The History of the Chrysler Cordoba, Rich Corinthian Leather, and Ricardo Montalbán
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That article doesn't even mention that Corinthian Leather was available on the '74 Imperial before the Cordoba existed.
Nate S
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Welcome to Fantasy Island! Oh sorry, wrong Ricardo role.
Aeronet
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I had '75 Cordoba. Drove it 14 years and could still be driving it today, but I got rid of it. I miss it sometimes. It was built like a tank; mid seventies crash standards. Inside the bumpers was a 1/4 steel reinforcement insert. I cut the reinforcement steel out of the front bumper to reduce weight. The thing was indestructible.
One time in 2001 I was driving home from work one Saturday afternoon. I had been working long hours and was very tired. Anyway, a few months earlier I had run over a dead raccoon in the road and hitting it had done something to the transmission linkage resulting in a loss of Park function. Basically, when I put the car in Park the pawl would not engage. To remedy this I would hop out and chock one of the wheels when I got out. Normally I would have looked at the linkage and fixed the problem but I was getting close to getting my '73 Charger on the road and I wasn't working on the Cordoba anymore.
So, back to the story, I was coming home one Saturday and stopped at a little gas station to get a Coke and cigarettes. I misjudged which way the ground sloped and chocked the wrong tire. I was inside paying for my stuff and a guy comes in and asks me if that's my car outside. I said Yes. He said he had a winch on his truck. I kind of looked at him and we went outside. The Cordoba had rolled into a culvert and nothing but about 3 feet of the nose was sticking up. It was still running. The guy hooked up the winch and dragged it out. I said Thank you and got in and drove home. There was no damage to the Cordoba.
The shifter in my '73 Charger is out of the Cordoba so the Cordoba isn't completely gone. By the way, I think the T-handle shifters kind of suck.
One time in 2001 I was driving home from work one Saturday afternoon. I had been working long hours and was very tired. Anyway, a few months earlier I had run over a dead raccoon in the road and hitting it had done something to the transmission linkage resulting in a loss of Park function. Basically, when I put the car in Park the pawl would not engage. To remedy this I would hop out and chock one of the wheels when I got out. Normally I would have looked at the linkage and fixed the problem but I was getting close to getting my '73 Charger on the road and I wasn't working on the Cordoba anymore.
So, back to the story, I was coming home one Saturday and stopped at a little gas station to get a Coke and cigarettes. I misjudged which way the ground sloped and chocked the wrong tire. I was inside paying for my stuff and a guy comes in and asks me if that's my car outside. I said Yes. He said he had a winch on his truck. I kind of looked at him and we went outside. The Cordoba had rolled into a culvert and nothing but about 3 feet of the nose was sticking up. It was still running. The guy hooked up the winch and dragged it out. I said Thank you and got in and drove home. There was no damage to the Cordoba.
The shifter in my '73 Charger is out of the Cordoba so the Cordoba isn't completely gone. By the way, I think the T-handle shifters kind of suck.
Officer Higgins
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I loved them old things, good friends parent's had one, black with red leather interior. It was beautiful car like sitting in a bankers chair going down the road.
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