1980 Chrysler New Yorker 5th Ave.

No Reserve: 1980 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue Edition for sale on BaT Auctions - ending July 22 (Lot #79,335) | Bring a Trailer

 

This is the one you want - if you want one of these. Nice colors and a 360.

 

Would have thought it would have cornering lights with the Fifth Avenue option.

 

I saw this for sale recently at $6000 and thought it was a great deal. Looks like a dealer picked it up and will flip it for a tidy sum.

 

That's a nice car. It seems to have a lot of minor cosmetic issues, but it's exceptionally clean underneath. Almost alarmingly so. It almost looks like it was undercoated right before the sale, which seems a bit sketchy, but I can't see anything too egregious underneath it. But that does give me a bit of pause for concern.

Overall though, I think that's a very tasteful looking car. I like the colour combination, the interior is tastefully styled without being too gaudy and overboard, and I also really like the texture of the vinyl roof as well. This was a short-lived R-body variation of the New Yorker, but I think this one is as classy as anything else of the era.

 

A 360 engine rated at 130HP... dark days for cars indeed.

 

130hp from 360 cu in is truly pathetic. Does have 255 ft lbs torque though, and as they say you buy HP and drive torque. Should be fine cruising around town, just don't expect to find anybody home when you need to jump onto the expressway.

 

That's pretty bad.

Yeah, at best, even the equivalent 1980 police package model (the Dodge St. Regis) that had 185 HP could only muster an 11.5 second 0-60 time during the Michigan State Police tests, which for years, was the gold standard for police car testing that police departments all over the U.S. relied on to order their own cars.

I'm sure this car with its lower power and higher weight is probably in the 14-16 second 0-60 range. Truly pathetic. Could you imagine towing a trailer too?

 

Maybe. But who really wants one of these?

 

A Mopar fanatic....

 

Wow, only 130hp? I sure hope it was torquey....or at least it felt torquey. I remember driving a '79 Newport with a 360 and it wasn't half bad for what it was.

 

It made 255 lb./ft. of torque, but these cars were severely bogged down with short cams, small port heads with large combustion chambers and horribly designed emissions equipment at this point.

 

In comparison, the factory 351 CID Windsor engine in the freshly downsized Ford LTD and Grand Marquis (with a feedback variable venturi carburetor) made only 142HP and 286 lb/ft of torque. Not much more, for a car that weighed about the same. The 302 that was in the 1980 Thunderbird was rated at 131HP and 230 lb/ft, but had a non-feedback 2-bbl carb.

Malaise all around.

 

This is interesting...I wonder if having five major divisions helped GM put out more powerful engines, without running afoul of CAFE?

1979 Caprice with 350 CID V8 was rated at 170 HP, 270 lb/ft of torque. That's a lot for back then!

 

Curiously, in 1980 an optional 4bbl. 318 for the New Yorker was rated at 155 HP (25 HP more than the 360), but with a lower torque rating at 240 lb./ft., and the 2bbl. version of the 318 was rated at only 120 HP, but had a higher torque rating than the 4bbl. version at 245 lb./ft. of torque. I know there were many different head castings that were used on both the 360 and the 318, but it seems to me the torque ratings are likely due to different port and/or combustion chamber designs from engine package to engine package.

318 2bbl.: 120 HP - 245 lb./ft.
318 4bbl.: 155 HP - 240 lb./ft.
360 4bbl.: 130 HP - 255 lb./ft.