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Old Man with a Hat
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Greasy thumbs up. Mine look the same in Office most of the time. 
New to me 78 NYB, in the driveway, because of my wife.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist the title parity... basically because it's true, and the irony of being a yet another 78 NYB Salon.
You see, I had my wife join a C-body FB website because I'm not a FB'er, probably because I had something to sell, or whatever. So one night she's scrolling through her feed and says "ohhh, look at this car... can we go see it?" So I said "Are you nuts? We need another car like a hole in the head!"
The truth was, I'd seen the car on CL, I think somebody even posted it here. It was fairly local... a rural area about 60 miles north of us. Yes it intrigued me, but I ignored it because I was trying to concentrate of getting rid of cars, not adding to the fleet. But when your own wife turns toward you in bed one night and holds up a picture of a sexy C-body, what can you do? She really does like to help me work on cars, and has better mechanical ability than most men I know (which sadly isn't a high bar circa 2018). Her dad was of the mindset to hand down his old luxury cars on the idea "bigger is safer" I suppose. So her first car was a Lincoln Town Car, and she seems to measure everything against that. Thank God it wasn't some shitbox ricemobile. She drives the wheels off that T-top Magnum. She loves to watch people freak out when she drives the Mexican Ramcharger and has taught our daughter to imitate its insanely loud exhaust. She's also a great mom, a great cook and is a pretty as a '66 300, '69 Imperial and '78 NYB rolled into one... with a dash of '77 Cordoba.
So I agreed to call the owner, hoping he'd be some kind of jerky-nutcase, but he actually seemed pretty cool. Damn.
I set a time to go see it, even met my dad for breakfast and handed-off our daughter since a 3 y/o isn't helpful when examining a 40 y/o car. The owner called during breakfast and said he couldn't get the car to start. That story is here:
Learn from my Chrysler Electronic Ignition System troubleshooting
Of course I knew that could work in our favor regarding price. The car was parked on dirt, under a bunch of pine trees.
The good news, I suppose, was that it hadn't been there long. What I DID notice was this car had no rust, touched-up original paint and everything seemed to defy the idea of 106k miles. The windows and lock function like new. The 8 track works (albeit distorted). The tape stripes are original, as evidenced by the die-cut ends, rather than overlapped edges.
It will need paint and some other forms of TLC, but you guys tell me if this looks like a hi-miles car?
Another post with more pics to follow...
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.... congratulations! It’s an awesome find!
Interesting that I just bought the rear window plug to make mine more of a Salon as I get ready to replace the vinyl top.
Great minds......
Javier
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Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
Oh? I thought yours WAS a Salon? Oops.
Nope... he has the wrong, but perfect, steering wheel...
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Doesn't matter. It still will be worth 25-hundred dollars.
I don’t know about the rest of this forum... but I want to see more pictures!!!
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