First drive in 40 years s!

[mopar440]

My 65 3 seat New Yorker wagon for it's first real test drive! Seems peppy, wish me luck and thanks to everyone for the help! ( Especially the rear window, I'm now an expert)

Need right rear chrome body strip behind pass wheel, any one got one? Trade for lower window trim and/or wiper arms?

And a decent rear bumper

Any ballpark idea what it's worth? I know spot of variables, but I told hagrarty 13,000 am I out of the ballpark? Only 1600 made, 3 seater with AC

 

[live4theking]

Cool wagon.

 

[cbarge]

Congrats! Cool wagon!!
My car was last registered and driven in 1974.
43 years later seen here on it maiden voyage November 2017 after a long restoration..

 

[mopar440]

Congrats! Cool wagon!!
My car was last registered and driven in 1974.
43 years later seen here on it maiden voyage November 2017 after a long restoration..
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Sweet car! I get a kick out of getting these back on the road , and not spending 20,000 to do it. I think I'm going to peel coat it white for holloween and dress it up like ecto one. My son was a ghost busters last year

 

[3C's & a D?]

There's the full rear shot! That bumper isn't too bad. It would be nice to find a good one, but that one doesn't look rusty, and isn't bent that bad. I always try to keep as much of the car original as possible. Start soaking those bolts! It's going to come off one way or the other. Once off, I think you'll be surprised how well you'll be able to straighten it with a few blocks of wood and a heavy hammer, 5+ pounds.

 

[mopar440]

There's the full rear shot! That bumper isn't too bad. It would be nice to find a good one, but that one doesn't look rusty, and isn't bent that bad. I always try to keep as much of the car original as possible. Start soaking those bolts! It's going to come off one way or the other. Once off, I think you'll be surprised how well you'll be able to straighten it with a few blocks of wood and a heavy hammer, 5+ pounds.

Thanks for the info, yeah I plan on trying, I've never had great luck with banging metal but I'll try!

 

[Snotty]

Love the '65s.

After submitting some pictures, Hagerty appraised my cars at $13,000 for the Newport, and $9,500 for the Gremlin. I could not get those amounts for either car, but if they ever get stolen or burnt, I'll be doing all right.

 

[mopar440]

Love the '65s.

After submitting some pictures, Hagerty appraised my cars at $13,000 for the Newport, and $9,500 for the Gremlin. I could not get those amounts for either car, but if they ever get stolen or burnt, I'll be doing all right.

How do they deal with theft? If someone just screwdriver started it, and I couldn't find it in a few days, do they just cut a check?

 

[CBODY67]

If the quotes are for "agreed value" valuation, that's what you pay premiums on and that's what they pay for a total loss, as I understand it.

A friend's Dad had some sort of factory hot rod 4-speed AMX. He put a value on it for Hagerty. They called him back and suggested his value should be doubled, due to the particular option mix and very low production numbers. He was shocked, but concurred with their judgment, when it was all said and done. He knew it might be rare, but not THAT rare.

Great to see the '65-'68 cars on the road, especially wagons. Most were used and discarded, rather than really cared for. Congrats!

Enjoy!
CBODY67

 

[3C's & a D?]

How do they deal with theft? If someone just screwdriver started it, and I couldn't find it in a few days, do they just cut a check?

Think proactively. Install a kill switch. Hopefully, you may not even ever need it.

 

[mopar440]

Think proactively. Install a kill switch. Hopefully, you may not even ever need it.

Im thinking a rfid relay that has to be tripped with a remote that's hidden. We all know these are easy to hotwire under the hood, so I'm trying to think of a way to make that style theft harder

 

[mopar440]

If the quotes are for "agreed value" valuation, that's what you pay premiums on and that's what they pay for a total loss, as I understand it.

A friend's Dad had some sort of factory hot rod 4-speed AMX. He put a value on it for Hagerty. They called him back and suggested his value should be doubled, due to the particular option mix and very low production numbers. He was shocked, but concurred with their judgment, when it was all said and done. He knew it might be rare, but not THAT rare.

Great to see the '65-'68 cars on the road, especially wagons. Most were used and discarded, rather than really cared for. Congrats!

Enjoy!
CBODY67

Alot of wagons were used in mosnster truck Rally's in the early days I heard, too

 

[MacLebaron]

Awesome, kudos to you for getting it back on the road! Nice job, now you can enjoy it while you work on it (if you want). Enjoy.

 

[mopar440]

Awesome, kudos to you for getting it back on the road! Nice job, now you can enjoy it while you work on it (if you want). Enjoy.

That's the idea! However, once I get them going, it's harder to wrench on em

 

[Snotty]

How do they deal with theft? If someone just screwdriver started it, and I couldn't find it in a few days, do they just cut a check?

That's what I was told.

I gotta tell you, I am sold on their coverage. Less than $220 a YEAR for both cars. Before I went with them is was $1,600 for both on my Allstate policy.

 

[mopar440]

I wonder if it covers riots??? I'm a few miles from the action in MN

 

[3C's & a D?]

That's what I was told.

I gotta tell you, I am sold on their coverage. Less than $220 a YEAR for both cars. Before I went with them is was $1,600 for both on my Allstate policy.

If you're still with Allstate, time to start shopping around. I was with them for around a decade. One year they checked my driver's abstract, which wasn't great at the time. So they upped my rates. I checked around and got a way better deal elsewhere, with the same abstract. So I took it, and let my Allstate agent, who I liked, know. She told me "loyalty doesn't pay in the insurance game".

 

[LocuMob]

I wonder if it covers riots??? I'm a few miles from the action in MN

You're across the river, where's it's a whole different world. (I grew up in Minnetonka)

 

[78Brougham]

Idiot kids these days wouldn't be caught dead in our cars, much less know how to hotwire one.

Even if they were smart enough to find a screwdriver, they're too dumb to realize you need to pump the gas a couple times to get it to run. They'd crank the piss out of it till the battery died.

Don't worry about it. I never do. You want it that bad take it. I've got insurance. Most times I don't even lock them. That way they don't have to break a window to steal nothing.

Drive, Enjoy, Repeat.

 

[mopar440]

Idiot kids these days wouldn't be caught dead in our cars, much less know how to hotwire one.

Even if they were smart enough to find a screwdriver, they're too dumb to realize you need to pump the gas a couple times to get it to run. They'd crank the piss out of it till the battery died.

Don't worry about it. I never do. You want it that bad take it. I've got insurance. Most times I don't even lock them. That way they don't have to break a window to steal nothing.

Drive, Enjoy, Repeat.

I figured that too. There was a huge # of stolen cars in St Paul last year. I couldn't figure out how these kids could steal a newer vehicle. Every person left thier keys in the car ....