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(252) "Dippy" 1979 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 4bbl Automatic
Light Grey/Really Dark Grey 2 Door Medallion, 95,000 mi.
Special Equipment - Rebuilt 318, six packs, dual straight 3 inch exhaust pipes, aftermarket Dodge rally rims. Just got a Bose Stereo for Dippy and two 15 square Kicker Subwoofers for the trunk
    My brother owned the Dippy first and he loved her, until that winter when she would not start up in the morning. Well I found a plug hanging from under the hood so we started plugging her in at night and every morning she would fire right on up. Well eventually my brother just gave up on her and bought a little piece of junk Ford. He was going to sell the car for 800 dollars to a guy who wanted to derby her!  So I begged and pleaded with my dad for him to let me spend 1000 of my hard earned dollars to save her and he did. So now Dippy shall always be my first love.
Austin Wilson - 6/28/2000

(251) "Plymouth" 1981 Plymouth Caravelle 225 Slant 6 2bbl Automatic
D-blue/D-blue 4 Door Baseline
Special Equipment - Base as base can be. Had to install a trunk light and glove compartment light it was so cheap. Surprised it came with an AM radio. 
    I saw this car in the back of a Plymouth dealership a mile away from my place. It looked like an old cop car but wasn't. I bought it because, of the colour and it appeared to be a cheap fix. I've been working on it since Sept. 98 and still going. If all goes well I'll have the driver's side done by the end of the year.  I replaced all 4 doors and fenders but, I could use better fenders. I paid $150.00 for it and so far put about $400.00 into it. To me, these cars look so ugly they actually look good and I had to have one.  I'm not too sure if I like the super 6 motor or if I'd rather have a 318. With the cost of gas up and still going, I'll probably settle with the 6.
Rob Hildebrandt - 6/27/2000

(250) 1986 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Tan/ Gold 4 Door SE, 130,000 mi.
    Last winter when the first snow hit I decided to have some fun and go driving in it! Well needless to say I entered a parking lot to turn around and it was so slippery I smashed the front pass. wheel into a curb. It was so bad out of alignment that it wore the new tire on that side to the cords in about 4 days! So the next week I took it to the garage to get it aligned and the guy there who had been doing alignments for like 30 years said it was the worst one he'd ever seen! It took over 3 hours to get it right. But no other damage was sustained.
Will DeClark - 6/27/2000

(249) "The Titanic" 1983 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Grey/Grey Police Pkg Salon, 139,000 mi.
    Found the car on your Forum. Runs Great. Needs a paint job though. Goes for one this week ( 6-23-00 ) Should look like new in time for the 4th of July.
Thomas Paul - 6/25/2000

(248) 1986 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Tan/Gold 4 Door SE, 130,000 mi.
    I consider this car to be one of the best deals I ever had.... I paid less than $700 for it in 1998. The interior is almost mint and the body has very minor surface rust by the gas door. It's been really reliable and I'd buy another one if I had the chance.
Will DeClark - 6/24/2000

(247) "Stiletto" 1979 Dodge Diplomat 225 Slant 6 2bbl Manual
Red cloth/Black w/ Black top 2 Door, 76,000 mi.
Special Equipment - Four speed, with no air and had a radio delete (former owner butchered panel though!). I added the Firestones and the cop car hubcaps. Still more to do!
    I bought this car just a short time ago from a car hustler friend of mine. When I first saw it it had chrome "69"'s on the quarter windows, that low-rider Panama Jack on the rear window and a set of ridiculous chrome Big Lots looking five star hubcaps. The car was pretty sad, the former owner did much defacing during his short period of ownership. This odd-ball Dodge deserved better and I was looking for a fairly plain car anyways. The four speed and the lack of unnecessary options is what sold it though. An optimistic period ad gave an E.P.A. estimate of 18/28mpg city/hwy for this powertrain combination, I only got 17mpg on a 200+mile trip. If the six ever takes a s*** I'll probably replace it with a 318 or 360.
Justin Hall - 6/21/2000
http://www.geocities.com/stilleto71/Miscellaneous-Junque.html 

