How easy is it to get parts for the big 3 in Finland ? (Ford Chrysler GM) What is the most popular car being driven around in Finland I don’t think it’s an American domestic is it.?
@@TomTom-qm4mq Locally, pretty much nothing. Order inside Finland, most parts are available. And of course Rockauto, Summit etc. Shipping is expensive...
Finland has some of the better examples of these old Chrysler's left. Germany has some sweet C body cars as well. We Americans destroyed most of our share with our salty roads, bad drivers and demolition derbys.
I bought one of these in 1980 for $200. Before I could take it home the seller siphoned two 5 gallon gas cans out of it. It would cruise all day comfortably at 90 mph but needed to stop often for gas. Mine had two air conditioning compressors, one for the front and one for the back passengers.
I found this episode very interesting as I first thought, "a wagon...boring." But you proved me wrong again, Steve! Thanks for not passing this car by.
Thanks Steve. Fond memories. My father had this same 73' car in green. You could fold down the rear seats, put 4' x 8' sheets of plywood in the back, then close the gate. A real boat.
My uncle had a 1979 LTD wagon and when we redid the paneling in our house in the early 1980s, that was the car that went to the lumber yard to haul it back to the house. It was my uncle's wagon though, he only lived (and still does) six blocks or so away. Our phone numbers were the same except the first two digits of the last four of the numbers were reversed. This lead to many missed called to both houses. As kids, we'd answer the phone and say, "No you want my uncle. The number is.....". Of course the answer was "wrong number" when asked who it was. LOL.
My Dad owned 2 of these a 72 & a 73 rode in the very back of it as a child watching Semis coming up close to us, was definitely a memory I'll never forget!
We had a Malibu wagon. I kept throwing my little brothers shoes out the back window. Next stop my dad had to buy shoes. After 3 times he didn't put the window down anymore.
My dad bought a new 1970 Plymouth Sport Suburban wagon and what a bomb it was!! Fake wood paneling on the sides, chrome roof rack, 2 way rear door, backward facing 3rd bench in the back and a glorious 383 ci Magnum under the huge hood. Even at 14 I knew this car was a fantastic vehicle, with all the power you needed. 👍🇨🇦
I had a 1971 T&C with the 440 and 323 posi rear. It was loaded - power steering, power brakes, power windows, power door locks, power antenna, cruise control, am / 8 Track, (changed to am / fm 8 Track), 60/40 power seats (driver & passenger) air conditioning, power rear window washer, roof rack (added step bumper and rear side grips from a ‘70 T&C), tilt/ telescopic with rim blow, wood grain (car was green). I still have a factory radio with the cassette tape player that I was going to add (was planning on converting to an Imperial dash with full instrumentation); the Imperial had the am/fm option. I was also going to convert to dual exhaust (from a 70 T&C donor with a 383 (4 bbl). This, in my mind, would have been one of the ultimate optioned cars in its day (~1976). I really miss this car!!!
So cool! My Dad bought a brand new Plymouth Fury wagon in 1974. 360 4 barrel with the rear facing back seat. Yes you nailed it, my brother and I would make faces at people following us! 😄
My all time favorite car my family had when I was a kid was a 1971 Ford Country Squire, green inside and out with the faux wood paneling on the sides. Why? Because of the fold up rumble seats in the back. The cargo area was perfectly flat and huge, but it had these seats that folded up and faced each other and you would sit down in the floor a bit. We always made faces at the cars behind us on the freeway. She smoked like an old Ford too. What a great car.
A family friend of my parents had a Chevy Impala wagon of the same vintage when I was in elementary school. The thing was ginormous, with the third row seat in the back. We used to walk to school, but on rainy days all of the neighborhood kids would pile into this thing. In the days before overbearing safety consciousness set in, we probably got more than a dozen 8 to 12 year olds in that car fairly comfortably and without seat belts. Try that nowadays.
Those were the days! Yep, I remember piling in way more kids than the cars were suppose to hold! Of course, now a lot more people on the road with more chances for accident and the like. (You must be from Steve and my area since you mention "walking to school.") You don't hear of that happening much anymore!
I spent many miles of my childhood riding around in my parents 1972 Chevy Brookwood wagon. I had to chuckle a little when Steve said wagons of that era were used to haul kids to soccer practice. In my area, we didn't know what soccer was until the late 1980s, we played baseball back then!
@@MikeBrown-ii3pt we had the big Chryslers back from this era but never a station wagon. Coming from a big family, not sure why we didn't get a wagon. Probably because you could get away with a couple kids on your lap!
They tended to rot out in less than 10 up there. We sold a 72 Chrysler out of VA in 1983 in Upstate NY. The guy who bought it was replacing his 71 Imperial due to rust.
