i have a question

[Bear]

I've got on of those horizons sitting out front of my Dads old place, it was his. From the VIN it's an 85. He used it to take one of my nieces to McDonalds in it, and probly lots of other places. My Mom left him about 20 years ago, and he was kinda lonely here, so the girl was pretty much his world then. He got to where he couldn't even remember his own name, probly a blessing in disquise, and my sister took him to stay at her house, but he finally got too much for her to keep up with, and she had to put him in a home that could watch him 24/7. All the while I was trying to break free in TN and get on home. I'd have to drive 60 miles by then, to see him, but still made it over there 2 or 3 times a week. He was happy there, and it didn't matter who you were, he was happy to see ya. I'd sign him out and take him to my sisters house usually, he never drank a lot, but he enjoyed a cold beer, which I'd always have him one or two, he'd usually stop after the first one, and be ready to go back to "that place". Before he died, his last Fathers Day, I brought him home, to the house he'd built, and the farm he loved, but he didn't remember it. He kept asking, "I lived here?", or, "I built this house?". As we were getting ready to go, and walked out by his old trailer, with that horizon sitting out beside it, he said "I know that car, that's my car". In his waning years that car held some of his only happy memories, taking that little girl to church, or to mcdonalds, and it was the only thing he remembered



I have a little happy meal toy that was still in it

[volvoscrapper]

thanks for the pics & posts for those old Iacocca cars. I worked days as a car salesman in 1985 while working on my degree at night school. Sold a bucket load of those Horizons, quite a few Lasers, and a few Turismos in six mos. at a Chrysler store. The Shelby thing was called the Omni GLH in 85 & 86, I think they "updated" it to GLHS after that. The Turismo had some resemblance to the nissan Leopard. I think there was a brief period of time that the Turismo was called the 2-door Horizon (when it first came out) so that may be part of the confusion.

The Omni/Horizon thing was a great little car for the money, had the 2.2 and was extremely reliable and minimal maintenance for the first 100k. After 100 on the clock they kind of gave out. Funny thing is the door handle mechanisms would wear out and you see lots of Horizon owners crawling through the hatch to get in the car.

The Laser was a very sexy car back in the day. The turbo version had a nice bit of giddyup.

[Bear]

thanks for the pics & posts for those old Iacocca cars.
Funny thing is the door handle mechanisms would wear out and you see lots of Horizon owners crawling through the hatch to get in the car.

Haha, my Dad's is like that, not a door handle on it! Haha, i was talking to the postman one day, who told me he'd seen dad crawl through the back hatch to get in it. That was the only way I could get in it too.

[zito]

thanks for the pics & posts for those old Iacocca cars. I worked days as a car salesman in 1985 while working on my degree at night school. Sold a bucket load of those Horizons, quite a few Lasers, and a few Turismos in six mos. at a Chrysler store. The Shelby thing was called the Omni GLH in 85 & 86, I think they "updated" it to GLHS after that. The Turismo had some resemblance to the nissan Leopard. I think there was a brief period of time that the Turismo was called the 2-door Horizon (when it first came out) so that may be part of the confusion.

The Omni/Horizon thing was a great little car for the money, had the 2.2 and was extremely reliable and minimal maintenance for the first 100k. After 100 on the clock they kind of gave out. Funny thing is the door handle mechanisms would wear out and you see lots of Horizon owners crawling through the hatch to get in the car.

The Laser was a very sexy car back in the day. The turbo version had a nice bit of giddyup.

The GLHS was the intercooled version of the GLH. Shelby said it was the funnest car he ever built.