1981 Plymouth Reliant K from North America - Comments

3rd May 2004, 21:35

"Anyone want to sell me their 1981 Aries or Reliant K"

What things have gone wrong with the car?

Does anyone know where I could find another one?

Many transmission problems.

Lost a lot of hubcaps and they were hard to come by at junkyards.

A lot of people made fun of the fact that it was "dog doo brown"

General comments?

I loved my 1981 Plymouth Reliant K. Everyone made fun of the fact that I drove a K-car.

My favorite thing about it was the abnormally large shift knob on the 5-speed manual transmission.

My cousin gave me this car because she was just plain sick of it. After the clutch went on it and I bought another car I limped the K-car into the garage where it sat buried under boxes etc for about 2yrs until we moved and without my permission my mom junked it. I didn't even get the chance to take that abnormally large shift knob off of it for a souvenir.

If anyone knows where I can find another 1981 4dr Plymouth Reliant K with a manual transmission please comment on this review.


4th May 2004, 07:11

You must be kidding. Go on autotrader. com and do a search. You can find enough Reliants to make a whole fleet. It only goes back to 1984 so to find a 1981 you would have to go to the collector/antique area (although a "collector Reliant" is an oxymoron if there ever was one).


10th Jul 2008, 23:26

I thought the early Reliant's only came with the 4 speed manual's.

Add another comment

Note: A Comments RSS Feed RSS Feed is available. New comments appear in the Members Area before the main site

All Plymouth Reliant reviews