Two Lane Desktop

The 1980's at Hot Wheels showed us some very nifty tricks to get us out of the long-gone Redline era and into an era of imagination.  As mentioned there was classic cars with removeable roofs and white-wall tires, steering rigs, rubber tires called real riders, and vehicles where the rear axle can be articulated to rake the rear-end up.  The latter can be represented by these two vehicles, one based on a small Dodge truck while the other a rather interesting take on a Corvette and Van crossover. Dodge D50 Pickup With the success of the minivan and the K-cars, Chrysler still needed some help to still be successful, so in comes Mitsubishi who would partner with Chrysler and supply the company with several small cars and trucks to keep the company afloat.  One of them is the Dodge D50 pickup based on the Mitsubishi Mighty Max.  The small truck was built to go against the Toyota Hilux Pickup, Nissan Pickup, and the Isuzu Pickup.  The truck was ...

Back in the 1980's Hot Wheels was starting to get back in the groove with some interesting castings, new wheels (white walls and rubber tires), and some cool castings that some still continue service today.  So who has forgotten about these two fuel misers cars?  Well, they're out there but obtaining one isn't as easy as you'd think, especially one that is in mint condition or a special Mexico model or something.  Here is two of Detroit's 1980's compact cars from Chrysler and Pontiac. Dodge Aries K wagon With Chrysler in dire needs at the end of the 1970's Lee Iacocca came in to save the day with a government loan to keep the company afloat, but even with things back to normal the vehicle line was ancient and still to heavily dependant on big V8 cars and trucks.  The solution was a simple two-box (or three with wagon) front-wheel drive car that would be very simple to use and reliable.  Those cars would become the Chrysler K-cars: th...