1977 Chrysler Town & Country | First Drive and Exterior Wash in YEARS!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- In this video, we take our 1977 Chrysler Town & Country on its maiden voyage! It's been many years since the car has seen the road, so let's put it to the test. The exterior was also in dire need of a wash. We cleaned it the best we could with the resources availible to us at the time. Later this spring, we will clean it more thoroughly and anticipate much better results. Remember to like, share, and subscribe. Thank you for watching!
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Back to where it needs to be. On the road cruising!
I love this ! I have a 64 hardtop Chrysler wagon and a 64 Valiant station wagon.
Very nice combo you have there!
@@theunskilledmechanic I Love your Fury & killer wagon !
@@shaunclifton5281 Thank you!
Love the Town and Country. You guys did a great cleanup. Needs to have a built 440 in it to make it go. I loved the the "CAR WASH" sound track from the 70's. Very cool. Get the rust fixed and get it painted
Thank you! A built 440 would be nice.
@@theunskilledmechanic I'd take care of the rust and keep it all stock, low compression and all. We'll never see the likes of these again the way they were built. It's a rolling museum.
@@LongIslandMopars Agreed! I’d never mess with the originality, due to its rarity. Although, one can dream about a snottier 440 :)
God.. this rig takes me back to my youth! I commented in a previous video that I took my drivers test on this exact car! Even the same color! And.. I even paralleled parked it. The tester lady said, “if you can parallel park this thing.. you pass”! Haha. I did!!
Now that’s how you know someone can drive, lol!
@@theunskilledmechanic , I think that more vehicles need that crab walk thing that big fire engines have in order to eliminate that annoying and needless nuisance of parallel parking.
It's cool that you dudes dig cars that are older than you. Brings back memories.
I LOVE the Old 9 passenger station wagons.
My Dad always had Chevy Caprices station wagons, always brown with woodgrain but always with Whitewalls
Love the Whitewalls.
Incredible old Chrysler you have Good Luck.
Thank you! I love the Caprice wagons. In fact, I love all wagons, lol. Yeah, you really can’t beat white walls on a wagon.
I have never seen a '77 Chrysler T&C in person! The GREAT powertrain and GREAT LOOK of this wagon would be an AWESOME CRUZRIDE! This is a GREAT BEGINNING!
Always thrilled to see you guys upload a new production......WELL DONE GENTLEMAN!
MUSIC IS GOOD 👍
CHEERS AND HAPPY MOPARING FROM TAMPA BAY FLORIDA USA
Thank you for your continued support, Ed! Take care.
Great to see it back on the road where it belongs. Saved from the demolition track. And all thanks to your skills
Glad you are showing it the love it received when it was first purchased back in the 70's!
Love these old longroofs! I need to get cracking on my 69 Monterey now that the weather is starting to get nicer here in Jersey.
Love the sound of the 4 barrel opening but it needs better exhaust so it doesnt sound like an airplane when floored from a stop ! lol
LOVE the “Car Wash” movie backup music!
3:35 "I'm gonna enjoy every second of this"
Then in the background, "Hot diggity dog" haha
Perfect.
14:22 I'd vote for fixing the rust because it will only get worse. You may need to see how paint is under the woodgrain, too. What does the 1977 Chrysler owner's manual say about woodgrain upkeep?
I’d have to take a look. I didn’t even think to look in there. Great idea!
Love what you did to it, thanks for bringing one back, I’m a proud owner of a 78 mercury grand marquis wagon, you don’t see them often.
Brings back memories, butterscotch color vinyl interiors were popular in the 70s
I love the Chrysler T&C Stationwagons they built from 74-77 ... best ever and your vid is amazing, keep up the good work, get rid of the rust and you got a real Dreamcar 🥰👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🥰
The self serv carwashes by my house have brushes with soap coming out of the brush. Hopefully you can find the replacement rubber filler for the front bumper. That would make a big difference. You are really getting great at editing these videos. Looking forward to your next one✌
Thank you!!
@@theunskilledmechanic nice .....now you can get the bodywork done.......grab some sandpaper a welder and get to work
Big, yellow, wood grain, PERFECT !
We agree!
"Car Wash" song is great! Heard the B52's song "Love Shack" in the car this morning. That's another great song for your car.
I have a 69 Chevelle Concours wagon. Same butternut yellow. It has the third row seat facing out the back. 1 of 3007 made that way. I put my built 461 Chevy big block in it for a lot more GO fun. Wagons are cool and were actually popular at the drags. Keep her floatin down the road!!
Randomly came across your channel. The car wash clip and music made me subscribe. Keep up the good work
Thank you!
There's something about old wagons that's magnetic.