Great video Steve and Shane! I'm 57 and I remember oh so well, sitting in the "way back" in that rear facing third row. Those are great memories. My dad always had Buicks and Chevrolet station wagons and we took many, many road trips and a family. Very fond memories!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!! Keep these videos coming! Always brings back my, and I'm sure many of yall's memories of days gone by!!
We had a fairly new at the time 1986 Caprice wagon and ALL of grandma's 8 grandchildren fought for the seats in the "back back" because we sat backwards. The car was the ugliest brown and was bought from Avis rental.
Station wagons have a special place in my heart. My parents bought new a 1971 Plymouth nine passenger wagon with the 440 and the Tor Red paint. What a machine. And in fact we kids in the rear-facing rear seat did thumb our noses at cars we passed.
I may be mistaken, but that position on the build tag that displays “A16” is the production date. October 16, 1972. 1 - 9 = January through September. A - C = October through December.
Growing up, we first had a 1962 Newport wagon with the 361, bought from my father's boss. Years later, we got the boss's 1970 Town and Country Wagon, beige, with the 3 row seating and a 383. Yes, I flipped the air cleaner lid at 14 years old.
Thanks Steve! We had a giant Fury wagon and remember Dad being able to take half the neighborhood with us anywhere we wanted to go, and being able to load it full of building supplies-they were fantastic cars!
The sheer size of that wagon is amazing to see with 2022 eyes, but many of the families in our neighborhood had them back then. A friend posted a church pictorial directory from about the time this car was sold and what was really striking was that most of my friends grew up in families of 3, 4, 5 or even 6 kids. A nine-passenger car was really needed in 1973.
My grandmother abandoned her 73 New Yorker 2 door hardtop on the farm. Had wiring issues and was missing parts when I got it. Never got it running good enough to put it on the road but had fun working on it. The 72 grills were so much nicer. If it was a 72 I might have kept working on it.
My brother and I spent a lot of miles riding in the "way back" of our '73 Fury III in S. Texas in the 70s. Hot summer days, my folks and 4 sisters up front in the air conditioned zone, sun beating in, staring backwards from the tailgunners position sipping exhaust from the tiny gaps in the tailgate weatherseal. Good times. If we got sick(we always got sick) my Dad would lift the hammer and ease onto the shoulder doing about 40, lower the rear window and remind us to lean out far enough to "keep it off the paint". I hate wagons
I love Steve mags videos, A Guilty pleasure of mine is that I save up 3 or 4 days worth of videos and watch them all in a row while I have Coffee in the Morning with a massive joint, Great stuff man, this guy is so full of knowledge, I really look forward to more of these videos, thx.
My grandparents bought a brand new 1969 Plymouth Fury Suburban Wagon, we inherited the car and it kept going until the early 90's when my parents sold it. It had the 383 v8 and I remember the distinct sound of the "Hamtramck Hummingbird" starter.
Hey Steve, "A16" next to the VON isn't Fury III, that would be in the upper row of the tag. A16 in this case denotes October 16 scheduled production date.
My Dad bought a 1971 Plymouth Fury wagon new, Loved it, I have 6 brothers, drove it till it was dead, Got my D/L in it, I had it up on 2 wheels going around a shape curve once.
I was born in 1966. My Dad got rid of his 1957 Caddy Coupe deVille and bought a family car....a 1966 NewYorker 4 door hardtop. Our Mopar family had begun! When my sister was born 2 years later he gave that one to his mother and bought a 1969 Town and Country wagon with the rear facing seat. That one turned out to be a real lemon , so he got the 66 back and we used that until his next new car, a 1981 Newport sedan with a slant six(!) That one got hit and the body shop said to get rid of it because it had hidden terrible rot. It's replacement ? A 1979 LeBaron 360 coupe! After that was a steady diet of Neons and Avengers. My first car (still have it 40 years later) was a 1969 Roadrunner. First new car was a Omni GLH Turbo....have that one too. And my 1973 Imperial coupe....the 83 Cordoba, the pair of 300M's...etc
Ahhh, wagons, my soft spot. Have a '94 Buick Roadmaster Wagon with the two way tailgate, power antennae, back facing 3rd seat. Daily driver. It has the 350 small block LT1, has 275 horses. Recently took a trip to Amarillo, Texas from Washington state and back to get my tranny worked on this last summer. Flawless running, 23 mpg at 70mph. Floating down the highway, lots of complements at gas stops. Thanks, Steve.🥂
Fascinating reviews, even for an Aussie. We were driven around in Holden Kingswoods or Corona wagons, in the day. 5 of us on holiday in a Toyota Corona, took some planning, roofracks. Both made inOz.
Total trip down memory lane Steve! My dad bought a Buick Estate Wagon brand new in1978. I was 7 years old and still remember sitting in that back row gagging on the fumes when the window was down. But we kids didnt care and insisted on sitting back there. This Chrysler, though different model and year still shared similar characteristics with all wagons....Thanks for the informative and entertaining channel!
My friends parents owned a few of those Chrysler wagons and they were beautiful. So nice to ride in. My friend used to get to start the car to warm it up in winter. One time he accidentally drove it into the side of a motel while warming it up. He was only 12.
My parents had a blue model with wood trim, 440 4bbl. We used to pull a trailer up I95 with it every summer. I had to use this to pass my driver's test. Definitely a land yacht. The wagon before this was a 1969 Polara Wagon with a 383 4bbl, dual exhaust. Remember as a kid loving the sound from the back seat as my dad floored it to get onto the interstates in South Flroida.
My second new car was a 73 Dodge Polara station wagon… my kids called it the brown bomber… it had a 440 V8… I once got a speeding ticket with my foot off the gas pedal… 36 in a 25… we had the 3rd row seat facing the back that the fought over… I really loved that car!
Shaggin wagon. 😁 My family had a 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon. You could barely hear the engine running and the thing felt like it was floating on air going down the freeway. The AC literally frosted the windows over it was so cold. That was our "PC Express" since we used it to go to Panama City Beach from Alabama so many times. My mother finally traded it in for a 2 door Cutlass.
The "A6" log compressor (back in 1973 it was the Frigidaire division of GM, after 1979 it was Delco Air) was only rivaled by the "RV" series Chrysler AC compressor. You could hang meat in either vehicle after it got going.
@@googleusergp Yes, you are correct, the A6 Frigidare compressor is a thing of beauty when it comes to turning your classic GM product into a meat locker during the hottest summer days. The unit in my 1969 Buick Skylark has been converted to 134 and it still does an amazing job of cooling. But the A6 requires occasional use during the winter months in order to keep the moisture blown out of the system. Neglecting to do this will result in water freezing in the system during summer use and blocking freon from circulating, then only warm air blows out the AC vents. A few minutes use weekly during winter months will keep the system moisture free, and cold in the summer.
@@customkey That's correct. They are also known for seal leaks, but they are easy repaired. Jaguar and Rolls used them as well (along with GM automatics).
Hello Steve The Chrysler Town and Country started out as a 1940 or 41 Station Wagon started out as to what was called back then a woodie wagon. When World War Two broke out production stopped so more or less than a thousand were produced. After WW2 the Country was recovering and the production of the Town and Country was reproduced in the years 1946,1947,1948 and 1949, as 3 types of vehicles and with real wood panel and trimming on the back of trunk lid sometimes but mainly the sides of the left and right front and rear doors they were a 4 Door Sedan, a 2 Door Coupe and a 2 Door Convertible. In 1950 Chrysler produced a town and Country 2 Door Convertible with real wood trimming on both sides of the car on the steel body. From the front doors to parts of the rear quarter panels of the car. In the 1950’s the Station Wagon was back to existence and it was massed produced, in 1957 to 1961 years the tail fins were added to the rear quarter panels to the car. From 1962 to 1964 Model Years the Tail Fins were dropped and Chrysler had smoothed and rounded out the top parts of the rear quarter panels. From the Model years of 1965 to 1968 they went to the square body panel plat form. Model years from 1969 to 1973 it went to an airplane ✈️ fuselage platform. From 1974 to 1978 it was a configuration of fuselage and square smoothed out flat body like Fully Sized all mainly Steel Beach 🏖️ Wagon Station 🚉 Wagons. From the years 1979 to the early to mid to late 1980’s Chrysler had downsized the wagons tremendously introducing the Minivan 🚐 in the mid 1980’s to the present. To this very day for me I would still choose the Fully Sized Fully Equipped Fully Loaded Fully Powered with All the Accessories, Bells and Whistles of What I Can Really Think of for a Fully Sized Beach 🏖️ Wagon Station 🚉 Wagon. The Chevy Suburban and The GMC Sierra Classic Suburbans even though they are referred to as SUV’s along with the Full Sized 2 Door Chevy Blazer and GMC Jimmy are also known as to me Big Over Grown Beach 🏝️ Wagons Station 🚉 Wagons. Oh yeah by the way Dodge and Plymouth had them as well they and also came and had equipped optionally 4 Wheel Drive. Please folks do yourselves a favor conduct and do your own documentary historical homework investigative research and study 📚. Right along with all the Antique, Classic and Vintage Fully Equipped, Fully Loaded, Fully Loaded and Fully Sized Luxuriously Luxury Land Cruisers,Luxury Land Liners and Luxury Land Yachts. Which are still and always will be All Cool 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎. Keep up the good work Steve in your adventures in finding, locating and fact checking okay. 👍👍Sincerely Yours Truly Ivan I J
My uncle had one of those. What a heap. It was made on 12/22/78, which was a Friday, and it showed. It was a 302 V8 and ran like crap until my dad tuned it up. It blew the engine by 40K and my uncle had a used engine in it that also ran like crap until my dad straightened it out. The spark plugs were put in by some very angry worker or someone who took a little Christmas cheer too early at Ford's Dearborn, MI plant. It was code 6P Cream exterior paint as I recall and no one shed a tear when it was sold to my neighbor as a taxi cab in 1983 for $4,200. I remember my uncle changing the oil and calling my dad to help him as he "couldn't get the dang thing off", referring to the oil filter. My dad said, "C'mon, let's walk over there". My uncle who lives six blocks away was all dirty, his glasses askew and told my dad, "I've been trying for an hour now". My father went under there with the oil filter wrench (which my uncle borrowed from my dad) and in ten seconds he had it off. He said to my uncle, "Which way were you turning it?" Turns out he was disoriented being on the ground and was tightening it. I still joke him to this day about it.
