Description
I am selling my Avenger, which I have owned for the past 36 years and which I believe to be the last remaining 1978 S-reg Chrysler Avenger 1. 3 LS 4-door saloon left remaining in the country. It is all original inside and mechanically but unfortunately has been off the road for many, many years and has become too rusty to repair. It is offered for sale here as a complete, non-running car for spares. Of course, someone is welcome to try and restore it, but to do so would be a mammoth job requiring the fitting of a new floor, new wheelwells and new inner and outer sills etc. The car is a non- runner and will need trailering or transporting away from it's current location in Buxton, Derbyshire. This was my first ever car that I bought and it was used for day trips, afternoons out, annual holidays, and for a period of a year a 25 mile each way commute from my home into Manchester city centre about 3 times every week. My favourite trip in the car was the yearly day trip to the Mildenhall Air Show at the American air base in Suffolk - a 340 mile jaunt which the Avenger undertook with ease. I loved the styling of the car, the roominess inside and around the engine and the great handling. It was comfortable and easy to drive. I should know because I drove 90, 000 miles in the car from 1988 to 2000 and in all that time it broke down only once when a small locating pin broke at the base of the gear lever. I always maintained the car very well and it looked after me with years of happy and reliable motoring. Routine maintenance was very easy with, for example, the air filter, the engine oil sump drain plug, the radiator drain plug and the spark plugs all being very easy to reach. The distributor actually doesn't require any maintenance because the car has factory-fitted Bosch electronic ignition as standard, which was an advanced feature on a lower cost family car for the time. When I last enquired, general mechanical parts were quite easy to get hold of, and of course the related Chrysler/ Talbot Sunbeam hatchback is basically mechanically the same car as an Avenger, but re-bodied. There are now literally only about 10 or 12 (if that) Chrysler and Talbot Avengers (that is, the "Mark 2" Avenger) left in the UK, making this particular car extremely rare, and this is why It quite honestly probably IS the very last example of this specification remaining in the country. It is also British built at the Chrysler factory in Linwood, Glasgow and so it is also an important piece of British motoring history.
