# my new ride
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [November 12, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094 "2006-11-12T13:44:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@double\_j](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/double_j)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/21 "2006-11-12T21:18:17Z")
I’m picking my jaw off the ground.
So nice!
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### Author:  [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/22 "2006-11-12T21:24:38Z")
Welcome to the 80’s again 😃 Nice wheels on it too, hehe.
Nice.
–mark
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### Author:  [@jhenty](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jhenty)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/23 "2006-11-12T22:46:40Z")
Cool car. Whats the history behind these? I don’t know much about them in terms of specs and whatnot. Was it a dodge engine or some kind of mitsu calaboration?
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### Author:  [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/24 "2006-11-12T22:48:46Z")
oooo nice. so clean!
were these rwd? im guessing its an auto?
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### Author:  [@jballz86](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jballz86)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/25 "2006-11-13T05:03:52Z")
damn id eat off that before half the plates in my house
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### Author:  [@slasky](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slasky)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2006, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/26 "2006-11-13T08:55:31Z")
> [@jhenty](#):
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> Cool car. Whats the history behind these? I don’t know much about them in terms of specs and whatnot. Was it a dodge engine or some kind of mitsu calaboration?
It is a chrysler 2.2 with a garret turbo. It was a few years before the crapobishi calaboration.
You
Here is some info from [allpar.com](http://allpar.com):
The Daytona first debuted from Dodge in 1984 along with its look alike, the Chrysler Laser. Design was based mostly on the K-cars (Reliant and Aries), and retained the fuel efficient 2.2 liter 4 cylinder engine. The Daytona was mounted on an extended K-frame and had front wheel drive. The Daytona has always been a 3 door 4 seater, but the rear seats are very small and it should really be considered a 2 seater for all practical purposes, with its small 97" wheel base. These cars are known as ‘G’ cars because their body style was designated G (later, AG). Stock performance with the 2.2 was not up to the Daytona’s looks, but it was produced as an economy car and Dodge relied on the turbo versions and sporty looks to attract younger drivers; few automakers made a fast, affordable sporty car at the time. The Laser was aimed at older drivers who appreciated a plusher vehicle, and with luxury options. In both cases the five-speed stick-shift provided a substantail speed and gas mileage boost.
The car first debuted as the prototype _G-24 Super Sports Car_ in 1982-83_._ If you look real close and squint a little you can see remnants of body styling from the [1969 Charger Daytona](http://www.allpar.com/model/superbird.html) that swept NASCAR.
The original Daytona models had a length of 175 inches on a 97 inch wheelbase, a width of 69 inches, and a height of 50 inches.
_In October 1982, Motor Trend wrote that the 1984 “Chrysler G-24” would have four bucket seats, be a hatchback, and stand on the K-car platform but share no body panels with any other Chrysler product. They noted the fuel-injected 2.2 as the base engine, saying there would be an optional turbo 2.2, but spent more time on the interior, “definitely sportier” than other Chrysler vehicles, with “restyled analog instruments and a few digital items.” (Thanks, NDNRacer)_
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### Author:  [@slasky](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slasky)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/27 "2006-11-13T08:58:39Z")
> [@94wvwglxvr6](#):
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> oooo nice. so clean!
>
> were these rwd? im guessing its an auto?
FWD and it has a 5 speed
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### Author:  [@Mysterio](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mysterio)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/28 "2006-11-15T05:49:55Z")
I just got myself an 87 dodge charger shelby. 5 speed. Definetly a fun little car. Not in as good of condition as yours at all, but it’s a project and i’m going to fix it up 🙂
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### Author:  [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/29 "2006-11-15T06:44:00Z")
Damn that thing is mint. How’s the underbody look?
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### Author:  [@slasky](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slasky)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/30 "2006-11-15T12:00:25Z")
> [@TrueBlue](#):
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> Damn that thing is mint. How’s the underbody look?
Just as nice as the top.
Here are some interior shots. I just gave the car a quick vacuum and have not done anything else to it.
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/31 "2006-11-15T12:26:29Z")
Never was a big fan, but that is a clean looking ride.
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### Author:  [@Shifty](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shifty)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/32 "2006-11-15T12:30:09Z")
:jawdrop:
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### Author:  [@RedrRocket](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedrRocket)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/33 "2006-11-15T12:42:29Z")
nice find.
the guy i purchased my 97 neon from had one saving up in his garage with like 12k miles on it. It had the signed numbered carol shelby plate on the dash & under the hood.
ya got to love people keeping 80s throw away cars in storage.
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### Author:  [@airhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/airhead)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-ride/20094/34 "2006-11-15T18:29:34Z")
Damn! I’m obviously a sucker for time warp cars that most people didn’t preserve. That checkerboard interior, those wheels, I want it.
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