Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau

My quest for junkyard Chrysler New Yorkers has become something of an obsession lately. We've seen this '85, this '89, this '64, this '92, and this '82 in the series, and today I've bagged a K-platform (actually C-platform, but it's a K at heart) '90 New Yorker Landau in Colorado.
Yes, the hokey vinyl-covered landau roof survived into the 1990s in Detroit; as far as I can tell, the last year for a New Yorker with this option was 1993. That's right, we haven't even gone 20 years since Chrysler killed the vinyl landau roof!
The 1988-93 New Yorker was really just a pimped-out version of the not-quite-Superfly-grade Dodge Dynasty. When I launch my Spec Dynasty racing series and become wealthier than Big Bill France ever was, I will allow the Dynasty-sibling New Yorkers to race as well.
Does Chrysler still use these crystal Pentastar emblems on any door panels these days? I'm assuming that they bought 50 million of them back in 1988 and still have warehouses full of the things.
Much as we make fun of these cars, they turned out to be surprisingly comfortable on the road, and not any less reliable than most of their Detroit competition.
You'll find one in every car, kid. You'll see.

20 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 01 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 16 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 17 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 18 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 19 - 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Landau Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

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




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