@@ObsoleteAutomotive And good handlers for their size/era! With the torsion bar, leaf spring setup, those C bodies were substantially firmer and tighter than their GM or Ford full sized counterparts!
Thanks for taking us along. My parents had '70 Newport that my grandparents bought brand new. It had the 383 2 barrel. It was brown with an ivory roof. Enjoy your channel!
My Dad bought a brand new 69 Chrysler Newport Custom 4 door sedan. It was the EXACT same colors as yours. That was such a nice car. 383 2 barrel with 2.76 gears. In drive, it would shift into second gear at 55, into third gear at 90 when floored. What a great car it was. You get in on the Interstate, look out. You could just float at 80-90 mph all day. Too bad, Nixon changed the law to 55. We had just got the Interstate, just up to our town. Otherwise, the whole I-29 was not finished until 1981.
These cars and many from this era and before were reliable transportation including long road trips . I grew up as 8 year old in 1971 and spent many hours in a 71 Chrysler very similar to this one . From 71 to 79 lots of time on the nation's highways . We took several vacations from our home in Maryland to Florida and back . On one trip a guy in a 72 Chevrolet C10 rear ended us on Interstate 70 around Fredrick , MD . The Chevrolet pickup thanks to the higher rear bumper on the Chrysler sustained more damage than our car . I have pictures of the very mild damage from the accident . 71 Chrysler still had points no electronic spark control and it never gave us any issues .
Thank you for reminding me how much I LOVE the sound of a TorqueFlite accelerating from parking lot speeds. It's just as sacred to me as the reduction gear starter.
Like driving a motorized lazy boy down the highway . Can’t beat the ride and they had good power to . I had a 70 Chrysler Newport when I was 18 back in 80 . It was a two door bronze with a black vinyl top and black interior and it was loaded . And in great shape . Had the 383 -4b carb . Great running car and man when I went out of town it was such a smooth cruise . Had a really nice set of rims on it as well . Those were the days .
My two older brothers shared a car. It was a 1973 Chrysler Newport Custom coupe with the road wheels and a 400 CI engine with a two barrel carburetor. That car would positively scoot! It had been my Grandparents car.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive it was sort of light buttercream yellow with a black top. It had black interior with the high back seats. If I ever found a 1973 coupe in fairly good shape, it would be hard not to make that purchase.
@@tkewrestler2662 I can picture the car exactly. The ‘73s are the least favored of the ‘69-‘73 Fuselage Chryslers so the price point is usually much lower. You can probably find one reasonable!
COOL . My dad taught me to close the hood in the centre - not the corners , and you scratch the paint everytime you put metal on metal under the hood , super nice car , stop slamming hood n doors ! - and would sure like pics of car on this trip once in awhile ????? low milage Or someone sure took care of it *
Wow my parents bought the same exact car for my mom. It was the biggest lemon.. She went out and bought a Fleetwood 62 series. They gave it to me after I totaled my first car out. That Chrysler went thru at lest 11 batteries 8 alternators 10 starters my Chrysler was a New Yorker Brougham, with every option….it was an electrical nightmare! Lol Man I was so happy when they bought me a 1975 Chevy Caprice Classic 2 door coupe…. Good luck with you Chrysler your so lucky that you don’t have power windows! Mine went down and wouldn’t come up. Faulty plastic window switches……That car was hard to Kill I put over 200k miles on it. Many accidents but the Chrysler took them like a champ. It was indestructible…..Lol air conditioning never worked from the dealership….Omg the memories!
That's crazy...that headliner is the same color and material as in my '73 Valiant. Sure is an original car...I saw a 1573 on a heater hose...Wednesday June 6, 1973.
OMG...you do not have the belt numbers facing the right way...this dooms you to break down in NJ ...wow, you took the route my parents would have taken, so you are BLESSED!
A bridge I used to go over between NAF Atsugi and Camp Zama Japan in my 1975 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham de Elegance had exactly 2 inches of clearance back in the early 90s. I miss that car.
Great trip. A lap belt is only protection for the lower body, you really need to buckle the shoulder belt for the best protection if something did happen.
The shoulder belts are absolutely awful before the self tensioner. If you set the belt correctly you can't even reach any of the controls. I tried them once in a friends 68 Polara a long time ago.
