Current events are flashing me back to 1979, which is really the year that it felt like Detroit caved in

In Response To: I'm aware... Good as "drivable appliances", but as exciting as cold plain oatmeal. *NM* ()

Sperlich and Iacocca had been pitching FWD in the Glass House for a while, using up a lot of their political capital, pitching for US production of the European Fiesta, truly a world-class product.

A FWD Fairmont/Zephyr (Fox body) was another ask, but the knives were out in manufacturing, and financial was lukewarm to the investment.

The K-car was largely what a FWD Fairmont would have been at the time; the mini-van that followed was the blockbuster that changed the industry even more than Mustang.

But change of that scope requires full-blown crisis to leave the known for the unknown, and hard as it was at ChryCo, they made it happen.

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I couldn't help noticing something interesting about this Friday's random image posts... Both Bill and I included images of Chrysler K cars in our selections (Bill, a very clean Aries wagon and me, a mockup of my Dogde 600 ragtop project)