The New Yorker

[snooper2]

Was a piece of shit...


What a fucking lug of an automobile...It was slow, got like 11mpg, and handled like a whore on downers :rofl:





In fact, I would rather drive a POS ford granada, and that saying something :)






GOBAMA!

[JuniperLea]

1. I drove a New Yorker for a while...

I never drove another Chrysler and I never bought another black vehicle. It looked awesome if I washed it carefully every few days (black vehicles are sweet looking when clean, but show every speck of dust... and if you rub on them too much or too hard, you get swirl marks)... but was a piece of crap!

[1Hippiechick]

2. LOL - Ya got me! And I was ready to post about beating a dead horse....LOL n/t

[Youphemism]

3. My dad's '70 New Yorker purred at 90 MPH...

...of course, it tended to bog down and lose traction in the swamps, but I never complained to him about that.

Working on it was a nightmare. It was one of those cars that makes you remove the steering column to change a tire, or pull the air conditioner to replace the light in the glove compartment.

I remember laying on the cold driveway, with greasy, scored-up knuckles, doing the biennial starter replacement getting consoled by Dear Old Dad with comments like, "Look at all this great experience you're getting! You should be paying me to learn this stuff!"

[snooper2]

4. I had a 82' for a while...

like 4 months between cars..

It had the 318 in it and was a dog...I think whoever had it before kept chickens in it or something :)

[Youphemism]

5. The 318 was very peppy in my old '71 Dodge Dart Swinger...

I liked that name... I always thought a car's name should say something about the way you drive it.

That was a much lighter vehicle than the New Yorker. No wonder yours was a dog.

The '70 New Yorker had a 440 engine (350 horsepower) in it. No problem getting out of its own way. They also made a "magnum" version, with higher compression and 375 horsepower. I never drove one of those. Obviously overkill, but *fun* overkill.

Let's at least put something from the Presidential campaign in here, to give ourselves a semblance of legitimacy: