The New Yorker was Chrysler’s flagship automobile for many years, sans the Imperial, which was a separate make in the 1950s-1970s. The cars went on a diet in 1982 as buyers weren’t as enamored with the gas guzzlers Chrysler had been peddling. The seller has a 1983 edition that belonged to his/her grandfather since it was new. The car has been sitting for four years, and the seller just needs to make it go away. So, he/she has offered it for FREE (to make it legal, you’ll probably have to hand over $1). There is no title, and you’ll have to haul it away from Lynnwood, Washington. Check it out here on craigslist. Thanks, “Curvette”!
Slimmer and leaner, the 1982-89 New Yorkers rode on Chrysler’s M-body platform, which is a variant of what began with the Plymouth Volare/Dodge Aspen in the mid-1970s. Rear-wheel drive was still the order of the day, but the lighter cars came with a 225 cubic inch Slant-Six as standard fare, though most buyers probably went with the 318 V8. The car was only offered as a 4-door sedan, many with a half-vinyl roof like on the seller’s car.
According to the seller, this Chrysler was a good runner until Grandpa parked it in the driveway four years ago. And there it sat, so Mother Nature began to have her way with it. And the car tries to start with a new battery, but won’t quite get there, probably due to ancient fuel in the tank. The seller acknowledges it ain’t pretty, but it seems to be complete. There is evidence of rust creeping in, especially around parts of the roof that now sports patina.
If you come to see the car, you can’t work on it there. You’ll have to haul it away to experiment with. The interior may be okay, but dirty, and the headliner looks to have developed a case of the droops. Considering it’s a freebie, the seller isn’t interested in a million questions, as he/she says, “I don’t have one million answers”. Come and get it!
Amazing the interior isn’t totally covered in mold, big problem on the wet coast.
Reminds me of a time, I was at a truck stop once, and they had cassette tapes of C&W artists on the counter, the clerk was gathering them up, he said, “do you want some tapes for free”? C&W? Um , no thanks,,,
50/50 it’ll get cleaned up or demo derbied. If it’s the latter there are a lot of good trim pieces I hope they pull to sell. The interior might be one of them, it might not; I’d have to have a closer look (and smell) to know for sure.
The one Mopar guy I know who might be interested in a beige velour M-body NYR interior’s a heavy smoker so if it smells like 40-year-old Virginia Slims and 10-year-old USA Golds it won’t bother him as much as it would me. But he’s also about as far from Washington State as it’s possible to be within the continental US.
My buddy Rusty always said, “for free take, for buy shop around.”