Little-known (*very* little known!) fact. Chrysler made police package versions of these, as well as police package Newports. My dad bought an unmarked police package '73 New Yorker. 275 net hp, so 60 more than standard. The power steering pump went out on the Garden State Parkway, and as my dad was under the hood investigating on the shoulder of an exit ramp, a state trooper pulled up behind us, and told my dad that our auction find used to be his work car. Told my dad he had pegged it at 130 (it had a certified speedo, but unlike the Fury and Polara fuselages, the top number on the speedo was indeed 130). It was a terrifying car at speed, and with the police handling bits, cornered flat as a piano lid. Thanks for the memories!
My dad bought a 1973 Imperial. It was an executive lease car for the wife of the plant manager at the old Jefferson Assembly plant where my dad also worked. Nothing was funnier than watching my 4'10" mom wheeling that huge Imperial around metro Detroit.
Mr. Adam has been SUPER busy the last couple of days. Much appreciated during the winter days, great content to relax and be informed and entertained by.
Adam is the historian of full size cars from the 60s and 70s. Fantastic content as always. No other channel comes close. He owns a lot of the cars he talks about, works on them and it shows.
Our family had this exact same car. I can remember the air conditioner was like a freezer.. I remember it would do 110mph.and it floated after hitting 70mph.. Having a druck for a pop was fun sometimes.
@@dullaverage1667 Your folks are partially correct, depending on whether they smoked or not. At stoplights or sitting in the car, they could flick the ashes out, while still leaving the main window up. Otherwise they were an easy way to let fresh air in or a fun rush of air at higher speeds. It was a neat feature in mid-century cars that started disappearing in the late '60s.
The fuselage body cars in general are IMHO some of the most elegant automobiles Chrysler ever made, and I think that especially goes for the Chrysler New Yorker and the Imperial. The 1973 New Yorker may not have looked quite as distinctive from the front as the 1969-1972 models with the loop bumpers, but I have no objections to it, and you still got the same cool instrument panel and the classy brocade upholstery. I think the 1965-1968 New Yorkers looked beautiful, too. Elwood Engel did a masterful styling job on those cars (as well as the fuselage cars), and I would love it if you could do a video spotlighting at least one of them. The vinyl-covered sail panels on the 1965 and 1966 models were an interesting touch, and I think the rear end of the '68 looked especially amazing with those very impressive and elaborate wall-to-wall taillights. And as always, your vast encyclopedic knowledge of classic car details continues to shine through! I eagerly look forward to seeing many more!
Thank You for sharing this beautiful '73 New Yorker! My cousin inherited an identical twin to this about 1980. It had a bit over 100K mileage. The timing chain "gears", complete with plastic teeth, had sheared a few teeth and damaged the oil pickup screen. So I helped him replace the timing chain and gears, tuned it up including AC Delco plugs. I do remember he bumped the timing up by about 6 degrees advance. We took it for a ride after and out to the highway (I-84 in New Britan, CT) and ran across an '80 Corvette with an L-82. My foot was into the accelerator and the carb was making nice noises. The L-82 apparently thought I was trying to race him (I wasn't). He jumped on it and we were off!! I think both he, my cousin and I were amazed as I smoothly pulled away from him at full throttle. At 90, I got off it and he caught up. We both returned to the 55mph speed limit. The L-82 driver looked mighty puzzled. I think he was more embarrased with his girlfriend being a witness to his situation of being blown off by an old luxocruiser. My cousin enjoyed this car for several more years 🙂
I would take this car in a HEARTBEAT! Triple green, loaded...I admit, the revised '73 front end on the Newport/New Yorker has grown on me over the years. One of my dream cars...amazing example of a fuselage time capsule!
I always recommend KYB gas shocks all around for large Mopars. They eliminate the little bit of float at high speed. This encourages cross country travel which these cars love to provide.
My mom's boss had one of these in gold when I was a kid. I remember being thoroughly impressed by the sheer size of it. I like a car that's so big you could land a helicopter on the hood.
Just spending a Sunday jumping from one "Rare Classic Cars..." vlog-cast to another. Not a bad deal! The first time I saw a '69 Chrysler two-door hardtop, It was a medium metallic gray Newport without white walls or a vinyl top, parked in front of the Photography Building at Rhode Island School of Design (where the legendary photographer, Harry Callahan held forth), and, with open windows all around, resembled nothing so much as a premium 3 window coupe from the 1930's or 1940's; the proportion of the great length of the body to the car's tiny greenhouse was astounding.
Yes, the trunks on those 2-door fuselage cars were unusually long giving it an almost "El Camino" look and also looked like the old "business coupes" that traveling salesmen drove back in the day.
We had a '72 Town & Country when I was a kid. I remember measuring it once, just out of curiosity, and it was 18 feet long. It was almost 4 inches longer than our '72 GMC pickup. I loved that car though. It was so stately, and it was also the first car we ever had with A/C and all the power goodies. I remember my dad paid $1800 for it when it was only five years old. I guess nobody wanted to feed those gas by '77, so it was cheap. I think it only had about 20k miles on it then. We had a lot of adventures in that big ole Chrysler, and seeing the inside of this New Yorker brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing, Adam!
I love your videos on this era of Chryslers. We had a 73 Town & Country wagon. We didn't have power windows on all the doors - only the tailgate - but the car was exceptionally well padded on all the doors. Our radio did not have 8-track, but our's had a search function that included a separate floor button next to the dimmer switch. I guess it was the other hi-priced option for radios. For such a large wagon, it drove like a ship. I remember one time the car had broken down and we had to pull it home. Without the engine running - no power steering or brakes - you practically had to have the strength of an ox to get the vehicle to turn or stop. But these were great riding cars. Thanks again!
