How does this happen: a 1993 Plymouth Sundance with just 25 miles from new! This is basically a car that was never test driven, and certainly not used by anyone on a daily basis. The condition would seem to back up the low mileage, but is there a chance it’s a repaint? I’m not sure, so check out this cherry Sundance here on the North Toronto Auto Auction page and let us know what you think this Sundance’s story is.
The seller, Public Guardian and Trustee, is some sort of Canadian government agency. My guess? This Sundance was part of a fleet of government vehicles that was stuck at the back of a municipal parking garage and never got taken out for a meter reading or some other city-driven task. I remember the city garage in my hometown had a pack of Dodge Aires that never seemed to move, so perhaps it’s possible this Sundance was just excess inventory.
The odometer seems to tell the story, and I can’t imagine someone going through the trouble to roll back the gears on a Sundance. This is as basic as it gets, as it appears to be a low-spec sedan with an automatic transmission. Certainly, odometers can break after long periods of limited use, but this Sundance’s cosmetic conditions seems to validate the low numbers seen on the gauge cluster.
What do you do with a car like this? The Sundance was never a particularly impressive performer, so it’s not as if it will ever appreciate. The novelty factory is certainly there, and someone may throw it in a Mopar collection with other time-capsule examples of ordinary cars. If I were in the market for a cheap hobby car to use for errand running, a nearly-new Sundance might do the trick – but these were hardly fun cars to drive, so I’d probably still pass. What about you?
It would be neat to have, but no purpose really. If i could get it cheap enough i would buy it and put it in the back of my garage for another 25 years and see what happens. It might be worth something then.
If it was cheap enough, buy it and drive it. 5 grand at the most . It would make a nice 2nd car or a car for a kid.
You’d be working on it within 3 years tops they’re lemons for sure, but I love my one owner 🍋 for sure helps alot that it’s a manual 3.0 with a turbo tho
To clarify, that is 25 kilometers which is 15.5 miles.
If it is a real auction, we will see what a car like this is really worth.
It is a real auction, it’s actually in Barrie,Ontario.My niece bought a Grand Prix there ,her first car.It’s about an hour north of Toronto, straight up Hwy 400, unless it’s winter or friday afternoon in the summer, in which case you can be stuck in traffic for a long time! (winter white-outs are a problem).The problem here is, the auction was on the 21st,last Saturday.
Well, at least the plastic headlights don’t need polishing. LOL.
Funny how the trip odometer has been reset….
Or it never worked.
My mother taught me that if I didn’t have anything nice to say …
Already sold
1993
PLYMOU
SUNDANCE
GRN
4
A
F
4
Y
25
$4,600.00
I assume that is Canadian dollars.
Based on current bank exchange rates, $4600 Canadian Dollars = $3500 United States Dollars = 66,000 Mexican Pesos. Seems to be a bargain basement price for what appears to be an almost brand new car. I think somebody got a great deal.
There were a lot of good deals there if you don’t mind high numbers on the dash.
Here are the auction results.
https://northtorontoauction.com/report.php?type=public
Keep in mind mileage reflects kilometers; 1.0 km = 0.6 miles, so some of these aren’t too bad.
I know, but 375,000 KM is still a lot of miles.
I think the best deal was this one.
https://northtorontoauction.com/view.php?id=207408
It probably quit running after the 25 miles and wasn’t worth fixing so it just sat……….
I’d have been out bid at that price, even if my bidding had been unrestrained due to it being located at the end of my block. It’s old enough to inevitably have reliability problems, regardless of how few miles it’s been run, and it has nil inherent charm.
That was too much for a doubtful, old, charmless appliance.
The selling agency is a provincial (Ontario) government one which, in a nutshell, manages personal, legal, and financial matters for those (typically with disabilities) who can’t manage those matters themselves, and have nobody else.
That being said there’s a very high likelihood this car was bought, presumably at very bad timing, by someone and it’s now an asset being disposed of on their behalf.
There’s an “announcment” on the auction site ad that car is unsuitable for use and “may require major repair”… so no thanks.
All the cars at that auction have that notice JC. They are all sold as is. Most of these are flipped by local car lots.
There is a 1970 Mercury Cougar coming up in that same auction yard this weekend.
https://northtorontoauction.com/v/208180
I would walk right by this one! Just because it’s so little!
It’s been for sale since 1980 and, still, nobody want’s it?
It’s been for sale since 1993 and, still, nobody want’s it?
good company car for a bus company. that way I don’t have to use my own car.
it is still a Sundance, I owned a 93 Shadow, good basic transportation, and that is about it but, keep it nice, it might pay off
You would still have to go through the car mechanically. Years of setting means fuel system gumming and corrosive anti freeze setting in the cooling system.
A non-nondescript, disposable car, not unlike any X body GM, an Escort, or Dodge Colt. They’re just made to be driven and maintained, until they puke. Turn them in to “pick a part”, and just walk away. With this incredible mileage, just drive it until it drops. Nothing to toot your horn about with this car, save for it’s incredible miles on the odo. KMH notwithstanding. Keep it serviced, and it might give you 150K miles of faithful service, while looking like a cheap car all the while,
Ahh the memories. I had one. For a short time. Only it was red.
This, without question, is the worst car I ever owned. An unbelievably breakdown prone, unreliable, uncomfortable piece of junk. The example in the piece should just be sent to the crusher and save everyone some aggravation.
Sorry to hear that. It’s odd how someone can have the worst luck with these, and some don’t. I’ve had, or family has had probably a dozen K cars. Dodge /Plymouth minivans, Dodge 600, Aries wagon, Dodge Shadow, (daughters 1st car) and everyone was a great car. Racked up hundreds of thousands of miles on the minivans alone.Not to say they were trouble free, but they were probably the easiest vehicles to work on ( changed a timing belt in a truckstop in 3 hours once) The minivans had the nicest seats of any vehicle I had. To say they were junk just is not true.
I will agree, this car sitting did not help it any. It’s not a new car.
I own a shadow and a Sundance, and I can say they are lemons, but the mini vans on the other hand were beastly monsters that’d run 300k-400k I’ve looked at the odometer in some scap yards of em and was told some of the 300k ones would still start.
My buddy had similar car, everytime he turned key off it reset the speedo to zero