First Road Trip in Our 1977 Chrysler Town & Country! Will it Make The 400+ Mile Journey?
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2022
- In this video, we go on a road trip in our 1977 Chrysler Town & Country wagon! This is the first long journey the wagon has been on in many YEARS. We meet up with another UA-camr along the way... stay tuned to find out who. We would also like to thank you for all of your support. We recently reached the 1,000 subscriber milestone. It wouldn't be possible without all of you, so we sincerely thank each and every one of you! Please remember to like, share, and subscribe. Thank you for watching!
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First and foremost, thank you so much for sharing the tranquility and colors of the seashore. The windshield view was so nice seeing the long hood! This was such and added bonus. Congratulations on the first road trip with the wagon. Of course the wagon made the trip! These cars, as you said, were made for this sort of stuff, very often with an Airstream trailer in tow behind! The size and torque of the 440 allowed for a long-legged final drive ratio, before overdrive automatics came to be a few years later. I think Chrysler went with lock - up torque converters in1978 which gave about an extra mile per gallon on the open road. 15 US MPG is very decent for a heavy car barely a month back on the road. I wonder if the fresh gasoline in the tank helped to wipe possible deposits off the windings for the fuel sender to allow the gage to start coming back to life. Indeed, we have cars that need a day or two for cranky electrical things on the instrument panel to wake up and behave properly. I am so glad Scotty enjoyed the car. He tells things as they are! Please keep bringing these adventures forth for folks to literally be right there with you. Bless you both and may your journeys be safe. Please get rid of those old tires, the cool wearher and rain helped, but hot weather and sustained speeds could cause problems!
Thank you so much for your comment! Scotty’s video should be posted soon.
@@theunskilledmechanic that will be great to see! In that little snippet you gave us, Scotty look like he was all smiles! He should be! We need more young folks out there to carry on the classic car hobby especially with the large cars.
WAGON family trips we did a lot camping . This 1977 Chrysler Town & Country makes me remember Familly times Luxury car for the time, we were 4 kids .2 Girls sitting in the middle and the boys in the back .My Dad was proud of the chrome and used to say to me & my Big brother '' You wont see this anymore '' He was right ,Our was white Int leather burgundy A Brougham, Pedal button radio on the floor A/C My mom refusing to use it ''to cold '' she said ! Eclectic window huge space habitacle ans sooo ...smooth suspension like driving on cloud , the only neg points was the gas expensive even at the time my dad used to say every time we drive this car imagine loosing 10cents of gas every stop sign we do ... 😂 ! My Big brother bought a Chrysler New Yorker black 1977 with 57 000 km found in a Barn for 5K VERY CLEAN, because of this car . He is so proud of it ! THANK YOU for sharing last ride i was 10 years old !
We took a brand new town and country in 1975 NJ to Disney world. Mom, Dad and 5 kids. It was an awesome trip. No problems with car that’s for sure.
My dad had a 72 T&C. Great memories. Thanks for sharing.
American cars were not as bad as some group of people like say they were. I miss the old days and the old American cars. I would take that Town and Country over any plastic model toy on the road today. I would love to run over a couple of Prius's with that Chrysler and also drive slow in front of an electric car. Of course it would be fun to pass up stalled electric cars on the side of the road out of battery and give them a taste of the Lean Burn, lol.
Just imagine the modern technology thrown at this drivetrain. Keep the carb and distributor and tune them right.
If it's well-maintained, of course it will make it, 50 years old or not. It worked just fine in 1977 and so will it today. Who can't grasp that concept?
6:15 time stamp. That Bridge is a total disaster now. The westbound side was closed months ago. Being torn down. My dad had the 1974 Plymouth Version of your road beast. A Sport Suburban. You're right, it was a highway champ. Parents towed campers and boats with that monster for many years. I think it had a 400ci engine. 8 MPG. :)
That's pretty neat! Fun to see an old car like that being enjoyed and not being left to rot. Great work!
Yes, we agree. Thank you for watching!
Very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
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Awesome video - great car. You are brave men traveling on those tires, but good on you for carrying two spares. To be fair, probably no more dangerous than my family traveling in our highly loaded 1972 Cutlass wagon with brand new Firestone 500 tires back in the 70s. I remember 3 tires on the rear blowing out that summer trip, and back then, one of us kids was always in the back with the luggage - you could feel the belts pull apart and slap the floor. Good times!
takes me back to when i was a kid and my dad driving that land yacht of station wagon, 72 Pontiac Safari 500, was my first car i ever drove before i was 15, on the back roads of Florida
good times, talk about feeling safe, these were the days of lap belts
10:46, look at the bottom left corner and see how their is a Phone charger cord. That has answered my questions about wether or not the old cars have the ability to charge your phone. The answer is Yes, yes they can.
You can still buy phone charging cords to fit automotive cigarette lighters...I have one for my '72 Buick.
REAL American Car.... Cant kill them
Congrats guys! Takes me back to my youth driving that almost exact car! 😀😀
I really love your old school car. I was 9 year old when it was new. Good luck with it.
Thank you!
You are so very welcome my friend. Please keep getting old school cars.
