Just to get it over with right away, I wish the seller had washed this 1977 Chrysler Cordoba before taking photos of it to sell it online. This is a beautiful, black, early Cordoba and it’s hard to tell the condition with all of the dirty water spots on it. I don’t see any flaws but the photos are small and the car is dirty. This is one nice-looking car under those spots, though!
Long, low, lean, mean, black, and a two-door, what’s not to love here? A two-door personal luxury car is hard to beat and Chrysler made the Cordoba for model years 1975 through 1983 and the first-generation cars were made until 1979. The next cars were markedly different in design and for me, the early round headlights cars are the ones to have.
I can’t tell if there are scratches or something going on on the rear of this Cordoba with the dirt and reflections but maybe it’s just that, reflections. The smaller Chrysler LeBaron was brought out in 1977 and it cut into sales of the Cordoba as they were still nice, roomy cars but with a bit of a smaller footprint and were available with four doors. Here’s what the trunk looks like in this car.
Here’s the big deal with this car, and no, this isn’t soft and/or rich Corinthian Leather, this is even better: optional Checkmate cloth with vinyl accents! Let’s see a show of hands for those of you who had pants like this in 1977. Ah, I see, that many. Our own Michelle recently showed us a nice Cordoba with what I think may be “Castillian” pattern seats, although I can only find one or two mentions of that option so those have to be much rarer than this houndstooth pattern. This interior looks almost like new so that’s good news.
The seller provided two engine photos! This is the big one for this era, a Chrysler 400-cu.in. OHV V8 with 190 horsepower and 305 lb-ft of torque, smoothly gliding through a three-speed TorqueFlite transmission to the rear wheels. The seller say to drive it home today! It’s posted here on craigslist in Cambridge, Minnesota and they’re asking $7,999. Here is the original listing. If you had to choose an interior, would it be Checkmate cloth, Castallian cloth, or Corinthian Leather?
This and the interior in the Cordoba featured the other day are my two favorite interiors in a Cordoba
It does seem strange that the seller took the pictures in front of a car wash but _before_ running the car through it. Nice rig with lean burn. If it runs well, leave it alone, otherwise convert it to EFI. That 400 has the power it needs to move that car around.
Sign says car wash closed
Irony
This is the interior I mentioned in a comment on the Cordoba that was in a prior posting. This car is clean, I hope it finds a good home.
Beautiful Cordoba in formal black sunfire metallic paint with that rare interior. What is even more rare that no one has noticed or mentioned is that is has a FULL “halo” vinyl roof. VERY RARE! Almost all Cordobas had the smaller “landau” vinyl roof, a third option and extremely rare was the padded “Crown” vinyl top with the lighted strip that went up and over the roof. Nice car/great price!
Wut? No Corinthian Lather? Bought a ‘78 new, for 8,000, excellent cruiser. Black, red lather interior.
Lather?
That’s how Ricardo Montalban pronounced it in tv ads. Leather = “lather”.
If you expand the first picture it looks like finger marks where they opened the hood. So looks like to me like the car is dusty and will clean up nice. Black on a vehicle is a nice color but a pain to keep clean…. as was mentioned before your at the car wash why not pictures after a cleaning? Unless I missed it no mention of mileage? Big block is a definite plus. Glwts peace!
I’m highly skeptical of any Minnesota car due to the amount of salt dumped on the ground. Buyers beware.
I.M.H.O., 1979 Buick LeSabre Palm Beach the best int. ever!
Oh yes love the hounds tooth interior and color. I’d have to drive it wouldn’t let it sit and gather dust.
cool looking . I took my girl to prom in one . Ended up marrying her a few years later , were still together . If I had the $8000 to play with i would drive up & check it out in person. Who ever ends up with it please take care of it , give it a good home.