@@JrGoonior As a 16 year old in the mid 70s I was very happy to have my grandfather's hand me down 1970 Buick Electra to drive. One night after a week or so of seeing "Fasten Seat Belts" printed above the steering column I buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts mainly out of teenage curiosity. Yes, the shoulder belt with a fists width of space between it and my chest was awkward and confining and I kept messing with it trying to get it adjusted. I did have to lean into the belt to reach the radio, the ashtray and lighter, but after driving around that night, I found that it snugly held me in the seat when I was taking curves a bit too fast and driving a bit too "spirited". After a couple of times buckling up I became accustomed to wearing the shoulder belt and actually found that I had a better feeling of how the car drove and handled when strapped in. The obvious safety aspect and an enhanced driving experience was a no-brainer to wear both belts. I can see how a one time user would probably not wear it again, but I started wearing the belts every time I drove. By 17 my usual habit was to get in the car, turn the ignition, push in the lighter, buckle up both belts, light a cigarette and drive off. Fast forward to 1983 and coming home one weekend from college. A drunk driver in a Chevrolet Suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size of the Electra and the fact that I was wearing both the lap and shoulder belts, I walked away with only minor cuts, scrapes and bruising from the belts along with being slightly dazed, not to mention being extremely sore from the jolt of a head on collision. The drunk driver surprisingly was wearing a three -point seat belt, but had the shoulder belt under his left arm- basically a three-point lap belt- had massive head and chest injuries from impacting the steering wheel. His unbelted passenger was ejected through the windshield and landed on the mangled hood of the Suburban. He did not survive. At the time of the accident I was 21 years old and only about four miles from home. That is why I told the driver of the 1973 Chrysler that he and his passenger needed to wear their shoulder belts. Yes, those shoulder belts are a bit confining when properly adjusted, but I am living proof of their effectiveness. And that is the whole point of buckling up.
They're at the end you were filling up at Sunoco and I noticed you put 87 octane which is surprising that you run the cheap gas in that I used to have a 71 Plymouth scamp with the slant 6 and I ram premium unleaded in it because in 71 the octane was much higher regular was 91 octane back then so when you try to put 87 in a car it's way below regular octane for back in the day it doesn't run that good so I would suggest running the premium with the lead substitute if you haven't had the valves switched over to the kind that can take the unleaded fuel it helps?
The 1973 model Chryslers were designed to run off unleaded or leaded fuel. I don’t use any lead substitutes in my vehicles. And unless you drive at high rpm for long periods of time or have a performance engine, hardened valve seats usually aren’t necessary. And at 36,000 miles the car has plenty of life left! This car operates fine using regular gas. No spark knock or other issues.
57:00 The McCormick farm is where Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper. The business grew into International Harvester. I've been down that stretch of I-81 many times, and the farm is a great stop to chill for a few minutes.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive I highly recommend it. Before the world went nuts two years ago, they had some great historical displays inside. I hope that they're open again.
The Ohio and West Virginia and Pennsylvania are definitely the rust after spending 30 years in hickory North Carolina map to Morgantown West Virginia about a year and a half ago I couldn't believe how cars rust out here
One more thing when it comes time to buy tires for that you really need to put some white walls on it older cars do not look good with black wall tires they weren't made to have black walls and they look terrible with black walls hankook sells White Walls maximum load reasonably priced they're not like high priced like Coker or also a toyo they sell them too they used to the Toyota eclipse not sure if they still do I had them on my Lincoln and their White Walls also they just would look a lot better all right buddy the car is beautiful just the Black Walls don't look right on the older car but I love the video keep up the cool videos I enjoyed it I just need to get me a classic car now again LOL
The video has been edited significantly to reduce the length. However, to keep the trip cohesive it needed to be this long, and I also will use this video for myself to look at the trip again. But there are chapters in the description and on the timeline/playback bar in the video that can be used to skip to certain parts or move ahead and back if desired.
Fuselage Mopars are my favorite American vehicles. I salute you for driving and enjoying this beast the way it's meant to be!
They are some of the best roadtrip cars out there. Very comfortable.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive And good handlers for their size/era! With the torsion bar, leaf spring setup, those C bodies were substantially firmer and tighter than their GM or Ford full sized counterparts!
