The Mitsubishi Starion/Chrysler Conquest sports cars have a cult following, but overall are the automotive equivalent of an endangered species. That’s a shame, because unlike the preceeding second-generation Dodge Challenger (née Mitsubishi Galant Lambda), the Conquest was a sincere looker. It had all of the right Japanese sports car cues, had a widebody from the factory that looked right, and one of the best set of five-spoke wheels ever sold on the showroom floor. And it was decently quick for the day, too…it’d soon be outshadowed by it’s successor, the 3000GT, but for where it was, it competed. Back in the Eighties, 200 horsepower from a turbocharged four wasn’t bad at all. But let’s face facts: thirty years ago 200 horsepower in anything was worth some time. Today, 500 horsepower seems to be the low rung of performance, and racing requires that and then some. So we aren’t mad that the Conquest was retrofitted with a twin-turbocharged V8 or that it was turned from a sports car into a drag car. We’re just happy to see one still tearing it up after all of these years. You just don’t see them anymore in any fashion.
Always thought they were a great looking car. I’ve got a friend in Tulsa that has an all Mopar salvage yard, and he’s got several clean Conquest’s sitting in there.
Conquest?…BS, BMT. With a tube chassis you could put the “Wiener Mobile” body on it and run it, not as fast but… Stock body, worked on motor, great! 🙂
2 copies here in ATL. 1 stock and other bare bones looking for homes as he has transitioned to Lexus, Also a Super Coupe F Body needing finishing
great, another car ruined with an ls boat anchor. there is other engines out there guy’s than the blowtie junk.
I was thinking a Cat D8 in that thing for all the swap crybabies out there. Ya know people do put a lot of work into these cars, and I’m pretty sure that there vision they have is not yours. Go build it your own way, take your tools and go home.
You know why it’s called a Starion?
Because the dumbos at Mitsubishi wanted to call it a Stallion but didn’t bother to find out how we pronounce that word in the west. So that alone is reason enough to send this pile of shit to the crusher….
Starion was a combination of Star of Orion.