I bought one of these in 1980 for $200. Before I could take it home the seller siphoned two 5 gallon gas cans out of it. It would cruise all day comfortably at 90 mph but needed to stop often for gas. Mine had two air conditioning compressors, one for the front and one for the back passengers.
How easy is it to get parts for the big 3 in Finland ? (Ford Chrysler GM) What is the most popular car being driven around in Finland I don’t think it’s an American domestic is it.?
@@TomTom-qm4mq Locally, pretty much nothing. Order inside Finland, most parts are available. And of course Rockauto, Summit etc. Shipping is expensive...
Finland has some of the better examples of these old Chrysler's left. Germany has some sweet C body cars as well. We Americans destroyed most of our share with our salty roads, bad drivers and demolition derbys.
I was born in 1966. My Dad got rid of his 1957 Caddy Coupe deVille and bought a family car....a 1966 NewYorker 4 door hardtop. Our Mopar family had begun! When my sister was born 2 years later he gave that one to his mother and bought a 1969 Town and Country wagon with the rear facing seat. That one turned out to be a real lemon , so he got the 66 back and we used that until his next new car, a 1981 Newport sedan with a slant six(!) That one got hit and the body shop said to get rid of it because it had hidden terrible rot. It's replacement ? A 1979 LeBaron 360 coupe! After that was a steady diet of Neons and Avengers. My first car (still have it 40 years later) was a 1969 Roadrunner. First new car was a Omni GLH Turbo....have that one too. And my 1973 Imperial coupe....the 83 Cordoba, the pair of 300M's...etc
Thanks Steve. Fond memories. My father had this same 73' car in green. You could fold down the rear seats, put 4' x 8' sheets of plywood in the back, then close the gate. A real boat.
My uncle had a 1979 LTD wagon and when we redid the paneling in our house in the early 1980s, that was the car that went to the lumber yard to haul it back to the house. It was my uncle's wagon though, he only lived (and still does) six blocks or so away. Our phone numbers were the same except the first two digits of the last four of the numbers were reversed. This lead to many missed called to both houses. As kids, we'd answer the phone and say, "No you want my uncle. The number is.....". Of course the answer was "wrong number" when asked who it was. LOL.
My Dad owned 2 of these a 72 & a 73 rode in the very back of it as a child watching Semis coming up close to us, was definitely a memory I'll never forget!
We had a Malibu wagon. I kept throwing my little brothers shoes out the back window. Next stop my dad had to buy shoes. After 3 times he didn't put the window down anymore.
My dad bought a new 1970 Plymouth Sport Suburban wagon and what a bomb it was!! Fake wood paneling on the sides, chrome roof rack, 2 way rear door, backward facing 3rd bench in the back and a glorious 383 ci Magnum under the huge hood. Even at 14 I knew this car was a fantastic vehicle, with all the power you needed. 👍🇨🇦
A family friend of my parents had a Chevy Impala wagon of the same vintage when I was in elementary school. The thing was ginormous, with the third row seat in the back. We used to walk to school, but on rainy days all of the neighborhood kids would pile into this thing. In the days before overbearing safety consciousness set in, we probably got more than a dozen 8 to 12 year olds in that car fairly comfortably and without seat belts. Try that nowadays.
Those were the days! Yep, I remember piling in way more kids than the cars were suppose to hold! Of course, now a lot more people on the road with more chances for accident and the like. (You must be from Steve and my area since you mention "walking to school.") You don't hear of that happening much anymore!
I spent many miles of my childhood riding around in my parents 1972 Chevy Brookwood wagon. I had to chuckle a little when Steve said wagons of that era were used to haul kids to soccer practice. In my area, we didn't know what soccer was until the late 1980s, we played baseball back then!
@@MikeBrown-ii3pt we had the big Chryslers back from this era but never a station wagon. Coming from a big family, not sure why we didn't get a wagon. Probably because you could get away with a couple kids on your lap!
I may be mistaken, but that position on the build tag that displays “A16” is the production date. October 16, 1972. 1 - 9 = January through September. A - C = October through December.
My all time favorite car my family had when I was a kid was a 1971 Ford Country Squire, green inside and out with the faux wood paneling on the sides. Why? Because of the fold up rumble seats in the back. The cargo area was perfectly flat and huge, but it had these seats that folded up and faced each other and you would sit down in the floor a bit. We always made faces at the cars behind us on the freeway. She smoked like an old Ford too. What a great car.
