Some people import Cadillacs over there. Pretty cool. I drive a Passat here (North American B7 out of Tennessee). Drives more like an Impala but with VW's standard tuning of course so it's not a boat and it can take some curves. The European Passats are still nice though.
looks to be pretty decent 'survivor'.....owned a 72 NY Brougham 4dr ht triple blue, 55k, 4404v factory duals , mostly orig .paint, had to sell it, breaks my heart still...damn ,it was beautiful on the highway......
Folks had 71 New Yorker much like this. Post sedan. That 440 I’m not sure it had a top end, bury the needle easy and think it was 90. Last year of decent compression I think. It went and went, and went some more. I see old people driving these in my memory. Looks like you get FM not just AM. Crank windows a little surprising, but not totally in 71, but at least they work 50 years later. I couldn’t see if it had the telescopic steering wheel, did see the tilt lever. Rim blow horn? They were different and sometimes fell apart. Brings back good memories of simple farm life, and people long gone. Would be nice to revisit. M*A*S*H was always on their tv Saturday evenings. Lawrence Welk. Cannot now believe small hometown 700 people had a Chevy dealer and also a Chrysler/Plymouth Dodge dealer. Two grocery stores, two gas stations, their own school system with typical busing distance of kids. Variety store, hardware store. If squint memory, a working movie theater. Walk there to see Santa and get treats. A bowling alley, several bars, a nice bar/restaurant. Catholic, Methodist and Lutheran churches. Funeral home, the end.
Very nice car! I have a very similar one as well. Some of the specs are different here and there, and mine doesn’t look as good as this one. And it sounds awesome! Edit- I actually have a 70 New Yorker. I didn’t see the 71 in the title lol
Alexander Taylor : One way to tell if the odometer is 19,000 or 119,000 miles is look at the rubber on the brake and gas pedals. If there is plenty of rubber still on both pedals, there could actually be just 19,000 miles. Now if the rubber is about worn off of both pedals, it's either 119,000 or maybe 219,000 miles on the car; or more.
my dad had a 71 440 in the late 70's.if not on the interstate it was useless.you had to creep around the slightest curve in the road or it would lean so bad i was expecting the rocker pannels to scrape the road.even with 480 lb/ft of torque it took forever to get 5000k lbs of steel moving.got 12 mpg IF you babied it.would bottom out over slightest bumps.totally worthless on ANY road other than an interstate.was damn near impossible to fit into a curbside parking space.wouldve made a great boat anchor for a cruise ship.but worthless on any road with a bump or a curve.
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station fuel pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.:-/
unfortunately, it will never be a classic. A good example of a bloated whale, but not a classic. How it ever left the design room is beyond me unless they gave "A's" for underachievement and lack of creativity.
Of course it was big. That was the idea. When you saw a Cadillac, Lincoln, Imperial, or any other automobile of importance, you knew the owner had succeeded in this American Dream. Now today.....just pickup trucks with a welded on back end....that cost as much as the home that the owner of this beautiful 71 New Yorker probably had.😐