We had a 78 Ford LTD wagon with the towing package 460 4V and power everything that was available. During a vacation my dad was getting bait for his 4am fishing trip when the wagon got rear ended by a Ford pickup. The pickup was totaled as the frame bent but even though the tailgate was smashed in the window still worked and it still opened both ways like my XUV does, swings to the side or lays flat. I could see him being one of the 12,000 that bought an XUV new if we were 40 years younger.
I love your videos. You give a whole bunch of information on each vehicle and as much documentaion to back up information. Keep up the great work. Sometimes it does sadden me that these vehicles are rusting away an not rescued but can't save them all.
I was just looking at another channel where Scott from Cold War motors was searching for a tail gunner set of rear seats for town and Country wagon. They should have been called Town in the country...As big as small town out in the country.
What a great find at the wrecker! I think the rear window has to be fully down before you can shift to "gate" action as the glass interferes with the top of the opening - it may still be working fine!
One of the great demolition Derby cars, we had the 59 brockwood station wagon, 69 monoco wagon (383 Magnum), and a Pontiac Grand Safari with a 400 and posi with wood-grain sides in 78,
We had a T&C in 76. Mom n dad traded our Torino for it. We folded both back seats down and slid around from side to side n front to back. IDK who had more fun, us 4 kids or dad at the wheel quick turns, brakes n gas! Fun times!!
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One of Chrysler's best designs! Love those fuselage wagons! In it's day, was the epitome of luxury, performance, and style!
Cool find. I have similar T&C 9 passenger wagon here in Finland. Still has original 440 with most of options available.
How hard is it to get parts for that over there
How easy is it to get parts for the big 3 in Finland ? (Ford Chrysler GM)
What is the most popular car being driven around in Finland I don’t think it’s an American domestic is it.?
@Mattif I can hear the mope lope from my flat in the Uk - pure muscle music! 🎶
@@TomTom-qm4mq Locally, pretty much nothing. Order inside Finland, most parts are available. And of course Rockauto, Summit etc. Shipping is expensive...
Finland has some of the better examples of these old Chrysler's left. Germany has some sweet C body cars as well. We Americans destroyed most of our share with our salty roads, bad drivers and demolition derbys.
Love the old wagons!!! 👍🙂
Back in the early 70s every summer you would see all the families taking off for summer vacations with one of these.
I bought one of these in 1980 for $200. Before I could take it home the seller siphoned two 5 gallon gas cans out of it. It would cruise all day comfortably at 90 mph but needed to stop often for gas. Mine had two air conditioning compressors, one for the front and one for the back passengers.
Mr. B. Here ! As a young man I work on most of these vehicles , road test was the best it was like driving your living room to the Deli ! L O L !
I found this episode very interesting as I first thought, "a wagon...boring." But you proved me wrong again, Steve! Thanks for not passing this car by.
Thanks Steve. Fond memories. My father had this same 73' car in green. You could fold down the rear seats, put 4' x 8' sheets of plywood in the back, then close the gate. A real boat.
My uncle had a 1979 LTD wagon and when we redid the paneling in our house in the early 1980s, that was the car that went to the lumber yard to haul it back to the house. It was my uncle's wagon though, he only lived (and still does) six blocks or so away. Our phone numbers were the same except the first two digits of the last four of the numbers were reversed. This lead to many missed called to both houses. As kids, we'd answer the phone and say, "No you want my uncle. The number is.....". Of course the answer was "wrong number" when asked who it was. LOL.
My Dad owned 2 of these a 72 & a 73 rode in the very back of it as a child watching Semis coming up close to us, was definitely a memory I'll never forget!
We had a Malibu wagon. I kept throwing my little brothers shoes out the back window. Next stop my dad had to buy shoes. After 3 times he didn't put the window down anymore.
Thanks Steve for another awesome wake up story for me and boys
I agree Sam!
My dad bought a new 1970 Plymouth Sport Suburban wagon and what a bomb it was!!
Fake wood paneling on the sides, chrome roof rack, 2 way rear door, backward facing 3rd bench in the back and a glorious 383 ci Magnum under the huge hood. Even at 14 I knew this car was a fantastic vehicle, with all the power you needed. 👍🇨🇦
Those cars were massive. Sure miss those station wagon days.