(246) 1981 Dodge Diplomat 225 Slant Six Custom 4bbl Automatic
Cop Tan/Cashmere Police Pkg Baseline, 150,000 mi.
Special Equipment - Modified Offenhauser intake, rotated carb 90 degrees on pad for better distribution. Custom milled 4-hole phenolic adapter/spacer. Carter 550 cfm AFB. Doug Dutra twin custom cast exhaust manifolds, 6-2-1 exhaust system with 2.5" final pipe. 1.7 aluminum roller rockers. Wide-ratio 904, 3.55 Sure Grip. Polyurethane sway bar mounts and bushings.
    Basket case when we first bought it at a cop auction for $650. Popped the hood (wasn't allowed to inspect before purchase) and searched frantically for the other 318 valve cover. Oops! All barrel 225. Doh! Low/reverse band was broken, had no reverse on way home. Special "police sock" in lieu of gas tank cap (plugged vapor line caused a nasty vacuum on tank when cap on tight). 9mm shell casings in car, cig hole burns in cloth seats. Floor rusted through, full of pine needles (nice way to park under the tree with the windows down, guys.) More miles of vacuum hose under the hood than your local Pep Boys has in stock. Ruined brake steel lines, ruined solid fuel return, fuel feed, and vent lines. Brakes heat cracked, headliner destroyed, A/C not functional.
    A few years and thousands of dollars later, it's almost in decent used shaped. Anemic slant six kept getting upgraded as I lost stoplight races (hey, its cool to race to the speed limit when you clock your time with an egg timer)! Went from 1 bbl to 2 bbl to finally a 6 month project involving the 4 bbl. Hit my website and the link for pics of that. Runs >GOOD<. It would get sideways on a slick road on 1-2 upshift (WOT) with 2.94 open rear. Chucked that for a 3.55 Sure Grip piece we built (twice, don't ask!). Realized the exhaust manifold boils the intake, so we put on Dutra manifolds (not shown in pics) and use a max wedge cross-ram type heating system. Car has the stiff 360 torsion bars, big bore nitro shocks, overload gas shocks in back. Sway bars front, back, extra body wells. Body is Stiff as anything - she rids on 225/75s (Ugh! mistake) but handles extremely well anyway. One reason I kept the slant six. Extra mods include a blacked out front end (not in pic), column mounted tach, brand new AC system from compressor to inside coil, but no headliner yet. Bah, who needs it. Redid the floor, dash, suspension. The list is endless. Wouldn't trade this car for all the tea in china. Anyway, Thanks for reading this book!
Steve C - 6/12/2000
http://members.aol.com/plymouthfury440/rick.html

(245) 1982 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Tan/Red Police Pkg Baseline
Special Equipment - winterized, spotlight, a/c, rear defrost, oil pressure gauge.
    Just bought it for the wife. It was shipped to Alaska from a police dept. to be a cab, but just when it was painted blue the cab co. went bust. It never served as one. But the Fairbanks fire department bought it and gave it a REALLY bad red paint job.  There is paint on the windows and its still blue when you open the doors. I'm going to replace the flywheel and flex-plate this Friday. Then in three weeks I'm going to drive to Anchorage about 800mi. to pick up the wife. (Any advice on replacement would be helpful.:) ) Thanks, Carl.
Carl Ray Beckwith - 6/6/2000

(244) "The Dippy" 1982 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 4bbl Automatic
Tan/Spice Tan (K8) 4 Door Hardtop, 148,0037 mi.
Special Equipment - Started off life as a slant six, but now has a rebuilt 318-4bbl out of an 84 cop car, along with 727 and Sure Grip rear. Mods also include cop oil and trans coolers.
    This is Number one out of four M-bodies (three Dippys; one cop, and a Fury cop) my family has. It's been going strong with us for the last seven years. We recently sold it to a family who totaled their own Diplomat (an '89). The woman had some problems with it (she flooded it out trying to crank and set it on fire. Let's face it: she didn't know what to do with that big Thermoquad.) and gave it to my long time girlfriend, so now it's back in the family. This car is possessed. If you treat her like a car she hates your guts. (And the last woman treated her like s***.) If you treat her like family she runs circles for you. 
Robert Carr - 6/4/2000

(243) 1979 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Blue/Blue 2 Door, 120,000 mi.
Joseph Amy - 6/3/2000

(242) "Brownie" 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Tan/Brown 4 Door, 171,000 mi.
    She's had a hard life, but my brother in law and I managed to save a good car from the scrapper. She was given to me by some friends that couldn't afford the upkeep and didn't want her anymore. Her 318 was rebuilt sometime before they got her and she has very little rust.  She looks a lot like my '88 Fifth Avenue, but after the brakes are fixed she'll run a lot better. At least she has a home where someone will appreciate her fine style and ride.
Patrick Kozicki - 6/2/2000

(241) "The Dip" 1987 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Tan/Tan Vinyl/Brown 4 Door SE, 109,260 mi.
Special Equipment - No modifications, Stock AM/FM Stereo
    Car was purchased from a foreign (French) student that had just graduated from college, and had to get rid of it before going home! He asked for $1200 and settled for $300!! Best buy of century!
John R. (Jack) Nelson - 5/30/2000

(240) 1985 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Red/Red 4 Door Salon
Special Equipment - Putting Shift kit in A-904 transmission myself. In the process of putting a four barrel on it (All I need to do is rebuild the carb.).
    I am building one car out of two it is quite a project. Lots of work but very little money.
Geoff Wenham - 5/30/2000

