I have had both the '76 New Yorker and a '76 Cordoba, and, it would be Really hard to take one over the other. Well, the Cordoba for local runs and the New Yorker for cross country! I took my '73 New Yorker Brougham on the 2001 Power Tour and was getting 19.5-21 mpg with her!
@@aaronwilliams6989 Thanks! If you can get a hold of the October 2001 issue of Hot Rod mag, You will find a picture in the Tour article of the lettering on the trunk lid, "Repeat Offender" !!!
I have always loved the wheels on this car (they can look stately or sporty depending upon the car). I never noticed before, but the grill on this looks very much like the grill on a Cutlass from the same year in terms of styling. WYR: 1976 Coupe Deville, and 1976 Eldorado (Cadillac, because they didn't make Packards any more 😉). Great coverage as always, and the commercial gave me quite a flashback! ~ Chuck
Great choices =) I wish I could have found a commercial with a 2 dr I think they help show what the atmosphere of that point in time was like Glad you dig this episode
Thank you for sharing this Chrysler New Yorker. Well stated information about how it inherited the Imperial styling. The commercial footage was a nice touch as well. Excellent job.
The 1976 New Yorker competed with the Buick Electra / Olds 98 and Grand Marquis in terms of price. I am sure that some Lincoln / Caddy buyers bought them, though the New Yorker was considerably cheaper. In spite of having the Imperial styling, it may not have had the same prestige. I owned a 1977 and it was clear that Chrysler was going downhill at this time. Although a beautiful car, there were countless quality issues and electrical problems, although the car was 20 years old when I owned it.
That’s what I thought as well in the beginning but they canceled their imperial line so this was the top contender that Chrysler had to offer.. they also offered the Cordobra but that was their personal luxury offering
It was called a "waterfall grille"... Chrysler's headlight doors were electric, where my Grand Marquis was vacuum operated. Cornering lamps were an option. The steering wheel is out of a Cordoba. New Yorker's had a single center bar, flat on the bottom peaked on the top, think profile of a sidewall on a doublewide. In the early 80's, my sister had a '77 New Yorker Brougham 4 door, dove grey with red cloth interior, while I had my '76 Grand Marquis Brougham, two tone brown/yellow w/ matching leather interior. Our Mom? She had an AMC Spirit fastback... lol... I loved my Merc, but my sister's New Yorker had the most comfortable interior of any car I've been in. MOPAR did interiors right. WYR: 1) Town Coupe! Hands down! 2) Not a fan of the Mark IV, Eldo has ZERO head room, and the Cordoba doesn't even belong here! LOL... So, the New Yorker. No matter what, there is not a better road car than a mid-70's land yacht!
1976 was the last year all of the Formerly Big 3 offered a full range of massive sedans and wagons with big block engines. If it was my money being spent on a full-size Chrysler in 1976, I would have chosen the Town and Country wagon or a nicely optioned Newport. 😉
@ericruud9328 I think the 76 Newport looked very dignified and I prefer the non-pop up headlights. Having said that, the T&C wagon would still be my top choice. I might even be tempted to drop down to a Coronet or Fury 'Intermediate' wagon. It is hard to argue with a mid-size wagon that can still hold a full sheet of plywood and saves you a grand or two in the process. A police/taxi component upgrade for either Intermediate might well have sealed the deal. 🤩
What a beauty! Love how BLUE that interior is. And yes, putting woodtone on just about everything was a "thing" back in the '70s. And that's good quality vinyl on the doors and part of the seats. And I'll take the Lincoln Continental and the Mark IV.
Good to see you're back to reviewing 1970's cars, and would like to see more recent cars reviewed. The first car I owned was a 1977 Gran Fury Sport Suburban which meant it was a wagon. I can see the similarities it has to this New Yorker, such as the sheet metal and dashboard. Although it was a top line Gran Fury, it not surprisingly had fewer luxury features than this New Yorker. There was less interior woodgrain on my car, but plenty of it on the outside. My cars of choice would be the DeVille and Eldorado.
My parents had a 1975 Chrysler New Yorker. A beautiful car, great for a long trip, with a peppy 440 V8. It was metallic brown with tan cloth interior and tan vinyl roof. It could get 16 mpg highway but 11-12 around town. BTW, that car looks fairly base. Ours had auto-temp A/C, tilt & telescope wheel (different styling than that one).
Wonderful episode on a bicentennial year big Chrysler somebody took home a nice one lots of velour , seen plenty of them on the road back them as a 19 year old. First. pick the 76 Coupe Deville, second 76 Continental Mk 4
What a beautiful 'boat'... Id have to go with the New Yorker in both scenarios With the Lincoln Town Coupe in second. These things were big , luxurious snd very thirsty. An absolute dream to drive , especially on long highway trips...👍🏁
Hi Jay!: Ahhhhh. . .1976, wasn't old enough to drive then, but still ;loved cars! Now that was right in the middle of the BAD years for American Cars, but dang, didn't we make some BIG cars then! One thing to say about them, though, they WERE comfortable as heck! The Chrysler you show is a perfect representative of the type! Looks SO comfy to drive! We used to call these boats! Heck, they were more like ocean liners! BIG, FAST, COMFY, HARD TO MANEUVER, and USED A LOT OF FUEL! Anyway, thanks for the look back! WYR#1 It's Lincoln for me, those are cool!! #2 might be a bit of a surprise, but it would be Cordova!! Always wanted to settle down in some of that Riiich Corrrithian Leather!!
Haha nice Great choices I didn’t notice or realize this until your comment but did you ever notice the similarities between the 30s and the 70s the stock market did not crash in the 70s but fuel got really expensive and cars got huge.. it’s very interesting when you think about it in that white cars never got as fancy as they were in the 30s when nobody could afford them cars never got as big as they did in the 70s when people couldn’t afford gas.
