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  1. 1989 Chrysler Maserati tC for Sale in Moreno Valley, CA - OfferUp Been available for $4000 from person who donated it for a while. Guess they had no one express interest at that price so gave up. At least it didn't go to pick-a-part.
  2. Sounds like the radio thinks it has a cassette in it.
  3. Check the sliders on the sides, they let the bumper slide back and forth while holding it up. They are made of something not metal, hard plastic or fiber of some sort. If someone bumped your car in a parking lot it may have been enough to fracture the now old/brittle support/slider but still let the bumper go back into place.
  4. Nope Hemi, the Laser was the redesigned car. The square Lebaron coupe/convertible was just dropped altogether. The real clue here is the oft referred to 'shortened Daytona chassis' which was the exact same as the Chrysler Laser. NOT talking about the Plymouth Laser which was a Mitsubishi shared platform along with an Eagle version. You only had a dealer connection with these cars, I had a corporate connection with Chrysler at the time the TC was conceptualized but not at the time it was actually brought to market. YOU should research a lot more before trying to correct me with totally incorrect information. I did stop trying to state that the 2.2L engine was based on an unused design that Chrysler bought from Fiat and then redesigned simply because I don't have time or inclination to research through a lot of old documents to find one that I may not even have anymore. There were magazine articles at the time that flat out stated that assertion as well.
  5. OK, I put it out of my mind for a while but the bug to get a TC just won't go away. This time I can drive a little more than 30 miles to look at one, due to inheriting a gas powered 2010 Forester with only 17000 miles rather than relying on a 60 mile roundtrip limit from my Nissan Leaf electric car. The right TC has to have a non-shrunken dash, look nice/decent and work needed will definitely reflect in what I'm willing to pay, NO overpriced dealer cars for me. (Especially the red one with no defroster vents and a badly fitting hardtop, I really laugh at the price they want for that one.) Only turbo car I would consider is a double wine and woodgrain combo in great shape. Looking at this post for 5 minutes before clicking submit.
  6. If not for the TC in the design stage, Chrysler would have kept building the G-body Laser, Daytona twin, and the actual K-car LeBaron squarish convertible and coupe instead of discontinuing them and bringing out the 87 LeBaron coupe and convertible as better replacements. The styling for the TC was from around 1984 when the Daytona/Laser were new on the market and squarish was all over the place on most cars. Chrysler stylists got a glimpse of the TC and immediately started reworking the Laser to resemble it.
  7. 57 dodge sweptside, .....hmmmm. And I have a brother near Shreveport, LA. Alas, not enough info to gauge my interest so I'll just forget about it.
  8. The plaque was available for any buyer of any new TC, the dealership had to request it and then it would be made and installed when the plaque arrived. Some buyers did not want to spoil the interior of the car by having a plaque installed and some dealers put them in a non-standard location. Standard location was on the radio surround leather at the front of the cubbyhole.
  9. Definitely leave the inner pane attached to the hardtop. You will destroy the trim that holds the headliner up when you remove it, wasn't designed to come back off. I'm attaching pics of an 89 model year top just in case the shop insists on taking the whole glass out. I got one sides glass completely separated but that black goo just stuck back together in time for the glass to reattach in one spot and then it cracked. Much simpler to just be careful of paint and remove the outer glass by itself. Someone on this or the facebook group makes those emblems in case your's gets messed up.
  10. I see way too much not 'right' in the engine photo to justify 15 thousand on this car. Color of the car detracts, 4door detracts, lowest level brand on the corporate hierarchy detracts. Even an Imperial would be hard to justify 25 for a 4door. Just the wiper blades should tell you to be checking the quality of every replacement part on the car.
  11. Seller admits the odometer doesn't work. Two items to look at that would tell me it has a lot more miles are the heat damage to defroster vents and paint missing on the radiator. The rest of the dash shrinkage could just be from parking in the sun too much. But there is no doubt this TC is an actual low mileage car, probably under 30,000 miles.
  12. That might be a trick of the camera, the taillamps seem to do the same thing in this photo. Did he put the same LED's in the taillamps?
