Car Numero Uno: a used 1987 Plymouth Reliant K sedan in light ivory cream

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Fit-Distribution2303@reddit

I had a cream Plymouth Reliant K too. I wanna say it was an 81 or 82. It was my.... 2nd car. It had cream trim. Bought it from my cousin.

I loved my K car!

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zipzippa@reddit

My dad got one of these brand new awful lot in like 1986 or 1987 it was his first car with air conditioning.

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surfdad67@reddit

I had a K-car exactly like this, limped it into a Ford Dealership and got me a Ford Escort Wagon. Also had a Plymouth Reliant, pretty much the same car

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surfdad67@reddit

One of the best cars I ever had, easy and cheap to fix, broke down once because of the timing belt, $150 to fix. Had that car for 14 years, 185k miles. Ended up giving it to someone in need.

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LemonPuckerFace@reddit

Oh man. I had one of these. I couldn't get up to highway speeds if I had the AC on.

Seats were comfy though.

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bellhall@reddit

You had AC???? My 88 dodge Aries K didn’t even have FM radio, AM only. Certainly no fancy air conditioning!

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LemonPuckerFace@reddit

Mine was fully loaded! I bought it from some old folks when they couldn't drive anymore. The thing had almost no miles on it and was pristine!

It did smell like nasty perfume, cigarettes, and old people for a while though.

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elspotto@reddit

My first thought when I saw the image? “Ooh, a K-Car!”

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vermarbee@reddit

Same! I went on 1 date with a guy who drove one. A light blue K-Car-windows down. Only one date though 😆

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Ahh, the nice Reliant automobile! It was my wife's first car. Every winter when it was damp, I had to pop off the distributor cap and spray WD40 on the contacts daily so it would start. Then the engine would just randomly stop when we were out on the highway on several occasions. So much fun!

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Global_Lie6938@reddit

That was the trick? My HS car. I would go somewhere, it would start to rain, I’d bum a ride home, and go collect the car the next dry day. In-Reliant K. I totaled it in college, not on purpose, but was a fitting final end for it.

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evilJaze@reddit

Yeah, that did it for us for a while until all its other problems make it more of a nuisance than a necessity so we ended up selling it for $500. We felt we ripped them off. The distributor cap WD40 was FiL's solution - we knew nothing about mechanical stuff back then.

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Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit

I had one of those cars 😭

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Independent_Ad_5664@reddit

So, you had a million dollars?

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surfdad67@reddit

I do and I still eat Kraft dinners with Dijon Ketchup

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evilJaze@reddit

Yes. I own a house in Canada. Instant millionaire.

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zombie_spiderman@reddit

Damn, dude, save some chicks for the rest of us

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Elharley@reddit

My mom’s first new car. Transmission fell apart the first week. It was constantly in the shop. An absolute piece of garbage. Was eventually replaced with a pre owned Nissan.

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whiskeytown79@reddit

My family had a Dodge Aries of this same vintage. Pretty sure they're basically the same car with minor trim and branding differences.

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KirbyHaveYouHeard@reddit

My first car was a white 88 Plymouth Reliant.....loved having the bench seats but hated how much it shook when going over 50 mph and no AC. Paid $1000....drove it for 5 years.

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devilinthedetails@reddit

Mine was an 88 and navy blue.

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SiliconEagle73@reddit

Hey, it still beats a Cybertruck! ;-)

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uberphaser@reddit

My best friend had a stick shift version! Front bench seats with a stick shift was always such a weird look.

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EatMe1975@reddit

1985 Dodge Aries here…It was sorta blue sorta grey…I win

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HighwaySixtyOne@reddit

Sheeeeit, my family had an '81 in dog barf beige (bench seat w/ a four-speed on the floor), and then --AND THEN!!!-- when my parents offered to buy my perfect princess of a straight-A, valedictorian, older sister a car, so she could attend her HS internship at Hopkins, they offered her the choice of anything made for the 1988 model year.

...and she picked a four-door Dodge Aries in midnight blue. She coulda' picked a CRX or a Prelude, an Acura Integra, a Mazda 626 hatch or an MX-6... hell, even a base Mustang. But nah. An Aries K-car.

There are no winners in these unfortunate battles.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit (OP)

My sister had a blue-grey Dodge Aries. She thought she was special too.

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PoppaDaClutch@reddit

We wouldn’t have the new challengers/chargers without the k car!

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RolandOfGilead@reddit

If I had a million dollars,,,,

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit (OP)

You wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner.

(But you would eat Kraft Dinner.)

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HighwaySixtyOne@reddit

Of course we would, we'd just eat more.

