What would you SRT?

This list (see below) includes all vehicles that DCX is producing now or has been officially announced for production.

The vehicles in bold are already SRT vehicles. I would have to say that DCX has done a very good job picking the vehicles to SRT and the ones not to SRT.

So my question to you guys is that what would you SRT? What vehicles does not deserve the SRT badges? and what vehicles would you suggest to SRT?

Let me say that we will never see a SRT minivan.

The vehicle that I think deserves the SRT treatment that has been overlooked is the Pacifica. That’s right, the Pacifica. Lowering the vehicle, adding some nice SRT rims, stuffing a blown 4.0L engine in it, adding some leather and maybe some wood treatment would do wonders for the vehicle.

The Aspen would be my second choice…it’s gotta roll with the Escalade. Get some 20 to 22 inch rims on that bad boy. Lower it a bit and shove the 6.1L engine in it. You’ll never have to see another Escalade in a rap video again :)

My third vehicle would be the Nitro. Although, I don’t know what they could do to the vehicle because the R/T is pretty much a SRT car. It’s got the rims, lowered, the 4.0L???? What else could they do to it?

And last but not least the Compass. Since the Caliber will be a blown 300hp FWD car, the Compass could be a grand or so more then the SRT4 with the addition of 4WD. Evo/STi here comes the next greatest Rally Car Champion.

Chrysler:
Crossfire
PT Cruiser
Sebring
300
Pacifica
Town & Country
Aspen

Dodge:
Caliber
Stratus
Viper
Charger
Magnum
Caravan
Nitro
Durango
Dakota
Ram
Sprinter

Jeep:
Compass
Wrangler
Liberty
Grand Cherokee
Commander

Call for information: Full sized vans

Remember full sized Dodge and Plymouth vans?

Allpar has a brand new forum dedicated to them, and a question there seems to have inspired me. Someone asked when the last year a manual trans was offered, and it occured to me that Allpar should have something on these vans.

I’m hardly an expert on them: most of my information would come from brochures. I know they’re in the ‘66 Dodge brochure I have, and in the ‘77. Of course, there’s also the ‘82 Voyager one above for reference. But if anyone is an expert on the history of Dodge/Plymouth vans, send me your info! I’ll organize it and submit it as an addition to Allpar, and together we’ll add a few more pages to the total here :) Post whatever you’ve got as a comment below, or PM me. I’d also like to get a bit on conversion vans. Pictures also would be great!

Thanks…

Update: the dodge b-vans page

Registry continues development, more site news

There are now 525 vehicles in the Registry, with a fairly good response from people across the continent, though we really need to keep those new vehicles coming in (particularly the ones journalists are most interested in, which is the 1960s-1970s models - but the more recent and the more antique vehicles are also very important! We’ve gotten calls looking for Neon owners, minivan owners, K-car owners…).

I went through the European models and added a fairly large swath of Rootes Group vehicles. As in the past, please do let me know when we’re missing models.

By the way, we have an interesting article on Chrysler’s radar contributions coming up, and there are Plans Afoot for further expansion. We also hope to have giveaways ready for Carlisle… have YOU signed up? (Visit Carlisle’s web site by clicking here and remember to put allpar.com as your club! or see Allpar’s 2006 Meet page.

All-Chrysler registry finally set up

Allpar is finally proud to announce the culmination of years of work - mostly by other people - in the creation of the All-Chrysler Registry.

We have been looking at software for two years to try to find a good package which would handle all our registry needs. We are not 100% of the way there yet, but we are pretty darned close with the Fusion Registry package, which was just released a few days ago.

All existing Garage entries were imported in, but we have a much larger level of detail available now, and would appreciate all readers who own a Chrysler Corporation or Chrylser Group vehicle - or a vehicle “adopted” by the Mopar crowd - to enter their vehicles. We are not infrequently contacted by journalists looking for owners of particular cars, and we would like to be able to invite you to contact them on these occasions. (We never give out your e-mail address or phone number without permission).

At the moment, registering for the forums is unfortunately required to add your vehicle.
The URL is http://www.allpar.com/forums/index.php?&autocom=registry

In the future, we hope to have hidden fields (for phone numbers for rapid contact, for names, for VINs, for “real” email addresses, and such) and better “admin-only” search features.

Your feedback on the system would be appreciated - are we missing some items? Are there cars we didn’t list? Is anything going wrong? But mostly your participation is greatly appreciated and needed.

Website writing and maintenance

The fun part of having a web site is writing new material, forging ahead with new pages, and covering new ground.

One of the less fun parts - aside from security, dealing with loons, and such - is maintenance, as in updating 1,200 or so pages with the corrections and additions that stream in every day. Not particularly fun, but absolutely essential.

Inaccuracy is inevitable, and made worse by the problems of recordkeeping and communication within the old Chrysler Corporation itself, which often made official records or marketing materials wrong - sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in more subtle ways. Then there is always the failure of memory, and cases where someone buys a used vehicle and assumes it came that way from the factory, and many other issues that come up. We take the liberal point of view that by inviting discussion and debate, we can try to arrive at the truth - and generally that seems to be the case.

In any case, though we don’t have a lot of new articles this week, we did put in lots of small additions and corrections, and Allpar moved one more inch towards comprehensive accuracy.

Current status

I’ve added a decent amount of material with no fanfare, the result of spending idle time on the bus and between appointments on catching up. Now we only have about 800 things on our to-do list. I’ll be updating the home page with some of the more significant changes and additions soon. At the moment I’ve got a bad case of the flu and need R&R time. I also have to deal with “the other job” and all those things I postponed while I had to commute into the City (for about a week). So stay tuned…