It's As Big As A Whale! The 1972 Chrysler New Yorker Was 224 Inches and 440ci of Fun!

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  @tombrown1898 · 2 years ago

  Not my cup of tea, but Harry Truman loved it.  A lifelong Mopar fan, he bought his last car, a 1972 Newport Custom, green, six months before he died at 88.  Bess used the car (with Secret Service driver) until her death, ten years later.  It still can be seen in the garage at their home in Independence, MO.

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• SM

  @Smith686plus · 2 years ago

  Great video.  I’m so happy to see that someone loves these big, full sized cars from this era as much as I do.

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• TA

  @TargetedWestShow · 2 years ago

  My father bought a 72 New Yorker Brougham for 2,200 at a used dealer in 1974, it was green, green, and green! I drove it like a race car, and it never broke. It had 22k Miles.

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• ED

  @edwardpate6128 · 2 years ago

  Just want to add an interesting spark plug comment. Both my grandparents on my dad's side worked at Champion Spark Plug in Hamtramck MI from 1926 to the mid 1960's. That plant just adjacent to the old Dodge Main plant and the current GM Factory Zero plant. As employees they could get all the spark plugs they wanted for free but my grandfather always didn't seem to have a lot of luck with them as he mostly had GM cars so he always used AC plugs. A bit a trivia, the AC in AC Delco stand for Albert Champion who started both companies.

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• T9

  @T91Tanker · 2 years ago

  “Corpulent”. I can’t wait to use that word!!!

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• IN

  @indianasunsets5738 · 2 years ago

  I like the painted roofs instead of the vinyl roofs.

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• JA

  @jamesrodriquez2863 · 2 years ago

  I have always been a fan of the fuselage body wrap around bumper Chryslers.  They look elegant and cool at the same time.

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• JO

  @JohnShields-xx1yk · 2 years ago

  In 1978 I was 18 and had a 1971 Newport blue with black vinyl roof black leather and the coolest thing bucket seats in that big car. Beauty.

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• DA

  @DanT271 · 2 years ago

  Beautiful car Large and in charge!

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• JO

  @joehumenansky8225 · 2 years ago

  My father owned a &apos;72 New Yorker Brougham and a &apos;73 Imperial LeBaron 2 door. &nbsp;I wrecked the New Yorker in a t bone collision with a Gremlin. &nbsp;I regret it to this day. &nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker had a miss.... but I have since learned the spark plugs used back in the day were not the best.<br>I always liked the looks and color. &nbsp;True blue poly with a dark blue vinyl roof and black interior. &nbsp;The Imperial was light blue with a dark blue vinyl roof with dark blue leather interior. &nbsp;Both cars had their weak points. &nbsp;We replaced starters, alternators, and repaired radiators on both. &nbsp;After these he went to Cadillacs and Buicks. &nbsp;He owned Cadillacs until his passing.

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• CH

  @chrisolsen7679 · 2 years ago

  This was always the car I thought of when hearing &quot;Love Shack&quot; by the B-52&apos;s

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• TU

  @turbofanlover · 2 years ago (edited)

  Back in the early 70s, my family had a 4-door Plymouth Fury III. &nbsp;I think it was a 1973 model. &nbsp;Even back then, we called it a freakin&apos; tank...lol. &nbsp;But this car is even more of a tank. &nbsp;Crazy how big they built them, back then.

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