(filmed September 2017, a BEAUTY of a car)
Greetings from Northeast Ohio, USA.
This vehicle is one of the last classic American land ships... 19 feet 4 inches long, about 8 mpg, heavier than lead, a remnant of the dying days of disco and the farewell to large cars coming out of Detroit. This video is a farewell to a car I owned for nearly eleven years. There was a brief rain shower just before I filmed, hence the beaded water on the car.
Salt is regularly used on roads in winter where I live. Best I can tell, and from my own experience, this Chrysler was never driven on salted roads, being rust free. 1970s Detroit cars were well known for rusting away. This boat is SOLID.
I was 20 years old and financially broke when this car hit the lot in 1978. I never dreamed I could own such a monster back then. In 2006, I happened across this beautiful piece of Detroit iron in Atwater, Ohio, a 1978 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham, and bought it used, myself being the third legal owner. It is a four-door sedan, metallic green and black vinyl top, 400 cubic inch engine, green leather interior, AC, PS, PB, PW, PL, 8 track AM-FM stereo. Chrysler was experimenting with their electronic ignition system at this time. The car is all original to the best of my knowledge. It had about 64000 miles on it when I bought it. After I got it, I kept it in sheltered storage for almost 11 years, driving it a couple times a year to keep everything free. This video speaks for itself, because I say nothing.
Maintenance wise, I replaced a few fuel hoses, a battery, and longed to put the time and money into this sweetheart of a car to bring it back to its complete original new condition. As the years passed and I grew older, I knew the car would be in better hands of someone who REALLY wanted it. I ended up selling it in late summer 2017 to a dealer in the southeast USA. When the carrier picked it up in October 2017, he told me he was taking the car to a port in New Jersey. That's when I knew the car had already resold to someone in Europe.
Friend, if this is now YOUR car, please contact me. I would very much like to know where it now rests, and what you are doing with it. I can provide the VIN to you to verify it is the same car. I can give you insights about the car's history and about the imperfections therein.
Enjoy! Drive it proud!
Long live Big Iron!