swap.. to the turbo-dodge 2.5L motor that just came out of a low 13 second Dodge Caravan (at 6k ft elevation, anyway). That motor also nothing to do with mitsu. Im pretty sure most of the cool 'old Lancers' are impossible to unDodge, since the mitsu-based Lancers in US are a very tiny minority by numbers compared to everything that was branded Dodge Lancer.

Also, i think thats the good old Astron mitsu motor (same basic stuff as my '80 Plymouth Arrow Truck), and it WAS fitted with HEMI badges in 2.6 guise on early 80s k-cars.

In calfornia, a 1978 with an automatic=eww. If it was a 75 or older, with a manual (at least for that price), it would be cool though. There were even wagon versions of those too.

From what i can see in the background that guy has an interesting collection in nice shape. A fiat and honda, can't tell the rest.

First thing I thought was how to violate it with full Evo VIII guts.

Needs moar 4G63T.

Very cool, never seen one of those before. That WOULD be killer with a 4g63!