This is a really great example, one of the best I've seen, of a '73 New Yorker Brougham. I really like how these look as much as the earlier Fuselage Chryslers. When they first came out, I thought the designers did a really good job with the new front bumper regulations, much better than most other cars. And I still like them. On another note: I once worked with a woman who had this exact car. She was a San Diego surfer chick when her dad bought if for her to drive, and she affectionately referred to it as "The Broughammobile." Loved that!
My dad worked at Airtemp in Dayton Ohio at the time. We had an all-green '69 Fury III. Noticing a number similarly looking interior components that that this has. Smooth ride, but wasn't a Cadillac. Here as an official survivor of the era riding on the front seat hump as a kid on the highway without a seatbelt! ;)
I live in this area and was just talking to a friend about the huge factories left to rot because they sent the factories to Mexico in the late 90s. We can argue why that happened but I think it was a mix of the EPA, Unions, and NAFTA. The Unions members wanted 35$ an hour and free healthcare back in 1999. All the long term workers had second homes in Florida or Michigan. The government wanted to document every drop of oil or gas, Mexico said you can pollute as much as you like and pay pennies on the dollar for labor. Now Ohio is left in shambles...
That's back when natural selection was allowed to do its job. You were one of the smart kids who didn't stick their head out the window. Notice how there more than likely aren't very many morons in your age range. Then again, there were still be some morons running around back in the day that are the reason why split rims are no longer on light-duty or heavy-duty trucks anymore. Natural selection doesn't get everyone necessarily.
My late friend owned the exact same car. He babied it, never drove in inclement weather, snow or rain and kept it in pristine condition. You could eat off the engine bay. Even his daily driver, a Ford Taurus, was immaculate. RIP, Mr. G.
Thank you for another great presentation. I have noticed in several recent videos your remarks on the poor starting performance of the 1970s cohort of Chrysler vehicles in cold or damp weather, and that this can be directly attributed to the Champion brand spark plugs. As far as I am aware, the Champion brand is exclusively associated with spark plugs, and from my childhood recollections, the brand seemed a ubiquitous sponsor of NASCAR events and racing teams. Your comments prompted me to do some research. Apparently, Champion (named after the founder, Albert Champion) was founded in the early 1900s. Although Champion did not invent the spark plug, the company did pioneer the use of ceramic insulators based on research originating at Buick. It appears that the "AC" in AC Delco is tied to Albert Champion's name, as the fruits of his research were shared with what would become a GM "house brand". Champion continues to supply spark plugs (as well as automotive batteries) to this day, and its products apparently enjoy a 4.7 star rating on that major e-retailer (the one named after a South American river). It seems strange that a highly regarded company with such deep roots could pass off sub-standard product that almost kneecapped a major customer's vehicles for several years.
I had a 1977 NY Brougham.I have to say that was my lifetime favorite car. It was smooth and quiet, It would tear through deep Colorado snow like nothing.
That thing is as long as a football field looking!!~ Green (avocado green at that) was so 70's. I figured Adam would like it because it is so retro. Great content Adam, you've been on a tear releasing videos, and I wanted to say thanks and I/we appreciate all your hard work!!!!~~
My college car was an '85 Volkswagen Scirocco turbo and it had the same mechanism for the power door locks. You had to push or pull the knob on the door, but that would lock/unlock the other door and the hatch. Interestingly, this was operated by vacuum, with servos in each door and the hatch. But it did not use engine vacuum, there was a small electric vacuum pump in the right rear fender that operated the system. It was superb and never gave a bit of trouble. The instrument panel on this '73 Chrysler is superb. Great video!
In the early 80s my folks had a ‘73 New Yorker Brougham 2-door hardtop. White with a black vinyl top and black vinyl interior. Beautiful car! One day my dad ran a stop sign at the bottom of an exit ramp and hit a new (for the era) BMW. The accident tore the rubber bumper guard on the New York and did $5K damage to the Beamer. These cars were tanks!
I always think of deep metallic brown for these cars, and the old Mercuries of the same era. It just seemed so luxurious, somehow, to me as a teenager, when they roamed the Earth.
A friends father got this exact car when I was in HS. It was silver with a black vinyl top and black interior just like this. It was great fun. The 440 was plenty powerful even with the smaller heads than an R/T. I will say I agree with you the earlier fuselage cars were much better looking. The smaller, tighter bumpers fit well with the styling and the cars got boxier as the bumpers grew. Keep up the good work. Love your videos.
Adam, great video, really appreciated your detail. I am just about to ship the "exact same" spec 1973 NY Brougham to Australia. It's in Burgundy red with a cream vinyl roof. A family car for 15 years, and recently parked up as a barn-find....I just had to get it. It was really refreshing to watch this, as a "same-spec" car. Greatly appreciated. Regards & Bests, Fletch - Classic Restos TV - Australia 👍
Wow! three new videos to watch this Sunday morning. Thanks Adam! One option I see missing is the chrome road wheels. The dictafone (a cassette player/recorder) would not have been available in combination with the 8 track player.
Thanks for the wonderful review. We had a ‘73 NY Brougham in gold when I was a teenager. You are absolutely spot on about cold starting difficulties. Although there was no temp gauge, Chrysler did provide a “cold” light on the IP as well as the “hot”light.
My brothers shared a 1973 Chrysler Newport Custom Coupe with the road wheels as their first car. It had been my Grandparents car. Even with 400 it would really move down the road.
