Sell or Restore 1960 New Yorker 4DR Sedan?

[cm23uoc]

Packard V8 I guess.

 

[has2bmopar]

Packard V8 I guess.

Bingo, that black '55 Nash would outrun many other cars of it's day, and led to Dad driving 3 '55-'56 Packards through the '60s until he bought the '60 Fury 9 passenger wagon with the 395 Golden Commando, which was the first link in a long chain of many cool full size 60s Mopars that he owned through the years.

 

[polara71]

Lmfao. 10 X 150?

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Thats what I was thinking, I wasnt even thinking of a bunker. He's in the right part of the country

 

[polara71]

Has2be, your story is an interesting one. Look at the heritage.......

 

[commando1]

Bingo, that black '55 Nash would outrun many other cars of it's day.

 

[bluefury361]

Packard V8 I guess.

1st year for the Packard V8 OHV. It was a 320 CID engine used in the 55 Packard Clippers, 56 Studebaker Golden Hawk and of course the Nash. The larger 352 CID engine was used in the senior series Packards.

In 56 the Caribbean's engine size was increased to 374 CID.

The grand plan was for Hudson & Nash to merge and for Packard to buy Studebaker..... Then combine all to form AMC.
The fly in the soup was a jerk named George Rommey who became president of Nash-Hudson and decided to go ahead and form the AMC corp with out Studebaker-Packard.
This, plus the discovery that the Studebaker corp had fudged their finances at the time of their sale to Packard and was almost broke, was a death blow to the newly formed Studebaker Packard corp and they ceased production of Packard automobiles in Dec of 1955. Studebakers, (Some with the Packard name), continued production in South Bend Ind until Dec 1964. Larks were still produced in Onterio Canada for a short time using Chevrolet engines.

 

[commando1]

I tripped across the following and it seemed appropriate to post it here and compare it to Christian's New Yorker.

1960 DeSoto FireFlight Sweet Mopar Fins & Pushbutton Automatic Trans - $1150 (Mason City, IA)

http://desmoines.craigslist.org/cto/3551539547.html

 

[commando1]

 

[bluefury361]

The Chrysler is not only prettier..... but in a LOT better shape.

 

[has2bmopar]

That is just the entrance to an elevator that goes to a 50'x100' underground storage bunker.... :eusa_shifty:

Thats what I was thinking, I wasnt even thinking of a bunker. He's in the right part of the country

The shifty smiley was your que to throw the BS flag.

I have to sell some vehicles before a building can become a reality here.

 

[Stormer]

I have to sell some vehicles before a building can become a reality here.

Oh yea, what you gonna sell?

 

[has2bmopar]

The door locks are a rare option and pretty neat, Is the switch dash mounted..?
I would be interested in seeing the fender tag on your car. I'm trying to determine what codes indicate specific options. There is no established "code book" for the forward look 56-61 mopars so networking might be the only way to determine the tag codes.

Looks like you need to expand the storage situation.
Will.

Less vehicles and more building has been on my agenda for some time now. I just have a few left to part out then I will go to sell mode, my last head count was 57... there was about 200 here at one point.

Here are the last 2 years of the New Yorker having fins

 

[1978 NYB]

So cool!!!!

 

[has2bmopar]

Oh yea, what you gonna sell?

Couple drivers, but mostly projects...
'68 Ford Ranger F100
'56 Lincoln Premiere
'68 Rambler American 2dr post
'66 Fury II 4dr sdn Q1
'83 Cordoba
'72 Charger SE X9
'72 Charger SE Brougham X9
'67 Satellite 383 W1
'67 Satellite W1
'67 Belvedere II 4dr pts car
'67 300 2drht W1
'68 300 conv X9
'69 New Yorker 4drht F8
'69 Charger SE 383 F6
'69 Charger R/T #s matching F6
'69 Road Runner 999/96 code Bahama Yellow ht
'83 CJ7.....etc

 

[Stormer]

Belvedere II is my favorite B body. You can get em pretty cheap too.

 

[monaco75]

Has2be,

Do you still have a '73 chrysler you were parting out? I believe you briefly mentioned it when I first joined a while back.

 

[has2bmopar]

Has2be,

Do you still have a '73 chrysler you were parting out? I believe you briefly mentioned it when I first joined a while back.

No, but I did get your message and the bumper guard pads were either missing or damaged, the steel header was smacked pretty hard at one point, and the grille was damaged at the top corner. I thought the tail lights might have been worth sending to you until I took a close look at them and the chrome was pitted throughout. Both bumpers themselves were pretty nice, but it would have cost more than they were worth to ship them. I would guess that you are about 1800 miles from here.

 

[polara71]

I'm still upset at your letting go of your 71 polara wagon

 

[commando1]

Couple drivers, but mostly projects...
'68 Ford Ranger F100
'56 Lincoln Premiere
'68 Rambler American 2dr post
'66 Fury II 4dr sdn Q1
'83 Cordoba
'72 Charger SE X9
'72 Charger SE Brougham X9
'67 Satellite 383 W1
'67 Satellite W1
'67 Belvedere II 4dr pts car
'67 300 2drht W1
'68 300 conv X9
'69 New Yorker 4drht F8
'69 Charger SE 383 F6
'69 Charger R/T #s matching F6
'69 Road Runner 999/96 code Bahama Yellow ht
'83 CJ7.....etc

Any runners or are they all parts cars?

 

[70NPORT]

Less vehicles and more building has been on my agenda for some time now. I just have a few left to part out then I will go to sell mode, my last head count was 57... there was about 200 here at one point.

Here are the last 2 years of the New Yorker having fins


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Oh my......