For Sale Hey Catnip....

[300rag]

78 New Yorker $5000 CDN/ $$3600 USD



http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/calgary/1978-chrysler-new-yorker/1105583018?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

Up for grabs is a superb 1978 Chrysler New Yorker, for sale by second owner. 440 CiD Engine. Automatic 727 Transmission. Excellent blue plush interior, with color matching hard top. Power windows and A/C. A great addition to your collection. Vehicle located in the High River area for you to check out

 

[commando1]

Nah......
4 door and in Canada. He ain't biting on this bait.

 

[1978 NYB]

It is in pretty good shape!

 

[cantflip]

78 New Yorker $5000 CDN/ $$3600 USD

I thank you deeply for thinking of me. I have a couple irons in the fire right now, but you never know... and at a price like that it would be hard not to love. I am really fixated on leather... but that one could get me thinking.

I hope to know more next week about other cars. And then ... who knows.

 

[cantflip]

Nah......
4 door and in Canada. He ain't biting on this bait.

4 door is just fine... no Crown/St Regis roof... and leather... miss that leather...

 

[1978 NYB]

I thank you deeply for thinking of me. I have a couple irons in the fire right now, but you never know... and at a price like that it would be hard not to love. I am really fixated on leather... but that one could get me thinking.

I hope to know more next week about other cars. And then ... who knows.

4 door is just fine... no Crown/St Regis roof... and leather... miss that leather...

Leather is nice...

Just keep in mind to inspect the leather very closely in Formal's. Sun and heat has not been very kind to that Corinthian leather over 40 years. It'll cost $4000 plus to have them redone if you can find anyone that will take on that complex leather application. And there isn't any "perfect" leather donor cars anywhere anymore. Believe me....I've been looking. I've been lucky to find a set of leather seats from another FCBO member that came out of a rusted out NYB from the Midwest in 1980's and was stored indoors since then.

 

[1978 NYB]

Almost forgot....that goes for door panels and the dash pad too. No one is repopping these for Formal's.

T&T steering wheels are hard to find without massive cracks. My original steering wheel was so bad that it took a chunk of flesh out of my hand when I let the steering wheel come back to center after making a turn. You can have yours recast it'll cost about $1500. If you buy a red Formal....Stan and I know someone that is holding a NOS steering wheel hostage for $1200-$1500.

 

[cantflip]

Leather is nice...

Just keep in mind to inspect the leather very closely in Formal's. Sun and heat has not been very kind to that Corinthian leather over 40 years. It'll cost $4000 plus to have them redone if you can find anyone that will take on that complex leather application. And there isn't any "perfect" leather donor cars anywhere anymore. Believe me....I've been looking. I've been lucky to find a set of leather seats from another FCBO member that came out of a rusted out NYB from the Midwest in 1980's and was stored indoors since then.

Thank you, I might have to prove this to myself the hard way... that seems to be my best teacher. It must be nice to be smart enough to follow the advice of others who are wiser and more experienced. I sometimes can, but often just have to suffer the pain myself first.

 

[cantflip]

Almost forgot....that goes for door panels and the dash pad too. No one is repopping these for Formal's.

T&T steering wheels are hard to find without massive cracks. My original steering wheel was so bad that it took a chunk of flesh out of my hand when I let the steering wheel come back to center after making a turn. You can have yours recast it'll cost about $1500. If you buy a red Formal....Stan and I know someone that is holding a NOS steering wheel hostage for $1200-$1500.

I may trip over a parts source along the way. If I do would you gentlemen mind helping me compile a list of good items to strip? I would naturally want everything but will in reality wind up with what I have room to carry...

 

[1978 NYB]

I went out on a limb several years ago....

A FCBO member (MR C. I believe) pointed me towards a blue 1977 Dodge Charger Daytona that a tree fell on in Pennsylvania. I checked out the parts book and it said that the Charger steering wheel won't fit on a Formal T&T steering column. I called the Charger owner and the steering wheel was a perfect factory leather wrapped steering wheel. We came to an agreement and I got the steering wheel. The steering column shaft was the same. I had to mount the steering wheel on a lathe and cut a half inch of the hub. I now have a one of none 1978 NYB with a blue T&T leather wrapped steering wheel.

 

[commando1]

Stan and I know someone that is holding a NOS steering wheel hostage for $1200-$1500

But why pay retail when I can get you one wholesale...

 

[1978 NYB]

 

[1978 NYB]

 

[1978 NYB]

 

[commando1]

Bob is mighty proud of that wheel.

 

[1978 NYB]

I may trip over a parts source along the way. If I do would you gentlemen mind helping me compile a list of good items to strip? I would naturally want everything but will in reality wind up with what I have room to carry...

No problem.....just don't publish the source unless it's in a PM. A lot of lurkers on this site.

 

[1978 NYB]

Bob is mighty proud of that wheel.

Heck yeah! LOL!

If you remember.... I went in to that steering wheel mod completely blind. We had no idea if it would work....most said it had a different size and spline steering shaft (which wasn't true). It was just inspection and trial and error on that machine lathe and cutting off half an inch off the hub. You wouldn't believe how tickled I was when that steering wheel finally seated and I knew it was going to work....LOL!!!

 

[cantflip]

Heck yeah! LOL!

If you remember.... I went in to that steering wheel mod completely blind. We had no idea if it would work....most said it had a different size and spline steering shaft (which wasn't true). It was just inspection and trial and error on that machine lathe and cutting off half an inch off the hub. You wouldn't believe how tickled I was when that steering wheel finally seated and I knew it was going to work....LOL!!!

That's often the best way... I have worked with too many factory engineers trying to figure out a problem they created and some of the solutions are wildly stupid.

Sometime in the early 2000s they decided the elec. cooling fan that kept blowing fuses was getting unnecessary replacements. The first bulletin advised to change from 30 to 40 fuse. Within 48 hours the next bulletin advise to NEVER REPLACE A FUSE WITH A LARGER FUSE. A couple months later the patch harness with bigger wiring was released for the final repair. Dear old Chrysler went through something like 7 different fuel tank designs on 96 MV before they made one that was strong enough to not try to suck shut. These were after production started... who knows before that.

Those are just a couple favorites I lived with, I had an engineer defend the story about me getting paid to remove air bag components and let them bake in the sun on the dash of the factory mans car to see if he could "trial and error" a diagnosis... neither one of them understood I could use a heat gun or my "choke tester" to do the same thing faster and installed. Terminal fretting was the ultimate cause of that one... the recall eliminated the connector by cutting and soldering the wires together. So much for a service disconnect point.

You have made a thing of beauty in that wheel... someday, maybe I can steal your patent?

 

[1978 NYB]

No problem.....

You just need to go from this....

 

[1978 NYB]

To this.....