Another great video Adam.I love the fuselage cars.THERE IS 1 OPTION THIS NEW YORKER DORSNT HAVE,and that's a moonroof.A gentleman on the island has 2 73 New Yorkers,1 is base and the other is a brougham.The base car is his daily driver,brown with tan interior,due to the salt air it has let's say patina.The metal was not galvanized.The top of the line is black,black leather and YES A, moonroof.BEAUTIFUL car with 50,000 miles in perfect condition. On a screen watching on a phone these cars look large,BUT in person they ate imposing.I have been for rides in my friends cars,but he has never let me drive one.Very powerful, very smooth.Thank you for the great content and always cheers from Eulethra.
My 73 Fury Gran Sedan big block looked just like that. Green on green and all. Everything was padded. Even parts that you'd never expect like the lower door panels behind the carpet strip. It never got better than 9mpg but was almost never driven under 80mph either. For many years the only problem it ever had was the body of the carb would loosen and leak gasoline. I forget what carb it had but it was bigger than some import engines of today. The few people that would look at it for me would just tell me it wasn't the right carb for the engine. Then I'd pull it off and tighten the screws that held it together and reinstalled it. These things were way too fast for their size. Next to the Cadilacs of the time these were the fastest cars from one gas station to another in the US.
So many green Mopars back then. As a ‘73, it was the last year for a forged crankshaft in the 440. The cast crankshaft that replaced it had no provision for the manual transmission input shaft.
That is a gorgeous car, for sure. The interior is nice and the power vent windows are a nice touch. I remember the power locks being controlled by the lock plunger. I can't remember if it was Ford or Chrysler, before they went to a separate switch, that said power lock on the top of the plunger. A friend of mine's family were Chrysler people and had them for as long as I can remember. Great cars, for sure.
11:57 regarding ATCii - the control box is zip-tied to the RH fender brace. That mass of vacuum hoses & distinctive housing shape give it away. Also appears the heater hoses are looped. Likely a failed heater core and inop AutoTemp system. Maybe controller sprung a coolant leak too. Possible failed evaporator core too. Very common for Fuselage era Mopars. Buyer could ordered std A/C. Or better yet, an Imperial with a credit for manual a/C over standard ATCii. Nightmare of a system.
Another great video Adam! You’ve been hard at work on so many great topics lately. I loved these cars, the IP looked cheap but the dash and door cards seemed nicer than the Olds 98. Interiors of all senior models were increasingly cheapened as you’ve often noted. A 98 had a lovely ride but handled poorly at speed. Fuselage MoPars did ping pong as you mention but worth it for the handling. The NYB’s sister Town & Country wagon was the worst offender for bouncing. The Olds 455 V-8 seemed to run out of steam at higher speeds while the Chrysler 440 V-8 seemed less stressed. Both had great A/C! My favorite in this department was the Buick 455 V-8 with its gearing so well suited for cruising. Also hard to criticize a Cadillac 472 V-8 easily maintaining 80 mph with 6 passengers. I know what😊 a Merc fan you are but I recall being always conscious of its anvil (though powerful) of an engine. Perhaps one grew accustomed to it. Always wanted to try out a Pontiac 455. Thanks for bringing back terrific memories. 👍
If GM perfectly timed the intro of the GM77 downsized full size cars, Chrysler's 1974 redesign of their full size car was a perfect marketing misstep. A very bulky design introduced during the height of the first oil crisis. Would have been better if they continued with the fuselage theme.
The redesigned 1974 models were actually somewhat smaller and more space efficient than the fuselage cars. Not as dramatically so as the downsized 77 GM, but a step in that direction.
You need to remember that those redesigned '74 Chryslers were designed/engineered in '70-'73, so they had no idea at the time that an oil crisis was on the horizon. It took GM three years to downsize their big cars, and they did a great job - their new downsized '77'-'84's turned out to be some of the best "road trip" cars they've ever made IMO.
Even though I'm not a fan of Chrysler this is one of their cars that I would own. They built these a lot better than what they build now. It's unfortunate that we don't have big cars anymore.
This color reminds me of our '69 Plymouth VIP. My dad bought at a police auction and it had a side mounted search light. First car I learned to drive. The power brakes were wicked good and underrated, IMHO.
I had a '73 Newport which was very similar but less upmarket.... I picked it up second hand for a song in the early '80s and it was my daily driver for a while. Heavy on the gas budget - it had the 440 - but what a ride!
My dad's '72 New Yorker 4dr sedan was in exactly this colour combination. He bought it brand new of the showroom floor in Brussels, Belgium. No AC. Notice that the power antenna doesn't fully retract as you can see on this example. It was just designed like that. The Chrysler dealership in Belgium told my dad this is how they came. It turned ou to be a great car, expensive in fuel but reliable and a bit of a head turner on European roads. It was driven all over Europe. I miss that car.
Compared to your gold NY that you sold, at least this car's doors don't look cheap and MOPAR finally put the power windows in the armrest and not just stuck on the door. I agree with you that the IP doesn't look right for the price and the switches look cheap. But the seats are magnificent, I remember seeing that in the brochure.
I would take it! My relatives were all 6 ft 4” so they owned these at the time. They could really handle the gravel roads. My Uncle had a 73 Newport Custom almost as loaded as this one.
The fuselage Chryslers got restyled every year but it had very little impact on the number sold. Why did they even bother to change them so much every year. The buyers didn’t seem to notice. The 1973 restyle was square enough to see out the rest of the 1970’s without the 1974-1978 redesign. Instead they should have brought out the Cordoba a year earlier. Perhaps they could have also reskinned the Valiant and turned it into a compact Imperial Crown beating Cadillac’s Seville to the market. I think the styling of the 1974 Imperial would have looked fine on a smaller platform.🤓
Still a good look from that rear 3/4 view, showing off that side profile and quarter panel. Too bad about the front bumper....Gotta love that interior and those power vent windows. Sweet.