Thanks for taking us along. My parents had '70 Newport that my grandparents bought brand new. It had the 383 2 barrel. It was brown with an ivory roof. Enjoy your channel!
My Dad bought a brand new 69 Chrysler Newport Custom 4 door sedan. It was the EXACT same colors as yours. That was such a nice car. 383 2 barrel with 2.76 gears. In drive, it would shift into second gear at 55, into third gear at 90 when floored. What a great car it was. You get in on the Interstate, look out. You could just float at 80-90 mph all day. Too bad, Nixon changed the law to 55. We had just got the Interstate, just up to our town. Otherwise, the whole I-29 was not finished until 1981.
It’s very easy to speed in these cars. They aren’t like other old cars where you can TELL you’re going 90!
Reminds me of October 2001 when I drove my 1977 Town Car from San Francisco to New Orleans.
Probably a very comfortable ride!
@@ObsoleteAutomotive very comfortable. I like your green Newport, my favorite color.
That sure is one silky smooth and beautiful car.
These cars and many from this era and before were reliable transportation including long road trips . I grew up as 8 year old in 1971 and spent many hours in a 71 Chrysler very similar to this one .
From 71 to 79 lots of time on the nation's highways . We took several vacations from our home in Maryland to Florida and back . On one trip a guy in a 72 Chevrolet C10 rear ended us on Interstate 70 around Fredrick , MD .
The Chevrolet pickup thanks to the higher rear bumper on the Chrysler sustained more damage than our car . I have pictures of the very mild damage from the accident .
71 Chrysler still had points no electronic spark control and it never gave us any issues .
Yeah our bought new Newport 2072. St major east coast dealer pre CHEK of car manual windows fell out on. Pass side. Before plated..quality. Vontrol
Thank you for reminding me how much I LOVE the sound of a TorqueFlite accelerating from parking lot speeds. It's just as sacred to me as the reduction gear starter.
I also have a 1973 Newport. Mine is a Custom and a 2 Door.
I owned one of those in a lower trim level. Same color and same year. 400 4 barrel. It seated six adults comfortably.
Many thanks to you for this fabulous journey. This car at my age. Just a little advice never put a working key on a battery.
Like driving a motorized lazy boy down the highway . Can’t beat the ride and they had good power to . I had a 70 Chrysler Newport when I was 18 back in 80 . It was a two door bronze with a black vinyl top and black interior and it was loaded . And in great shape . Had the 383 -4b carb . Great running car and man when I went out of town it was such a smooth cruise . Had a really nice set of rims on it as well . Those were the days .
@@grego934 Sounds like a nice one!
What a cool road trip!!! That looks fun!
Cool. I have a 73 New Yorker in blue. 👍
Looks like a Great trip. Thanks for bringing us along.
What a fantastic car
brth~Good day!thank you~amazing video~ goodbye!.💥
Loved your video mate. love your big Newport, and great music . Cheers from Perth, Western Australia.
Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it! The Newport is a great machine for a long trip. Very comfortable.
My two older brothers shared a car. It was a 1973 Chrysler Newport Custom coupe with the road wheels and a 400 CI engine with a two barrel carburetor. That car would positively scoot! It had been my Grandparents car.
@@tkewrestler2662 nice! What color ?
@@ObsoleteAutomotive it was sort of light buttercream yellow with a black top. It had black interior with the high back seats. If I ever found a 1973 coupe in fairly good shape, it would be hard not to make that purchase.
@@tkewrestler2662 I can picture the car exactly. The ‘73s are the least favored of the ‘69-‘73 Fuselage Chryslers so the price point is usually much lower. You can probably find one reasonable!
Absolutely amazing video ❤️ love the green color of the car .. Huge fan of yours from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Glad you enjoy it!
Keep it up💙
Thats a beautiful automobile, no doubt a comfy cruiser for a road trip.
Very comfy!
Had 1973 Town and country station wagon. It was a very good car.
Wonderful trip. Enjoy the memories!
Thanks! It was a fun trip.
COOL . My dad taught me to close the hood in the centre - not the corners , and you scratch the paint everytime you put metal on metal under the hood , super nice car , stop slamming hood n doors ! - and would sure like pics of car on this trip once in awhile ????? low milage Or someone sure took care of it *
I had no idea about the half inch drive slot for the power steering pump tension. (owner of 73 road runner) love learning litle tthings like that
It makes it much easier to adjust the tension!
