The Dodge Rampage was a small “El Camino” style pickup-car that lived on Dodge’s Omni platform for the 1982 through 1984 model years in what can be described as a moderate market failure for Chrysler with only 10,000-17,000 sold per model year. But Plymouth was able to really wreck the curve by introducing a rebadged […]
Remember the other day when I wrote that the V8 and 4-speed was overrated? Yeah…I may have been a bit tipsy from the Manhattan that Kaibeezy taught me to make the other day..and the reports of the death of the V8 and manual box have been greatly exaggerated. Find this 1975 Plymouth Scamp offered for $10.900 […]
Remember the Dodge Rampage? Those things were sweet. Wait…you don’t remember the Dodge Rampage? Lemme give you a recap — from 1982 through 1984 Dodge sold the Rampage (and Plymouth Scamp) to fill the needs of the (now dead?) light pickup truck market similar to the Subaru BRAT and Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup. Caught up? Great, […]
The third generation Plymouth Valiant (1967-1973) lived on a shared chassis with the compact and popular Dodge Dart. Dodge had their sporty hardtop Swinger version (cue Austin Powers jokes, yeah baby, yeah!) so Plymouth released the similarly oddly named Scamp edition. Only Chrysler could get away with selling cars that looked 10 years out of […]