Tonight marked the kickoff of the '07 Auto Show here in Big D. It's a comparatively big one; The Camaro convertible concept is here, the Vantage Roadster, that kind of thing.

So, over at Chrysler, there's an SRT6 (when did they stop building those? sixteen months ago?) in need of a paint job; no fooling-tree sap was unsuccessfully buffed out of this thing from stem to stern. Looked ridiculous among the no-mileage cars under the convention center lights. There was a black limited roadster as well.

I picked up the"2007 Chrysler Full Line" catalog. Sure enough, right there on pp. 18/19, there's the old 2005-limited-roadster-on-wet-pavement spread I've had as my screen saver for over a year, and a paint availability guide which includes info on the '06 base coupe (blk) as well as limited roadster/coupe (the usual colors plus Erster Gold Metallic). Mind, this paint page is the ONLY reference to a specific year-2006-in any of the Crossfire data.

An '07 catalog with '06 paint specs and a snapshot of an '05 inside.

You think Rodney got no respect?

 

The dealer up the street from me has a Black SRT coupe that when I looked at it back in Jan '06 they had it sitting on there lot for 1.5 years already. Well, they laughed at what I told them they were selling for and the paint from not being kept up looked horrible. The car had spider webs all over the trunk, all the wheels, attached to the mirrors, attached to the bottom of the door sills, just everywhere. And then they weren't even bothering to lock this car up at night. I went over several nights in a row before driving it and it was unlocked every night. Well, it's still sitting there 15 months later. The used cars on the lot next to this new Crossfire looked so much better and cared for. I'll have to stop up and see what they have it marked down to. It was about 37k the last time I stopped by.
I'm not surprised at the condition of the one they put on display.

 

Tell them I'll take it off their hands for $20K ('05 new SRT6) so long as it comes with the factory warranty and this would be the first in-service date (3/2007), passes an outsourced mechanical inspection, and the VIN hasn't been washed out as a flood damage car from some other area. I'll shine it up and make it go... With gas prices rising, they might just take me up on the offer... SRT6's are not known as fuel efficient vehicles. 408-569-4898, Russ.

 

Did you happen to take a pic?

 

I didn't take a picture of the nasty SRT6.

I can say that, of the hundreds of Crossfires I've seen in my life, the sorriest one was at the Chrysler booth at a big, fancy-schmancy car show.

 

It's really sad that chrysler would show any car in that kind of shape. This is just more of that top notch marketing team at work.

 

The auto show in Philly just had a poster of the Crossfire.