@@ObsoleteAutomotive I bought a Pittsburgh Pro 1/2 Composite Drive from Harbor Freight just for that job. Handle is perfect for the task.
perfect hiway cruizer
For sure!
Wow my parents bought the same exact car for my mom. It was the biggest lemon..
She went out and bought a Fleetwood 62 series. They gave it to me after I totaled my first car out. That Chrysler went thru at lest 11 batteries 8 alternators 10 starters my Chrysler was a New Yorker Brougham, with every option….it was an electrical nightmare! Lol Man I was so happy when they bought me a 1975 Chevy Caprice Classic 2 door coupe….
Good luck with you Chrysler your so lucky that you don’t have power windows! Mine went down and wouldn’t come up. Faulty plastic window switches……That car was hard to Kill I put over 200k miles on it. Many accidents but the Chrysler took them like a champ. It was indestructible…..Lol air conditioning never worked from the dealership….Omg the memories!
*MoPower* !!!...
Did my road test in a 71 Newport , and parallel parked it at 16 years of age .....
First car that I went with my dad to buy. 1973 Chrysler Newport. Four years later took my drivers test in that car. Family had it for ten years.
That's crazy...that headliner is the same color and material as in my '73 Valiant. Sure is an original car...I saw a 1573 on a heater hose...Wednesday June 6, 1973.
This car is a time capsule!
Started the road trip as all family road trips should - fiddling in the driveway and thinking "hopefully we dont get stranded halfway there..." Hahaha
True! 😂
The belts are still made in America!
OMG...you do not have the belt numbers facing the right way...this dooms you to break down in NJ ...wow, you took the route my parents would have taken, so you are BLESSED!
New subscriber and Mopar fan here. I really like the video and the music theme. Looking forward to seeing more video content like this
Thanks for following!
Excellent video, subscribed , from a fan in Scotland!
Thanks! There’s more to come!
A bridge I used to go over between NAF Atsugi and Camp Zama Japan in my 1975 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham de Elegance had exactly 2 inches of clearance back in the early 90s. I miss that car.
Great trip. A lap belt is only protection for the lower body, you really need to buckle the shoulder belt for the best protection if something did happen.
The shoulder belts are absolutely awful before the self tensioner. If you set the belt correctly you can't even reach any of the controls. I tried them once in a friends 68 Polara a long time ago.
@@JrGoonior As a 16 year old in the mid 70s I was very happy to have my grandfather's hand me down 1970 Buick Electra to drive. One night after a week or so of seeing "Fasten Seat Belts" printed above the steering column I buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts mainly out of teenage curiosity. Yes, the shoulder belt with a fists width of space between it and my chest was awkward and confining and I kept messing with it trying to get it adjusted. I did have to lean into the belt to reach the radio, the ashtray and lighter, but after driving around that night, I found that it snugly held me in the seat when I was taking curves a bit too fast and driving a bit too "spirited". After a couple of times buckling up I became accustomed to wearing the shoulder belt and actually found that I had a better feeling of how the car drove and handled when strapped in. The obvious safety aspect and an enhanced driving experience was a no-brainer to wear both belts. I can see how a one time user would probably not wear it again, but I started wearing the belts every time I drove. By 17 my usual habit was to get in the car, turn the ignition, push in the lighter, buckle up both belts, light a cigarette and drive off. Fast forward to 1983 and coming home one weekend from college. A drunk driver in a Chevrolet Suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size of the Electra and the fact that I was wearing both the lap and shoulder belts, I walked away with only minor cuts, scrapes and bruising from the belts along with being slightly dazed, not to mention being extremely sore from the jolt of a head on collision. The drunk driver surprisingly was wearing a three -point seat belt, but had the shoulder belt under his left arm- basically a three-point lap belt- had massive head and chest injuries from impacting the steering wheel. His unbelted passenger was ejected through the windshield and landed on the mangled hood of the Suburban. He did not survive. At the time of the accident I was 21 years old and only about four miles from home. That is why I told the driver of the 1973 Chrysler that he and his passenger needed to wear their shoulder belts. Yes, those shoulder belts are a bit confining when properly adjusted, but I am living proof of their effectiveness. And that is the whole point of buckling up.
