Stunning car for the price!!!! $2550. (And last year for the full-size Mopar RWD!) Looks like a nice find! http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/cto/4917793886.html
Nice grill,would i be correct in assuming there is leather under those custom (well made) seat covers?
1981 was the lowest production numbers for the "R"-bodied Mopars (at 13,326, down from 100,741 for 1979), which was a three-year production run. I owned a 1979 New Yorker with the 360. Wonderful car. Sold it to a guy in Indiana, who flew to OKC and drove it home. $2,550 is a good deal here, IMO.
Did a little checking on these.... Had not realized that these '79-'81 New Yorkers and Newports were actually a bit down-sized from the prior generation. Wheelbase down from 123.9" to 118'5", overall length down from 227.1" to 221.5". Width down from 79.7" to 77.6". Total weight was down half a ton from 4987 to 3924 pounds! I seem to remember something about these being actually built on the platform of former intermediate 4-doors - were these actually 'stretched' and re-bodied LeBarons?
I don't know if they were stretched LeBarons or not, but I think it would have been literally impossible to redesign the '74-'78 New Yorker and not cut 1000 pounds on accident alone. Those things were huge. In old aircraft carrier advertisements they used to boast about being able to fit a Chrysler New Yorker on deck the same way station wagon owners boast about being able to fit a 4x8 sheet of plywood.
No, they were on the stretched platform of the B-body Monaco/Coronet body style or Fury/Satellite body style. That platform was the bread and butter fleet sales for cop cars and taxi cars so Chrysler was intent on keeping it around a few more years. Those LeBarons were similar to the Aspen/Volare platform, F-bodies, which were a replacement for the Abody Dart and Valiant.
