I concurr. In a private reply to Mark Darby, I advised that several of
those cars were delivered in late April and May. I bought the unit the
dealer in Evansville, IN. loaned to Southern Indiana Region and used for
corner station pick up during the National Tour in Evansville in 1994. I
still have mine, running strong with 70,000 miles. Of course, Bob Monday
has well over 100000 miles on his...
Phil O.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Dahl" <adahl@eskimo.com>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: Neon Question - ACR Years?
> Just want to make a few corrections to this thread, just in case anyone is
still reading...
>
> On Wednesday, November 29, 2000, at 07:42 AM, Mark Darby wrote:
> > In 1994 Chrysler hand made 182 NEON ACR's. They were
> > all SOHC sedans.These cars were built in 1994 but
> > Chrysler held them back till 1995 using a brake recall
> > as their reason. Wouldnt you know it,I just by chance
>
> The hand-built ACR sedans were all built in 1994 in several batches
starting somewhere around February or March of 1994. All Neons built in 1994
were titled as 1995 models. I can't confirm the 182 number, I thought that
it was more like 200 but perhaps 182 is correct. I owned ACR #160 which was
built in June 1994 and delivered to me on July 5, 1994. According to the
customer relations engineer at the Belvedere plant mine was the first car of
the last batch of hand built cars. Regular ACR production started sometime
later in 1994 (September or October maybe?). I am not sure exactly when the
coupe came out.
>
> BTW the hand-built cars featured a different transmission with what appear
to me to be better gear ratios for Solo. Mark Chiles owned one of these
hand-built sedans too and he concurs that it was definitely faster and
almost up there with the DOHC coupe.
>
> >It was April 94 before the first cars hit the
> >street.
> >>****Most of these cars were BUILT in April of 94 and
> >>didnt hit the street for sale until Aug or Sept of '94
>
> They may not have made dealer lots until then but they definitely were on
the autocross course by May of 1994 and I ordered mine in late May and was
driving it the beginning of July (less than 2 weeks from order to build
BTW).
>
> The only options were the rear defogger and certain paint colors ($100
extra). I had the dealer add cruise control to mine in addition to the rear
defogger I had ordered with the car.
>
> - Alan Dahl
> (former Neon owner)
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