Just found out the channel, just subbed.
More wagons please, always wagons please. : )
Agreed. Thank you for watching!
Re: Lean Burn system... As you drive - the faster you go - the timing continuously retards more and more. It's way more complicated than I can understand, but it's definitely not a simple thing for sure. I watch the guy Adam on this channel where he has a BUNCH of mid '60s to mid '70s vehicles and he has explained the system perfectly. Good luck with it 😉
Check out Adam on Rare Classic Cars & Automotive History.
Rare Classic Cars!
Definitely treat and paint that spotted section on the rear quarter before it rusts through. If the wood grain is vinyl try some Maguire's Leather cleaner. NEVER use Armour All!
Armor.
I had a 1977 wagon same color I had 4 young kids then and we called that car the shark, very roomey for us all.
Red Foreman would make you an offer on that wagon
I love to see these old cars & trucks getting put back on the road where they belong. Great video guys !
Thank you!
My folks had the 76 New Yorker flavored one of these that I drove a lot when I was 15-16 and learning to drive. What a cruiser that thing was. Thanks for sharing.
That’s awesome! Thank you for watching.
The lean burn was supposed to send hotter spark and use the most basic computer to adjust timing, trouble was is was in the heated engine compartment which led to the innards cooking, causing malay
Hello. Iove your chrysler . Thanks for getting her back on the road. I'm a fan of old chryslers. Love them. I owned a couple in my lifetime. A 1964 imperial and a 1973 new yorker I use to own a long time ago. I presently own a 1979 Dodge Aspen with only 22000 miles on it. Still has the original tires. My uncle bought it brand new. Thanks for the video. Nice job
Thank you! Wow, 22k miles… that’s incredible.
I would trade my Mercury Grand Marquis gs for a station wagon any day and awesome ride man 👍👍👍👍
Thank you!
@@theunskilledmechanic your welcome
Awesome visuals ❤️ 🔥loved the estate
My father had a 77 Chrysler Newport with the 400. It was a boat. We drove it cross country and back in the late 70's.
That’s awesome! I have one of those too.
@@theunskilledmechanic what part of NY are you in? I'm from Connecticut.
@@bigw8549 We’re Upstate.
Nice 😀
Thank you!
This wagon and the Olds C.C. were the best looking wagons of the 1970's. fender skirts makes all the difference... One of my friend's parents had a 74 T&C in this color but I think they had dark green and another had a white 74 T&C with brown interior...
I agree! The fender skirts are a nice touch for sure.
Great car
It needs a good clay bar , polish and wax . On side vinyl I would use a good vinyl cleaner and that doesn't work try wd40 to clean it off then wash off residue with dawn .
Then polish with high gloss uv protective spray . Don't use abrasives on it because you will wipe out the grain on the vinyl.
Just a suggestion, Wesley bleach white is very good at getting the white walls clean and the road tar off the sidewalls. Less work to. Just spray it on and rinse it off. Great 👍 video.
Thank you for the suggestion!
Hi y’all from west Alabama peace and love
I have heard that good old Pledge will clean up the woodgrain nicely even though it's not real wood
We’ll have to try that out!
A little bit late to the party, but I am so glad to see you giving this car love and attention. It is wonderful to the younger generation having interest in the classics. It was a wise move to power wash all the debris from behind the trim against the windows. Those are real trouble spots, we have a classic wagon ourselves, and take care to make sure things are dried out and cleaned lest we get caught in the rain during or after a show. I believe I have on my channel a very similar wagon to yours featured. Looking forward to more adventures about your wagon!
We’re glad that you found this video! I’ll have to check out your channel.
@@theunskilledmechanic thank you so very much! BTW, I use that 404 formula on the woodgrain of our wagon. Putting clear coat carefully under and over where the woodgrain is peeling will help stop that. Fluid Film around everything once you fix various spots on the car. This will help really to preserve things. As you know, things can be pretty damp in NY state! For sure look at my channel, I may get back to doing videos soon as long as my health permits. Our latest is a 1966 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Luxury Sedan with a Desert Beige roof, Teal body and turquoise interior. That has been an adventure for sure!
Nice wagon
On your wood grain, use furniture polish either in an aerosol or liquid gold! Cheers Vespa Squash front Nor-Cal west coast!
Thank you for the recommendation!
That’s what I used on my grandmas AMC Jeep Eagle station wagon woodgrain.. who new that it was going to used on an otherMOPAR woodgrain classic! Keep up the good work and resto on the wagon! Cheers- Vespa Squash from Nor-Cal
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I subscribed for the channel two days ago and I really like your videos especially this Mopar :)
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Just found your channel. Great content, and I LOVE the car. Can't wait to see more on it.
