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Don't call yourself "Chrysler" reg. :AH-HA_wink:

Good, and hopefully it will be doomed. I never did like the Demon concept! LOL

I noticed that, horsepower was up to 380, torque was up to as well as the gas mileage rating. The 4.7 has the "hemi" style heads now and the power rating is up quite dramatically.

The headlights/grill area remind me of a Toyota too.

To say a truck looks "dumb" sounds dumb. I'll second that myself.... :AH-HA_wink: hahaha

There are "hard start" kits available for the SB Chevy, both a heavier spring and a Ford type solenoid conversion. If it's just a bendix the starter swap will cure your woes. Make sure you don't have too much initial timing as well. Next time it is reluctant to start try jumping the battery as well, it will tell you if the battery is at fault. Good luck!

Haha I've had good and bad from EVERY car brand I have owned. Domestic AND import.

GM problems? LOL Name the vehicle! My mother bought a 1972 Nova with a 350. Two door, gold exterior white interior. We loved it. For the first year and a bit... By the time it was three years old it had already had a camshaft wipe out, the rear blew (spider gears) and the quarter panel was rusted beyond belief. (MOST old cars rysted in the 70s so it wasn't that surprising). In 1976 we were taking runs at the entrance ramp to her apartment to get it out of her underground for her. LOL! It was a 350 Nova keep in mind! Down the road she eventually bought a Chrysler Cordoba, and me and my buddies were all into Chevys. One of my buddys yelled "buy a Chevy" at her, my Mom FLIPPED! Haha She was the mildest meekest woman, but it struck a nerve, she let my buddy have it like the sharpest internet heroes can only do today. I was completely stunned. I owned and built a TON of Chevys when I was younger, and I've owned a couple here and there over the years. I have a new Chevy Express that already had a warranty transmission, it went bad at 35,000k and was eventually replaced at 43,000k. Slipped like a bugger. My neighbour's brother takes the "all time" cake- his brand new Silverado 4x4 took two rear ends and three times went in for transfer case problems. He did NOT 4 wheel with it either, it was a pavement prncess. His truck was in the shop so often we never saw it much for quite a few months. Most of my experiences have been with Chevys before 1990ish, when I stopped buying them. I stopped focusing on building Chevys in the early 1980s. They were cheap to build but they weren't the highest quality. We (a bunch of us) switched to MoPars because we could build faster, more reliable cars for less money. No stud gridles needed, no screw in studs, no cams wiping out, no common problems that were fairly cheap to fix but a true pain in the rump when they happened. I built engines for a living for over a decade in a high performance shop. The only make with a worse track record we saw was the Pontiac guys, misinformation and odd parts problems- such as lifter oil heights etc would eat more than a few Pontiacs. Keep in mind- I LIKE PONTIAC ENGINES. I would rather have a 421 SD Catalina than it's Chevy/Buick/Olds counterparts hands down. I've had SB Dodge plugged intake crossovers, seen re-rung BB Dodges spin rod bearings (original rod bolts stretched) and other common MoPar problems as well. NO DOMESTIC AUTOMAKER is free of problems. To think anything close to that way is blindness. We picked what worked for us, and we all switched, and never looked back. No regrets. I know my Chevrolet engine stuff pre-1980 pretty danged well though. Better than most so-called "Chevy guys". Take a small block Chevy and a B/RB Dodge engine. Cut them apart and compare. BB Dodge has a skirted block, an external oil pump and a front mounted distributor, but most of the meaningful performance geometry and layout is the same between the two. We were diehard SB Chevy guys, but we went to BB MoPars for a reason. The styling was another factor for us too. Mainstream guys liked the 69 Camaros and 70 Cudas etc... We weren't mainstream!!!!!!! We liked the oddball stuff, the cars with character. Wings, fins, oddball dashes, materials, trim and color. We liked the weird stuff. Chevy and Ford wasn't catering to the "weirdo crowd" in the 50s/60s/70s unless in small areas. If you only know ONE person who has had trouble with a GM you better get out more. SERIOUSLY!!!!!!! Your 76 Aspen that had a stall in the middle of driving wasn't terribly uncommon for a carbureted car in the 70s. I had both GMs and Chrysler do the same. I had my brakes fail in a 1963 Dodge, a 1966 Cutlass and a early 60's Mercury of my brother's. That's all three automakers. LOL The Dodge's brakes failed right AFTER I went down a big hill. The turbo head gasket failure is common with raised boost levels and/or low coolant levels. I've had a few. Ever hear of "Dex-cool" though? :AH-HA_wink: I've had the same failures due to the coolant choice from the general! Your Concord I have absolutely NO experience with, I know people who have owned and loved them, and I gotta say it surprised me. They look like a boring car as far as I'm concerned. The 3.5 engines aren't terrible from what I have read, the 2.7 engines are. But like I said, EVERY automaker has had MORE than just one bad engine. Take a look at a late 1970s Honda CVCC engine. (Reputation vs. reality especially) My brother-in-law had his new 1990 Chevy van burst into flames. It was 4 months old. I sat in the back of a 1966 GTO, 389 tri-power, 4 speed on the way to work. The rear carb line burst and soaked the distributor, catching the car on firs and basically burning it to the ground. Are 1966 GTOs substandard piles of garbage? We bought parts of another guy who had the same experience, HIS GTO burned under the same circumstances. He chose to part his out, we rebuilt ours. I've owned HUNDREDS of cars. I've owned 11 cars and a couple trucks AT THE SAME TIME. Not junkers, but decent drivable cars. All sorts of makes, but almost all were GM or Chrysler. Not many Fords, I'm not much of a Ford fan until the late 80s Mustangs came around- they were decent cheap "bang for the buck" cars. It's not hard to see the "cons" for Chrysler are exaggerated here and the "pros" for GM are also exaggerated. It's a GM forum though, what do you think I expect? :AH-HA_wink: :AH-HA_wink: :AH-HA_wink:

If you have an accurate meter I would say the 12.3 is low. If the voltage doesn't go above 13 with the car running I would be looking at the charging system. It doesn't sound like heat soak or anything because it happens first thing in the morning.

My only comment will be 12.3 Volts. That's on the LOW side. Does it run if you pull a battery terminal off while the engine is idling? (Is it charging?) Did you test the voltage while the car is running? It should be 13VDC + IMO.

The headlights will have to grow on me I guess. *shrugs* I think the Ram has been the best styled truck for quite a few years, I also think the next best looking truck is the NEW Chevy Avalanche with the new nose. I think the Avalanche is alot better looking than the Silverado.

I agree 100%. I've bought new Chrysler products and must have had the cream of the crop, cause I REALLY liked them all. Even a 3.3 Caravan Sport which I bought assuming I would hate it- I've never had a more troublefree vehicle in my life, and I sold it with 230,000k on it. I wish I never sold it. Some stuff surprised me (like the Caravan) and some stuff - like our Magnum- impressed me immensely. My worst Chrysler product was a new 1975 Dodge Colt... but it was a Mitsubishi. I wasn't terribly impressed, but it wasn't meant to be an impressive car.

I agree too, but it's not brand particular when reading those "don't support a brand blindly" posts. I've had nothing but good luck with Chrysler products and almost all nightmares with GM products. I have a new GM Express work van, first GM product I've tried in over a decade, it's not impressive at all but aside from a tranny and a stuck interior light switch it hasn't let me down in the first 45,000 miles. I'll see how it goes....

Yeah, I don't have an "open hatred" for any brand either. THEY ARE CARS!!!!! lol Some of you C&G guys are just plain brand blinded.

I think the Camaro's interior is terrible, the pictures are on the net, take a look. The Mustang is still gonna tromp both the Challenger AND the Camaro IMO. It's a decent package, as are all three, but the Mustang brings a better bang for the buck to the table.....

You need a new memory. Your old one is disasterous! The E bodies came out with the biggest plastic door panels this side of an amusment park.

The 413 was readily available in all sorts of forms since it's debut in 1959. The base model 413s were plentiful and ordinary, the high performance versions, some of them with VERY high compression- were available in many variations. The single 4bbl 413 was commonplace.

Like your Chrysler bashin posts..? :AH-HA_wink: LOL!!!

The 880 was available in January of 1962. Not that it SOLD in January of 62.... :AH-HA_wink: Hahaha I very rarely see (or saw) many Dodge 880s.

Bizarre styling is bang on as far as accuracy goes, the 62 MoPars were styled by a freak.... No full size cars? Haha What's a 1962 Dodge 880 to you? "Small"? haha It was a behemoth by today's standards, and a full size car for sure. The large displacement engines were common as well. 1962 had the 413, the high performance versions *might* be what you are thinking of if you think they were "special order", but a 365hp 413 wasn't anything out of the ordinary in 1962. What weird styling...? hahahaha

True. That 55 Chev of yours would only be worth about $375 with your line of thinking though. The Magnum is worth MORE! :AH-HA_wink:

Hard to "fleet a canceled vehicle" I know alot of Magnum V6 cars are fleeted in the Las Vegas area, they are everywhere. The Magnum is the lowest production of the three LX platforms currently, and the upcoming Challenger is going to eat up space occupied by the Magnum. Dumb decision IMO, but the powers that be think it's financially responsible, and that's all that matters I guess.

Chrysler already OWNS the segment I thought! According to you anyways.... haha

Large corporations are DEMANDING reliable cars for fleets now, I think alot of corporations previously buying other brands are switching over....... :AH-HA_wink: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Start with Janice Dickinson.... :AH-HA_wink: