Well, my garage has somewhat of a revolving door. One project out (1990
Imperial) another project in (1976 NYB). The temperature here got warm
enough for me to dare start my 78 Newport and to have a hope of starting the
76 NYB. The Newport took off no problem but the NYB, having summer oil,
wasn't as forgiving. Neither of my big cars have block heaters, being from
the west coast. I had to start the Newport to get the NYB out of the
driveway, plus I needed the Newport for a power plant as the NYB has a poor
battery. The NYB took some cranking (and a healthy boost from the Newport)
to get it to fire. It ran a few minutes and flooded itself out and died. I
let it sit a few minutes while I cleared the foot of snow off it and then
tried again. After cranking a while it fired again. It runs nice after it
warms up but that warm-up is pretty painful in that car.
The NYB is now in the garage and the long repair project will soon begin. I
will start with that high labour, low cost items first, then move onto the
more expensive items like vinyl top and paint. Basically it needs the
following:
Some rust repair on the floor, not sure how much. I get to weld more!
Two or more window motors need replacing. Anyone got spares?
A bunch of the dash electrics are dead as well as the power seats.
I'll take out all seats and carpet to do the above.
Exhaust needs work. I'll just get the muffler shop do that.
right side mirror broken. I think I have a T&C mirror still lying around.
right rear marker broken. Anyone have a spare?
Don't even think about Auto Temp at this point.
The cruise worked half way home from the coast so there might not be much
wrong with that.
I am hoping to be driving it some time this summer. That will all depend on
the finances, which are VERY tight right now.
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I tied into the NYB today. Basically, I took the seats out. This doesn't
sound like much but anyone who has lifted a NYB front power seat, will
understand how wore out I feel now. Not only that, but you may not be aware
that you need to jack up the car and unbolt the front seats from under the
car. The back seats aren't as heavy but they can still be a bit of a pain
to remove. Once you do it a couple times like I have though, it's not
exactly rocket science but rather just a bunch of work. I took some
pictures of what I have been doing and I also restructured my 76 NYB page on
the site. Have a look!
http://www.nybclub.org/membercars/bradhogg/76NYB/index.htm
Brad Hogg
Winnipeg, Manitoba
http://www.nybclub.org/bradhogg/index.htm
1990 Chrysler Imperial 4-door Sedan (the KImperial)
1978 Chrysler Newport 4-door Hard Top (the Newporker)
1976 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham 4-door Hard Top (the Black Beast)
1968 Chrysler Newport Custom 4-door Sedan (Grand-Dad's car)
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