You know that's RIGHT! What depresstion! Let's make 12 and 16 cylinder cars! Sadly, though, the 1970's are when American cars had to make way for more reliable and fuel efficient Japanese cars! I mean look at we had for small, fuel stingy cars! VEGA! (GEEZ don't even get me started on them!) and PINTO! (Neat little car as long as you NEVER get in an accident!) No wonder the foreign makes took over!
10:30 American cars of that period usually only used leather on the occupant's seating-surfaces and since the seats aren't leather on this example the door cards definitely aren't. Still, put a modern aftermarket FI system (or just a Holley 4bbl) on this and you've got one nice ride!
I think so. Didn't he also advertise Maxwell House, saying 'Good to the last drop'. Didn't he also star as Zack Powers in Colbeys, which was a spinoff of Dynasty.
Not only do I know the name of that song, I can play that Steve Lukather outro solo! 😎 The New Yorker Brougham of this era is very special, as it represents the last of the C Body Chryslers. I’d easily take it over any competitor in its class! Thanks so much for the video!
Nice video & featured New Yorker. Just so you know, the fender mounted turn indicators on Chrysler/Mopar cars were turn indicators only, unless you paid for the “fuel miser” system. If you did get the fuel miser option, the driver side indicator would come on letting the driver know they were not driving economically. The idea was to drive light footed on the gas to not have the light show. GM cars only had indicators to tell you if your turn signals were working, head lights, and high beam lights. Hope you don’t mind me explaining things to you. 😊
No man that’s awesome thank you so much for explaining how that works because a lot of information for a lot of these cars are just lost the time I really do appreciate when you guys bring information in the comment section that isn’t on the Internet.. google doesn’t know everything =)
Chrysler Australia used the same idea with that fender light. I had a 77 Charger with ELB that if you were careful got remarkably good fuel economy for a big car.
It's called a waterfall grill My mom had a 76 New Yorker brougham when I was a kid back in the '80s she loved that car it was her favorite lol she used to make my father wash and wax it every weekend lol
Took my driving test in the family's 1976 Newport Custom 2 door in 1978. Baby blue with a white vinyl top. Power-if one could call it that-was a 360 V-8 breathing thru a 2 barrel Carter. Gutless doesn't even describe it. Got barely 11 MPG-on the road. Note the speedo-only goes up to 90-Uncle Sugar figured in that era if the speedo only went to 90-then folks would not go that fast. Serious. And trust me-those boats wouldn't even approach that. Especially if said car was a California spec car-in those days the Big 3 built "49" state cars & California only cars. Ours was a Calif. car-and anemic doesn't even begin to cover it.
That 360 should've had a 2bbl produced by Holley. They uses that 2bbl Holley on 400's too. International also used that weird little Holley. Chrysler only used the Carter 2bbl on 318 and "Super Six" 225.
That fellow from Rare Classic Cars and Autos said that the Caddy from that era showed the lights being on and the brights on that fiber optic hood thingy. He said the Chryslers of that era only showed the turn signal.
Actually my 76 Cordoba illuminates one side when under hard acceleration,kinda a gas saver alert and then also illuminates for the turn signal.Pretty cool
I drove my dad's '70 Newport Custom (383) and his friends '76 Newport Custom (400). The engines didn't run the best because of the primitive pollution control systems but they floated down the road.
yo ma man! its sick to see another dude in the eastern PA area! I love the vibes you bring to the channel despite me not having too much interest in the specific cars you film, i appreciate the passion you have for them.
Thank you so much but to be fair I don’t live on the eastern side I live on the western side I’m closer to Ohio but I go out there at least once a month to shoot cars. What cars do you dig I’ll try to feature some more definitely going to try to do some more 60 stuff next year there’s a couple new cars that I really want to go out and cover but it’s a fine line my audience tends to like 1930-1964.. that’s where the majority of the contact is shot around but I do try and do outsiders because I love all of it. 30s and 50s are my two favorite eras but something can be said for every era.. and it’s funny how you look at everything differently like I was 16 in the 2000 and I thought every car except the Ford GT from that era was total garbage.. but come to find out they actually made some decent cars in that era..
The last year's of the real Land Yachts. I really like that interior, with seats that look like you could sleep on. For WYR, that's a hard one. But I guess I'd go with the Lincoln, and the Cordoba.
Hey Jay, I had a 79 T-Bird ,nice Ride ,Velour interior ,All power,It was Luxury,Mechanical Problems though, The 2 doors were in then, But now would rather have 4Door , But in the late 70’s EPA(Nader)?Got rid of hard tops (My favorite) nothing like 4 doors open with view with out the center piller
WYR: New Yorker. I like the Cadillac styling but they really cheaped out on the interiors. Lincoln Mark IV, though I prefer the earlier model years without the huge bumpers. The side body line that dips down before the wheel well is called a skeg line, which is really more of a nautical thing. It appears now and then in a lot of designs, like the mid-60s Pontiacs and 70s Oldsmobiles.
I had one of those. Dark red exterior with a half roof of white vinyl. Dark to red interior. Eventually, the hidden headlights would open and close without my doing anything. It was OK when it was day, but at night it was dangerous as hell. I suppose it was the vacuum hose that was the problem. I sold it and got an '85 Trans Am, which is another story.
This styling was introduced in 1974 as the Imperial. I believe that it had 4-wheel disc brakes. The last Imperial with 4-wheel disc brakes before that was 1954. When the Imperial was discontinued in the 70's, pretty much they took the Imperial off and replaced it with the New Yorker name plate. I also believe that some of the standard equipment didn't make it to the New Yorker. The 4-wheel disc brakes were dropped. During this era, both Cadillac and Lincoln had 4-wheel disc brake options. The rear disc brakes were problematic with both Cadillac and Lincoln dropping it. 4-wheel disc brakes remained on Cadillac and Lincoln's "International" sized cars, Seville and Versailles. They were still problematic(due to the rear brake calipers incorporating the parking brake).
The particular design of the grill sometimes called "waterfall" which curves towards the hood was a trade mark of Oldsmobile around the same time or a little bit later.
