1964 Chrysler New Yorker 2-door project

[commando1]

1964 Chrysler New Yorker VC3 Canadian 2 door model, 1 of 300 made, so very rare! for sale: photos, technical specifications, description

Angus, you've got yourself one hell of a rare car!

 

[pomonamissel]

wow only 300 made , 300 k's were 3020'something . i would not have thought total sales would have varied that greatly .

 

[commando1]

wow only 300 made ,

That's Canadian. So that would be around 200 U.S.

 

[detmatt]

That's Canadian. So that would be around 200 U.S.

LOL!

 

[1978 NYB]

1964 Chrysler New Yorker VC3 Canadian 2 door model, 1 of 300 made, so very rare! for sale: photos, technical specifications, description

Angus, you've got yourself one hell of a rare car!

Dang......the 2 dr HT is a lot cheaper than the rest of them!

 

[angus66]

I'm surprised on how great of condition that the Stub frame is in compared to the rest of the car.

Sorry I should have been clearer on that. That's the subframe, engine and trans from the 4-door sedan donor car. The engine and trans were gone from the 2-door when my dad bought it. Working with the car for awhile now I suspect what happened was that someone started this project by cutting out the bottom part of the passenger-side rear quarter then realized that the rust was all through the car and then harvested the engine and trans for something else and abandoned the project.

This is the subframe for this car. Not in terrible shape but some rust holes in the rear brace. I am probably going to rebuild and use the rear-end out of the 2-door since it's the only driveline piece that came with the car. A little more work but nice to keep it original where I can.

 

[angus66]

1964 Chrysler New Yorker VC3 Canadian 2 door model, 1 of 300 made, so very rare! for sale: photos, technical specifications, description

Angus, you've got yourself one hell of a rare car!

Ya, I've heard that 300 figure too. Interesting that it was the lowest price model (by a fair margin too). But that must be base price - I imagine you could load them up. Hard to believe a leather interior car going at that price. I have a theory that I haven't been able to disprove yet. That they were all (or at least mostly) that "Sumac" red color with a black half vinyl top. I've seen one black one and and one fire engine red one and the fire engine red one was Sumac red in the jams. The black one looked like it could be a respray as I haven't seen it close up.

 

[1978 NYB]

I like it.

It'll be something special when it's done.

 

[mr. fix it]

I like it.

It'll be something special when it's done.

it definitely will be.
one of my cousin rolled in a New Yorker wagon back in the 70's whit a similar front end.

 

[angus66]

I noticed I haven't updated this thread in awhile but for good reason, I hadn't done much. But since the beginning of the fall I've had a pretty good push. I've got the sill/frame rails installed and the floor installed also. I'm starting on the rear quarters this week and I am picking up rotisserie this weekend to help do all my finishing welding and paint the underbody before marrying the subframe assembly back to the car. Here are a few pics.

 

[Unix]

that's a lot of work just there! Wow. Looking really impressive.

 

[Fury440]

Beautiful work!!

 

[ImpJay]

Wow! That would be unusual. I would think tht would be the other way around....none available in Canada.

Dodge Monaco convertible from 69-70 is an equal case. It was only sold and produced only in Canada.

 

[angus66]

 

[angus66]

 

[detmatt]

My hat is off to you, great work!

 

[Unix]

Simply amazing work !! Looks great.

 

[angus66]

I haven't updated this in a while so I thought I'd let you guys know I'm still out here on this project. On a push as the owner of the lift wants it back in September.

 

[angus66]

Finally at a big turning point in this project. Got the quarters and the rockers joined up. Still some metalwork to do there on the driver's sill but am pretty happy with having those holes closed up. Also got the bottom of the car painted. Went with Por15. Used Por15 on my TR6 and still is doing great 9 years later - so easy choice. Now to get this girl back on terraferma.

 

[bigmoparjeff]

Great job so far!

I love seeing this type of serious metal work being done on a C body.

Some years ago I was looking through my "Standard Catalog of Chrysler" book and happened to glace at 1964 production numbers, and was quite surprised at how few New Yorker coupes were built that year. It's really great that you are bringing one of the few back to life. I don't think I've ever seen one in person, and I doubt that there would be more than 25 of them left at this point.

Jeff