Junkyard Find: 1984 Chrysler New Yorker
The New Yorker provides us with a nice history of Chrysler’s postwar luxury ambitions, and examples demonstrating various facets of this history are plentiful in self-service wrecking yards. We’ve seen this ’53, this ’64, this ’82, this ’85, this ’89, this ’90, and this ’92 so far, and today were adding another K-car-based New Yorker to the collection.
Sure, it’s a K-car (actually, it’s an E-car, which was an extended-wheelbase K), but that doesn’t mean that Lee Iacocca scrimped on the glitz!
Check it out, genuine Wire-Like™ wheels!
Cushy leather seats, naturally.
Futuristic “Message Center.”
Even more futuristic computer.
Opera lights.
Padded landau roof.
Detailed by a garbage truck.
You’ll sit in the lap of luxury.
Power in this one came courtesy of the Mitsubishi Astron 2.6 liter four-cylinder engine, the same family of engines that powered the Starion and Raider.
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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I never understood this generation of Chrysler interior design. Everyone else was doing things a bit better, more streamlined, tasteful by then. Chrysler was stuck in some gauche, terribly baroque, button-tuft mood for too long. It's all cobbled together so badly.
If i was forced to buy one of these fancy K-cars it would be with the Chrysler built 2.5 not the horrid Mitsu 2.6.