Two Mopar products found on the same driveway by L. Seddon and posted at the Cohort: A ’73 Chrysler New Yorker and a ’59 Plymouth Custom Suburban Wagon. Both now being part of the car collection of a household in Lincolnshire.
The fuselage-era blunt-nose New Yorker hardtop coupe is one of 9,190 examples built in ’73. This particular one carries the 440CID V8 and 3-speed TorqueFlite, and arrived in the UK back in 2001.
Further down the driveway, behind the ’80s Econoline, sits this almost “Suddenly It’s 1960!” 1959 Plymouth Custom Suburban wagon. This five-door station wagon is a 6-passenger model and still carries the original 318CID V8 that was in the options menu back in ’59. Shifting on this one is also through a 3-speed TorqueFlite. It’s one of 35,024 built in ’59.
This one arrived to the UK in 2021, and all seems to be part of someone on his way to making his Mopar dreams come true.
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Even here in the States that would be a rare sight indeed, but over in the UK those giant B and C Body Mopars must seem somewhat out of this world. Possibly the driveway owner is collecting some US Market vehicles given the Ford Econoline bookended by the MoPars.
I prefer the ’59 Wagon myself. great finds!
Even the van behind the ‘59 is a Mopar – sort of.
There is a very strong US car scene in the UK – that ’59 Suburban is awesome!
No rust in the fender eyebrows of the 59! It also sports the dual remote control mirrors.
Not that I would kick the New Yorker out of the driveway.
Their were lots of USAF based in the UK during the Cold War. Many servicemen would order and bring their USA made cars over.
In the 60’s they would shame the domestic built vehicles, up to the Triumph 2000 / 2500, Rover P6 2000 / 2200 & P6B 3500, and the Jaguar Mk2 and XJ6.
Of course, when it came to taking a tight bend on a B road, or country lane, passers-by, would count the wobbles from the suspension. Average was 3.
Clearly made for long straights on smooth roads.
I too am in love with that wagon ! .
-Nate