Few followers of ‘The Simpson’ know many of the secrets from the legendary American animated series. Some of them? For example, Homer has the letters MG in his ear, which refers to the initials of Matt Groening, his creator.
Or what are they yellow by a marketing strategy’, for catch to viewers with that color. Or that the names and surnames of its members have a strict relationship with historical figures. Anyway, The Simpson They are a box of surprises.
Homer Simpson’s car
And although he is not a character, Homer’s car It appears in all the chapters, as it is part of the initial presentation of the series. And years passed without giving tracks of the origin of the mythical pink car.
One of the chapters gives a clue: it is said that it was made in Europe. “You car was built in Croatia, this made from old soviet tanks”says the crane man. A comment that still left the question in the air. That is, until 2017.
Finally, the answer
He had to arrive chapter 11 of the twenty-eighth seasoncalled ‘The Pig and Burns’ (Pork and Burns) so that the make and model of the famous pink car were revealed. Although some followers related it to a 1973 Plymouth Valiant (especially the shape of the taillights and round headlights), this is a variant.
It was in 2017 when the truth came out. During the Simpson family’s visit to a car wash in Springfielda service employee talks about Homer’s car and thus reveals one of the most anticipated answers. “Hey, your car is ready, a 1986 Plymouth Junkerolla”says the man. The secret had been revealed 28 years later.
In short, the Simpson family car is a 1986 Plymouth Junkerolla, a fictional vehicle inspired by the Chrysler Sedan of the K series the eighties. It is a pink sedan with two front seats, four doors, rounded headlights, and it looks like a American model from the seventies or eighties.
This means that the car was manufactured three years before The Simpson aired (1989), which is quite logical.
Is Homer’s car Chinese?
The specialized engine media Jalopnik commented in 2017 that, in 1987, the Chinese automaker First Auto Works (FAW) built some modified Dodge 600 cars and called them Hongqi CA750F.
“My theory is that the Junkerolla models were built the year before, in 1986, as a kind of test for the factory and its workers to catch up. These few Chinese-made training cars were then shipped from return to the United States for evaluation, and at least one of them was eventually sold to the public, specifically to a portly, jaundiced-looking man named Homer J. Simpson.”
