{"id":123,"date":"2010-10-02T15:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=123"},"modified":"2010-10-02T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T15:21:21","slug":"down-on-the-junkyard-1980-dodge-colt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Down On The Junkyard: 1980 Dodge Colt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-01-600px.jpg\" alt=\"1980 Dodge Colt Down On The Junkyard\" title=\"1980 Dodge Colt Down On The Junkyard\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-01-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-01-600px-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nAs you <a href=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=117\">saw yesterday<\/a>, I&#8217;m finally getting into the junkyard groove in my new hometown. This Denver self-service yard has some great vintage import iron, and today we&#8217;re going to check out this early front-wheel-drive Mitsu-Dodge as it awaits its date with The Crusher.<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-02-600px.jpg\" alt=\"1980 Dodge Colt Emblem\" title=\"1980 Dodge Colt Emblem\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-02-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-02-600px-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nBack when GM and Ford were building Chevettes and Pintos, Chrysler was slapping Dodge nameplates onto Mitsubishi Mirages and continuing to put most of its efforts into hammering together Cordobas and Volares. The complete gallery for this bit of badge-engineering history may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murileemartin.com\/DOTJ\/80Colt\/DOTJ-77Colt.html\">here.<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-12-600px.jpg\" alt=\"1980 Dodge Colt Shifter\" title=\"1980 Dodge Colt Shifter\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-12-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dotj-redcolt-12-600px-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nYou can imagine how ungodly slow this car would have been with an 80-horsepower engine and a slushbox, but Malaise Era econobox performance standards were low.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murileemartin.com\/DOTJ\/80Colt\/DOTJ-77Colt.html\">Junked 1980 Dodge Colt Gallery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/tag\/junkyardfind\/\">Murilee&#8217;s Junkyard Posts On Jalopnik<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you saw yesterday, I&#8217;m finally getting into the junkyard groove in my new hometown. This Denver self-service yard has some great vintage import iron, and today we&#8217;re going to check out this early front-wheel-drive Mitsu-Dodge as it awaits its date with The Crusher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,11,62,63],"tags":[67,68,45,65,61,466,66,59,444,60,464,465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}