Sounds beautiful. While looking like silk the brocades were all synthetic. Silk is too fragile for automotive upholstery and is degraded by sunlight. They sure looked and felt rich though.
I bought a ‘73 Chrysler Newport Custom in college in 1975. Originally the MSRP was around $6800 and I got mine for $2900 with only 12,000 miles on it. 1975 was one of the years of the Arab oil embargoes and gasoline price spikes. Big car prices plummeted. Mine was exactly the Same color combo as this car - medium green body with darker green vinyl top. Mine was also a 4-Dr pillarless hardtop just like this one. It was beautiful and not the kind of car you’d expect a college student to own. (I worked in industry as a co-op student, so had more $ than the typical student). Mine had the 400 cid V8 engine rather than the 440, so it ran on regular gas. I actually preferred the Newport Custom. The base Newport was too plain and the New Yorker had a couple extra chrome strips which I thought were unnecessary. I also preferred the rear bumper and taillight treatment of the Newport Custom over the New Yorker. I sold my Chrysler to an older couple in rural Missouri in 1977, because it only got 12 mpg and I just graduated and was starting to commute to work in St. Louis every day. They didn’t care about the poor mileage since they didn’t drive much.
Thanks for this one, Adam.. I share your attachment to various green colored vehicles, up to a point, but the green palette that automakers of that era were more attracted to, had too much yellow in them for my taste.. The dashboard and instrument panel were excessively cheap in appearance. Not a bad car for that era though. These were respectable middle class vehicles when new. I think General Motors C and B bodies had better interiors.
Mortal sin what was done to 73 fuselage front end styling (except Imperial & Monaco). Looks like something from GM or FoMoCo. Mopar spent of spent a pretty penny for development and tooling for a one year model. Maybe they should have just bolted a railroad tie to the 72 fronts.
Power sunroof, rear AC or heat, factory alarm system, chrome road wheels and rear shoulder belts would be unusual, but available options unchecked by the original owner.
I don't know that I've seen such a loaded example, seeming to lack only the rear air conditioning. I prefer cars of this era without the vision-cluttering vent windows, but when they're powered, well, that's another matter.
The 69-73 C bodies are my favorite full size Chrysler products other than an E body barracuda, but I do have a soft spot for the 1974/5 imperial/1976-78 New Yorker brougham. My grandfather had a 1973 fury 2 undercover state police car with the police 440. I’d love to find one someday.
Thank you Adam. This car was quite loaded. It is quite close to an Imperial in terms of features.. I could see how this competed against the Oldsmobile Ninety Eight. The only thing that you could see was parts sharing was the instrumentation panel because it looked like the one in Dodges and Plymouths of the time.
Such an impressive New Yorker. I was never a fan of the green and Chrysler seemed to have an abundant supply of green paint and interior components on hand in those days!
Have always loved the fuselage era Chryslers. Someone let me know what the crazy black knob is mounted under the dash, just about the transmission hump! And yeah, I don't see the auto temp box either... It doesn't seem like you could control the temp/AC without it though by looking at the temp controls....
Little-known (*very* little known!) fact. Chrysler made police package versions of these, as well as police package Newports. My dad bought an unmarked police package '73 New Yorker. 275 net hp, so 60 more than standard. The power steering pump went out on the Garden State Parkway, and as my dad was under the hood investigating on the shoulder of an exit ramp, a state trooper pulled up behind us, and told my dad that our auction find used to be his work car. Told my dad he had pegged it at 130 (it had a certified speedo, but unlike the Fury and Polara fuselages, the top number on the speedo was indeed 130). It was a terrifying car at speed, and with the police handling bits, cornered flat as a piano lid. Thanks for the memories!
My dad bought a 1973 Imperial. It was an executive lease car for the wife of the plant manager at the old Jefferson Assembly plant where my dad also worked. Nothing was funnier than watching my 4'10" mom wheeling that huge Imperial around metro Detroit.
We can still hear the gear reduction starter in our memories.
Exactly - you could always tell the sound of a Chrysler being started without even looking.
@@TomSnyder-gx5ru Yes. Chrysler, GM and Ford each had a distinct sound the starters
That 1970s Mopar starter sound is like no other.
@@gman6081 The "Hamtramck Hummingbird."
The laughing dolphin
Mr. Adam has been SUPER busy the last couple of days. Much appreciated during the winter days, great content to relax and be informed and entertained by.
Love the color, inside and out. Your avocado green land yacht goes nicely with your avocado green appliances and shag carpeting!
Avacado in & out.... love it!
Adam is the historian of full size cars from the 60s and 70s. Fantastic content as always. No other channel comes close. He owns a lot of the cars he talks about, works on them and it shows.
The brocade cloth used by all US manufacturers of the late 60s and early 70s are my favorite materials for seats.
Our family had this exact same car. I can remember the air conditioner was like a freezer.. I remember it would do 110mph.and it floated after hitting 70mph.. Having a druck for a pop was fun sometimes.
Mine would peg the speedometer at 15 above the 120. And it felt like it was going to take off.
Beautiful New Yorker. My favorite generation was 74 to 78.
I love those too. They were essentially (or close to) being the Imperial.
Underpowered following the 1973 oïl crise…
Better off in a 1969/ 1972 model.
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I love the fact it still had the vent window. A great feature regardless of whether you had air conditioning or not.
Those are lil windows? My folks thought those were ashtrays. Oh the old days!
@@dullaverage1667 Your folks are partially correct, depending on whether they smoked or not. At stoplights or sitting in the car, they could flick the ashes out, while still leaving the main window up. Otherwise they were an easy way to let fresh air in or a fun rush of air at higher speeds. It was a neat feature in mid-century cars that started disappearing in the late '60s.
