Saturday, May 19, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Landau

The Chrysler New Yorker has been a constant in the Junkyard Find series, from this genuinely luxurious '64 to this Slant Six-powered New Yorker-ized Dodge Diplomat. The most recent New Yorker used the good-looking but shoddy LH Platform, but between the Diplomat and the LH were the K-Car-based New Yorkers. By 1989, the K platform had been stretched out, huge contracts with the largest diamond-tucked velour upholstery company Chrysler could find had been written up, and truckloads of "crystal pentastar" hood ornaments and steering-wheel emblems were being unloaded at Chrysler assembly plants.
Yes, the 1989 Chrysler New Yorker with landau roof!
This one smells like an ashtray inside a Porta-Potty inside a potato-chip factory that's on fire, but imagine the class when it was new.
I am very tempted to remove this exquisitely dated Digital Instrument Panel™, with its Electronic Voice Alert™ system, rigging it up to function on my garage wall, but I'm already behind on doing the same thing with this even more 1980s Mitsubishi Cordia digital cluster.
The low humidity in Denver means that most cars don't rust, but the high-altitude sun is murder on vinyl tops. This once-stately Landau roof isn't looking so sharp today.
The integration of the center brake light was done pretty well by late-80s standards.
I seem to recall that a certain Japanese car company whose name starts with the letter M was the true source for this engine, but Chrysler decided to badge it with their own name.
New Yorker!

32 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 16 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 17 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 18 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 19 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 20 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 21 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 22 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 23 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 24 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 25 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 26 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 27 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 28 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 29 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 30 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 31 - 1989 Chrysler New Yorker Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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