I'm surprised that "Mr. Toyota" Kilmer didn't bash it for being a Chrysler. Keep looking over the car. I'm sure he put a Toyota sticker or emblem on it somewhere.
That sure looks familiar. I used to live in Rhode Island. One of my friends had a 69 Town & Country wagon. He's from North Smithfield.
Rhode Islander here. Yes, I know exactly where they area at. And to boot, my dad had the Plymouth version of this road beast. 1974
Great video of a great car. 15 MPG is impressive, driving on old tires was a risk but it didn't bite ya, fortunately. Driving through Providence - yikes! 😬 95 is a madhouse through there, having to cut back in when you realized you were on the off-ramp must have been fun! Love cruising with the missus in our '77 New Yorker Brougham, it just glides down the road. It's a feeling that a lot of people will never experience, and I'm glad you guys are getting to enjoy it, and experience being caretakers of a classic.
Hi y’all from west Alabama peace and love
I really miss being able to see the front fender tips from the driver's seat. Anyway that car really brings back happy memories. My parents had a `75, the same color. But no roof rack? I've never seen one without a roof rack. The most surprising gas mileage I ever experienced was on my 1974 Miller-Meteor Cadillac ambulance that I bought in 1997. I flew to Denver from NJ and drove it home, with zero problems. I wrote down the odometer reading and the number of gallons of gas at each fillup, and it got 14.5 mpg on every tankful. That blew me away. Shortly after bringing it home I put it on a scale and it weighed in at 7160 pounds! Of course it was just over 21 feet long, and the engine was a 472. Your wagon is about 19 feet. Anyway thanks for sharing. I enjoyed that.
Dudes, find a back road and “ give er the onions!“😊
Fun times ! Yes , take the fury on a trip !
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Great stuff
Thank you!
I just found this video now a year old. Definitely get new tires! No use risking your life for a Utube video. If you haven't done it already I think you can still change the fuel gauge sending unit without a new fuel pump. Just a pain to drop the tank. Clean every electrical conection you can see. As long as you don't abuse it the 727 TorqeFlyte transmission will last a long, long. Just don't over load it with a heavy trailer. The 440 will put out a lot of torque than can eat that transmission on a long hard pull. If you have to pull something heavy, put it in 2nd and slow down. The lean burn engines had problems. I'm a 70 year old "old Chrysler guy". Been there, done that. Just sold my last one. '77 Dodge short wide bed Club Cab Power Wagon 4x4. 400 big block with 4.10 gears. 760 Thermoquad and Jacobs Computer controlled ignition system.
Love the wagon. Train horns and a forklift backup beeper would absolutely be the bomb
love watching these good ole "C" bodies on the road...keep it up man...not having one right now, I can't drive them, but I love getting to relive it here on your channel...thank you for your content
Thank you for watching!
Cool 😀
Cool car looked like a good trip
Awesome video guys. Love it. Good ol fashion road trip. Loads of fun. And the sun came out. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us. God Bless You All.
I like it man nice car
Thank you!
When you're looking out over the hood of that car on the road, it's not trouble to tell that the same person who designed the Lincoln Continentals of that era also worked as a designer for Chrysler Corporation.
Beautiful!
Great car, reminds me and the gang taking my Grand Fury wagon on road trips to the White Mountains.
The videography and music are outstanding! What an enjoyable video. The '77 Town and Country proves that some old cars still have many miles left in them. Thank You!
Thank you for your kind comment!
Thank you for another excellent video.
Thank you for watching!
Great job keep em coming go Mopar!
15 mpg that is great mileage for a big block and heavy car
Agreed!
nice car!
Thank you!
Great video…makes me think of the line in “Love Shack” by the B-52’s
“I got me a Chrysler
It seats about 20
So come on in and bring your juke box money”
That town&country is freaking awesome, I love the c body’s to be honest. I love my 68 newyorker it’s a awesome cruiser, that wagon definitely deserves a cosmetic restoration or something.
Love the New Yorker’s!
You gotta do something about the wind noise on your videos.
Great show other then that.
That wagon has to have at least a 20 gallon tank. With averaging 15 mpg you should of be able to make it back home on one tank of gas.
It’s a 24 gallon tank. We were just playing it safe by keeping it full. The gauge wasn’t reading accurately.
When properly tuned those baots should average 21 mpg well until you opened up the 4 bbl
My daily driver is a 77 Plymouth Gran Fury. I take it everywhere and regularly pull many hundred mile plus trips. Its got 195K on the clock w/o a rebuild on either the engine or trans. I did a timing chain and trans seal. These C bodies are excellent cars. Coo l trip, thanks for sharing
I love the 77’s! They really are great drivers.
My uncle had one. Does your speedometer go to 100 or 84? My uncle's car went to 84, which I have learned is very, very rare.
It's so quiet, Dad's 1969 383 dual exhaust T&C wagon was loud. great tow vehicle with us. Watch the rust on yours. 15mpg is great, my 454 '88 Suburban with a 3:42 rear end gets 6.3/4 mpg.
I almost bought a ‘69 3 years ago. Nice car!
