1978 New Yorker St Regis Coupe

[Pete Kaczmarski]

Finally got to sending these out.....1978 NYB St Regis Coupe, one year only color,CB radio, Sunroof etc. This car was my friends car who was a Electrical Engineer for Chrysler Outboard. In 1978 he purchased this car as a factory executive car for $6500 (if I remember correctly) My first job was to clean his cars,mow the lawn etc. In 1990 he died unexpectidly and his widow sold the car in 1992. I could not buy it because I was going thru a divorce. No one knew where the car went etc. In Fall of 2011 I found it on craigs list. We struck up a deal. These pictures are when I first got the car. The vinyl door edge moulding is removed and looks alot better like it did when new. The glasspacks were removed and replaced with stock mufflers. The tailpipes were shortened and now are hidden under the bumper as it did when it was new. I kept the dual exhaust but have the original Y pipe. The previous owner had Galen Govier decode it. Now almost 40 years later the car is coming along and I love it.

 

[polara71]

Thats a lot of red. The car is e-f-in gorgeous... I Love it!!:love9:

 

[1978 NYB]

Very nice!!!! So that's what a 78 is suppose to look like??? I'm jealous!!!! It must be a low mileage car. Does it have the auto leveling suspension? Looks like the Lean Burn is still hooked up.

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

No load leveling option. Stock for everything with 138,000 miles. The car has the correct cold air tube now on it and other things here and there to bring it back to mostly stock.

Very nice!!!! So that's what a 78 is suppose to look like??? I'm jealous!!!! It must be a low mileage car. Does it have the auto leveling suspension? Looks like the Lean Burn is still hooked up.

 

[1978 NYB]

My 78 NY'er has 49,000 miles on it and it doesn't look like anything close to your NY'er.

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

This car was repainted twice since new. The most recent was after the previous owner purchased it (1995 era) The seat were recovered with NOS cloth because of fading of the red color. I had two spots touched up. One under the passenger side rear quarter window and the rear edge of the trunklid. My friend Glenn Barnett helped me removing of the St Regis roof in the rust area and boy that was no fun. The evaporator leaked and was repaired. Eight vacume lines were disconnected and the correct valve covers are now on it.

My 78 NY'er has 49,000 miles on it and it doesn't look like anything close to your NY'er.

 

[commando1]

Wow!

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[Mr C]

Nice car, what happened to the colour toned mirrors?

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

When the car was repainted it appears like they removed the paint from the passenger mirror. I can see if light is just right a faint remant of the script. The drivers one looks new and I suspect the body shop could not reproduce the Chrysler script.

Nice car, what happened to the colour toned mirrors?

 

[1978 NYB]

When the car was repainted it appears like they removed the paint from the passenger mirror. I can see if light is just right a faint remant of the script. The drivers one looks new and I suspect the body shop could not reproduce the Chrysler script.

Does the door handles have a red strip on them? I can't tell from the pictures. They should, same material as the mirrors. Those are decals........probably never find them. I got a set of mirrors and door handles from a NY'er in El Paso, Texas. Wrong color decals so I stripped and polished........look like NOS now... sans decals.

 

[1978 NYB]

I have the am/fm/cb radio in my NY'er. The question I have for you is your antenna a power antenna?

 

[70NPORT]

That is one helluva story. Nice car!

 

[commando1]

After reading the story, and seeing the pictures, I could have sworn you found Chris Rhinehart's car that disappeared.
http://www.newyorkeronline.org/membercars/74-78/christopherrhinehart/1976NYB/index.htm

I would kill to know where that car is now.

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

The antenna is power but is not operational. I was given a new aftermarket one with the car. It went up once and stopped working, For now I will manually put it up and down. When we had the inner fender loose to get to the evaporator, we tried to make it work and did not. It is now electrically disconnected.

I have the am/fm/cb radio in my NY'er. The question I have for you is your antenna a power antenna?

 

[Stormer]

Pete, Wow! That car is just gorgeous.

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

Actually your friend and mine (Glenn Barnett) painted this car approx. 1985 in enamel. He was a full time body man at a shop. The third time was done by some one else approx. 1995. Glenn helped me on this car and others as a friend for 35 years. One thing left from Glenn on the car is the maroon part of the road wheels he thought of doing when he painted it.

Pete, Wow! That car is just gorgeous.

 

[1978 NYB]

The antenna is power but is not operational. I was given a new aftermarket one with the car. It went up once and stopped working, For now I will manually put it up and down. When we had the inner fender loose to get to the evaporator, we tried to make it work and did not. It is now electrically disconnected.

My antenna is broken. It doesn't have a power antenna switch which is weird and I can't understand why it doesn't.

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

To the best of my memory is this antenna goes up and down when the radio is turned on like my '79 NY'r does.

My antenna is broken. It doesn't have a power antenna switch which is weird and I can't understand why it doesn't.

 

[Stormer]

That makes it even cooler.

Oops, slow.... I meant that Glenn painted it makes it cool.

 

[1978 NYB]

To the best of my memory is this antenna goes up and down when the radio is turned on like my '79 NY'r does.

That would make sense......I'll have to show you a picture of what's left of the antenna. Right now there isn't any moving parts. That would be cool if that's the way it does works.........finding one is a different problem. I would hate to take the inner fender,brace, and the other stuff off just find a part number on the antenna if there is a part number on it.