The Last one is the Chrysler K Car that Lee Iaccoco is credited for coming up with that somehow saved the American Auto Industry.Not my favorite and rather underwhelming. The idea is that you come up with one basic frame and design and then add stuff on it as per custumer request. I assume that GE Locomotive and Electro-Motive did the same thing for railroad engines.
Looks like they’re blocking your shots for some reason.
I can’t imagine why, who doesn’t like looking at pictures of classic cars?
I think he’s hotlinking them from Google, and as we keep clicking on the links the company wakes up to say NO.
I remember Iaccoco saying that the K car was not his – that it was in the works before he joined Chrysler. He did claim the minivan as his idea. I used to like Chrysler products till I owned a K car.
If it’s a K-car, they’re doing us a favor…
Custom Canadian 4x4 K-car:
That is the funniest thing I’ve seen in years.
Clearly there was a lot more engineering than implied in mating the two cars (twice). The driving away with the rear of the car duct taped to a post was worth watching alone…
Peter
If you like that they made 15 seasons, the show and its use of duct tape are household names here.
I guess you’d have to live in small town Canada to truly understand that both it and Trailer Park Boys would better be described as documentaries than fiction.
On many occasions I’ve thought about how volunteering at a railway museum isn’t much different from a day at Possum Lodge.
That’s the good thing about living in a border city, we know who Red Green is. I moved several miles a few years ago and can only get satellite TV now, so can no longer get HNIC. I’ve been watching it for 50+ years, even when it was B&W. It was a tradition in my house.
What I like about Red is his optimism and never say can’t attitude. He doesn’t need to put on the foil.
Google Earth shows a lot of ad hoc dirt track ovals in Canada. Car Crazy Canuckies? Rinks and racetracks all over the lot.
Rick
Just like the Colosseum if it had been built in a Canadian clime: racing chariots in aestatis, then fill with water and await hiemal developments…
Of course Red would have all three simply by putting studded tires on his half a K car, and I’m surprised he didn’t do an ice-racing parody of the climactic scene in Ben Hur (think of the fun you could have with those conical lug-nut covers!)
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We used to get the Red Green Show in Nebraska. I haven’t seen any reruns of it for a long time, though.
Red Green isn’t the first with one of those- I’ve seen this one being driven, it’s a hoot!
https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/citroen-2cv-bicephale-cogolin-replica-1952
I had a K-car myself and have worked on them in a garage and to change the alternator in one of them with factory air is enough to make a grown man weep. I don’t know about now, but back then Chrysler products had the worst electrical systems I’ve ever seen. They make Lucas look wonderful!
Thanks to Red I still call it “Pledge-O-Tainment” when PBS starts asking for donations! [;)]
I believe Red Green Show is still shown here on Twin Cities Public TV; course Minnesota is kind of “Canada Light” - Fishing, Hockey and Curling are popular sports for example.
Pre-Covid our local (Cottage Grove MN) Culvers restaurant used to host a local car collectors club drive-in meet every Wednesday in the summer. The Culvers is only a stone throw’s from the joint CP-BNSF line from the Twin Cities to Chicago.
But do any stations still broadcast the other classic Canadian ‘Red’?
I really don’t understand why the forum would not allow the pictures of old cars. Old cars and trains go together like beer and baseball. Old cars with trains are even better!
BTW if you look carefully in some Red Green episodes when they pan around the inside of Possum Lodge, you can see a small (4x6 or 4x8 I’d guess) model railroad.