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1969 impala

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1950_dodgeman — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:55:58 CDT

welcome to 1950_dodgeman's online car show

hi everyone my name is Rich Furler. you all have seen me on carcrazycentral motortopia cardomain the dodgecoronet registry webridestv classic car weekly and many others. well folks this is my site im the owner. and everyone is welcome to join its free photo's have a 500 kb limit you can ad photo albums. say hello and introduce yourself to other members. ad them as friends. ad movies from youtube. im still trying to work out some bugs in this site so bear with me and i will let you know in an update as to what has been fixed.and now the rules (1) when i post something no one and i mean no one has a right to remove it (2) i still am the owner of the site and what i say goes if you are band from the site you will not return here (3) no one and i mean no one has any permission to stalk another member on this site or harass another member if i hear about it you will be removed from this site and thats no bull!!!! (4) if you are going to post your own group on here you must get my permission to do so first!!!! show some respect and let me know before hand. 5 no fighting on here if you have a problem with another member please let me know and i will try to resolve the problem. in the meanwhile welcome and enjoy our site. reguards Rich Furler aka 1950_dodgeman

1952 plymouth cranbrook club coupe project

1950_dodgeman — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:44:56 CST

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1950 dodge coronet project

1950_dodgeman — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:37:49 CST

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the day i got the 1950 dodge coronet

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Classic Cars dont crush them restore them

1950_dodgeman — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:12:06 CST

on this page you will see all my photo's from restoring my 1952 plymouth cranbrook club coupe my 1950 dodge coronet


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1950_dodgeman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:24:11 CST

The Plymouth Cricket

The Plymouth Cricket was a Hillman Avenger (made by Chrysler Europe) adapted for use in the United States.

When the Cricket was brought out in the UK in 1970, Chrysler Europe was still known as the Rootes Group with the Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam and Commer brands. Not until 1971 was the first Chrysler-badged model (the 180/2-Litre) introduced, but by 1976 the last of the Rootes-branded cars (Hillmans) became Chryslers.

The first shipment of 280 Crickets from the UK arrived in the USA on 20 November 1970.

The new car, a small-medium (B-class) sedan and wagon to compete with cars such as the Ford Escort, Austin 1300, and Vauxhall Viva. It was to be similar in size to the Arrow range introduced in 1966, but these sold in a higher price class, competing with the Ford Cortina; they were also available as Singers, with wood trim and chrome in a luxury style.

The new car was to be just a basic Hillman, so no frills, but a low price and conventional (yet contemporary) technology such as a live rear axle suspension, four-speed manual gearbox, sedan and wagon bodies, and overhead-valve all-iron engine of 1250 or 1500cc capacity. Compare that with the Austin Maxi, a competing product launched the previous year - 5-speed gearbox, front wheel drive, overhead cam engine, hatchback body, independent gas suspension...yet the Avenger was just right for the British public who were scared of new-fangled technology and it is said used spark plug access and cheap exhaust replacement as primary considerations when choosing a new car. This was the Hillman Avenger, to be sold in the US as the Plymouth Cricket.

Someone at Chrysler US must have seen the subcompact herd coming (in the form of the AMC Gremlin, Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto) and decided that Plymouth needed a competing product. As nothing was in the pipeline they went down the "captive import" route; this is where a domestic company imports a car from another country and puts their name on it. Usually it is from one of their subsidiaries in another country, in some cases (e.g. the Dodge Colt from the same era) it is from another company which it has shares in.

Plymouth made a few changes to the Avenger to make it become the Cricket. Only the 4-door sedan and 5-door wagon were ever offered. The 1500cc engine was offered, the 1250 obviously a little underpowered for US tastes, probably due to the high sales of power-sapping automatics. Front disc brakes were standardised; these were originally optional in the UK.

In 1970-71, the single carb/manual choke was standard. In 1972 forward, the single carb/auto choke, dual carb, and air conditioning were options.]

As per Federal requirement, front seats with integral headrests (in a high-backed tombstone style) were unique to the US cars, head rests coming much later in the UK (when it became a Chrysler, and then these head rests were separate from the seats and adjustable), and side markers were fitted, again unique as there was no law for them in the UK. A seat-belt warning light system (operated when a weight of 20lb or greater was put on a front seat) was fitted starting in 1973. Also, later in its life, in order to meet the bumper impact standards of the time, large rubber-tipped over-riders were fitted [according to David Rosicke, this was optional in 1971 and 1972, standard in 1973].

Otherwise the only way the car differed externally was by the use of the uplevel UK model's four round headlights - Washington hadn't okayed the use of rectangular lights yet, or it would have had two of them instead like the lower Avengers.

Apart from these changes and the badging, the car was pretty much as we had it. Launched in 1971, the car was sold for only two seasons, being withdrawn after the 1973 model year. Why? I think there are several reasons. The first is due to falling sales, mainly attributable to the poor workmanship of the product. Alas, this was typical of most 1970s UK products. Perhaps it didn't help that the car was launched in the US so soon after it was in other countries (to allow bugs to be ironed out), and it probably wasn't tested enough for US conditions. Maybe the price was too close to the Dart/Valiant, a much bigger, roomier car. Remember too that before 1974 no-one even imagined anything about a fuel crisis, so why bother with a small car the price of a larger one?

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1950_dodgeman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:12:00 CST

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1950_dodgeman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:23:58 CST

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