The fuselage body cars in general are IMHO some of the most elegant automobiles Chrysler ever made, and I think that especially goes for the Chrysler New Yorker and the Imperial. The 1973 New Yorker may not have looked quite as distinctive from the front as the 1969-1972 models with the loop bumpers, but I have no objections to it, and you still got the same cool instrument panel and the classy brocade upholstery. I think the 1965-1968 New Yorkers looked beautiful, too. Elwood Engel did a masterful styling job on those cars (as well as the fuselage cars), and I would love it if you could do a video spotlighting at least one of them. The vinyl-covered sail panels on the 1965 and 1966 models were an interesting touch, and I think the rear end of the '68 looked especially amazing with those very impressive and elaborate wall-to-wall taillights.
And as always, your vast encyclopedic knowledge of classic car details continues to shine through! I eagerly look forward to seeing many more!
Adam did a video on the 1965 New Yorker about 8 months ago.
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Someone liked their green 😊
A great complement to the latest in avocado kitchens!
Thank You for sharing this beautiful '73 New Yorker! My cousin inherited an identical twin to this about 1980. It had a bit over 100K mileage. The timing chain "gears", complete with plastic teeth, had sheared a few teeth and damaged the oil pickup screen. So I helped him replace the timing chain and gears, tuned it up including AC Delco plugs. I do remember he bumped the timing up by about 6 degrees advance. We took it for a ride after and out to the highway (I-84 in New Britan, CT) and ran across an '80 Corvette with an L-82. My foot was into the accelerator and the carb was making nice noises. The L-82 apparently thought I was trying to race him (I wasn't). He jumped on it and we were off!! I think both he, my cousin and I were amazed as I smoothly pulled away from him at full throttle. At 90, I got off it and he caught up. We both returned to the 55mph speed limit. The L-82 driver looked mighty puzzled. I think he was more embarrased with his girlfriend being a witness to his situation of being blown off by an old luxocruiser. My cousin enjoyed this car for several more years 🙂
Yeah.. I owned a 81 Corvette that I loved but it was not a powerhouse
Yeah even a heavy car like the Chrysler with a big block has way more torque /power than one of the emissions choked small block Corvettes of the day.
I would take this car in a HEARTBEAT! Triple green, loaded...I admit, the revised '73 front end on the Newport/New Yorker has grown on me over the years. One of my dream cars...amazing example of a fuselage time capsule!
I always recommend KYB gas shocks all around for large Mopars. They eliminate the little bit of float at high speed. This encourages cross country travel which these cars love to provide.
My mom's boss had one of these in gold when I was a kid. I remember being thoroughly impressed by the sheer size of it. I like a car that's so big you could land a helicopter on the hood.
One of my favorite cars...favorite year. These were beautiful. The Imperial this year too.
Just spending a Sunday jumping from one "Rare Classic Cars..." vlog-cast to another. Not a bad deal! The first time I saw a '69 Chrysler two-door hardtop, It was a medium metallic gray Newport without white walls or a vinyl top, parked in front of the Photography Building at Rhode Island School of Design (where the legendary photographer, Harry Callahan held forth), and, with open windows all around, resembled nothing so much as a premium 3 window coupe from the 1930's or 1940's; the proportion of the great length of the body to the car's tiny greenhouse was astounding.
Yes, the trunks on those 2-door fuselage cars were unusually long giving it an almost "El Camino" look and also looked like the old "business coupes" that traveling salesmen drove back in the day.
Wow what a car. Those understressed big blocks are excellent runners.
Loaded beauty. Cheers 🇨🇦
Adam, If you had a New Yorker in this fabulous green colour, I bet you would keep it. 😉
Amber Sherwood Metallic...
We had a '72 Town & Country when I was a kid. I remember measuring it once, just out of curiosity, and it was 18 feet long. It was almost 4 inches longer than our '72 GMC pickup. I loved that car though. It was so stately, and it was also the first car we ever had with A/C and all the power goodies. I remember my dad paid $1800 for it when it was only five years old. I guess nobody wanted to feed those gas by '77, so it was cheap. I think it only had about 20k miles on it then. We had a lot of adventures in that big ole Chrysler, and seeing the inside of this New Yorker brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing, Adam!
I love your videos on this era of Chryslers. We had a 73 Town & Country wagon. We didn't have power windows on all the doors - only the tailgate - but the car was exceptionally well padded on all the doors. Our radio did not have 8-track, but our's had a search function that included a separate floor button next to the dimmer switch. I guess it was the other hi-priced option for radios. For such a large wagon, it drove like a ship. I remember one time the car had broken down and we had to pull it home. Without the engine running - no power steering or brakes - you practically had to have the strength of an ox to get the vehicle to turn or stop. But these were great riding cars. Thanks again!
Also I haven't heard or seen Twilight Sentinel headlights on an old school car since I had my 1985 Buick LeSabre Collector Edition!
This is a really great example, one of the best I've seen, of a '73 New Yorker Brougham. I really like how these look as much as the earlier Fuselage Chryslers. When they first came out, I thought the designers did a really good job with the new front bumper regulations, much better than most other cars. And I still like them. On another note: I once worked with a woman who had this exact car. She was a San Diego surfer chick when her dad bought if for her to drive, and she affectionately referred to it as "The Broughammobile." Loved that!
My dad worked at Airtemp in Dayton Ohio at the time. We had an all-green '69 Fury III. Noticing a number similarly looking interior components that that this has. Smooth ride, but wasn't a Cadillac. Here as an official survivor of the era riding on the front seat hump as a kid on the highway without a seatbelt! ;)
I live in this area and was just talking to a friend about the huge factories left to rot because they sent the factories to Mexico in the late 90s. We can argue why that happened but I think it was a mix of the EPA, Unions, and NAFTA.
