1965 Chrysler New Yorker

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 10/18/2017 at 11:53 • Filed to: None

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I think I saw this exact car or one just like it on my drive home last night. I didn’t know it was a thing now I want one

Elegant and sinister at the same time.

gmctavish needs more space > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 11:58

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Ever since I saw Clayton first post about his Newport, I’ve wanted a big Chrysler

This one’s been hanging around for a while

https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/pml/cto/d/classic-chrysler/6299895930.html

Your boy, BJR > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 12:01

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Engel mopars are everything <3

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 12:04

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I have a soft spot for big Chryslers from the 60's.  

fintail > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 12:07

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I think a 2 door HT is fairly rare, but sedans aren’t too rare, and are affordable.

65-68 Chryslers were very well-made and seem to have high survival rates.

HammerheadFistpunch > fintail 10/18/2017 at 12:10

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I’d never even heard of the New Yorker but the HT 2 door was every bit as neat to me as the highly prized continental from that era.

fintail > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 12:18

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It’d be less expensive too, as the Continentals seem to have a cult following. There was also a Continental 2 door HT, which seems to be pretty uncommon:

A step above the NYer was the Imperial, which can also have a sinister look, while still being relatively restrained and elegant:

1965-68 or so is probably the peak of period American car design.

HammerheadFistpunch > fintail 10/18/2017 at 12:20

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I agree with that. I normally don’t get into old American design but man alive I was feeling it yesterday. That old “why can’t they make cars this pretty anymore” question just jumped into my brain even though I knew the answer.

shop-teacher > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 12:22

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Very nice!

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 12:25

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It’s easy to forget that Chrysler was once a world beater.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > fintail 10/18/2017 at 13:13

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Same designer for the Lincoln and the Mopars in this discussion, Elwood Engel.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 13:15

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The Elwood Engel Award should be given to the designer who makes the most beautiful, yet least busy design every year. Let’s encourage designers to think that the Less is More approach can work as a distinct and beautiful design.

fintail > HammerheadFistpunch 10/18/2017 at 13:26

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Most of these old cars are insanely thirsty and large, but for awhile in the mid 60s, they were pretty clean and modern, finally having shed the excess of the 50s, but not yet with the ostentation of the 70s. It was a high point. It can probably be paralleled in architecture and fashion as well.

fintail > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 10/18/2017 at 13:27

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Exactly, I forgot about that. He cleaned things up.