  13. I believe the hood will hit a LeBaron radiator, don't have my parts book handy (stored away) but I seem to remember the TC has a lower (smaller bottom to top) radiator due to the hood clearance issue. I do NOT know if the 16 valve TC radiator was the same as the 8 valve TC radiator. Hemi or Marty will probably know about that one.
  14. No, there is not a flasher unit for left and another for right. You need to clean all bulb holders and ground wires for the system. Get an electronic flasher unit for the turn signals rather than a thermal flasher unit. Make sure all bulbs are the correct ones for the car.
  15. Need to know which 'turn lights' are not working. The amber lights in the front bumper (one bulb only) and the red turn lights in the taillamps (one bulb only) are the ones that flash, the clear turn lights next to the headlamps will stay lit up when the other turn lights are flashing but don't actually flash themselves. If the brake lamps in the taillamps are working then the turn signal switch in the steering column is probably OK, first thing is to make sure the light sockets themselves are clean so you have a good ground. Also don't forget to check the flasher unit for the turn signals, it is a separate unit from the emergency flashers. The second bulbs in the amber front and red rear lamps should only light up with the parking lights.
  16. E10 (10% ethanol content) gasoline is the current standard for most of the U.S. You have probably been using it for years. It is notorious for gumming up carbs in older vehicles and small engines when let sit for periods of time that allow for the degradation of rubber hoses and metal lines other than stainless steel. If that is a problem then use steel and rubber lines as well as filters that are marketed for E85 compatible (marketed as flex fuel) vehicles to limit damage to just your fuel tank and injectors/carb from fuel sitting against the metal and seals. Some people with small engines just run the fuel system dry before shutting them down.
  17. July and August build dates are rather rare, probably the time period when several hundred TC's were reportedly scrapped. Also could have been when cars were put on hold for assembly due to waiting for parts, that is why some VIN's and build dates are out of sequence, others were jumped in line due to a 'sold car' status and got priority.
  18. Color and location, plus a wacky car market that will probably see huge devaluations in a market correction pretty soon.
  19. The car appears to have no wear except a darkness of the door woodgrain at the inner bottom and the driver seat switch may have been pushed down by a couple of threads. That first mileage listed may have been the mistake due to someone typing in 100 instead of 001.
  20. TC originally stood for Turbo Convertible according to factory literature. When the V6 was used in 90 model year the meaning was changed to Touring Convertible since there was no turbo on the 3.0L V6 joint venture engine between Chrysler and Mitsubishi. The Mitsubishi version of the 3.0L engine is surprisingly different than the Chrysler version since they were built for different driving characteristics. Mitsubishi even offered a dual cam cylinder head in the 3000GT.
  21. NOT a town & country!!!! The TC by Maserati was a 2 seater convertible. The 16 valve is the rare (500 plus a few spare warranty engines)Maserati modified 2.2L turbo II engine with the Cosworth head that foreshadowed the turbo III engine (Lotus head) Chrysler built for certain domestic cars. This poster needs to search on the TC forum at this site.
  22. This particular car has had some liberties taken that drastically reduce the price it will sell for. Very expensive trim is missing and the holes for it are filled, but with what? The engine will have to be removed to correct the paint errors. The almost unobtainium light for the table doesn't appear in the photos. This one would have to go down to an $8,000 price point to get a buyer, in my opinion, and that only after the door panels have been reinstalled with all items working correctly.
  23. I think there is a correlation between very low HC numbers and very high NOx numbers, at least I seem to recall being informed of that by a smog tech at some time in CA with my old cars. The advice was to richen the mixture which would raise the HC slightly and lower the NOx to the high side of passing the smog check. Easy to do with a carb but not sure how to do it with older fuel injection.
  24. I would very much like to see that page (for 53/54 2dr hardtops) but that site is stingy and won't let any non-members see what's there. So many pages use that tactic to gain members but if I can't see what a site has to offer then I'm not joining.
  25. Just change a letter in his last name and you have the gist of most of his comments about cars. He sometimes has informative comments and can be read if you take what he says as tongue in cheek but he never learned to not say anything at all when all he can say would be taken as rude. Hmmmm, I think that made sense somewhere in that sentence.
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