The Unions members wanted 35$ an hour and free healthcare back in 1999. All the long term workers had second homes in Florida or Michigan. The government wanted to document every drop of oil or gas, Mexico said you can pollute as much as you like and pay pennies on the dollar for labor.
Now Ohio is left in shambles...
That's back when natural selection was allowed to do its job. You were one of the smart kids who didn't stick their head out the window. Notice how there more than likely aren't very many morons in your age range. Then again, there were still be some morons running around back in the day that are the reason why split rims are no longer on light-duty or heavy-duty trucks anymore. Natural selection doesn't get everyone necessarily.
What a gorgeous Chrysler, Adam! I LOOOOVE these fuselage era Chryslers. She is a beaut for sure ;), Johnny
So do I. Such great cars!
My late friend owned the exact same car. He babied it, never drove in inclement weather, snow or rain and kept it in pristine condition. You could eat off the engine bay. Even his daily driver, a Ford Taurus, was immaculate. RIP, Mr. G.
Despite all that green it is a beautiful car. Lol. Just kidding, to each his own. What superb condition. This one should join the Adam collection.
Thank you for another great presentation. I have noticed in several recent videos your remarks on the poor starting performance of the 1970s cohort of Chrysler vehicles in cold or damp weather, and that this can be directly attributed to the Champion brand spark plugs. As far as I am aware, the Champion brand is exclusively associated with spark plugs, and from my childhood recollections, the brand seemed a ubiquitous sponsor of NASCAR events and racing teams.
Your comments prompted me to do some research. Apparently, Champion (named after the founder, Albert Champion) was founded in the early 1900s. Although Champion did not invent the spark plug, the company did pioneer the use of ceramic insulators based on research originating at Buick. It appears that the "AC" in AC Delco is tied to Albert Champion's name, as the fruits of his research were shared with what would become a GM "house brand". Champion continues to supply spark plugs (as well as automotive batteries) to this day, and its products apparently enjoy a 4.7 star rating on that major e-retailer (the one named after a South American river).
It seems strange that a highly regarded company with such deep roots could pass off sub-standard product that almost kneecapped a major customer's vehicles for several years.
I owned a '73 FuryIII hardtop back in the 90's as a daily driver. Loved that car!!!!
Wow! What a beautiful piece of machinery. 👍
Go big or go home baby!!❤ This Chrysler is just beautiful!!
I had a 1977 NY Brougham.I have to say that was my lifetime favorite car. It was smooth and quiet, It would tear through deep Colorado snow like nothing.
That thing is as long as a football field looking!!~ Green (avocado green at that) was so 70's. I figured Adam would like it because it is so retro. Great content Adam, you've been on a tear releasing videos, and I wanted to say thanks and I/we appreciate all your hard work!!!!~~
What the Greatest Gen called a “brass hat car.”
I love that the springs and braces underhood are "color-coordinated" with the exterior..
Adam, third clip today! This is a rare treat. Thank you so much!
That’s a great explanation on the power lock activation being integrated with the locking
Knob. I had often wondered about that.
This car screams early 70's ! Green on green and more green ! Greg Brady would luv this car ! 😂
So would Kermit 🐸
My college car was an '85 Volkswagen Scirocco turbo and it had the same mechanism for the power door locks. You had to push or pull the knob on the door, but that would lock/unlock the other door and the hatch. Interestingly, this was operated by vacuum, with servos in each door and the hatch. But it did not use engine vacuum, there was a small electric vacuum pump in the right rear fender that operated the system. It was superb and never gave a bit of trouble.
The instrument panel on this '73 Chrysler is superb. Great video!
In the early 80s my folks had a ‘73 New Yorker Brougham 2-door hardtop. White with a black vinyl top and black vinyl interior. Beautiful car!
One day my dad ran a stop sign at the bottom of an exit ramp and hit a new (for the era) BMW. The accident tore the rubber bumper guard on the New York and did $5K damage to the Beamer. These cars were tanks!
Beautiful example, and, as always, superior work, Adam! It looks like Mist Green Metallic. LOVE that green paint!
Awesome videos over the last week outlining some great 70’s era cars
I always think of deep metallic brown for these cars, and the old Mercuries of the same era. It just seemed so luxurious, somehow, to me as a teenager, when they roamed the Earth.
a real grinchmobile...really it's absolutely beautiful! regarding the ip it has a citroen look, modern and minimal, i think it's tasteful.
I'm digging the avocado color inside and out! 😊
I took my DL test in my Dads maroon ‘73. I knew i passed when I parallel parked this giant.
Congratulations on that effort!
A friends father got this exact car when I was in HS. It was silver with a black vinyl top and black interior just like this. It was great fun. The 440 was plenty powerful even with the smaller heads than an R/T. I will say I agree with you the earlier fuselage cars were much better looking. The smaller, tighter bumpers fit well with the styling and the cars got boxier as the bumpers grew. Keep up the good work. Love your videos.
makin me miss my old New Yorker big time. This one looks great too, thanks for sharing.
Adam, great video, really appreciated your detail. I am just about to ship the "exact same" spec 1973 NY Brougham to Australia. It's in Burgundy red with a cream vinyl roof. A family car for 15 years, and recently parked up as a barn-find....I just had to get it. It was really refreshing to watch this, as a "same-spec" car. Greatly appreciated.
Regards & Bests, Fletch - Classic Restos TV - Australia 👍
I'd see quite a bit of them in the 80s, usually owned by seniors and they were immaculate.
That car is absolutely gorgeous.
Simplemente........ Hermoso !!!!!!!!