Thank you so much!
Such an awesome wagon. Hope you can fix the rust on it
Thank you! Yes, it would be nice to fix the rust.
People used to put bags of ice on the computer to cool it down and limp their way back home(or dealership)
my dad had 74 & 78 Chrysler Newport's, I loved the cars but hated the rear tire skirts.
I love these big old American wagons. You should try coca cola and fine steel wool on the chrome, works like a charm
I’ll have to give it a shot. Thank you for the tip!
I clear coated the woodgrain on my 86 Eagle wagon, no regrets! See my channel for info on that but I highly recommend it to preserve the originality.
I never thought about doing that. Sounds like a great idea!
If it was mine, I would have restored the paint to factory new, I love old station wagons.
Nice car I like the old wagons thanks for the video. Get a pair of shoes
I have had a few old wagons with woodgrain believe it or not lemon pledge always work good my take two or three cans to do it but worked well on my 72 ford ltd country squire and 71 Chrysler New Port wagon
Sounds good! Thank you for the tip.
Hey you should douse the car in Simple Green , let it soak , mist water on it then scrub it. It should liquify and lift the ingrained dirt out . You can buy it at Canadian Tire
Good to know. Thank you for the suggestion!
Use wood shine spray
I’ll look into it. Thank you for the suggestion!
A full set of coil over shocks will bring that ride height back and ride nice. Worked on my 70 Thunderbird.
Earl Scheib the lower quarters and the panel above the gas tank, worth it ! Wax the rest of it..
Forgot one more thing! To really get the bumpers to shine, crumple up tinfoil into a ball and rub it briskly on the bumpers using Coca-Cola! It works, please believe me. Then rinse and cover with a good wax. Car Wash was such a perfect period correct song for this car💎. A diamond in the rough being polished.
That’s a neat party trick! We’ll have to try that.
I would vote for a repaint after first getting down to the level where the rust is and remove as much of that as possible. Then consider treating the rust spots with POR-15 from Eastwood, prime and then repaint. There are spots on the lower rear fenders and in the spare tire storage area that need metal repair. There are good body shops that can do that or if you have the welding equipment and experience you can do it yourself.
It all depends on what you really want to do with the car. If you are going to resell the car you may want to just go with a good clean-up and follow with a good Carnuba polish.
The throaty sound of that V-8 makes up for any rust or troubles with the car. How wonderful is that melody of old-fashioned Detroit iron in comparison to the cookie-cutter SUV"s that clog our highways and offer not one ounce of more room. And if this car had the 45 years of post production upgrades the modern SUV"s had, this wagon would get as good a gas mileage as they get. But none of them - none of them at all - would have the style of this 1970's Detroit Land Yacht! Amen to old iron! Give me this car with all its blemishes rather than that hideous Honduh CRV with tasteless tail lights, spindly rubber that is the size of Conestoga buggy wheels and the same width! Yes, this is pure senseless excess, but it is nonetheless impressive in how it has held together against all abuse and still runs (and with Lean Burn trying to kill it!). I was 15 when this was built. I'd like to see if that Honduh (or any modern Honduh) would even be available as parts before they were consumed by the Japanese rust beetle. Amen to the "Car Wash" music with this! Yeah, on a good day with driving like you are not trying to crush an egg under your foot this car gets maybe 12 mpgs, but oh, the ride and the room - and the silence that that era used to Broughamify upon us as we were smitten by malaise. And this was when Bruce Jenner still existed as someone whom we had real pride about. And I be not on part on that car was made in China! Those were the days!
They were built better back then, that’s for sure!
use crisco lard on the wood grain, works awsome
Make sure you put white walls back on it .Don’t get talked into black walls by some tire salesman because they’re passé and not available, that cars got to have them!
I'd never run anything but white walls on this car, haha! I'm glad you agree.
@@theunskilledmechanic you’re lucky you can probably source them without going the reproduction route (expensive in Canada).New old stock virtually unobtainable
@@johnandersonjjr I’m running the Nexen white walls on my Newport and they’ve been fantastic. They’re easily obtainable here in the states.
@@theunskilledmechanic I’ll keep watching to see.I can’t get anything here ei zinc chromate epoxy,interior dye etc
@@johnandersonjjr If you take a look on our channel, you can see them on my Newport.
I remember in 1982 one of the teachers at my school bought a new Chrysler K car and it talked! “Please fasten your seatbelt…….thank you.”
I think if this old girl could talk, she’d say, “Just kill me dammit!”
Lmao! We’re going to bring this one back to its original glory the best we can.
