72 New Yorker with cassette player

[TAD STIELSTRA]

Floors and trunk are pretty solid,rockers lower fenders,quarters,doors have rot

 

[RWCearley]

@TAD STIELSTRA

Are the floors and trunk floor rusted out or just exterior body panels?

As much as i would like some of the trim parts, this C body should be saved. Not sure it will ever pay for itself in terms of cost recovery at a future sale. But it shouldnt matter for us. We own them to drive them. Ive seen too many restored muscle cars stored in a garage and never driven. So the return on this investment should be the miles driven. Thats what i do with my classics and what i plan for my 71 New Yorker.

 

[TAD STIELSTRA]

As much as i would like some of the trim parts, this C body should be saved. Not sure it will ever pay for itself in terms of cost recovery at a future sale. But it shouldnt matter for us. We own them to drive them. Ive seen too many restored muscle cars stored in a garage and never driven. So the return on this investment should be the miles driven. Thats what i do with my classics and what i plan for my 71 New Yorker. View attachment 701976

Come up in the spring and buy some,your not that far away

 

[RWCearley]

Sounds like a fun trip there. Will plan on it

 

[fury fan]

I don't know what you've paid for this 72NY, nor what your life situation is.
But if it runs/drives well (or could with normal expense) and is structurally sound that looks to me like a great car to drive as-is. You won't have to worry about somethign happening to it, and if it does, you can then part it out.
Based on what you paid for it, and what you can get out of parts - consider your time, dealing with morons, trying to ship parts, etc and determine if that route is worth the grief vs the money?

 

[fury fan]

Galen Govier ...

His reports are typically where folks get the "1 of XXXX" data. You can know single options or items but you can't cross reference different options to come up with a new number (1 of XXX Hemi four speeds AND undercoating. That's were people get fouled up.

That makes sense, but I don't think that's what happens.
I think people get fouled up because GG would send them a report that their car, optioned as such, was 1 of xx in his registry.
Then those folks would say 'my car is 1 of xx built'.
I've seen that in numerous ebay listings where people made such a claim and also happened to post a legible photo of their GG letter, wherein he specifies 'his registry'.
That was in years past, though.

My question was more about the plastic trim around the back of the bucketseats. The chrome look with woodgrain inlay. See pictures. Due to UV it was become brittle and parts broke of and are gone. Where can I find them? Or how can it be reproduced? They are impossible to find







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Based on this solo picture, and your desperation, here are my ideas.
Get some type of generic push-on 'windlace-type' trim to match the U-shaped cross-section.
Get a roll of chrome stick-on trim to put on one side.
Get a roll of self-adhesive vinyl woodgrain to put on the side next to it.
It won't be correct, but it'll work until somethign better comes along.

With that said, you'll need to research dimensions, buy some to experiment with, and cross your fingers.
But such experimentation is how I identified a GM roofrail weatherstrip that was a good fit for a slabside 2dr hdtp. (@ayilar)
Back in the mid-90s, before reproductions were available, and before the internet was even useful for such stuff.