The taillight design is a styling cue from I believe the 1956 New Yorker tail light. This car would have a second switch to the left of the floor headlight dimmer switch, to change the radio stations, as it has the mechanical station seeking radio like the old GM wonderbar.
Those are corner and lamps and the indicators on the fenders is just the orange light that comes on when you put the turn signals on it didn't have the headlight feature like Cadillac head
Chrysler was emptying out the parts bin with those 3-spoke Plymouth steering wheels with the Chrysler badge in the middle. Sometimes you got the nice old Imperial steering wheel, other times a Dodge/Plymouth hand-me-down. Luck of the draw with 1970s Chryslers.
Those choices are hard because I want all seven of them I would say as far as quality goes id have to pick both Lincolns but I'd love to have a eldorado or the cordoba
Had one. 13 ppl in it going out of state for a family member that was involved in a car crash and was pulled over. Cop didn't want to deal with it and wrote me up for a 5" square fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror. Green booger that just ran.
The '76 New Yorker Brougham in both cases--the Chrysler was better handling on the open road. Note I said "open road"--it could be a pain in close quarters, with its size and heavy rear pillars.. By the way, I have driven all of the cars depicted.
cornering lamps optional, doors weigh a legit 100 lbs, power locks should have been standard because try to reach over, tilt / telescope w/ 2 spoke was optional. coolest thing ever that ya missed: washer jets are on the wiper arms. they drive with one finger and one toe, parking lot or interstate. I've owned NYers, same era Imperials and Cordobas. The big Chrysler loves to set sail, does it well, much more nimble than it should be around town. The small Chrysler is just that: less trunk, less back seat, less mass. Fuel mileage gears gave them stupid cruising speed. As for which one: both.
Personally I would always pick the Lincoln . Over everything although Chrysler made a beautiful vehicle with the exception of certain years . Of course this is a subjective issue .
Chrysler Cordova Autumn maple firemist with black corithian leather with a charcoal grey trim color and Whide White Wall Tires and a diamond in the back ...💜😱👍
While I would never own one of these since they are way too impracticable size-wise, I still they they were incredibly beautiful cars inside and out (minus the neon blue color) and made the malaise era more tolerable, lol.
The 76-78 NYB was a comparative bargain compared to the DeVille and Continental. Same size (until Cadillac downsized in 77), basically the same features though you had to add AC, power seat and a radio - still significantly less expensive. With the right 440 and axle ratio, quicker than either and handles better. Handling here being a relative term. Looks way more imposing than the Cadillac, and arguably better than the Lincoln. Ah, but the nameplate; perception is all sometimes - depending on how secure one is.... WYR: New Yorker, Mark IV (for the sheer excess of it all)
Actually Chryslers never had a pillow ride. I call them the BMW of their era vs Cadillac was the Mercedes. Lincoln was the pillow ride more like a big Peugeot or Citroen!
New York (er) is where I'd rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Dah-ling I love you but give me (a) Park Avenue. 🌁🚜
WYR is Caddy and Caddy, but only because they're Caddy's. I don't know for sure whi coined the term, but another car channel calls the mid to late 70's "the malaise years" for US cars, and having ridden/ driven/ worked on them I can say they're right. Everyone was trying to save money by selling old for new, pollution systems were primitive and Chrysler's "Lean Burn" system was atrocious. "Quality" was a sticker on a window and an advertising term, nothing more. This is where the rest of the world moved forward but the US car makers got stuck in their own self-made mud. These huge 'land yachts' did offer the last years of a truly plush ride one has to experience to understand. "You may not have a great big Caddilac. Gangster whitewalls, TV antenna in the back..." Especially the Caddys, but all of these had a wide range of aftermarket custom bolt-on styling accessories much like the Harley dealers sell today. Everyone thought their 'customized' car was unique but it wasn't; somewhere else somebody had bolted on the same "Rolls Royce" grille, added whitewall tire flaps, pinstripe tape, stick-on cheap plastic chroming accents, and put a small portable 120VAC house TV in the back to make people think it was a 12V model. Up front was a CB radio which looked like an old mobile phone. J.C. Whitney did a booming business in all that accessory stuff- us old folks will remember them. "Diamond in the back, sunroof top,digging the scene with a gangster lean oooh oooh oooh oooh..."
Haha I think the first scenario is 1976 Lincoln town coupe 1976 Chrysler New Yorker 1976 Cadillac coupe Deville Second scenario 1976 Cadillac Eldorado 1976 Chrysler New Yorker 1976 Lincoln, Mark IV 1976 Chrysler Córdoba
I must say, back in the day, I disliked all of these full size cars. The Cordoba at least had some style though. Also in the 70's, fake wood grain was infecting most things, it seemed.
I’ll take two Lincolns and have Jack Jones sing a musical tribute to “The Love Boats”. Dig the styling on the New Yorker, but wassup with all the fake wood and pimped out upholstery?
Car lost 50 percent of value the moment off the lot and 90 percent after 4 years. The wrong car for this time period and stuff like this lead to Chrysler filing for bankruptcy
Yeah but that’s the way the car market always was now they want $10k for a 10-15 old van with 150,000 miles on it and don’t even get me started on trucks
Scenario 1 none Scenario 2 possibly the Cordoba but I'm not a fan of these tanks. I was never a fan of these huge malaise era Detroit land yachts. With huge V8 engines robbed of power and sucking gas like no tomorrow. Big sleds where the word Brougham meant tons of options. Sorry, I know many like these tanks but they are the reason the Japanese were able to gain entry into our market. Selling smaller more efficient cars that were plain Jane but decently priced and their 4 cylinder engines could make them peppy around town and still deliver good mileage. Just good basic cars. Something Detroit had forgotten how to make.
Many of these 'road barges' were off the road and scrapped by the late 1980's as too big, guzzled fuel, ran like garbage due to the crude pollution controls, rust, terrible quality of parts and assembly. For sure this Chrysler was part of the 'malaise' era in cars of the 1970's and 1980's. You need to do a video on a Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volare, perhaps a first model year one (1976). One of the worst cars of the malaise period.