Great video! What a good ol car!
Thanks!
AMAZING
Wow I can't believe that car fit on the bridge!
Barely 😂
Whenever I have restored old cars I have found many suspicious things under the hood.
Had a 73 Newport told folks the seats
were big as couches other little cars
would bounce off and you could land
helicopters on the hood Enjoy
73 Newport nice car. You gonna be at the Chrysler Nationals in Carlisle?
@@GalaxieMarauder Have been busy on the west coast. Just drove a ‘66 Chrysler wagon across the country.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive oh yea? Just saw your Newport Custom video and the Ramp Ram with Demon on the back. Nice stuff. Man I would like a 73 NYer
Good vid /////////////
They're at the end you were filling up at Sunoco and I noticed you put 87 octane which is surprising that you run the cheap gas in that I used to have a 71 Plymouth scamp with the slant 6 and I ram premium unleaded in it because in 71 the octane was much higher regular was 91 octane back then so when you try to put 87 in a car it's way below regular octane for back in the day it doesn't run that good so I would suggest running the premium with the lead substitute if you haven't had the valves switched over to the kind that can take the unleaded fuel it helps?
The 1973 model Chryslers were designed to run off unleaded or leaded fuel. I don’t use any lead substitutes in my vehicles. And unless you drive at high rpm for long periods of time or have a performance engine, hardened valve seats usually aren’t necessary. And at 36,000 miles the car has plenty of life left! This car operates fine using regular gas. No spark knock or other issues.
57:00 The McCormick farm is where Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper. The business grew into International Harvester. I've been down that stretch of I-81 many times, and the farm is a great stop to chill for a few minutes.
Maybe it’s worth a visit next time!
@@ObsoleteAutomotive I highly recommend it. Before the world went nuts two years ago, they had some great historical displays inside. I hope that they're open again.
The Google Maps vehicle chickened out. It didn't go through that covered bridge!
Go big or go home!
Awesome trip!
P.S. 23:38 Dunder..
You got the reference. Haha
The Ohio and West Virginia and Pennsylvania are definitely the rust after spending 30 years in hickory North Carolina map to Morgantown West Virginia about a year and a half ago I couldn't believe how cars rust out here
I've been looking for a fuselage Newport for years. I've owned one of the prior serious (66) and one of the subsequent series (77).
This one is for sale.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive Thank you; ill look at it closer!
Bet you got alot of thumbs up and honks.
People do like seeing this old green machine.
One more thing when it comes time to buy tires for that you really need to put some white walls on it older cars do not look good with black wall tires they weren't made to have black walls and they look terrible with black walls hankook sells White Walls maximum load reasonably priced they're not like high priced like Coker or also a toyo they sell them too they used to the Toyota eclipse not sure if they still do I had them on my Lincoln and their White Walls also they just would look a lot better all right buddy the car is beautiful just the Black Walls don't look right on the older car but I love the video keep up the cool videos I enjoyed it I just need to get me a classic car now again LOL
I'm one of the few that likes blackwalls on cars. In this case I just bought what was available and reasonably priced!
Most of New York's population is in the City or Suburbs.
Where u headed to
I wouldn't use JB weld
Find someone to record that radiator.
Good luck finding a radiator shop these days. They are all closing down. Also the JB weld is still holding strong.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive
Or try Rock Auto
That's where I get my parts for my 71 Chevy Impala
Do you like this better, than '67 fury or not ?
Can’t really say. I like them both.
I wonder what kind of gas mileage you got
This car averaged around 14/15mpg normally.
Why would you want to go to New York you know what Hank Williams Junior said send me to hell or New York City it'd be about the same to me
New York, uses salt on their roads.
You should edit more, make it shorter
The video has been edited significantly to reduce the length. However, to keep the trip cohesive it needed to be this long, and I also will use this video for myself to look at the trip again.
But there are chapters in the description and on the timeline/playback bar in the video that can be used to skip to certain parts or move ahead and back if desired.
It's called turn the video off when you get to be too long for you I find it fine amount of time.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive okay now i know your deriction your going, i just thought you needed some feed back but i still liked the video
@@williamkarlsson500 No worries. Thanks for watching!
I enjoyed the whole video!
I had 74chrysler.newport.4.dr.loved.it.lots..chrome