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started putting the New Yorker name on its top-end luxury dreadnaughts
all the way back in the early 1940s
. When it came time to pitch an even more exclusive New Yorker, what street did Chrysler
in 1979?
. The
started out as
Gran Fury siblings, then switched to the smaller M-Body
platform for the 1982-1989 model years. Here’s a padded-landau-roof-equipped ‘
Fifth Avenue, spotted in a San Francisco Bay Area self-service wrecking yard.
Though the Fifth Avenue started life as a option package for the New Yorker, Chrysler ditched the New Yorker badging on these cars after the 1983 model year (while applying it, confusingly, to the Chrysler-badged
). Perhaps this was due to
certain Chrysler-demographic-terrifying developments in New York-based popular culture
around that time.
1970s styling touches were still going strong in mid-1980s Detroit, and this car has lots of fake wood and button-tufted vinyl inside, with this stainless-trimmed padded landau roof outside.
Mechanically speaking, it’s a
Diplomat, complete with 140-horsepower 318-cubic-inch (5.2 liter) V8, rear-wheel-drive, and three-speed automatic transmission. The Diplomat was a sturdy and reliable machine, but the $14,910 Fifth Avenue sticker price was a lot to pay for a Diplomat with some extra gingerbread, especially when the Diplomat listed at $10,086.
The Diplomat was a very popular choice for American law-enforcement duties during the 1980s, and the chase scene from
shows a slightly exaggerated depiction of its tough construction. It’s a shame that the filmmakers couldn’t find a way to use a Fifth Avenue instead.
For 1990, the Fifth Avenue name went onto a stretched version of the front-wheel-drive
, then disappeared after 1993.
“I enjoy making money… and spending it. But not foolishly.”
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