My parents had this car in the 80's. I forgot all about the talking, thanks for the memories! My friends used to love riding in our "talking car". Oh, and those hubcaps got stolen ALL of the time.
that fake wood panel is terribad, but the car is beautiful otherwise, owned a 90 lebaron ragtop for 11 years. when it died, i went out and bought another (a 92 this time) le baron convertible because i missed it. the car is roomy, the 3.0 mitsubishi v6 is peppy and its very comfortable. great car.
+chukzombi I actually like the wood paneling a little bit. Granted it's a nationwide disgrace of stupidity in 2017 standards but I think it fits this car well. And the talking electronics is just a funny gimmick I'd love to show off to people lol
I had a 83 white lebaron convertible as my first car! (in 1995) Man I loved that thing and seeing this one brings back such great memories. Bought it for $1500 and drove it for 3 years with no issues. It is a cool looking car but that woodgrain and continental tire kit kills it.
paint it green and drive it recklessly on the highway at night while playing ray charles mess around if you know what i mean. one of the best movies i've ever seen
That was hilarious! I remember that car as a kid when it was new - one of my neighbors had the more “upscale” version, the New Yorker with a turbo 2.2L. Had the same talking feature and fine Corinthian Leather. It seemed so hi tech, futuristic, and cool back then. Especially the digital display on the radio, lots of buttons, and of course the car talked! Now it seems like comedy.
@@drjustin84 like the Dodge Aries, that last car on earth that the god of war would drive. Or the Plymouth Citation: a car that someone *should* get a ticket for owning..
Those cars had 2.2 or 2.5L throttle body EFI units in them like most of the Chrysler K car variants. They aren't expensive or hard to find. Even later year units will work.
Gašper Prijon I would have Ad Block, but I specifically watch ads on channels I subscribe to. Even skipping Ads means no advertising revenue for content creators, and hoovies garage is worth every minute spent.
Jakob Hampel Sadly nope, doesn't help at all. There is progress of a sort; I'm getting an error code stating: "No connection (Playback ID: ttx9UglzuUN-QwP8)" now
I was so happy to find one of these in the early 90's for my daughter's first car and when I brought it home my wife and daughter came out and looked at it, tried to keep from laughing and went back in the house. I traded it to a guy for a 1961 Cadillac coupe and we never discussed it again.
👍❤️👍Oh this takes me back!! Loved the “talking robot” 🤖 in these cars! Built on the same platform, in 1997, I bought a 1985 Chrysler New Yorker from an elderly family friend; only had 50k miles on it. Served me very well back/forth from college for the next 2yrs after that.
Back in 1986 I got a new Dodge 600 convertible. I loved that car. Friends nicknamed it the wild mouse. After a service, with the top down, on a sunny day, I didn't see the oil light on, and the engine siezed. They replaced the engine, but a module kept shorting out, and after the 5th try, and losing the car for almost an entire summer, had to get rid of it. I still miss it. It handled amazingly well, and felt as roomy as driving a bus.
sorry for the late reply but what did u do with the car? did it work well for those 4 years? im european and i found one for sale and i dont know anything about it but i'd like to get it with my dad. Does it break down often? Do you find parts for it where you live? thank you and you have really good taste
@shinyhunterxxhunter2470 I never had an issue with it. It was a great car for the time I had it. I moved away from the beach, and ended up selling it to a family. Less than a year later, they sold it to HBO for a TV show....they wrecked it in the TV show and totaled it. I don't know what happened to it after that, but I'm sure it's in some junk yard. I would have never sold it, if I knew that was going to be the outcome.
@@2wheelcobra thank you for the fast answer should I buy this one i found for 3000 euros? what do you think. its pretty much 50/50 where i live. either it works or not
OMG! That's hilarious! If you're truly stuck on what to do with it, do us all a favor and paint it Pea Green, as a tribute to John Candy and Steve Martin's outrageously funny Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Then, auction it off! Loved this vlog, by de whey!