I found this episode very interesting as I first thought, "a wagon...boring." But you proved me wrong again, Steve! Thanks for not passing this car by.
My Dad bought a 1971 Plymouth Fury wagon new, Loved it, I have 6 brothers, drove it till it was dead, Got my D/L in it, I had it up on 2 wheels going around a shape curve once.
I had a 1971 T&C with the 440 and 323 posi rear. It was loaded - power steering, power brakes, power windows, power door locks, power antenna, cruise control, am / 8 Track, (changed to am / fm 8 Track), 60/40 power seats (driver & passenger) air conditioning, power rear window washer, roof rack (added step bumper and rear side grips from a ‘70 T&C), tilt/ telescopic with rim blow, wood grain (car was green). I still have a factory radio with the cassette tape player that I was going to add (was planning on converting to an Imperial dash with full instrumentation); the Imperial had the am/fm option. I was also going to convert to dual exhaust (from a 70 T&C donor with a 383 (4 bbl). This, in my mind, would have been one of the ultimate optioned cars in its day (~1976). I really miss this car!!!
My second new car was a 73 Dodge Polara station wagon… my kids called it the brown bomber… it had a 440 V8… I once got a speeding ticket with my foot off the gas pedal… 36 in a 25… we had the 3rd row seat facing the back that the fought over… I really loved that car!
My parents had a blue model with wood trim, 440 4bbl. We used to pull a trailer up I95 with it every summer. I had to use this to pass my driver's test. Definitely a land yacht. The wagon before this was a 1969 Polara Wagon with a 383 4bbl, dual exhaust. Remember as a kid loving the sound from the back seat as my dad floored it to get onto the interstates in South Flroida.
Great video Steve and Shane! I'm 57 and I remember oh so well, sitting in the "way back" in that rear facing third row. Those are great memories. My dad always had Buicks and Chevrolet station wagons and we took many, many road trips and a family. Very fond memories!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!! Keep these videos coming! Always brings back my, and I'm sure many of yall's memories of days gone by!!
They tended to rot out in less than 10 up there. We sold a 72 Chrysler out of VA in 1983 in Upstate NY. The guy who bought it was replacing his 71 Imperial due to rust.
So cool! My Dad bought a brand new Plymouth Fury wagon in 1974. 360 4 barrel with the rear facing back seat. Yes you nailed it, my brother and I would make faces at people following us! 😄
My brother and I spent a lot of miles riding in the "way back" of our '73 Fury III in S. Texas in the 70s. Hot summer days, my folks and 4 sisters up front in the air conditioned zone, sun beating in, staring backwards from the tailgunners position sipping exhaust from the tiny gaps in the tailgate weatherseal. Good times. If we got sick(we always got sick) my Dad would lift the hammer and ease onto the shoulder doing about 40, lower the rear window and remind us to lean out far enough to "keep it off the paint". I hate wagons
We had a T&C in 76. Mom n dad traded our Torino for it. We folded both back seats down and slid around from side to side n front to back. IDK who had more fun, us 4 kids or dad at the wheel quick turns, brakes n gas! Fun times!!
Hey Steve, "A16" next to the VON isn't Fury III, that would be in the upper row of the tag. A16 in this case denotes October 16 scheduled production date.
Growing up, we first had a 1962 Newport wagon with the 361, bought from my father's boss. Years later, we got the boss's 1970 Town and Country Wagon, beige, with the 3 row seating and a 383. Yes, I flipped the air cleaner lid at 14 years old.
Thanks Steve! We had a giant Fury wagon and remember Dad being able to take half the neighborhood with us anywhere we wanted to go, and being able to load it full of building supplies-they were fantastic cars!
We had a fairly new at the time 1986 Caprice wagon and ALL of grandma's 8 grandchildren fought for the seats in the "back back" because we sat backwards. The car was the ugliest brown and was bought from Avis rental.
One of the great demolition Derby cars, we had the 59 brockwood station wagon, 69 monoco wagon (383 Magnum), and a Pontiac Grand Safari with a 400 and posi with wood-grain sides in 78,
Station wagons have a special place in my heart. My parents bought new a 1971 Plymouth nine passenger wagon with the 440 and the Tor Red paint. What a machine. And in fact we kids in the rear-facing rear seat did thumb our noses at cars we passed.