Wow! three new videos to watch this Sunday morning. Thanks Adam!
One option I see missing is the chrome road wheels. The dictafone (a cassette player/recorder) would not have been available in combination with the 8 track player.
Thanks for the wonderful review. We had a ‘73 NY Brougham in gold when I was a teenager. You are absolutely spot on about cold starting difficulties. Although there was no temp gauge, Chrysler did provide a “cold” light on the IP as well as the “hot”light.
the stereo radios were equipped with 5 speakers, the front center wired as a 3rd, center channel.
Had a ‘73 Newport with the 400. Always wanted the New Yorker with the 440.
My brothers shared a 1973 Chrysler Newport Custom Coupe with the road wheels as their first car. It had been my Grandparents car. Even with 400 it would really move down the road.
Another great video Adam.I love the fuselage cars.THERE IS 1 OPTION THIS NEW YORKER DORSNT HAVE,and that's a moonroof.A gentleman on the island has 2 73 New Yorkers,1 is base and the other is a brougham.The base car is his daily driver,brown with tan interior,due to the salt air it has let's say patina.The metal was not galvanized.The top of the line is black,black leather and YES A, moonroof.BEAUTIFUL car with 50,000 miles in perfect condition. On a screen watching on a phone these cars look large,BUT in person they ate imposing.I have been for rides in my friends cars,but he has never let me drive one.Very powerful, very smooth.Thank you for the great content and always cheers from Eulethra.
I love the big Chrysler unibodies of this era. They were so much more distinctive than cars today.
My uncle had one and it fell in love with it when he drove up in it
My 73 Fury Gran Sedan big block looked just like that. Green on green and all. Everything was padded. Even parts that you'd never expect like the lower door panels behind the carpet strip. It never got better than 9mpg but was almost never driven under 80mph either. For many years the only problem it ever had was the body of the carb would loosen and leak gasoline. I forget what carb it had but it was bigger than some import engines of today. The few people that would look at it for me would just tell me it wasn't the right carb for the engine. Then I'd pull it off and tighten the screws that held it together and reinstalled it. These things were way too fast for their size. Next to the Cadilacs of the time these were the fastest cars from one gas station to another in the US.
So many green Mopars back then. As a ‘73, it was the last year for a forged crankshaft in the 440. The cast crankshaft that replaced it had no provision for the manual transmission input shaft.
Beautiful car!! Nice review and great information 👍👍🙂
That is a gorgeous car, for sure. The interior is nice and the power vent windows are a nice touch. I remember the power locks being controlled by the lock plunger. I can't remember if it was Ford or Chrysler, before they went to a separate switch, that said power lock on the top of the plunger. A friend of mine's family were Chrysler people and had them for as long as I can remember. Great cars, for sure.
11:57 regarding ATCii - the control box is zip-tied to the RH fender brace. That mass of vacuum hoses & distinctive housing shape give it away. Also appears the heater hoses are looped. Likely a failed heater core and inop AutoTemp system. Maybe controller sprung a coolant leak too. Possible failed evaporator core too. Very common for Fuselage era Mopars. Buyer could ordered std A/C. Or better yet, an Imperial with a credit for manual a/C over standard ATCii. Nightmare of a system.
Another great video Adam! You’ve been hard at work on so many great topics lately. I loved these cars, the IP looked cheap but the dash and door cards seemed nicer than the Olds 98. Interiors of all senior models were increasingly cheapened as you’ve often noted. A 98 had a lovely ride but handled poorly at speed. Fuselage MoPars did ping pong as you mention but worth it for the handling. The NYB’s sister Town & Country wagon was the worst offender for bouncing. The Olds 455 V-8 seemed to run out of steam at higher speeds while the Chrysler 440 V-8 seemed less stressed. Both had great A/C! My favorite in this department was the Buick 455 V-8 with its gearing so well suited for cruising. Also hard to criticize a Cadillac 472 V-8 easily maintaining 80 mph with 6 passengers. I know what😊 a Merc fan you are but I recall being always conscious of its anvil (though powerful) of an engine. Perhaps one grew accustomed to it. Always wanted to try out a Pontiac 455. Thanks for bringing back terrific memories. 👍
I share your love of green cars. I have a dark highland green Mustang Bullitt.
If GM perfectly timed the intro of the GM77 downsized full size cars, Chrysler's 1974 redesign of their full size car was a perfect marketing misstep. A very bulky design introduced during the height of the first oil crisis. Would have been better if they continued with the fuselage theme.
The redesigned 1974 models were actually somewhat smaller and more space efficient than the fuselage cars. Not as dramatically so as the downsized 77 GM, but a step in that direction.
You need to remember that those redesigned '74 Chryslers were designed/engineered in '70-'73, so they had no idea at the time that an oil crisis was on the horizon. It took GM three years to downsize their big cars, and they did a great job - their new downsized '77'-'84's turned out to be some of the best "road trip" cars they've ever made IMO.
Parents bought a new 72 Chrysler Newport 4 door l remember driving while in school. It was a huge fuselage bodied car. Driving it was effortless.
Even though I'm not a fan of Chrysler this is one of their cars that I would own. They built these a lot better than what they build now. It's unfortunate that we don't have big cars anymore.
Excellent job as always Adam! Nice to see that 1973 Chrysler is the same shade of GF3 Amber Sherwood Metallic as my 1972 Duster!😮
A Big, Beautiful Car, that has the Lincoln Continental shape and is a terrific car for its time, Adam. 😀👏
The full size cars from the big 3 in the 70's are beautiful.
This color reminds me of our '69 Plymouth VIP. My dad bought at a police auction and it had a side mounted search light. First car I learned to drive. The power brakes were wicked good and underrated, IMHO.
