Chrysler Newport Hash-Smuggling Family Vacation, Belgium To India And…

Looking to do a little scenic drive with your girlfriend and young son… from Belgium to India and back, with a load of hash in secret compartments? What vehicle would you choose? Exactly: Newport!

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1971 Chrysler Newport Royal: Makes Buying Chryslers Like Eating Salted …

The Newport Royal was priced a couple hundred bucks lower than the regular Newport; it came with less gingerbread and a 360 instead of the 383 engine, but was otherwise the same car. See, that's to get you hooked Read…
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After 43 Years, Dodge Custom 880 Calls It Quits

IMG_1294.jpgBig four-door 60s Chrysler products (such as the '66 Monaco we saw recently) aren't really worth a lot of money these days, so when that 318 or 383 finally gets a death rattle... well, that sound often means a one-way ride to the Final Parking Lot. This 1965 Dodge 880 hung in there longer than most, but now it's a…

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1964 Chrysler Newport

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Since now I'm in the mood to look at mean-looking Detroit beaters, I'm breaking out some shots I took while enjoying a burritos-and-beer repast in the Oakland Coliseum BART parking lot prior to a baseball game. Apologies for the fuzztastic quality of my low-end cellphone camera, though I do think the grainy pixelated…

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1971 Chrysler Newport

71_Chrysler_Frt_LH_Close.jpgTime was, big early-70s Chryslers were everywhere, driven by fedora-wearing liquor-store owners and semi-successful realtors from coast to coast. The cool thing is that you still see a fair number of them on the street; since most of them really aren't objects of obsessive resto-worship, this means that they're simply…

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