I had a 1971 T&C with the 440 and 323 posi rear. It was loaded - power steering, power brakes, power windows, power door locks, power antenna, cruise control, am / 8 Track, (changed to am / fm 8 Track), 60/40 power seats (driver & passenger) air conditioning, power rear window washer, roof rack (added step bumper and rear side grips from a ‘70 T&C), tilt/ telescopic with rim blow, wood grain (car was green).
I still have a factory radio with the cassette tape player that I was going to add (was planning on converting to an Imperial dash with full instrumentation); the Imperial had the am/fm option. I was also going to convert to dual exhaust (from a 70 T&C donor with a 383 (4 bbl). This, in my mind, would have been one of the ultimate optioned cars in its day (~1976).
I really miss this car!!!
So cool! My Dad bought a brand new Plymouth Fury wagon in 1974. 360 4 barrel with the rear facing back seat. Yes you nailed it, my brother and I would make faces at people following us! 😄
Aahh the land yacht’s of the 70s! Boy I remember those so well! The family vacation cruiser’s! Load them up and go! Great video Steve!👌😎👍
My mom had one of these wagons. It was mine to drive until I would go get her from work. We had some great times with this wagon.
Wish I still had my '75 Chevelle wagon! And these big Mopars are just awesome!!
I bet you do. I wish I had your old Chevelle Wagon too. 😁
Someone needs to restore this car. Looks to be in good shape.
I spent many, many miles staring out the back of station wagons in the 70's.
My all time favorite car my family had when I was a kid was a 1971 Ford Country Squire, green inside and out with the faux wood paneling on the sides. Why? Because of the fold up rumble seats in the back. The cargo area was perfectly flat and huge, but it had these seats that folded up and faced each other and you would sit down in the floor a bit. We always made faces at the cars behind us on the freeway. She smoked like an old Ford too. What a great car.
The Country Squire was almost like the original Woodie
A family friend of my parents had a Chevy Impala wagon of the same vintage when I was in elementary school. The thing was ginormous, with the third row seat in the back. We used to walk to school, but on rainy days all of the neighborhood kids would pile into this thing. In the days before overbearing safety consciousness set in, we probably got more than a dozen 8 to 12 year olds in that car fairly comfortably and without seat belts. Try that nowadays.
My buddy’s mom drove a Chevy Kingswood Estate wagon. What a barge!
Those were the days! Yep, I remember piling in way more kids than the cars were suppose to hold! Of course, now a lot more people on the road with more chances for accident and the like. (You must be from Steve and my area since you mention "walking to school.") You don't hear of that happening much anymore!
I spent many miles of my childhood riding around in my parents 1972 Chevy Brookwood wagon. I had to chuckle a little when Steve said wagons of that era were used to haul kids to soccer practice. In my area, we didn't know what soccer was until the late 1980s, we played baseball back then!
@@MikeBrown-ii3pt we had the big Chryslers back from this era but never a station wagon. Coming from a big family, not sure why we didn't get a wagon. Probably because you could get away with a couple kids on your lap!
180 hp? More like 230 or so.
Steve, I am impressed that they managed to keep it on the road until 1992.
Why? My 2 79 300's, 76 powerwagon and 82 cordoba are still on the road
@@Welcometofacsistube maybe you should call a few friends to get them moved before they are impounded….just saying…
You are??? It was only 20 years old!
They tended to rot out in less than 10 up there. We sold a 72 Chrysler out of VA in 1983 in Upstate NY. The guy who bought it was replacing his 71 Imperial due to rust.
@@seed_drill7135 I live in Saskatchewan. None of mine are rusted out. It's called maintained and cleaned
Just wanted to say thank you for all the work you put into your videos really do enjoy
Great video Steve and Shane! I'm 57 and I remember oh so well, sitting in the "way back" in that rear facing third row. Those are great memories. My dad always had Buicks and Chevrolet station wagons and we took many, many road trips and a family. Very fond memories!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!! Keep these videos coming! Always brings back my, and I'm sure many of yall's memories of days gone by!!
Steve in 1973 very few of us knew anything about Soccer except is was played by “furreners”
We had the Ford LTD Wagon when I was a kid. Great memories!
We had a fairly new at the time 1986 Caprice wagon and ALL of grandma's 8 grandchildren fought for the seats in the "back back" because we sat backwards. The car was the ugliest brown and was bought from Avis rental.
Growing up we had a Ford County Squire with the simulated wood sides....great car
Someone needs to bring that thing back to life.
We all need more station wagon video!
In the 80’s my dad picked up a 1976 Oldsmobile clam shell from a funeral home. It had the 455 Rocket.
Imagine all the memories some family had in this car, and the kids that grew up in it.
Used to love riding in the back seat of Gram's station wagon. No clue how dangerous it was. Life was so much better back then.