@@ericruud9328 I had a 1979 Volare. Looked nice but was horrible. The carburetor was awful, the suspension worse, a/c failure, it was the only 'decent' car I had for the shortest time since than.
My Charger was better optioned than this New Yorker, Had the same color interior. two tone blue outside. Those velour seats were very unforgiving of the various things that were smoked in the car! Burns everywhere, ha! I have fond memories of that car but it wasn't very reliable but, to be fair, I was a kid and didn't take good care of it.
@@What.its.like. It was the 70's, there was no such thing as performance anymore, so "personal luxury" was new cool thing! But they shoulda named it something other than Charger, since it was really a Cordoba in everything but name.
For 1976 only the Coronet name was no longer used on its 2 door variant, so the Charger replaced it. This meant Charger had 2 different images for this one year.The following year the Mid sized Monaco replaced the Coronet & that style of Charger.@@allenwayne2033
@@What.its.like. Well, the Mark was probably the best built of them, but I recall reading that a disgruntled Mark buyer drove his Mark to the front door of the Ford World Headquarter in Dearborn and torched it! Generally quality was a pretty iffy at all the domestics in the 70's, especially at GM and Chrysler!
Did you see the Cadillac when comparing the corner lights they got so cheap in the front and rear where running light connect to brake lights in rear That part with disintegrate
This is my favorite old land yachts! It is a really beautiful sleek design with wonderful details imo, and that interior is the finest! It's odd that the steering wheel in this is one of the styles for the Aspen/Volare models of the same years, it looks very odd being in this model.🤔 The ads with Jack Jones singing were so cool. He was one of my Mom's favorites. I like the Lincoln and Chrysler probably equal, it would be tough pick, the same on the second between the Lincoln, Eldorado, and this. Cool video!😎
Is the song Rosanna by Toto?
Yeah buddy I’m impressed congratulations you got it =)
We're not in Kansas anymore! How long till the point of no return? 🤔
It was 'Babes in Toyland' not 'Wizard of Oz' which had point of no return.@@MisterMikeTexas
@@ernielaw I was referring to two things, "The Wizard Of Oz" was one of the two. The second thing has to do with other classic rock.
Good job Chris! I shoulda known that one!
Love these videos! $36,000 in today's money got you a lot more car in 1976 than it does now!
=) new car prices have gotten out of hand
I have had both the '76 New Yorker and a '76 Cordoba, and, it would be Really hard to take one over the other.
Well, the Cordoba for local runs and the New Yorker for cross country!
I took my '73 New Yorker Brougham on the 2001 Power Tour and was getting 19.5-21 mpg with her!
REALLY?! THAT'S DAMN GOOD MPG FOR THAT BARGE!
@@aaronwilliams6989 Thanks!
If you can get a hold of the October 2001 issue of Hot Rod mag, You will find a picture in the Tour article of the lettering on the trunk lid, "Repeat Offender" !!!
@@bensonsspeedshop1191 COOL!
I miss super comfortable seats as compared to today's rock hard seats!
I hear ya Jon!
Totally agree sports seats are overrated
I have always loved the wheels on this car (they can look stately or sporty depending upon the car). I never noticed before, but the grill on this looks very much like the grill on a Cutlass from the same year in terms of styling. WYR: 1976 Coupe Deville, and 1976 Eldorado (Cadillac, because they didn't make Packards any more 😉). Great coverage as always, and the commercial gave me quite a flashback! ~ Chuck
Great choices =) I wish I could have found a commercial with a 2 dr I think they help show what the atmosphere of that point in time was like
Glad you dig this episode
Thank you for sharing this Chrysler New Yorker. Well stated information about how it inherited the Imperial styling. The commercial footage was a nice touch as well. Excellent job.
I had one like that. Different colors, but still 2 door brougham. Very comfortable and easy driving.
Awesome thank you so much for sharing your experience with a car
My grandpa had one when I was 4 or 5 I would play in it and pretend I was driving it for hours LoL
Awesome memories thank you so much for sharing those with us=)
What a superb looking car!
I loved how you described the weight of the door 🤣
In WYR, I’d take any of them
The 1976 New Yorker competed with the Buick Electra / Olds 98 and Grand Marquis in terms of price. I am sure that some Lincoln / Caddy buyers bought them, though the New Yorker was considerably cheaper. In spite of having the Imperial styling, it may not have had the same prestige. I owned a 1977 and it was clear that Chrysler was going downhill at this time. Although a beautiful car, there were countless quality issues and electrical problems, although the car was 20 years old when I owned it.
That’s what I thought as well in the beginning but they canceled their imperial line so this was the top contender that Chrysler had to offer.. they also offered the Cordobra but that was their personal luxury offering
It was called a "waterfall grille"... Chrysler's headlight doors were electric, where my Grand Marquis was vacuum operated. Cornering lamps were an option. The steering wheel is out of a Cordoba. New Yorker's had a single center bar, flat on the bottom peaked on the top, think profile of a sidewall on a doublewide. In the early 80's, my sister had a '77 New Yorker Brougham 4 door, dove grey with red cloth interior, while I had my '76 Grand Marquis Brougham, two tone brown/yellow w/ matching leather interior. Our Mom? She had an AMC Spirit fastback... lol... I loved my Merc, but my sister's New Yorker had the most comfortable interior of any car I've been in. MOPAR did interiors right. WYR: 1) Town Coupe! Hands down! 2) Not a fan of the Mark IV, Eldo has ZERO head room, and the Cordoba doesn't even belong here! LOL... So, the New Yorker. No matter what, there is not a better road car than a mid-70's land yacht!
