Vintage views: Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R and Chrysler Conquest TSI

Really surprised they didn't make a transformers toy from this car. It's got all the angles and vents and flares you need!

I honestly think the widebody Starion is one of the THE best epitomies of 80's car styling. It's TOTALLY in the 80's. I mean, there are some really damn flashy 80's cars like the 288GTO and Countach that seem at least halfway 70's even after all the add-ons, full 80s cars like the Testarossa that just don't look as good, and cars like the F40 that manage to look newer than they are even though they came out in the 80s (Miata is another). There were a ton of cool looking cars made in the 80s, but the Starion is probably the MOST 80's out of all of them, and i love that.

Great Article David! One of our CMC members is finishing up one right now. You should see it at the 2018 skid pad challenge.

I can't not think of clown guy at the GRM Challenge circa mid-to-late 2000s with these things. 

I have probably mentioned this here before but I had a RX7 back then that I competed in (AutoX) C stock with. There was a local guy that had one of these Mitsus that was in the same class. When he showed up I could never win, no matter what I did. To make matters worse his wife would compete in CSL with the same car and she would beat me (time wise) also. Ha! Brings back fond memories. They just always out drove me! Ahhhhhh, Mitsubishi what happened to you?

I loved them back in the day, the look was so awesome. The box flares, the fat deep-dish wheels, the angular body lines. I had no idea they had good power and an LSD! Its sad that Mitsu has nothing to offer in the US anymore.

I rebuilt a 2.6 in '78 or so Plymouth Sapporo for my girlfriend at the time.  That second chain for the oil pump kind of blew mind, but I did manage to get it all back together and it ran a couple more years for her after we broke up. I believe the Sapporo was the basis for the later Conquest.  Nice car, but it needed more horsepower though.

I have always liked these cars. There was one parked behind a repair shop for years, I finally saved a few bucks and drove over there and it was gone.