Whenever I come across an old wagon like this it reminds me of the late 70's mercury wagons my grandmother preferred when i was a kid.
Station wagons have a special place in my heart. My parents bought new a 1971 Plymouth nine passenger wagon with the 440 and the Tor Red paint. What a machine. And in fact we kids in the rear-facing rear seat did thumb our noses at cars we passed.
My morning is complete!! Thanks Steve!! ✌️ from Iowa
I may be mistaken, but that position on the build tag that displays “A16” is the production date. October 16, 1972. 1 - 9 = January through September. A - C = October through December.
The brochure image without the rubber bouncers on the front bumper show the design perfection of this beautiful car.
Growing up, we first had a 1962 Newport wagon with the 361, bought from my father's boss. Years later, we got the boss's 1970 Town and Country Wagon, beige, with the 3 row seating and a 383. Yes, I flipped the air cleaner lid at 14 years old.
Thanks Steve! We had a giant Fury wagon and remember Dad being able to take half the neighborhood with us anywhere we wanted to go, and being able to load it full of building supplies-they were fantastic cars!
My high School science and chemist teacher had this car. The Town & country wagon.
Love station wagons !!! Bring them back !!!!
Love that huge wagon! I really appreciate this automotive archeology.
The sheer size of that wagon is amazing to see with 2022 eyes, but many of the families in our neighborhood had them back then. A friend posted a church pictorial directory from about the time this car was sold and what was really striking was that most of my friends grew up in families of 3, 4, 5 or even 6 kids. A nine-passenger car was really needed in 1973.
Great video, Steve! Keep on bringing the Vans, Station Wagons and other oddities!
My grandmother abandoned her 73 New Yorker 2 door hardtop on the farm. Had wiring issues and was missing parts when I got it. Never got it running good enough to put it on the road but had fun working on it. The 72 grills were so much nicer. If it was a 72 I might have kept working on it.
How long was it on the road before it was parked?
@@googleusergp she replaced it with a 83 fifth avenue. I don’t ever remember her driving it and I’m 40.
@@Ian-of9oi Probably parked it in 1983 if she bought an '83 5th Avenue to replace it.
We had a '72 3/4 ton big block GMC Suburban as a kid, she would pass anything but a gas station! Cheers!
Was it RWD or 4WD?
My brother and I spent a lot of miles riding in the "way back" of our '73 Fury III in S. Texas in the 70s. Hot summer days, my folks and 4 sisters up front in the air conditioned zone, sun beating in, staring backwards from the tailgunners position sipping exhaust from the tiny gaps in the tailgate weatherseal. Good times. If we got sick(we always got sick) my Dad would lift the hammer and ease onto the shoulder doing about 40, lower the rear window and remind us to lean out far enough to "keep it off the paint".
I hate wagons
They had optional rear AC units, but they were rarely ordered.
Love this colorful story !
😂😂😂😂 I can relate! 😂😂😂😂
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you back in the Junkyard soon
I sure miss those wagons.
I love Steve mags videos, A Guilty pleasure of mine is that I save up 3 or 4 days worth of videos and watch them all in a row while I have Coffee in the Morning with a massive joint, Great stuff man, this guy is so full of knowledge, I really look forward to more of these videos, thx.
My grandparents bought a brand new 1969 Plymouth Fury Suburban Wagon, we inherited the car and it kept going until the early 90's when my parents sold it. It had the 383 v8 and I remember the distinct sound of the "Hamtramck Hummingbird" starter.
Hey Steve, "A16" next to the VON isn't Fury III, that would be in the upper row of the tag. A16 in this case denotes October 16 scheduled production date.
ive got a 72 Fury wagon sitting in my garage right now with a 360 2bbl
good looking car/ wagon
Masterpiece Presentation
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you soon
My eyes cant help but be drawn to that bright red dodge pickup right next to this wagon. 👍
My Dad bought a 1971 Plymouth Fury wagon new, Loved it, I have 6 brothers, drove it till it was dead, Got my D/L in it, I had it up on 2 wheels going around a shape curve once.
I was born in 1966. My Dad got rid of his 1957 Caddy Coupe deVille and bought a family car....a 1966 NewYorker 4 door hardtop. Our Mopar family had begun!
When my sister was born 2 years later he gave that one to his mother and bought a 1969 Town and Country wagon with the rear facing seat. That one turned out to be a real lemon , so he got the 66 back and we used that until his next new car, a 1981 Newport sedan with a slant six(!) That one got hit and the body shop said to get rid of it because it had hidden terrible rot. It's replacement ? A 1979 LeBaron 360 coupe! After that was a steady diet of Neons and Avengers. My first car (still have it 40 years later) was a 1969 Roadrunner. First new car was a Omni GLH Turbo....have that one too. And my 1973 Imperial coupe....the 83 Cordoba, the pair of 300M's...etc
Love these old wagons. Great vid Steve.
