At the beginning of this year, we showed you one man’s final answer for a K-car that proved to be too much to tolerate. Tyler Hoover of Hoovies’ Garage bought this 1983 Chrysler LeBaron Town and Country droptop (with the awesome Mark Cross leather package and the fancy-dancy Electronic Voice Alert system that sounded like a Speak and Spell that was stuck on “nag” mode. When he bought the plastic wood-drenched drop-top, he was wanting to live out a 1980s dream sequence. Shame for him, it was a nightmare from the get-go. The car had plenty of rot, had been a financial black hole from the second he bought the car, and when he put it on eBay, the bidding went into the five-figures before he yanked the listing. (Not that we can’t appreciate him not selling a lemon to someone for over ten thousand dollars, that’s a cool move on his part, but still…ten grand?!)

Frustrated and seeing no good way out of the situation, even a $500 CarMax offering couldn’t deter Hoover from his final choice for what to do with the K-car from hell: bury it. His mechanic friend dug a ten-foot grave and after saying their peace, they rolled the Chrysler back-end first into the pit, shoveled the dirt over it and walked away for a year. Under tons of dirt, the LeBaron couldn’t harm anyone anymore, right? Well, there was only one way to determine what happened to a buried machine, and that was to exhume the corpse and see what the yearlong slumber did to Iacocca’s second little jewel. I know of a couple of individuals who will shed a tear or two for this little Chrysler, but honestly, don’t. Nobody is going to shell out tens of thousands of dollars to perform major structural repair on a 1983 Chrysler K-car in the name of having one of the most yuppie-tastic droptops ever made.