1976 was the last year all of the Formerly Big 3 offered a full range of massive sedans and wagons with big block engines. If it was my money being spent on a full-size Chrysler in 1976,
I would have chosen the Town and Country wagon or a nicely optioned Newport. 😉
Awesome information =)
@@What.its.like. Within a few short years they would all be extinct. 😐
@ericruud9328 I think the 76 Newport looked very dignified and I prefer the non-pop up headlights. Having said that, the T&C wagon would still be my top choice. I might even be tempted to drop down to a Coronet or Fury 'Intermediate' wagon. It is hard to argue with a mid-size wagon that can still hold a full sheet of plywood and saves you a grand or two in the process. A police/taxi component upgrade for either Intermediate might well have sealed the deal. 🤩
Those seats are the LAP of luxury.
What a beauty! Love how BLUE that interior is. And yes, putting woodtone on just about everything was a "thing" back in the '70s. And that's good quality vinyl on the doors and part of the seats. And I'll take the Lincoln Continental and the Mark IV.
Sweet choice love the Mark series =)
Good to see you're back to reviewing 1970's cars, and would like to see more recent cars reviewed. The first car I owned was a 1977 Gran Fury Sport Suburban which meant it was a wagon. I can see the similarities it has to this New Yorker, such as the sheet metal and dashboard. Although it was a top line Gran Fury, it not surprisingly had fewer luxury features than this New Yorker. There was less interior woodgrain on my car, but plenty of it on the outside. My cars of choice would be the DeVille and Eldorado.
Definitely going to cover more 60s 70 next year
Bring back the Plymouth Suburban!!!!!!
My parents had a 1975 Chrysler New Yorker. A beautiful car, great for a long trip, with a peppy 440 V8. It was metallic brown with tan cloth interior and tan vinyl roof. It could get 16 mpg highway but 11-12 around town. BTW, that car looks fairly base. Ours had auto-temp A/C, tilt & telescope wheel (different styling than that one).
Awesome thank you so much for sharing your experience with your car as well as the memories of it. Greatly appreciate it. =)
These are such beautiful cars i Own 2A74 new Yorker and 77 Newport. See them on you too sugar, sugar, daddy.
Wonderful episode on a bicentennial year big Chrysler somebody took home a nice one lots of velour , seen plenty of them on the road back them as a 19 year old. First. pick the 76 Coupe Deville, second 76 Continental Mk 4
Awesome choices glad you dig this episode =)
This has to be the most gorgeous car I've ever seen.❤
It’s so understated from a distance you can’t see the detail the closer you get the more you see and it’s awesome. =)
It's in my top 12 of of all time. Pimp mobile with elegance. That way you get them all:)
What a beautiful 'boat'...
Id have to go with the New Yorker in both scenarios With the Lincoln Town Coupe in second.
These things were big , luxurious snd very thirsty.
An absolute dream to drive , especially on long highway trips...👍🏁
Hi Jay!: Ahhhhh. . .1976, wasn't old enough to drive then, but still ;loved cars! Now that was right in the middle of the BAD years for American Cars, but dang, didn't we make some BIG cars then! One thing to say about them, though, they WERE comfortable as heck! The Chrysler you show is a perfect representative of the type! Looks SO comfy to drive! We used to call these boats! Heck, they were more like ocean liners! BIG, FAST, COMFY, HARD TO MANEUVER, and USED A LOT OF FUEL! Anyway, thanks for the look back! WYR#1 It's Lincoln for me, those are cool!! #2 might be a bit of a surprise, but it would be Cordova!! Always wanted to settle down in some of that Riiich Corrrithian Leather!!
Haha nice Great choices I didn’t notice or realize this until your comment but did you ever notice the similarities between the 30s and the 70s the stock market did not crash in the 70s but fuel got really expensive and cars got huge.. it’s very interesting when you think about it in that white cars never got as fancy as they were in the 30s when nobody could afford them cars never got as big as they did in the 70s when people couldn’t afford gas.
You know that's RIGHT! What depresstion! Let's make 12 and 16 cylinder cars! Sadly, though, the 1970's are when American cars had to make way for more reliable and fuel efficient Japanese cars! I mean look at we had for small, fuel stingy cars! VEGA! (GEEZ don't even get me started on them!) and PINTO! (Neat little car as long as you NEVER get in an accident!) No wonder the foreign makes took over!
10:30 American cars of that period usually only used leather on the occupant's seating-surfaces and since the seats aren't leather on this example the door cards definitely aren't. Still, put a modern aftermarket FI system (or just a Holley 4bbl) on this and you've got one nice ride!
I wonder if this New Yorker has a " Rich Corinthian Leather Interior " ? Anyone else remember the 70's and 80's commercial with Ricardo Montalban ?
I’ve known the Chrysler Cordoba for that this particular car had the velour
We took in a 1977 Cordoba as a trade 😂 purple 💜 it was a boat ....
The New Yorker had Corinthian Leather as an option, as per the brochure.
I think so. Didn't he also advertise Maxwell House, saying 'Good to the last drop'. Didn't he also star as Zack Powers in Colbeys, which was a spinoff of Dynasty.
Not only do I know the name of that song, I can play that Steve Lukather outro solo! 😎
The New Yorker Brougham of this era is very special, as it represents the last of the C Body Chryslers. I’d easily take it over any competitor in its class!
Thanks so much for the video!
That’s awesome =)
Happy you dig this episode
Nice video & featured New Yorker. Just so you know, the fender mounted turn indicators on Chrysler/Mopar cars were turn indicators only, unless you paid for the “fuel miser” system. If you did get the fuel miser option, the driver side indicator would come on letting the driver know they were not driving economically. The idea was to drive light footed on the gas to not have the light show. GM cars only had indicators to tell you if your turn signals were working, head lights, and high beam lights. Hope you don’t mind me explaining things to you. 😊
No man that’s awesome thank you so much for explaining how that works because a lot of information for a lot of these cars are just lost the time I really do appreciate when you guys bring information in the comment section that isn’t on the Internet.. google doesn’t know everything =)
Chrysler Australia used the same idea with that fender light. I had a 77 Charger with ELB that if you were careful got remarkably good fuel economy for a big car.
I will take any of the Cadillac models from 76, or the Lincoln vehicles. All were plush, powerful and an experience to drive!
Great choices =)
It's called a waterfall grill My mom had a 76 New Yorker brougham when I was a kid back in the '80s she loved that car it was her favorite lol she used to make my father wash and wax it every weekend lol
Awesome
Took my driving test in the family's 1976 Newport Custom 2 door in 1978. Baby blue with a white vinyl top. Power-if one could call it that-was a 360 V-8 breathing thru a 2 barrel Carter. Gutless doesn't even describe it. Got barely 11 MPG-on the road. Note the speedo-only goes up to 90-Uncle Sugar figured in that era if the speedo only went to 90-then folks would not go that fast. Serious. And trust me-those boats wouldn't even approach that. Especially if said car was a California spec car-in those days the Big 3 built "49" state cars & California only cars. Ours was a Calif. car-and anemic doesn't even begin to cover it.
That 360 should've had a 2bbl produced by Holley. They uses that 2bbl Holley on 400's too. International also used that weird little Holley. Chrysler only used the Carter 2bbl on 318 and "Super Six" 225.
That fellow from Rare Classic Cars and Autos said that the Caddy from that era showed the lights being on and the brights on that fiber optic hood thingy. He said the Chryslers of that era only showed the turn signal.
Awesome =) I wasn’t sure what companies did what
Actually my 76 Cordoba illuminates one side when under hard acceleration,kinda a gas saver alert and then also illuminates for the turn signal.Pretty cool
My buddy have a 77 New Yorker two door like like that one but his was white with a green interior and top awesome.
I drove my dad's '70 Newport Custom (383) and his friends '76 Newport Custom (400). The engines didn't run the best because of the primitive pollution control systems but they floated down the road.
Awsome Jay ! I never really thought of this one. But it's friken massive bro ! Quite neat..Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Absolutely huge car cheers from Pennsylvania USA
yo ma man! its sick to see another dude in the eastern PA area! I love the vibes you bring to the channel despite me not having too much interest in the specific cars you film, i appreciate the passion you have for them.
Thank you so much but to be fair I don’t live on the eastern side I live on the western side I’m closer to Ohio but I go out there at least once a month to shoot cars.
What cars do you dig I’ll try to feature some more definitely going to try to do some more 60 stuff next year there’s a couple new cars that I really want to go out and cover but it’s a fine line my audience tends to like 1930-1964.. that’s where the majority of the contact is shot around but I do try and do outsiders because I love all of it. 30s and 50s are my two favorite eras but something can be said for every era.. and it’s funny how you look at everything differently like I was 16 in the 2000 and I thought every car except the Ford GT from that era was total garbage.. but come to find out they actually made some decent cars in that era..
The last year's of the real Land Yachts. I really like that interior, with seats that look like you could sleep on.
For WYR, that's a hard one. But I guess I'd go with the Lincoln, and the Cordoba.
Waterfall grill, always a favorite at Chrysler...
76 Chrysler
76 Eldo...
Hey Jay,
I had a 79 T-Bird ,nice Ride ,Velour interior ,All power,It was Luxury,Mechanical Problems though,
The 2 doors were in then,
But now would rather have 4Door ,
But in the late 70’s EPA(Nader)?Got rid of hard tops (My favorite) nothing like 4 doors open with view with out the center piller
WYR: New Yorker. I like the Cadillac styling but they really cheaped out on the interiors. Lincoln Mark IV, though I prefer the earlier model years without the huge bumpers. The side body line that dips down before the wheel well is called a skeg line, which is really more of a nautical thing. It appears now and then in a lot of designs, like the mid-60s Pontiacs and 70s Oldsmobiles.
1976 New Yorker was a remake of the Imperial. Just had less standard equipment and lower base price. Driving one was like floating down the highway.
Closing riff of Totos Rosanna, from 1982. Steve Lukater on guitar. Super easy as toto is my favorite band. Song is part of the Toto IV album.
I had one of those. Dark red
exterior with a half roof of white vinyl. Dark to red interior. Eventually, the hidden headlights would open and close without my doing anything. It was OK when it was day, but at night it was dangerous as hell. I suppose it was the vacuum hose that was the problem. I sold it and got an '85 Trans Am, which is another story.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with this car with us I never owned a car with hidden headlights
My favorite was the Royal Monaco 77, Mark VI 82
That’s awesome I’ve always wanted a Lincoln Mark VI but everyone I’ve ever looked at was a lemon
This styling was introduced in 1974 as the Imperial. I believe that it had 4-wheel disc brakes. The last Imperial with 4-wheel disc brakes before that was 1954.
When the Imperial was discontinued in the 70's, pretty much they took the Imperial off and replaced it with the New Yorker name plate. I also believe that some of the standard equipment didn't make it to the New Yorker. The 4-wheel disc brakes were dropped.
During this era, both Cadillac and Lincoln had 4-wheel disc brake options. The rear disc brakes were problematic with both Cadillac and Lincoln dropping it. 4-wheel disc brakes remained on Cadillac and Lincoln's "International" sized cars, Seville and Versailles. They were still problematic(due to the rear brake calipers incorporating the parking brake).
Thank you so much for sharing all that insight and information greatly appreciate it =)
The particular design of the grill sometimes called "waterfall" which curves towards the hood was a trade mark of Oldsmobile around the same time or a little bit later.
Great information
The taillight design is a styling cue from I believe the 1956 New Yorker tail light. This car would have a second switch to the left of the floor headlight dimmer switch, to change the radio stations, as it has the mechanical station seeking radio like the old GM wonderbar.
Great catch thank you so much for the insight and information
I gotta go with NewYorker in a 4 door and Cordoba hard to beat the torsion bar suspension .
I think when the grilles are built like that they call them waterfall grilles.
Except for the gas mileage, I often miss those stylish boats.
Lincoln have owned them and love them
Sweet =)
CORDOBA if fully loaded would be my choice- ICONIC!!!
Sweet choice =)
Those are corner and lamps and the indicators on the fenders is just the orange light that comes on when you put the turn signals on it didn't have the headlight feature like Cadillac head
Chrysler was emptying out the parts bin with those 3-spoke Plymouth steering wheels with the Chrysler badge in the middle. Sometimes you got the nice old Imperial steering wheel, other times a Dodge/Plymouth hand-me-down. Luck of the draw with 1970s Chryslers.
Those choices are hard because I want all seven of them I would say as far as quality goes id have to pick both Lincolns but I'd love to have a eldorado or the cordoba
I’m trying to make the choices hard every single time but I totally agree with you they were really hard this time lol =)
WYR the Lincolns, in 1976 i was driving a 1976 Buick Skylark Hatchback
The grill design is called "waterfall" The carpet is "hi pile" WYR 1: Lincoln WYR 2: Mark 4
Awesome choices thank you so much for that information
i owned a 76 new yorker 4 door hardtop was a nice car
Sweet What did you like the most about it
it rode so nice stuck to the road comfortablehad corner lights .tilt wheel and leather puffy seats and auto temp control awesome car
REMEMBER-nothing beats a CADDY!
I think the Lincoln’s ride better.. And didn’t fall apart as easy
@@What.its.like. Its just that an in your fam an elder had Fords
Chrysler spent the second half of the Seventies playing the name game!
Haha I know right
Don’t call it a Chrysler Imperial or the Mopar Nazis will have a fit 😂
Had one. 13 ppl in it going out of state for a family member that was involved in a car crash and was pulled over. Cop didn't want to deal with it and wrote me up for a 5" square fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror.
Green booger that just ran.
Thank you so much for sharing that memory 2dr 4 door or wagon
I'd take all of them J.
Sweet =)
I really wanted to cover a cordoba before this year was over but I’ve only seen a few this year
The '76 New Yorker Brougham in both cases--the Chrysler was better handling on the open road. Note I said "open road"--it could be a pain in close quarters, with its size and heavy rear pillars.. By the way, I have driven all of the cars depicted.
Awesome =)
cornering lamps optional, doors weigh a legit 100 lbs, power locks should have been standard because try to reach over, tilt / telescope w/ 2 spoke was optional. coolest thing ever that ya missed: washer jets are on the wiper arms. they drive with one finger and one toe, parking lot or interstate.
I've owned NYers, same era Imperials and Cordobas. The big Chrysler loves to set sail, does it well, much more nimble than it should be around town. The small Chrysler is just that: less trunk, less back seat, less mass. Fuel mileage gears gave them stupid cruising speed. As for which one: both.
Personally I would always pick the Lincoln . Over everything although Chrysler made a beautiful vehicle with the exception of certain years . Of course this is a subjective issue .
It is Beautiful Vehicle ❤ It 😊
I never saw one in the wild so I wasn’t going to miss my opportunity to feature this car =)
Woodgrain on everything because . . . Brougham!
Nice =)
Chrysler Cordova
Autumn maple firemist with black corithian leather with a charcoal grey trim color and
Whide White Wall Tires and a diamond in the back ...💜😱👍
Awesome =) I have a special place in my heart for a 76 Chrysler Córdoba they looked cool =)
Scenario one 1976 Lincoln Continental. Scenario 2 1976 Chrysler Cordoba
Sweet =) choices
While I would never own one of these since they are way too impracticable size-wise, I still they they were incredibly beautiful cars inside and out (minus the neon blue color) and made the malaise era more tolerable, lol.
Nice DING in front drivers fender
All things considered though this car is 47 years old I didn’t see any rust
@@What.its.like. it was SWEET!
@eric Rudd =)
The 76-78 NYB was a comparative bargain compared to the DeVille and Continental. Same size (until Cadillac downsized in 77), basically the same features though you had to add AC, power seat and a radio - still significantly less expensive. With the right 440 and axle ratio, quicker than either and handles better. Handling here being a relative term. Looks way more imposing than the Cadillac, and arguably better than the Lincoln. Ah, but the nameplate; perception is all sometimes - depending on how secure one is.... WYR: New Yorker, Mark IV (for the sheer excess of it all)
This thing looks like someone took the front clip off of the Lincoln Continental and put it on a Cadillac DeVille
It looks like a mixture of both I totally agree this is the first time I’ve ever been in a Chrysler product from the 70s
76 new yorker , 76 cordoba !!!
Actually Chryslers never had a pillow ride. I call them the BMW of their era vs Cadillac was the Mercedes. Lincoln was the pillow ride more like a big Peugeot or Citroen!
Good to know
before i even watch the vid... what it's like? HUUUUUGE! lol... now off to watch 🙂
Where is that beautiful white one located
It’s at classic automall Mall, but it’s sold
@@What.its.like. Thank you, I did not see that when I was there if that's in Morgan town p. A
Give me the Eldorado anytime however since I've had three already I'm currently looking at a 1976 Chrysler New Yorker.
Sweet choices
Chevy Suburban has been around longer than the New Yorker.
Yes but is the suburban a car??
ELDORADO! On a side note, that commercial has stayed with me since it first came out....and not in a good way.
I’m sorry to bring back those bad memories great choice tho =)
New York (er) is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me (a) Park Avenue.
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Give me Luckenbach, Texas! "Ain't nobody feelin' no pain!"
WYR is Caddy and Caddy, but only because they're Caddy's. I don't know for sure whi coined the term, but another car channel calls the mid to late 70's "the malaise years" for US cars, and having ridden/ driven/ worked on them I can say they're right. Everyone was trying to save money by selling old for new, pollution systems were primitive and Chrysler's "Lean Burn" system was atrocious. "Quality" was a sticker on a window and an advertising term, nothing more. This is where the rest of the world moved forward but the US car makers got stuck in their own self-made mud. These huge 'land yachts' did offer the last years of a truly plush ride one has to experience to understand.
"You may not have a great big Caddilac. Gangster whitewalls, TV antenna in the back..." Especially the Caddys, but all of these had a wide range of aftermarket custom bolt-on styling accessories much like the Harley dealers sell today. Everyone thought their 'customized' car was unique but it wasn't; somewhere else somebody had bolted on the same "Rolls Royce" grille, added whitewall tire flaps, pinstripe tape, stick-on cheap plastic chroming accents, and put a small portable 120VAC house TV in the back to make people think it was a 12V model. Up front was a CB radio which looked like an old mobile phone. J.C. Whitney did a booming business in all that accessory stuff- us old folks will remember them. "Diamond in the back, sunroof top,digging the scene with a gangster lean oooh oooh oooh oooh..."
Thank you so much for all that information =)
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Welcome back my friends maybe 🤔
Great guess is it’s none of those songs nor that band
WYR: All of them.
You don’t even know what the choices are yet lol
@@What.its.like. Don't need to.
Haha
I think the first scenario is
1976 Lincoln town coupe
1976 Chrysler New Yorker
1976 Cadillac coupe Deville
Second scenario
1976 Cadillac Eldorado
1976 Chrysler New Yorker
1976 Lincoln, Mark IV
1976 Chrysler Córdoba
@@What.its.like. And I thought 6 more cars would cover it. Now, I have 7.
Haha
Chrysler - cordoba
Sweet choice
I'd rather have the 1976 Coupe De Ville and the 1976 Eldorado.
Sweet choices =)
"Voices" by Russ Ballard?
Great guess it was Rosanna by Toto
COUPE' DEVILLE !!!
Sweet choice =)
Nice car but they didn’t ride as smooth as the body on frame Lincoln’s or Cadillacs so I’ll take both Lincoln’s in the would you rather section
Awesome choices I thought it would ride like a Lincoln I need to drive one
I must say, back in the day, I disliked all of these full size cars. The Cordoba at least had some style though. Also in the 70's, fake wood grain was infecting most things, it seemed.
Well let's see....I'll take the 1976 Cadillac DeVille, 1976 Chrysler New Yorker and the 1976 Lincoln Mark.
Sweet choices
Edgar Winter group --- Frankenstein ?
Great guess not that song or band
I’ll take two Lincolns and have Jack Jones sing a musical tribute to “The Love Boats”. Dig the styling on the New Yorker, but wassup with all the fake wood and pimped out upholstery?
Awesome choices =)
Fake wood and pimped velour for all =D
Car lost 50 percent of value the moment off the lot and 90 percent after 4 years. The wrong car for this time period and stuff like this lead to Chrysler filing for bankruptcy
Yeah but that’s the way the car market always was now they want $10k for a 10-15 old van with 150,000 miles on it and don’t even get me started on trucks
Scenario 1 none
Scenario 2 possibly the Cordoba but I'm not a fan of these tanks.
I was never a fan of these huge malaise era Detroit land yachts. With huge V8 engines robbed of power and sucking gas like no tomorrow. Big sleds where the word Brougham meant tons of options.
Sorry, I know many like these tanks but they are the reason the Japanese were able to gain entry into our market.
Selling smaller more efficient cars that were plain Jane but decently priced and their 4 cylinder engines could make them peppy around town and still deliver good mileage. Just good basic cars. Something Detroit had forgotten how to make.
Rosanna by Toto
Yeah buddy you got it someone beat you for title
Many of these 'road barges' were off the road and scrapped by the late 1980's as too big, guzzled fuel, ran like garbage due to the crude pollution controls, rust, terrible quality of parts and assembly. For sure this Chrysler was part of the 'malaise' era in cars of the 1970's and 1980's.
You need to do a video on a Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volare, perhaps a first model year one (1976). One of the worst cars of the malaise period.
Thank you so much for sharing all that insight and information definitely do more malaise era cars next year
@@ericruud9328 I had a 1979 Volare. Looked nice but was horrible. The carburetor was awful, the suspension worse, a/c failure, it was the only 'decent' car I had for the shortest time since than.
Lincoln,Eldorado
Sweet choices
My Charger was better optioned than this New Yorker, Had the same color interior. two tone blue outside. Those velour seats were very unforgiving of the various things that were smoked in the car! Burns everywhere, ha! I have fond memories of that car but it wasn't very reliable but, to be fair, I was a kid and didn't take good care of it.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with the charger I can’t believe that they turn the charger into that..
@@What.its.like. It was the 70's, there was no such thing as performance anymore, so "personal luxury" was new cool thing! But they shoulda named it something other than Charger, since it was really a Cordoba in everything but name.
For 1976 only the Coronet name was no longer used on its 2 door variant, so the Charger replaced it. This meant Charger had 2 different images for this one year.The following year the Mid sized Monaco replaced the Coronet & that style of Charger.@@allenwayne2033
Choices too hard.
WYR: None of the above. Liked the 70's domestic styling but nobody in Detroit was making very good cars at this point.
Not even a mark iv??
@@What.its.like. Well, the Mark was probably the best built of them, but I recall reading that a disgruntled Mark buyer drove his Mark to the front door of the Ford World Headquarter in Dearborn and torched it! Generally quality was a pretty iffy at all the domestics in the 70's, especially at GM and Chrysler!
Did you see the Cadillac when comparing the corner lights they got so cheap in the front and rear where running light connect to brake lights in rear That part with disintegrate
@@What.its.like. yep, those GM filler panels are notorious for disintegrating!
An IMPERIAL wannabe.
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This is my favorite old land yachts! It is a really beautiful sleek design with wonderful details imo, and that interior is the finest! It's odd that the steering wheel in this is one of the styles for the Aspen/Volare models of the same years, it looks very odd being in this model.🤔 The ads with Jack Jones singing were so cool. He was one of my Mom's favorites. I like the Lincoln and Chrysler probably equal, it would be tough pick, the same on the second between the Lincoln, Eldorado, and this. Cool video!😎
Glad you dig this video going to cover more 70s cars next year that’s for sure and start getting in the more 60s stuff =)