My grandmother abandoned her 73 New Yorker 2 door hardtop on the farm. Had wiring issues and was missing parts when I got it. Never got it running good enough to put it on the road but had fun working on it. The 72 grills were so much nicer. If it was a 72 I might have kept working on it.
I was just looking at another channel where Scott from Cold War motors was searching for a tail gunner set of rear seats for town and Country wagon. They should have been called Town in the country...As big as small town out in the country.
My parents had a 72 Olds Vista Cruiser with the 3rd seat. My sister and I were fighting in the back seat and my mom stopped the car to “adjust our attitude “ so we jumped in the 3rd seat. After that the seat was gone. My dad said he took it out but I found out it was just folded down into the floor! Lol. Memories.
My grandparents bought a brand new 1969 Plymouth Fury Suburban Wagon, we inherited the car and it kept going until the early 90's when my parents sold it. It had the 383 v8 and I remember the distinct sound of the "Hamtramck Hummingbird" starter.
The sheer size of that wagon is amazing to see with 2022 eyes, but many of the families in our neighborhood had them back then. A friend posted a church pictorial directory from about the time this car was sold and what was really striking was that most of my friends grew up in families of 3, 4, 5 or even 6 kids. A nine-passenger car was really needed in 1973.
I like to have one of those Big C-Body Mopar Wagons, to match my '72 Plymouth Fury III!!! I remember as a kid in the '70s, a childhood friend invited me to go to the Jersey Shore, his Mom and Dad had a '71 Chrysler Town and Country Wagon, she was Beautiful, Sea Foam Turquoise with simulated wood on the sides, big 440, road wheels!!! DAMMIT, it was a fast wagon to be so huge!!! I gotta find one, Mopar Nate Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Now that wagon's a prime candidate for Cummins diesel swap! It's big it's Stout it's a Chrysler. Back in the day that's what we thought it ought to be heard of engine bay vacated. I would have taken the transmission the yolk from the drive shaft and the front seat! Sure I like station wagons more nowadays. It's amazing how things have changed. So your reference book would that be tied into Google GP? Last but not least. I have one Town and country wagon setting in a garage mothballed I'm not even taking it out and probably 6 years. The license office always said van I said no station wagon car! Also mine is a far cry from that car. Mine's a little Baron style front wheel drive 4 cylinder. People thought I was nuts and I bought it off the little lady who bought it new with a matching convertible and wood grain sides on it. She is sold the convertible before I got into it. Heck I've had that car for a very long time. Can they say car seats? You know for little babies and toddlers. Man how time flies. The car's got something like 90,000 original miles on it maybe less. It's still one of my favorites. Thanks again for showing us the history. I'm sure Google GP can decode all of that. That sure is nice for him to do all that work. Look forward to you next
I had a 71 with 440 TNT, I fit an entire single mattress in the back with blacked out windows and bumper sticker that said, Dont laugh, your daughter is in here. The 80s were great. The 440 ended up in a 73 charger.
Fascinating reviews, even for an Aussie. We were driven around in Holden Kingswoods or Corona wagons, in the day. 5 of us on holiday in a Toyota Corona, took some planning, roofracks. Both made inOz.
Shaggin wagon. 😁 My family had a 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon. You could barely hear the engine running and the thing felt like it was floating on air going down the freeway. The AC literally frosted the windows over it was so cold. That was our "PC Express" since we used it to go to Panama City Beach from Alabama so many times. My mother finally traded it in for a 2 door Cutlass.
The "A6" log compressor (back in 1973 it was the Frigidaire division of GM, after 1979 it was Delco Air) was only rivaled by the "RV" series Chrysler AC compressor. You could hang meat in either vehicle after it got going.
@@googleusergp Yes, you are correct, the A6 Frigidare compressor is a thing of beauty when it comes to turning your classic GM product into a meat locker during the hottest summer days. The unit in my 1969 Buick Skylark has been converted to 134 and it still does an amazing job of cooling. But the A6 requires occasional use during the winter months in order to keep the moisture blown out of the system. Neglecting to do this will result in water freezing in the system during summer use and blocking freon from circulating, then only warm air blows out the AC vents. A few minutes use weekly during winter months will keep the system moisture free, and cold in the summer.
@@customkey That's correct. They are also known for seal leaks, but they are easy repaired. Jaguar and Rolls used them as well (along with GM automatics).