Ahhh, wagons, my soft spot. Have a '94 Buick Roadmaster Wagon with the two way tailgate, power antennae, back facing 3rd seat. Daily driver. It has the 350 small block LT1, has 275 horses. Recently took a trip to Amarillo, Texas from Washington state and back to get my tranny worked on this last summer. Flawless running, 23 mpg at 70mph. Floating down the highway, lots of complements at gas stops. Thanks, Steve.🥂
94 roadmaster. One of the last wagons.
What a great looking car .
Cool car!!! Morning Steve.
nice freeway rides loved my 72 fury wagon
I would Love to have one in my Driveway!! Awesome ride!!
Fascinating reviews, even for an Aussie. We were driven around in Holden Kingswoods or Corona wagons, in the day. 5 of us on holiday in a Toyota Corona, took some planning, roofracks. Both made inOz.
Total trip down memory lane Steve! My dad bought a Buick Estate Wagon brand new in1978. I was 7 years old and still remember sitting in that back row gagging on the fumes when the window was down. But we kids didnt care and insisted on sitting back there. This Chrysler, though different model and year still shared similar characteristics with all wagons....Thanks for the informative and entertaining channel!
My friends parents owned a few of those Chrysler wagons and they were beautiful. So nice to ride in. My friend used to get to start the car to warm it up in winter. One time he accidentally drove it into the side of a motel while warming it up. He was only 12.
Such a wonderful land yacht.
My parents had a blue model with wood trim, 440 4bbl. We used to pull a trailer up I95 with it every summer. I had to use this to pass my driver's test. Definitely a land yacht. The wagon before this was a 1969 Polara Wagon with a 383 4bbl, dual exhaust. Remember as a kid loving the sound from the back seat as my dad floored it to get onto the interstates in South Flroida.
My second new car was a 73 Dodge Polara station wagon… my kids called it the brown bomber… it had a 440 V8… I once got a speeding ticket with my foot off the gas pedal… 36 in a 25… we had the 3rd row seat facing the back that the fought over… I really loved that car!
"...plenty to get this car out of its own way." Another gem.
My Dad had a 73 Plymouth Fury wagon when I was a kid with a 360 9 passenger with many of the same options as this Chrysler T&C
Thanks Steve. 🙏🏻😎
Shaggin wagon. 😁
My family had a 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon. You could barely hear the engine running and the thing felt like it was floating on air going down the freeway. The AC literally frosted the windows over it was so cold. That was our "PC Express" since we used it to go to Panama City Beach from Alabama so many times. My mother finally traded it in for a 2 door Cutlass.
The "A6" log compressor (back in 1973 it was the Frigidaire division of GM, after 1979 it was Delco Air) was only rivaled by the "RV" series Chrysler AC compressor. You could hang meat in either vehicle after it got going.
@@googleusergp Yes, you are correct, the A6 Frigidare compressor is a thing of beauty when it comes to turning your classic GM product into a meat locker during the hottest summer days. The unit in my 1969 Buick Skylark has been converted to 134 and it still does an amazing job of cooling. But the A6 requires occasional use during the winter months in order to keep the moisture blown out of the system. Neglecting to do this will result in water freezing in the system during summer use and blocking freon from circulating, then only warm air blows out the AC vents. A few minutes use weekly during winter months will keep the system moisture free, and cold in the summer.
@@customkey That's correct. They are also known for seal leaks, but they are easy repaired. Jaguar and Rolls used them as well (along with GM automatics).
enjoy the history thank u!
I once saw a the giant late 60s Ford wagon. On a crappy little trailer being pulled by a very overloaded CJ5.
Hello Steve The Chrysler Town and Country started out as a 1940 or 41 Station Wagon started out as to what was called back then a woodie wagon. When World War Two broke out production stopped so more or less than a thousand were produced. After WW2 the Country was recovering and the production of the Town and Country was reproduced in the years 1946,1947,1948 and 1949, as 3 types of vehicles and with real wood panel and trimming on the back of trunk lid sometimes but mainly the sides of the left and right front and rear doors they were a 4 Door Sedan, a 2 Door Coupe and a 2 Door Convertible. In 1950 Chrysler produced a town and Country 2 Door Convertible with real wood trimming on both sides of the car on the steel body. From the front doors to parts of the rear quarter panels of the car. In the 1950’s the Station Wagon was back to existence and it was massed produced, in 1957 to 1961 years the tail fins were added to the rear quarter panels to the car. From 1962 to 1964 Model Years the Tail Fins were dropped and Chrysler had smoothed and rounded out the top parts of the rear quarter panels. From the Model years of 1965 to 1968 they went to the square body panel plat form. Model years from 1969 to 1973 it went to an airplane ✈️ fuselage platform. From 1974 to 1978 it was a configuration of fuselage and square smoothed out flat body like Fully Sized all mainly Steel Beach 🏖️ Wagon Station 🚉 Wagons. From the years 1979 to the early to mid to late 1980’s Chrysler had downsized the wagons tremendously introducing the Minivan 🚐 in the mid 1980’s to the present. To this very day for me I would still choose the Fully Sized Fully Equipped Fully Loaded Fully Powered with All the Accessories, Bells and Whistles of What I Can Really Think of for a Fully Sized Beach 🏖️ Wagon Station 🚉 Wagon. The Chevy Suburban and The GMC Sierra Classic Suburbans even though they are referred to as SUV’s along with the Full Sized 2 Door Chevy Blazer and GMC Jimmy are also known as to me Big Over Grown Beach 🏝️ Wagons Station 🚉 Wagons. Oh yeah by the way Dodge and Plymouth had them as well they and also came and had equipped optionally 4 Wheel Drive. Please folks do yourselves a favor conduct and do your own documentary historical homework investigative research and study 📚. Right along with all the Antique, Classic and Vintage Fully Equipped, Fully Loaded, Fully Loaded and Fully Sized Luxuriously Luxury Land Cruisers,Luxury Land Liners and Luxury Land Yachts. Which are still and always will be All Cool 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎. Keep up the good work Steve in your adventures in finding, locating and fact checking okay. 👍👍Sincerely Yours Truly Ivan I J
Love the 73’, My favorite year for the T&C..
I have a 74’ 68.000 original miles. Bone stock survivor.. 1 of 4 of that generation T&C in Norway :)
Wow. If this car has a title it would be so great to get it back on the road. they are so rare and awesome.
Thanks for another fantastic video Steve!
My dad bought one when I was a teen. Now, imagine having to take your driving test in one of these before your 16th birthday.
Wagons were and still are the best way to move your family in high comfort.
Thnx steve , enjoyed this one
This episode has me hankering for a 1979 Ford LTD Country Squire wagon (aka NL Vacation Truckster) video!
My uncle had one of those. What a heap. It was made on 12/22/78, which was a Friday, and it showed. It was a 302 V8 and ran like crap until my dad tuned it up. It blew the engine by 40K and my uncle had a used engine in it that also ran like crap until my dad straightened it out. The spark plugs were put in by some very angry worker or someone who took a little Christmas cheer too early at Ford's Dearborn, MI plant. It was code 6P Cream exterior paint as I recall and no one shed a tear when it was sold to my neighbor as a taxi cab in 1983 for $4,200.
I remember my uncle changing the oil and calling my dad to help him as he "couldn't get the dang thing off", referring to the oil filter. My dad said, "C'mon, let's walk over there". My uncle who lives six blocks away was all dirty, his glasses askew and told my dad, "I've been trying for an hour now". My father went under there with the oil filter wrench (which my uncle borrowed from my dad) and in ten seconds he had it off. He said to my uncle, "Which way were you turning it?" Turns out he was disoriented being on the ground and was tightening it. I still joke him to this day about it.
We had a 78 Ford LTD wagon with the towing package 460 4V and power everything that was available. During a vacation my dad was getting bait for his 4am fishing trip when the wagon got rear ended by a Ford pickup. The pickup was totaled as the frame bent but even though the tailgate was smashed in the window still worked and it still opened both ways like my XUV does, swings to the side or lays flat. I could see him being one of the 12,000 that bought an XUV new if we were 40 years younger.
I love your videos. You give a whole bunch of information on each vehicle and as much documentaion to back up information. Keep up the great work. Sometimes it does sadden me that these vehicles are rusting away an not rescued but can't save them all.
I was just looking at another channel where Scott from Cold War motors was searching for a tail gunner set of rear seats for town and Country wagon. They should have been called Town in the country...As big as small town out in the country.
That would be very cool to restore
Hope you’re well Steve! 💪🇺🇸
This is the good stuff. Keep on crawling!
What a great find at the wrecker! I think the rear window has to be fully down before you can shift to "gate" action as the glass interferes with the top of the opening - it may still be working fine!
Surprised that 727 Torqueflite not picked!
Awesome videos Steve! Greetings from Iowa
One of the great demolition Derby cars, we had the 59 brockwood station wagon, 69 monoco wagon (383 Magnum), and a Pontiac Grand Safari with a 400 and posi with wood-grain sides in 78,
It's too bad no one makes these cool wagons any more.
That's not a minivan 😂
Appreciate the channel Steve, thanks!
I would love to have an old big block wagon to haul my racecar to events.
My dad had a 1973 Dodge Monaco station wagon for a little while. I always likes that front end on that thing.
Pretty sure one of those made an appearance on the Brady Bunch. Mopars were regularly featured parked in their on set "driveway".
We had a T&C in 76. Mom n dad traded our Torino for it. We folded both back seats down and slid around from side to side n front to back. IDK who had more fun, us 4 kids or dad at the wheel quick turns, brakes n gas! Fun times!!