1979 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue Edition

WOW! What a car! 360 V8 and 36K miles.

Again, not a wagon, but way too pretty and special not to share!

Just imagine a Town & Country wagon version of this design!

http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/cto/4279313394.html

 

Didn't really appreciate these back in the day but they are classic beauties in comparison to the rot they produce these days. "You never know what you've got..."

mike

 

Agreed! This is some style, even if it is late 1970s disco era style! Today, it compares to absolutely nothing.

 

Basically these are over-grown Aspens, so parts are easy enough to come by. The interiors are really beautiful, too. This is one luxury sedan that you won't see everyday!

 

Nothing the same as an aspen.

I went through 2 of these from 1988-1993 they were identical except #2had sunroof and sure grip.

hard to tell in pic if that had a roof but either way a 10 driver car easy i put well over 100,000 miles on #2 car only sold it couse i was board with it.

i paid $800 for it (In pa) traded it 100,000+ miles later and got $1500

That one would be like getting a new car!

 

This is NOT an "overgrown Aspen" by any stretch of the imagination! That would be the same as calling a '72 Imperial an "overgrown Dart". These share commonality with the J-body Mopars (Mirada/'79-newer Cordoba/Magnum), but not the "F/M" body cars (Aspen/Volare & Diplomat/Gran Fury/'82-newer Fifth Ave).

I had a '79 New Yorker for about a year or so. It had the 360 4-bbl, auto, leather, loaded with all but a sunroof and the AM/FM/CB options. Two-tone red with red leather. It was a beauty! Not long afterward, I found a '78 New Yorker Brougham Salon four-door hardtop in Iowa that I bought for my wife as a Valentine's Day present in '07, and I sold the '79 right after that. The buyer flew in from Dayton, Ohio and drove it home, getting 19 mpg the whole way back!

In 1979, I was going to college part-time while working for a Chrysler-Plymouth-FIAT dealership in Colorado, and remember these coming off the transport. I fell in love with these; a car designed for the 50+year old business man, being fawned over by a college kid! I told myself I'd own one someday, and did nearly 30 years later. These were top-shelf cars in 1979, priced at a bit over $13,500...which in today's dollars, works out to be $43,400...the price of a new Chrysler 300.

 

Great highway cars mine gave 22+ mpg 360-2v duel exhaust .