Remember the Cadillac CIMARRON? Yup – it was based on the Citation. When I worked at a Chrysler dealership, we had a saying: “People will pay $25K for ANYTHING if you bolt enough CHROME onto it”. We said it about the Chrysler New Yorker K-Car, but it held true for the Cimarron.

Many years ago, I can across a young black guy’s posts on his two Citations. He owned a dark metallic gray four door, and a black two door. Both were X-11 trim package cars. (The sportiest versions of the Citation.) This guy LOVED those cars. He did multiple engine swaps in both cars. He went from four cylinders and finally ended up with the four-door having a supercharged 3.8 LT V6, and the two-door car having a 4.9 LT V8 out of a Cadillac. Those two cars were absolutely, without a doubt, the coolest Citations ever to hit the road. He posted a video of the black V8 car doing a burnout down his street.

Now that I think about it, when I worked at a garbage truck company as a painter, the owner bought both a Cimarron AND a Chrysler New Yorker K car. Perhaps they were drawn to those pieces of shit because they also loved GARBAGE…? Perhaps….