Sebastian szylkowski any junkyard 50$ swapped 2 for 13in tv once .85 carb with electronics which is 900$ with s mod.can be replaced w earlier mitsi.carb easily available.😎
I don't know that much about the carburetors on this particular car but that's actually about what I was thinking. I know that a high-end four barrel Edelbrock carburetor can run you between 800 and 1400 in some cases.i bought a pretty sad truck some years ago that I still were grant despite all the work that was done on it before I bought it. Well to be precise I did buy it I was actually walking away and my father ignored me and bout it with my money at her I told him it was a piece of junk. He never did pay attention to anything I said anyway.the sad thing was somebody had spent 1000 or more on the engine of that truck + when I opened the engine bonnet and took the breather off there was a six-month-old Edelbrock and that particular model when I priced it ran between 800 and 1400.it was basically worth more than what he paid for the truck. Frankly should have left him stuck with it instead of giving in the 1400 after he bought it.fing thing was the worst vehicle I ever owned. Was like the thing was cursed. i still have the carburetor and not had the luxury of getting anything to put it on. That truck was my last carbureted GM and I haven't been able to get one sense because they're just so overpriced and rotted out hear. Been stuck driving fuel injected vehicles for about eight or nine years now give or take.i on one hand like the convenience of fuel injected vehicles but on the other hand I hate all that extra computer and plumbing.i like the vehicle where I opened the engine bonnet and they're visible crap under the hood as possible that is not absolutely necessary.i don't know that much about this particular model K car most of the ones I'm familiar with usually had a fuel injection system of some sort including my neighbors old 84. I can imagine occur greater being that expensive that would go on a K car sounds like something you'd go on eBay and find for a pretty cheap price in the US I could probably pick up a good running taker in better shape than that convertible for a couple hundred bucks. There was a K car at a car show here about a year ago that was a wagon and it made me cry. Guy was the original owner he had literally receipts for almost everything ever done on the car over its entire lifespan! The guy was in his 70s if I am right. Without looking at the box of receipts and walking around looking at everything that had been replaced that I could see visually I would say within say the last year or less added up to between 1500 and 2500. the car was rust free where the guy had brought it down from part of the US when he moved here so it'd only been here in Canada a few years. It had a few dance but other than that the car was basically in crazy immaculate condition. He had the thing up for sale for something like 2000 or 2200 nobody but me had even walked over and looked at the car which was that much more sad.i prior to this had pulled over and looked at a few really bad K cars on the side of the road for sale where people wanted 2000 or more and when I stopped I figured the car was a couple hundred bucks at most lol. That wagon if I could have afforded it I would've thought twice about buying it. You can usually get a taker in the US for almost nothing and if you're careful about where it's from you can find one with little to no rust. Unlikely I think you'll find one though that's a convertible without it being pretty badly rotten. Back when I was in high school guys would buy them for like 100 bucks and you could literally do things like list update floormat and drop garbage out of a hole in the floor. Those cards would be still running long after it had basically split in half from rusting.ive been using Dodge Caravan minivans as well as a few of my neighbors couple of my neighbors went through I forget how many of the minivans the motors were always still running it's the body rock that keeps killing them.
I'm sure they used TMS5100 speech synthesizer IC from Texas Instruments, same as used in Speak&Spell, and the data tables derived from the same original vocal data set. Speak&Spell wasn't just a toy, it was also a demonstration of a chipset that TI was offering to electronics manufacturers. Furthermore there were only two systems to choose from if you wanted digitised speech back in the day: the Texas Instruments one, and one by General Instrument. Both contained "chirps" or allophones, manually processed short speech fragments, parts of syllables, and given the effort needed to extract these, there weren't many sets around - GI had just one. You could sequence chirps with an external processor with very little data, not much more than written text. Otherwise, you could have tape drums with analogue recordings or something like that, not a good fit for a car. And well, the Texas Instruments system was just SO MUCH BETTER sounding than the General Instrument one, at least in the general purpose case - for select phrases, you could get a decent custom one from GI.
Cannot Stop Laughing!! You've a "C'est La Vie" disposition that leads to... Putting' On the Ritz!! Spewed coffee EVERYWHERE!! Still laughing! Thanks and....keep motorin' them hoopties!
Oh goodness. I had an '85 or '86 New Yorker with Speak 'n' Spell technology about 15 years ago. The sensors were messed up, so every time I started the car, it would go through the whole litany of warnings. "Your engine oil pressure is low. Prompt service is required. A door is ajar. Your fuel is low" etc. One day it worked perfectly, and the next day it was back to the usual problems. I found the switch for it behind the glove box and hushed him up.