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NipperAndZeusShow@reddit

we wouldn't have to walk to the store

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stompinstinker@reddit

The other day I was thinking how garbage cars of this generation were. Oil spots in every parking spot, rust galore, abysmal safety, more rust again, burning oil, exhaust leaks, squeaky engine, and even more rust.

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jaypee42@reddit

Remember the Hyundai Pony? You could watch it rust looking at it parked in your driveway.

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Superb_Astronomer_59@reddit

Worlds first biodegradable car lol

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HighwaySixtyOne@reddit

Mine was a dark blue '88.

Let us never speak of this horror again.

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bygtopp@reddit

Stepmom had one in gray. Used to haul rocks for the garden in the trunk. That thing had miles on it to the bingo hall.

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70sRitalinKid@reddit

Camp Pendleton MPs drove K cars in the 80s. Only the provost marshal had a crown vic.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit (OP)

I still see Crown Vics driving around town, most of which used to be police cruisers, and I chuckle whenever I see people on the highway slow way down as they get close to one.

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70sRitalinKid@reddit

Oh that feeling of being so disappointed in yourself when you realize that you just hastened your god awful commute for a car that has been out of service for a decade!

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Local-Finance8389@reddit

1984 Chrysler Lebaron convertible here. There were holes in the top and a hole in the floorboard and I still thought it was awesome.

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trinaryouroboros@reddit

mine was a maroon plymouth horizon hatchback that had over 300k miles on it and no shocks

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Alldamage@reddit

My second car was a silver K-car, 1986. Actually able to get a date driving that rolling contraceptive.

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External_Side_7063@reddit

You’re not our generation if you didn’t have one of these or at least knew someone that did

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VAHoosier@reddit

I grew up in New Castle Indiana, where Chrysler had a factory. These cars were like 80% of the cars on the road in my town in the 80’s. Probably still a good percentage still around; up on blocks but still around. 🤣

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jaypee42@reddit

Hey, that’s a nice reliant automobile.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit (OP)

It was either this or a nice Chesterfield or an ottoman.

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jaypee42@reddit

But not a real one, that’s cruel.

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clawstrike72@reddit

Those things had the best visor-light design, straight out of the future.

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jaypee42@reddit

Lee Iacocca’s finest hour

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threeoldbeigecamaros@reddit

I flipped one of these. 0/10, would not recommend

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Alarming-Mongoose-91@reddit

Every undercover cop car from the 80s

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit (OP)

Replaced in the '90s by the Ford Crown Victoria.

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lazerdab@reddit

I had the 85 Dodge Aries wagon K Car. The K Car is quietly one of the best cars America ever produced.

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borkborkbork99@reddit

1986 Dodge 600 convertible. Drove it into the ground in college.

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rojo-perro@reddit

My best friend from childhood was Kari and my favorite animal is the orangutan! Oh wait…

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MikeW226@reddit

Love how principal Rooney had this exact car in Ferris Buehler's day off. Like, THEN ya knew the car was uncool... watching that movie in the theater!

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bastrdsnbroknthings@reddit

To think that in the ‘80s this car was intended to exude some kind of professional (?) style for middle class working stiffs.

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The_Spectacle@reddit

yeah, I got a kick out of Principal Rooney driving one in Ferris Bueller

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Civility2020@reddit

I had an 86 handed down from my Grandfather.

The car that saved Chrysler and made Lee Iacocca famous.

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anotherpredditor@reddit

Get the airbag checked. My grandmother took half the steering wheel to the face after a small bump. It was a known issue.

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TheBugHouse@reddit

Ugh ... had an '85 in powder blue. Was my moms and my parents insisted I sell my actually reliable Mitsubishi hatchback and drive that pos. 6 months in and the aluminum engine blew due to a cracked block... wouldn't you know they insisted I pay for an engine replacement, despite the mechanic trying to talk then out of it.

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External_Cantaloupe@reddit

This was my drivers ed car

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SomeCrazedBiker@reddit

I took my driver's test in that exact model and color.

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Over-Director-4986@reddit

Ah. The infamous K car. We all knew someone who had one!

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bwanabass@reddit

Nice! Mine was an ‘83 Aries coupe. K-Car was where it was at!

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Stinkydadman@reddit

She’s a beaut’ Clark

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No-Setting-2669@reddit

I had the red one

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NocturnalPermission@reddit

Ha! One of my friends had an old clapped out K station wagon in sky blue. She was the first of our group to drive and we loaded SO MANY people into that thing the tires were scraping the wheel wells. The headliner was falling down so she just pulled it off and the inside of her roof because a graffiti wall where we’d scratch our names and stuff into the residual foamy glue up there. GOOD TIMES!

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