Some people say they use Lemon Pledge on the "wood". I'd try a detail spray on it, anything but Amour all. I wouldn't use that on anything I cared about. You seem to like Adams products. See what they have for detail sprays.
In the 70scar washes ruled because cars were too big to hand wash but the death rate was lower because the cars were so big. Designed for a popu,action that drank n drove.i drove giant cadillacs I got free wash with fillup...1 a gallon I had 7 fuel cards all stations i drove all over creation free gas 50 gallons in a weekend.im sure glad I enjoyed all that free gas. Beware ethanol 3nhances gasoline will rot the fuel system and leaks will spring up eats fuel pump diaphragms, use boat gasoline non ethanol.on the woodgrain use car wax.
We almost bought one of those wagons in 1977.i remember it.
I have 72 Chevy woodgrain wagon a 1980 datsun 510 woodgrain wagon and I restored a 1974 peugeot 504 wagon and did woodgrain on it.
Wagons are collector cars.a set of h4 and he glass headlights with replaceable bulbs a pair of switchback 1157 bulbs for the front indicator bu,but, remove the bumpers and thoroughly clean them and apply bedliner on them they rot from the inside out.when you see rust and chrome peeling it's usually too late.mirror tint all the windows looks great with the chrome. Watch my videos of peugeot wagon
Same with the steel wheels clean and bedliner them too.remove all door panels and grease all the mechanical window regulators,and treat the cardboard panels with spray cosmoline so they don't rot,if they are disintegrating I take and old fridge or freezer and remove the metal and cut outpanels and reuse the upholstery on the metal panels I did that to peugeot and mercedes 1970s cars.a set of sensormatic shocks.never never change the transmission fluid you will lose the friction material in the fluid that wore off the bands and you will end up having to rebuild the transmissiononly use 10/40 oil non synthetic in winter and 20/50 in summer non synthetic, iron block hate light weight synthetic oil, will leak and wear out the rings.if rebuilding calipers and rear cylenders clean out the lines with alcohol or pai t thinner and use new rubber seals and refill with dot 5 military brake fluid to prevent rust in the all metal brake system. Great for big cars that sit for long periods of time.ive many years experience with old cars.i own 30 of them.
Pledge furniture polish works on the vinyl wood grain. Try it on a small spot first.
Pledge furniture polish on the wood grain vinyl
We’ll have to give it a shot. Thank you for the suggestion!
I would not use Armor All on the wood -- it will get all over the paint and eventually turn it white prematurely. Back in the day when these cars were new, we'd use Pledge on it with great results.
I’ll have to try it. Thank you for the tip!
The next thing you should do is replace those tires. At 30 years old, you're taking a big risk. If it were me, I'd get the body below the woodgrain repaired and painted and buff the rest out.
pledge on the wood grain will clean it up nicely and put a nice little shine never amarol it's to oily and will ruin it
Hey guys. Superfantastic video and absolutely Gorgeous looking machine you got. Very rare by today's world. Check out a guy on UA-cam channel called old 2 stroker he is in upstate New York and he has a video on cleaning old school wood grain like what is on your wagon. I believe it is the Griswold family truckster that he got, a duplicate but still neat. Had to sub love the old stuff, grew up with it in the 70's as a kid and turned wrenches on them in the late 80's in high school auto shop. One thing. Don't sell any of these classics, you can't find them here in Canada. God Bless You Both from Halifax Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦.
I’ll check his channel out. Thank you for watching!
Big ass wagon + Weezer = instant sub.
Thank you!
PAINT IT MARVIN FROM UTAH
Fun toy and money pit.
Wow where did you find that car?
I saw it on Facebook and had to have it!
Dangerous driving on those old tires, no matter how much tread they have.
Fix and paint the bad places and the car will look even classier.
That’s what we’re thinking!
Paint it they deserve good paint
How about using the soap brush at the car wash instead of just spraying it down
my mom was forced by devorce to drive us kids in this exact model. true crap if ever there , we called it the potato wagon and it was embaresing to be seen it and was probaly in the junk yard by 1982
you can use regular car wax on the the wood grain it's only a sticker & it will shine nicely along with the rest of the car. NEVER armarol it's awful for cars
Nothing like the howl of a spreadbore. QJ's were famous, but the TQ is just as howly.
paint it!
Would you trade for a 1977 newport with a 440 in Boston?
Could you please email us some more info/pics? theunskilledmechanic@gmail.com
Most of those were donors getting motor robbed, the rest to the crusher.
Paint it
Its gumballs car
Repaint.
Probably run better on ethanol free gas
That’s what we usually run, but it’s getting expensive. We have a lot of cars, lol!
Car wax on the wood grain.