(239) "Dippy" 1983 Dodge Diplomat 225 Slant 6 2bbl Automatic
Deep Blue/Glacier Blue 4 Door SE, 150,000+ mi.
Special Equipment - Added AM/FM Radio w/cassette tape deck
    My mother bought me the car. She got it from a health organization called Mental Health Mental Retardation For The Concho Valley in San Angelo, Texas. It was fairly well taken care of--except I had to start with a new battery and fluid replacement. Since I'm a student in the university, it now needs body parts--like new seat belt receptacles and a new interior door handle. It was reupholstered with deep blue corduroy. The steering wheel is cracked and faded so I've bought a steering wheel cover for it. When I looked in the car, I found old love letters between some of the "clients" there along with an old coffee mug and some paperwork from the caseworkers who used to drive it. I was so glad to get the car--my very first car--that I slept in it for three days. I LOVE it.!
John Tufts - 5/25/2000

(238) "The B****" 1979 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
White/Black 4 Door, 85,000 mi.
Special Equipment - Hooker headers, dual 2 1/2 inch exhaust, Dynomax mufflers
    I got it two years ago from my 85 year old great aunt it was in mint condition and had 47,000 miles on it it spent all it's time in the garage and she never drove it. I got it for $750.
Adam Kehl - 5/24/2000

(237) 1985 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 4bbl Automatic
Blue/White Police Pkg Salon, 131400 mi.
    This is current M-body #4, #6 total for our family. Just bought it at the State of Illinois Surplus Vehicle Auction on April 29, 2000. It was originally a Secretary of State Police car and was later used by the Secretary of State "Field Audit Team." It's a full police package; even has an oil cooler. It needs a little fixing up and the paint is kind of bad, but it runs really good. To find out more about the car, visit my website. 
Kevin Taylor - 5/5/2000
Adam's Dodge Diplomat Page

(236) "Egg" 1978 Dodge Diplomat 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Dark Red/Eggshell  2 Door Baseline, 77234 mi.
    Bone stock.
Ross Palmquist - 4/27/2000 (Photo)

(235) 1978 Chrysler LeBaron 318 V8 2bbl Automatic
Red Velour/Black 2 Door Medallion
Special Equipment - rust, rust, rust
    My father bought it brand new in May 1978 and kept it until 1984 to buy an 84 Aries wagon for my mother. it was sold to my grand-parents until 1986 and then they sold it to my uncle, he kept it until about 1990 and didn't do nothing to it until I bought it back about that time.....well it needed a lot of work....well I caught a lot of s**t from my father for buying it back....well I did a little bit of messing with it until I had to sell it because of my father didn't want it at his house......I sold it to some one in Delaware...haven't see it since... :(  It could be anywhere.....
Thomas Mize - 4/25/2000

(234) 1985 Plymouth Gran Fury 318 V8 4bbl Automatic
Dark Blue/Dark Blue 4 Door Salon, 38,500 mi.
Special Equipment - Medium weight armor (1cm steel panels in the doors, bullet resistant polycarbonate shield mounted behind all windows) Still haven't tested it, but is looks like it's working fine ;)
    Well, I don't know much about this car, I bought her just three days ago from the United States embassy in Rome. It looks much like an unmarked Police car, what I know for sure is that it has been loaded with some extra weight and that the suspension is almost surely reinforced in some way. I drove her home (about 15 miles) and she runs pretty fine, I managed to run at about 80mph with my hands off the wheel, and when it came to brake, she stopped smoothly and safely. It will be quite difficult to bring her back to her original splendor, especially here in Italy, but I'm going to do my best, hope the info from other owners all around the net will help ;)
Alberto D'Urso - 4/24/2000

(233) "Big Blue 1988 Dodge Diplomat
4 Door Salon, 120,000 mi.
Kevin Schaefer - 4/16/2000

(232) "Ole Blue" 1987 Dodge Diplomat
4 Door SE, 75,990 mi.
Special Equipment - Power windows, power cruise, power seats, nice interior a nice light blue shade. Kelly made tires, a black vinyl top.
    Oh boy, oh boy where to begin. I bought this most wonderful car I ever owned 4 years ago at a used car dealership when it had only 49,000 miles on it and never been sorry since day one. So far since I bought it I put 27,000 miles on it with only a few minor setbacks. This car has been a dream I won't even mention them. I never owned a car this reliable. It starts on cold mornings only leaving it running 5 min. The only thing I would like to have done on it is to get a good paint job which will cost me 500.00 but soon will be well worth the money to get a clear coat job. The car is in immaculate shape except for a few flawless dings and dents. Except for the sun faded oxidation it has been one hell of a car one I hope to have for a long time. That's right I can't leave out any awesome adventures I had with ole blue, she looks hot going down the road.
Michael Kurkowski - 4/12/2000