The Prowler is one of the very few factory hot rods to make it out of a design studio and onto a showroom floor without being watered down along the way. Plymouth built it with open front wheels, exposed front suspension arms, cycle fenders, and an aluminum-intensive structure that keeps curb weight under 3,000 pounds. This example is a one-owner car finished in Prowler Yellow, the color most closely associated with the 1999 model year, with 17,000 miles showing.
Power comes from Chrysler's 3.5L aluminum V6, revised for 1999 to a 253 horsepower rating and a meaningful step up from the earlier version of the engine. It pairs with a 4-speed AutoStick automatic mounted at the rear of the car as a transaxle, an unusual layout for a production roadster that shifts weight rearward and gives the Prowler its balance and its torque-tube driveline. AutoStick allows clutchless manual gear selection when the driver wants it and full automatic operation when they do not.
The chassis carries the same purpose-built approach. Staggered wheel and tire sizing puts the narrow rubber up front and the wide rubber at the rear, and braking is handled by four-wheel discs. New tires have been fitted at all four corners, and the brakes have been replaced front and rear, so the two service items that most often come due on a low-mileage car of this age have already been addressed. The black manual soft top folds behind the seats and stows under a hard tonneau. Inside, the cabin is a two-seat, body-integrated design with a factory 6-disc CD changer. The car presents in excellent condition throughout.
Prowlers were built in small numbers over a short run and were bought largely by people who understood what they were buying, which is why so many survive with low mileage and clean histories. A single-owner 17,000-mile car with fresh tires and brakes is about as straightforward an entry point into the model as the market offers, and it is a vehicle that draws a crowd anywhere it stops.
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