For Sale 1966 Newport, 383, 3-speed manual

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65sporty said:
Welcome to the site, the car may be rare but 1 of 1? not sure about that. Just my .02
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Research it through Chrysler, as I did. It is the ONLY 1966 Chrysler Newport 2 door hardtop built as follows: red outside, red inside, 3 speed manual transmission, and only four options: bucket seats, fender skirts, AM radio, heavy duty antenna. The 3 speed manual is the key (only 297 built, mostly 4 door "loss leader" cars for dealer ads), and the combination of the 4 options on a red-on-red 2 door hardtop. It's the only one ever built, only one that will ever be. 1 of 1.
 
rexus31 said:
Dealer and dealer managers do strange things. This car could have been the "one at this price" car on the lot to get people in to buy. This car has no options other than the AM radio (which may or may not have been an additional cost option) so it would have been the least expensive car on the lot.
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This car has four options: bucket seats, fender skirts, am radio, heavy duty antenna. I'm the third owner. The 2nd owner told me it was ordered by a young family who wanted a red 2 door hardtop, large heavy car but with a manual trans for sportiness and torque (combined with a modest cost). It was their family car, but they also pulled a small trailer with it. It's one of those rare and unique products of chance that happened on rare occasions with the order forms back in the day, and came to be the only one built that way that year.
 
I'm not too partial about narrowing down cars by combination of all sorts of Options and Color.
Newport, 2dr, engine, Transmission and still a rare and sort of desirable car. As always and especially with such rare survivers it's worth as much as someone is willing to pay. I once payed a premium of at least 50 % for a car I considered very desirable, not the General market, because the buyer wouldn't have let it go otherwise. He contacted me a month ago and would like to buy it back. ;)
At least I promised him he'd be first in case.
 
I'am asking 27k for 426 4spd sport fury in between #2 #3 car 1965 A newport with a 3 spd no way and its a column shift
 
MoparKenny said:
Research it through Chrysler, as I did. It is the ONLY 1966 Chrysler Newport 2 door hardtop built as follows: red outside, red inside, 3 speed manual transmission, and only four options: bucket seats, fender skirts, AM radio, heavy duty antenna. The 3 speed manual is the key (only 297 built, mostly 4 door "loss leader" cars for dealer ads), and the combination of the 4 options on a red-on-red 2 door hardtop. It's the only one ever built, only one that will ever be. 1 of 1.
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This car has four options: bucket seats, fender skirts, am radio, heavy duty antenna. I'm the third owner. The 2nd owner told me it was ordered by a young family who wanted a red 2 door hardtop, large heavy car but with a manual trans for sportiness and torque (combined with a modest cost). It was their family car, but they also pulled a small trailer with it. It's one of those rare and unique products of chance that happened on rare occasions with the order forms back in the day, and came to be the only one built that way that year.
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You aren't getting it. 1 of 1 doesn't equate to valuable! I've not heard of a heavy duty antenna and I believe fender skirts were standard. So you've got a red car with bucket seats and a radio. Sounds to me like a car that was ordered to get bodies onto the lot. Unless you have concrete proof it was special ordered, you'll have a hard time getting people to buy a third hand story from the 2nd owner.

I wouldn't exactly call a three on the tree "sporty". If it had a 4 speed, yes. But a 3 on the tree? Can you please post your research from Chrysler? I'm sure we would all like to see it. The only info I was ever able to obtain from Chrysler (through Chrysler Historical) was a decode of my Fender Tag and a copy of the IBM card. There were no production figures broken down by paint color and/or options. If those exist, I'd like to know about it. I'm pretty sure I may have a "1 of 1" as well. As I've said in previous posts, GLWS. It's a neat car but not worth near what you are asking.
 
The only optional antennas I can find are a power unit and an oversize manual that was grouped in with the cop car/fleet codes.
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This is a very kool and unusual car that has an asking price that is as good a place as any to start. I could even fathom somebody paying close to that.
 
Thank you, Matt. That's some unusual information you dug up there.
I doubt the car has a police package, though.

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Yes I agree a 3 sped in 66 was on the column and it was not an option so those 2 there bring it down if its in real nice shape 10k maybe 12k
 
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