Curbside Classic 77 NYB

[commando1]

I can't believe this got by my radar.

Curbside Classic: 1977 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham Coupe – The Recycled Imperial and the Recycled CC

 

[cantflip]

I can't believe this got by my radar.

Curbside Classic: 1977 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham Coupe – The Recycled Imperial and the Recycled CC

Maybe your slipping, but no matter... I can't find anything about either of the articles he wrote that I liked... other than the cars.

 

[1978 NYB]

I wonder if FCA will bring back a NYB or Imperial version on the 300 platform in the future?

 

[Carmine]

Maybe your slipping, but no matter... I can't find anything about either of the articles he wrote that I liked... other than the cars.

I'm not a fan of the site itself. Way too much snark from the self-proclaimed intelligencia. But there are tibits of info here and there, or in the comments.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I like the NYB in the pictures.
Also there is no wide ratio 727 (listed by another poster) always the same ratios, I think the lock up (78) and tall rear end are tricking his brain.

 

[commando1]

The comments always piss me off. I hate it when I see ChevyCool Guy make comments about a car that I've have had deep intimate relations with for a very long time.
Then I realize how awesome I am.

 

[Carmine]

The comments always piss me off. I hate it when I see ChevyCool Guy make comments about a car that I've have had deep intimate relations with for a very long time.
Then I realize how awesome I am.

I like when the comments from actual owners don't quite mesh with the negative tone of the author or the peanut gallery... as appears to be happening in this article.

 

[cantflip]

I like the NYB in the pictures.
Also there is no wide ratio 727 (listed by another poster) always the same ratios, I think the lock up (78) and tall rear end are tricking his brain.

There was a close ratio 904, IIRC in the late70s and 80's... made for interesting top end when swapped into a 73 318 Charger... but killed it until it rolled to 30. Never wanted lower gears... I just disappointed the rich kids on I79(GTs,IROCs), and stayed out of the fight a traffic lights.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

There was a close ratio 904, IIRC in the late70s and 80's... made for interesting top end when swapped into a 73 318 Charger... but killed it until it rolled to 30. Never wanted lower gears... I just disappointed the rich kids on I79(GTs,IROCs), and stayed out of the fight a traffic lights.

There was a low ratio 904, it was 999 trans paired with 2.45:1 8 1/4 rear.
My Cordoba had a 2.45-8 1/4 leaving in drive it wouldn't come out of 1st till 72 mph, which is kind of funny because who was engineers that approved the govenor shift points (determined by road speed), I'm happy they did it that way. That was a car that was geared so tall it actually got better mpg at 65-70, because of converter slip, than it did at the national speed limit of 55 at the time. Gotta think that was the engineers thinking ahead that a completely loaded car with a big block was not going to be drive at that gawd awful double nickel.

 

[commando1]

My Cordoba had a 2.45-8 1/4 leaving in drive it wouldn't come out of 1st till 72 mph,

Powerglides were like that.