It’s what’s inside that counts, right? This 1953 Chrysler New Yorker Town & Country Station Wagon listed here on craigslist and parked in Frederick, Colorado and is priced at $10,800 and the inside has a lot going for it. According to the owner this is a 5 door wagon (series C56-1) and supposedly there were only 1,242 produced.
How about this wood and stainless steel? It looks absolutely fantastic with this combination, let’s just hope everything is still here!
Here is the 331 hemi V8 mated to an automatic 4 Speed Fluid-Matic which has a “Safety Clutch” feature, which is similar to a torque limiter. The car is said to be running and driving with new master cylinder, brakes, clutch, fuel pump, ball joints up front, battery and a new set of Cooper tires.
The car has the original paint, we don’t know the color code. You could get away with leaving it as is, but wouldn’t it look great with some new paint?
Here you have NOS carpet, seat covers, new headliner and the original Wagon-Radio is said to work.
Included with this purchase is an original Chrysler shop manual, sales brochure, extra power steering unit, grill, stainless trim, generators and a few other parts. The owner says that this car has rock solid floors, body, rockers, etc. We have seen restored units go for as much as $50K. What are your thoughts, paint and re-chrome, or just keep her as a big cool grocery getter?
Motor-on,
Robert
It looks good in the pictures. I like the interior.
The interior is so nice it would be a shame not to make the exterior look as good. I am wondering where the new ball joints went as Chrysler did not adopt them until 1957? The price seems reasonable.
Wow ! This looks like a great and easy winter project. Fix up the chrome, a good
driver quality paint job, and ready for some spring and summer road trips.
Expect a lot of head turns on this one. Maybe even pulling a vintage travel
trailer to complete the picture—-Hmmm!
Walt, we’re working on that very combo at the moment!
That is awesome with the airstream
I wonder what’s under the seat covers as they look a might loose..
Is that some rust thru right above the front bumper under the bottom bar of the grille?
@Steve H. it may be corrosion but this is one very cool wagon. Unfortunately i have 3 projects on the go as well as house maintenance otherwise I would certainly place a serious bid….
Bitchin…Paint and Chrome….Splash out the engine …spook the rear windows…very cool ride.