Honestly I think that car looks really nice. I don't know why someone would call it "The ugliest car in the USA" He probably titled it that as clickbait. I mean not everyone likes the same thing, But i'm pretty sure that's not even slightly ugly.
When Mazda debuted the first Miata, Chrysler representatives scoffed at it. The styling, they said, was bland and plain, and they had no fear that it would unseat the LeBaron as America's dominant convertible.
I got a 1987 Le Baron sedan from my parents in 1996 and loved it. It was destroyed by a hit and run driver when I parked it outside my house. I still miss it.
It is a pity Ricardo Montalban couldn't have been immortalized as the voice of the computer. He could have added to its repertoire the line "Full power! Damn you!" as you splutter onto the Interstate, and then "No Kirk...the game's not over...to the last, I will grapple with thee..." as the motor finally expires.
I bought a 84 Chrysler Laser Turbo as a beater when I nuked the engine in my 92 Talon TSi/AWD back in 2000. The Laser had the same "Bitching Betty" voice feature along with a full digital dash and a diagram that lit up certain sections of it whenever "Betty" would start bitching about the oil pressure or my washer fluid being low. Everything worked in the car except for the button to turn Betty's voice off. Figures. I wound up selling it to a cop a few months later when I got my Talon back on the road. Chrysler made some real winners back then.
I can imagine a mildly successful dude in his late 20's buying this. He goes to pick up his date, and when the girl gets into the car, he puts the key in the ignition. As soon as the computer announces whatever it does in that mid 80s movie voice, he turns to the girl with an "Oh Yeah" facial expression and a smirk, and she squeals in delight.
Back in the '90's a little old lady offered me to buy her K car. It was very low mile example, 4k. Ran beautiful and no upgrades literally showroom condition. She wanted $4,000 for it at that time and I figured that the way I drove cars I would tear this up in less than a year.
That's a bomb ass car. Classy with wood paneling. Interior is real nice. Also notice the FULL spare.... None of that donut crap in luxury cars back n the day
It looks like someone parked in next to a construction site, and the form workers had some fun nailing all that wood to the side. Maybe best to fill it full of concrete.
Just bought a 1986 LeBaron like this for $300. I like it. The wood grain is not very attractive, but I wouldn't call it ugly at all. There are many worse. Mine is a 2.2 turbo and it's fun to drive
They built these as coupes, then cut off the roof and welded in reinforcements. Tops were fabricated in the assembly plant. Iacocca was personally responsible for this model. As ugly and fake as it is, it was perceived as a luxury vehicle, and sold well. In ‘79 I scribbled ’you can do better’ on a K car ad from the WSJ and mailed it to Iacocca. It showed a sedan with a wrinkly looking plastic panel between the front bumper and grill. The studio lighting caught it just right. Got a nice thank you note from him.
This was more popular than a fiero. You never see either one on the road now. The fiero burned out so fast that three years after they were new...they turned to dust!
Later on, the Chrysler Lebaron had a pretty decent sports version of this vehicle, and, with further upgrades, it really hauled ass, so just because it looks hideous does not mean that it always sucked, and especially in the terms of performance, case in point, the 1972 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, which was, in essence, a station wagon/estate car version of the Cutlass, 440, or 4-4-2, yet it also had many of the same performance options that were available to its more famous siblings, plus the ones that were not offered to it could easily be put into the vehicle, as it shared damn near all of its parts with its more famous siblings.
To you this car might be comical but back when it was new in 1983 this was considered to be the height of luxury for chrysler's K body line up. I remember how big a deal it was when one of my uncles got a big promotion and was able to afford to buy one of these when I was four in 1988 becasue it was an $18.000 car (about $45.000 in today's money give or take a thousand dollars) and it was considered a status symbol that showed someone was doing well because it was just a step down from something really ostentatious like a Fifth Avenue which could cost well over $25.000 ($60.000 in today's money) when fully equipped.
I inherited my grandparents Chrysler new Yorker k car of the same vintage. Best message it had was "don't forget your keys" my daughter always thought it was " don't forget your cheese"
Oh gawd, the K cars were KRAP cars. I missed the Cor-dou-ba leather part of the ad. My whole jr high school picked up on the rich Córdoba leather part saying it randomly
