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 get rid of it. 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, a variant of the platform that 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 sport 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,,,
We got both kinds of music. Country and Western.
From one of the best movies ever, though my wife says it’s stupid (of course).
You guys sure drank an awful lot of beer in there last night!
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.
I hate when a guy says he is a mopar guy, come to find out they are B body guys and everything else is trash.. Sorry I have owned 3 or 4 of them and they where great cars.
Oh, the one of whom I speak has an Aspen wagon and is looking to get another first gen Neon having dailied one for years.
My buddy Rusty always said, “for free take, for buy shop around.”
No thanks. Got enough of those.
Kid at our local high school drives one of these, same color. Stands out in a sea of trucks and some Toyotas and Hondas. His is pretty much pristine. I wonder if he really wanted the car or if his folks said “this is it, drive it or walk”. In our rural long drive area you’d take it.
finally, a “car seller” with a reasonable offer. Seems like most think if it is still identifiable due excessive rust or buried up to the doors in dirt and old leaves it’s worth something. The person offering this has a reasonable offer and expectation. Thanks for showing this one.
Terry, initially I had the same thought, but now I’d beg to differ.
This guy is just praying that someone hauls it off so he doesn’t have pay someone to do it.
Seems to me that there’s money in scrap.
Nelson, I did a good old AI search for “what is a scrap car worth” and got this:
A scrap car is generally worth between $150 and $800 in base metal value, depending primarily on the vehicle’s weight and current steel prices. However, factors like salvageable parts, running condition, and your proximity to a steel mill can push the total value over $1,000.
It costs money and time to go get this stuff. Also, the salvage yard might pay top dollar only you “prep it” first, meaning stripping out the non-metal garbage, emptying the fuel, oil, fluids and coolant. Then where do you dump that?
If its not prepped, the salvage yard probably tells you to unload it over there with the rest of them, and here’s $50 for your effort.
I’d argue that there would be far fewer heaps sitting around in hillbilly homesteads if it was easy to get a few hundred bucks out of them. These days, that’s a couple days worth of meth.
I read some of the comments and shake my head, if this car was near me I would run to get it.
Nice to see that grandpa’s car was well taken care of while it was in the family.
Not as big as a whale
And not about to set sail.
shame it on the west coast. for free i would take it. not worth getting a title but still has about 400.00 in scrap value.
some of the replies here make me laugh
A NICE low mileage one would be worth having. Butcha can’t beat FREE!
I’ll take that wager!
Several times my grandson has ad something on his trailer and I ask why, what. He says “if I dont sell. I’ll sc a p it and he gave me $150 to put it on.my trailer.
A retired luxury edition of the NYPD cruiser line FREE Ha!
If you have never owned one, I have owned 4 of them and they where great cars.
Were
still
That was your typo correction 😂
If it was closer I would take no title and all but its clear the other side of the USA
Is “were” a synonym of “where”?
We have some real English majors here. Uh no.
Grammar police
Sorry I forgot this is 2026. There is no right or wrong. Just as long as it makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside..
Yeah. There are some soft shells around here.
Some softer than others.