I believe a rear seat heater was available, being contgrolled by a similar rocker switch under the rear defogger switch.
I had a '73 Newport which was very similar but less upmarket.... I picked it up second hand for a song in the early '80s and it was my daily driver for a while. Heavy on the gas budget - it had the 440 - but what a ride!
beautiful car. living room on wheels
My dad's '72 New Yorker 4dr sedan was in exactly this colour combination. He bought it brand new of the showroom floor in Brussels, Belgium. No AC. Notice that the power antenna doesn't fully retract as you can see on this example. It was just designed like that. The Chrysler dealership in Belgium told my dad this is how they came.
It turned ou to be a great car, expensive in fuel but reliable and a bit of a head turner on European roads. It was driven all over Europe. I miss that car.
Damn, that thing is huge!
Compared to your gold NY that you sold, at least this car's doors don't look cheap and MOPAR finally put the power windows in the armrest and not just stuck on the door. I agree with you that the IP doesn't look right for the price and the switches look cheap. But the seats are magnificent, I remember seeing that in the brochure.
I would take it! My relatives were all 6 ft 4” so they owned these at the time. They could really handle the gravel roads. My Uncle had a 73 Newport Custom almost as loaded as this one.
The fuselage Chryslers got restyled every year but it had very little impact on the number sold. Why did they even bother to change them so much every year. The buyers didn’t seem to notice. The 1973 restyle was square enough to see out the rest of the 1970’s without the 1974-1978 redesign. Instead they should have brought out the Cordoba a year earlier. Perhaps they could have also reskinned the Valiant and turned it into a compact Imperial Crown beating Cadillac’s Seville to the market. I think the styling of the 1974 Imperial would have looked fine on a smaller platform.🤓
If you zoom in you can identify the auto temp box, but it’s not in the stock location.
Still a good look from that rear 3/4 view, showing off that side profile and quarter panel. Too bad about the front bumper....Gotta love that interior and those power vent windows. Sweet.
I had a 1973 New Yorker Brougham with the 440 4V.
Triple blue with silk embroidered upholstery.
Sounds beautiful. While looking like silk the brocades were all synthetic. Silk is too fragile for automotive upholstery and is degraded by sunlight. They sure looked and felt rich though.
What a beast 😮
I bought a ‘73 Chrysler Newport Custom in college in 1975. Originally the MSRP was around $6800 and I got mine for $2900 with only 12,000 miles on it. 1975 was one of the years of the Arab oil embargoes and gasoline price spikes. Big car prices plummeted. Mine was exactly the Same color combo as this car - medium green body with darker green vinyl top. Mine was also a 4-Dr pillarless hardtop just like this one. It was beautiful and not the kind of car you’d expect a college student to own. (I worked in industry as a co-op student, so had more $ than the typical student). Mine had the 400 cid V8 engine rather than the 440, so it ran on regular gas. I actually preferred the Newport Custom. The base Newport was too plain and the New Yorker had a couple extra chrome strips which I thought were unnecessary. I also preferred the rear bumper and taillight treatment of the Newport Custom over the New Yorker. I sold my Chrysler to an older couple in rural Missouri in 1977, because it only got 12 mpg and I just graduated and was starting to commute to work in St. Louis every day. They didn’t care about the poor mileage since they didn’t drive much.
Thanks for this one, Adam.. I share your attachment to various green colored vehicles, up to a point, but the green palette that automakers of that era were more attracted to, had too much yellow in them for my taste.. The dashboard and instrument panel were excessively cheap in appearance. Not a bad car for that era though. These were respectable middle class vehicles when new. I think General Motors C and B bodies had better interiors.
Rear bumper, it could be looked at as being half an Imperial as Imperials had full length vertical bumper ends since 1967.
"What A Beautiful New Yorker!"
“What a Beautiful New Yorker…It’s the Talk of the Town!” I can still hear Sinatra singing it on their 1970’s commercials!
Mortal sin what was done to 73 fuselage front end styling (except Imperial & Monaco). Looks like something from GM or FoMoCo. Mopar spent of spent a pretty penny for development and tooling for a one year model. Maybe they should have just bolted a railroad tie to the 72 fronts.
Power sunroof, rear AC or heat, factory alarm system, chrome road wheels and rear shoulder belts would be unusual, but available options unchecked by the original owner.
I don't know that I've seen such a loaded example, seeming to lack only the rear air conditioning. I prefer cars of this era without the vision-cluttering vent windows, but when they're powered, well, that's another matter.
The 69-73 C bodies are my favorite full size Chrysler products other than an E body barracuda, but I do have a soft spot for the 1974/5 imperial/1976-78 New Yorker brougham. My grandfather had a 1973 fury 2 undercover state police car with the police 440. I’d love to find one someday.
Same Triple Green as my 77 NYB. I do like the 73 front bumper implimentation styling. You can kind of see the start of that Formal styling. Great pick
Thank you Adam. This car was quite loaded. It is quite close to an Imperial in terms of features.. I could see how this competed against the Oldsmobile Ninety Eight. The only thing that you could see was parts sharing was the instrumentation panel because it looked like the one in Dodges and Plymouths of the time.
My first boss when I was in High School had this car. Drove it once, it was sooo big and felt completely numb. Nothing like my mom's 71 beetle.
Such an impressive New Yorker. I was never a fan of the green and Chrysler seemed to have an abundant supply of green paint and interior components on hand in those days!
I love the 440 in any MoPar. Plenty of power on tap.
Have always loved the fuselage era Chryslers. Someone let me know what the crazy black knob is mounted under the dash, just about the transmission hump! And yeah, I don't see the auto temp box either... It doesn't seem like you could control the temp/AC without it though by looking at the temp controls....