Cool car. Funny how when this car was new they were so different to what we had in Australia. Looking at what is on the road now, apart from driving on the wrong side of the road it's hard to tell what country it is. All the cars in the traffic looks so generic. Love the classics and enjoyed your vids. Editing is getting better each time, keep up the great work
Thank you!
I have a '78 New Yorker Brougham with the 440. Freeway MPG: 15.8. So your wagon is right where it should be.
That’s awesome!
You're only getting 15 miles to a gallon of gas? Something's wrong. I had a 1972 Chrysler Newport four door sedan. It had the 400 cid V-8. That 400 V-8 is just a bored out 383. I used to average 25 to 27 miles per gallon of gas. Maybe it's how your car is tuned. I kept my spark plugs gapped at .32 instead of .35. Mine had a two barrel carburetor. I adjusted the idle mixture screws, backed out 1 and 1/2 turns. Since your car is five years newer than mine was, I don't know what type of carburetor you have. On my carb, I turned, I turned the idle mixture screws all the way until they just touched, or set. You don't tighten the screws. You turned them in lightly until they sat. Then you backed them out one and a half turns. I got good vacuum and like I said, the car got 25 to 27 miles per gallon of gas. I had to time it at 5 degrees after TDC...Top Dead Center. Mine was an early 1072. It was built in July of '71. It had points in the distributor. It did not have electronic ignition. Now the later '72s did have electronic ignition; but not the early ones.
2-barrel vs. 4, and I'm not sure I've ever seen static timing ATDC? What was the total advance? I'm sure the Thermoquad in the T&C could stand to be tuned with a vacuum gauge, and some inevitable vacuum leaks tracked down, but if you were getting 25-27 MPG, I can't imagine drivability was very good. Like with Lean-Burn - they did all kinds of mixture and timing tricks which worked in their testing conditions but were unusable in the real world.
Back in the day during the fuel crunch the government was paying a thousand dollars for gas guzzlers. A lot of cars like that wagon were crushed and demoed it's good to see one still on the road.
Sure it will make it! Said any young driver with there first car.
Indeed it made it.
Glad to see that you managed that trip without any incidents. Watching the return trip through that urban expressway traffic was painful, however, and must have done bad things to your average fuel consumption. The brake pedal is not compatible with fuel economy in a 5000 lb car. Old tires probably don't help either.
All-in-all, it was a great trip. New tires would’ve made all the difference for sure. Thank you for watching!
Heat a fuel additive will help clean your system
Nice car guys 🙌 love from Morocco ❤
Thank you!
@@theunskilledmechanic you're very welcome 🙌 i hope you have a beautiful day bro 🏁
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You should have the bodywork done and a repaint she will look premo dude ?
Does the cruise control still work on the old girl or what? I find if there is a issue with them it's a vacuum leak anyway love how it still have the lean burn system on it too and even better that is not giving you any issues anyway I like that car reminds me of the one my grandparents had then it went to my uncle but it was a 1975 had the Chrysler rally rims or Road Wheels I call them and it was dark green with green interior but it had the same lather seats and it had a 440 TNT engine. It was a cruiser my parents use to borrow it every year to go on vacation.
No cruise control on the ole girl. She’s pretty bare bones.
I had a 78 Diplomat Wagon. List 7800. I paid 6650.Same color. Classic Cream.
That’s awesome!
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The 318 engine seized at 25000 miles. The car died altogether at 83000 miles. It needed every thing.
When the front wheel fell off on the highway I junked it.
Bet that'll cost ya!!!!
It wasn’t cheap, lol!
What a great car. Use a zinc additive during oil changes to protect the engine. Pre 1995 engine's need zinc and today's oils have very little to none.
I run 20w-50 high zinc oil in all of our older engines.
So you basically drove to RI, turned around and drove back? Did you spend any time down there?
We went there to film with Scotty. Hit the beach as a bonus, then got on the road.
Nice trip! Too bad you had to endanger the car by exposing it to those Mass drivers.
Now imagine going to Florida in that car when it was new. Just set the cruise control, steer with one finger, and the car only stops when it needs gas.
I knew you wouldn't have any issues but you should carry a extra ballast resistor and rebuild that spark control command or at least convert it to traditional ignition system . Just my opinion .
Good luck in your next adventure !
Definitely not a bad idea. Thank you for watching!
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I read that these were available with rear air conditioning, does yours have it?
Did you go see Scotty?
Is it a 440 or 400? We had a 74 with a 440 when I was a kid. My 16 yr old brother and I stole it and buried the needle at 140mph at the lake once haha
Oh I read the pinned comment. It is a 440!
Cant believe how cheap the fuel is in your country , its £1.49 per litre here.
Currently gas in the UK is x3 more than in the States haha
Wow, that’s incredible!
Taxes have consequences!
It looks like you haven’t uploaded in a year. Do you still have the station wagon, if so, and you’re interested in selling it: contact me.
These cars were not real common even when new. I remember, I was 20!
These big cars were cheap. Small cars were just taking over.
Run Pure Gas
TAWOG car
You know you have people said Chevrolet's the best you have people says Ford is the best and you have people that says mopars are the best I want trucks in all of them and cars and I've had good ones and bad ones and all the big 3