1978 Dodge Omni [C2]

1978 Dodge Omni [C2] in Malevolent, Movie, 2002

Class: Cars, Hatchback — Model origin: — Built in: — Made for: USA

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BlizzardWizard ◊ 2012-12-11 23:16	At first I thought this car might have the 15" wheels from the Dodge Omni GLH. Although this car lacks the rest of the GLH's identifying features (e.g. front air dam, side skirts), it has been fairly popular for Omnizon enthusiasts to upgrade from the 13" stock wheels of the non-turbo models to the 15" GLH wheels -- especially if they've converted their stock Omnizon to a GLH clone. There is a 4-bolt version of these wheels (as opposed to the more prevalent 5-bolt) that can be installed on a non-turbo Omnizon with no additional modifications needed. However, when I zoomed in on the pic, it looks like this car might just have some strange aftermarket hubcaps on it, possibly on the original 13" wheels. The Omnis and Horizons were made from 1978-1990. Since the B pillars are the same color as the rest of the exterior (and not flat black), this car was probably not made between 1985 and 1989. From 1978 to 1982, the black plastic bumper corner guards were shorter than in later years. This car appears to have shorter corner guards and also to lack the rear windshield wiper absent from early models, which I think becamse standard only after 1982. But because the image resolution is low, the rear wiper coule be there and the corner guards may just be missing entirely, having fallen off -- something reasonably common on these cars, particularly 20-30 years after they were produced. Lastly, I'll point out that while this car has stick-on door moulding, it doesn't have the side lateral moulding strip that goes from headlight to hatch, in line with door handles. On earlier models the premium extreior trim package featured this moulding strip in chrome with a black stripe painted in the middle. Then, from the mid-80s on, all these cars came with the moulding strip in flexible flat black plastic. To my knowledge, the only cars that came from the factory without any moulding here were the base and miser models produced between 1978 and 1982. So even though this car has little rust and visible body damage to be appearing in a 2002 film, I'd say that unless it has been repainted and lost its bumper corner guards, it is most likely a 1978-1982 model Omni or Horizon... albeit with strange hubcaps. True, there is no visible fender emblem used on those models, but they did commonly fall off. -- Last edit: 2012-12-11 23:19:51

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BlizzardWizard

◊ 2012-12-11 23:16

At first I thought this car might have the 15" wheels from the Dodge Omni GLH. Although this car lacks the rest of the GLH's identifying features (e.g. front air dam, side skirts), it has been fairly popular for Omnizon enthusiasts to upgrade from the 13" stock wheels of the non-turbo models to the 15" GLH wheels -- especially if they've converted their stock Omnizon to a GLH clone. There is a 4-bolt version of these wheels (as opposed to the more prevalent 5-bolt) that can be installed on a non-turbo Omnizon with no additional modifications needed. However, when I zoomed in on the pic, it looks like this car might just have some strange aftermarket hubcaps on it, possibly on the original 13" wheels.

The Omnis and Horizons were made from 1978-1990. Since the B pillars are the same color as the rest of the exterior (and not flat black), this car was probably not made between 1985 and 1989. From 1978 to 1982, the black plastic bumper corner guards were shorter than in later years. This car appears to have shorter corner guards and also to lack the rear windshield wiper absent from early models, which I think becamse standard only after 1982. But because the image resolution is low, the rear wiper coule be there and the corner guards may just be missing entirely, having fallen off -- something reasonably common on these cars, particularly 20-30 years after they were produced. Lastly, I'll point out that while this car has stick-on door moulding, it doesn't have the side lateral moulding strip that goes from headlight to hatch, in line with door handles. On earlier models the premium extreior trim package featured this moulding strip in chrome with a black stripe painted in the middle. Then, from the mid-80s on, all these cars came with the moulding strip in flexible flat black plastic. To my knowledge, the only cars that came from the factory without any moulding here were the base and miser models produced between 1978 and 1982. So even though this car has little rust and visible body damage to be appearing in a 2002 film, I'd say that unless it has been repainted and lost its bumper corner guards, it is most likely a 1978-1982 model Omni or Horizon... albeit with strange hubcaps. True, there is no visible fender emblem used on those models, but they did commonly fall off.

-- Last edit: 2012-12-11 23:19:51

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