1984 Plymouth Reliant

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/4275357208.html

Console shift was fairly rare on the wagons, I believe. I can only recall seeing one contemporary LeBaron Town & Country with console shift prior to this Plymouth.

 

Yup - very rare.

Anybody remember the name of that recent new member that was looking for a Aires / Reliant wagon?

 

Yes a console shift wagon or not is very rare in these. My sister had a company K-mart car black on red 85 with bucket/console and shift, never have I seen another "K" anything with no more than a bench seat column shift

 

In 1990 in Germany, I found a nice 2.6L Mitsu-powered '84 Reliant wagon that needed a timing assembly replaced. Paid $200 USD for it. Figured out why I got it cheap, too. To replace the head (interference engine) and the timing assembly was going to run nearly a grand, NOT including labor! If you've ever screwed around with the 2.6L engine, it's a true Hemi design with very close tolerances. Plus, without the specialty tools, it's nearly impossible to do much on. So, I sold it for what I paid for it to a Dutch mechanic. He got that back on the road fairly quickly, and drove it for a long time. If it had the 2.2L Chrysler-built four, it would have been much easier and cheaper to put back on the road!

It was a column-shift auto, as well.

 

It said the original owner worked for Chrysler, so maybe it was a special order.

 

HUMMMM, Wonder if it's ah 2.2L or 2.6L? To Bad it's not a turbo 'cuz I'd be all over it! HMMMM, It would be if it waz in my fleet

 

Here's a pic from the '82 (first year?) Reliant brochure, showing the buckets / console....


As I recall, most of these were ordered by the dealer to sell right off the lot. As a price-leader vehicle, the dealers would not want to load too many up with options, driving up their cost, and the sticker price. The result was that not very many got the buckets and console put in. As a side note, you could also order power windows, but you only got 2 - even on the 4-doors. That changed when the small LeBaron came out - all of those had 4 power windows.

 

Holly Crap, KK.... that was the interior in my sisters K-Mart company car.


BTW... I refer to these as K-Mart cars just because when they came out our local in Winterpeg Manitoba "K-Mart" had one parked at the front doors as a buy a ticket, win a K-Car

I also have to ad, out of all the big 3 IMO Chrysler ALL WAYS had the most comfortable seats back in that era of cars

 

Rare Plymouth wagon!