Review of the 1973 Chrysler New Yorker

[Grumpyguy]

Adam at Rare Vintage Cares and Automotive History has a lot of connections in the car industry and has great interviews with some older designers at GM.

Also, instead of collecting Porsches and Ferraris, he has an infinity for older American family cars. The reason I started to follow him was that he bought a '71 Mercury Marquis. Growing up, we had a '70 Marquis which I fondly associate with family vacations and my parents. Not to mention, for little kid, that back seat was huge, plus Mom could pack the big trunk with 2 weeks of luggage!

So if you have an interest in American family cars, he's a great resource.

Here's the 73 New Yorker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWg4bGSIhEM&t=121s

[Bill in NC]

Big iron was cheap & therefore popular back in college.

One guy I knew bought a '73 Catalina for a few hundred bucks & occasionally might have lived in it.

Cash for clunkers probably claimed most of the old big iron, though.

[Ombligo]

My wifes first car, aka The Blue Tank, was a 78 Olds Delta 88. It was a wedding present. I taught her to parallel park in that monster, then she used my compact to take her driving test other than guzzling gas, it served her will.

[mrbigstuff]

a guy on my street had one, in black. he would roll up in his suit, tie loosened, stogie in hand out the open window, flicking the cigar toward us kids in acknowledgment. ah, memories of the '80s.

[RAMd®d]

I've a soft spot for the big iron of Yesteryear, but the New Yorker, not so much.

My preferences lied towards the Pontiac Gran Prix and a couple of Cadillacs of the area.

Even the early '70s Monte Carlo.

The long deck short back was a favorite look for me.

[deckeda]

Ombligo wrote:
My wifes first car, aka The Blue Tank, was a 78 Olds Delta 88. It was a wedding present. I taught her to parallel park in that monster, then she used my compact to take her driving test other than guzzling gas, it served her will.

I knew a guy in college who inherited one. He rebuilt the engine with 11:1 pistons and retarded the timing severely so that ran on 87 octane. Not quite sure why. He and I “invented” variable cam timing (while bench racing) years before it ever showed up in production cars.

My experience with them was my parents’ ‘80 Delta 88 and my grandparents’ ‘77 98, which I inherited. Two very different cars, despite looking very similar overall.