"Special" Editions

[realman334bama]

I have been a lurker here for quite some time, don’t know much about how these threads work or if I’m doing this right. But I finally have something exciting to add! I have found a 1968 Newport Spring Special Edition in Seafoam Turquoise Metallic with the two-tone white and turquoise seats. I have been researching (my husband thinks I’m nuts) and finally got confirmation it existed at Carlisle in July when I found the mailer advertisement with the wood grain car included on it like what you pictured. I was going to paint my meadow green car #4 (turquoise) and then I found the real thing. Please tell me to go buy it.

I purchased a 1968 Chrysler Newport Seafoam Turquoise Metallic 4 Door about a year & half ago. It is a four door and came with everything else you described including air conditioning. The car is in great condition to be as old as it is but of course age has caused some imperfections, mainly cosmetically. I lucked up and found it at a used car lot in Ozark, Alabama. It was a one registered owner car before I bought and registered it. The owner of the car lot purchased it at a auction in upper Alabama and lost interest. Once I got it home, I discovered much information about the car and it’s previous owner by documents in the glove compartment. It has 86,XXX original miles on it and it a running and driving auto. I hope to hear back from anyone that’s excited and interested about my Special Newport.

 

[amazinblue82]

I purchased a 1968 Chrysler Newport Seafoam Turquoise Metallic 4 Door about a year & half ago. It is a four door and came with everything else you described including air conditioning. The car is in great condition to be as old as it is but of course age has caused some imperfections, mainly cosmetically. I lucked up and found it at a used car lot in Ozark, Alabama. It was a one registered owner car before I bought and registered it. The owner of the car lot purchased it at a auction in upper Alabama and lost interest. Once I got it home, I discovered much information about the car and it’s previous owner by documents in the glove compartment. It has 86,XXX original miles on it and it a running and driving auto. I hope to hear back from anyone that’s excited and interested about my Special Newport.

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You've got your fine car in the right part of FCBO to get attention/participation from interested folks.

My 1968 Chrysler Newport “Success Special “

Good luck with it.



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[realman334bama]

You've got your fine car in the right part of FCBO to get attention/participation from interested folks.

My 1968 Chrysler Newport “Success Special “

Good luck with it.



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Thanks!

 

[ayilar]

Now for 1970, I have seen this car a couple of times, a 1970 advertised a few times as at a TNT car, another time with a sign on it that said it was a 383 car.

Buy used Completly restored 1970 Crystler Newport convertible with 440 tnt in Searcy, Arkansas, United States, for US $18,500.00

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Same car again we think

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yet again we think, but with a sign on windshield saying its a 383 car
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Hence my confusion, and observation, of inability to confirm IF this vert is a A67, Newport 440 car.

Found the yellow 1970 Newport convertible with the continental tire kit on the trunk. It is CE27L0C106043 -- so not TNT there:

For Sale - Weird C body of the day? (check out the that spare tire on the trunk)

A page where the car was listed by Midway Auto Sales is here -- photos for records:

https://www.midwayautosalesar.com/details/used-1970-chrysler-newport/24836356

 

[fury fan]

Well, aside from not being original to the car, it's wearing a B-body HP manifold and has a passenger-side VC on the driverside, so I'd be curious what else of the engine isn't even of a real TNT. Most dealers don't go to the detail of showing the 70/71-specific external-balanced damper of a TNT.

 

[fury fan]

I think we've had some examples of this earlier in this thread? But not in this color.
1973 Dodge Polara polara custom | eBay


Discussion and some pics here. If someone could harvest the rest of the pics from ebay and put into this linked thread below, that'd be cool, because the ebay listing will disappear eventually but the FCBO discussion is more permanent. (I'm at my photo-pasting limit for the day)
https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/1973-polara-2dr-survivor-on-ebay.88101/https://redirect.viglink.com/?

 

[ayilar]

If someone could harvest the rest of the pics from ebay and put into this linked thread below, that'd be cool, because the ebay listing will disappear eventually but the FCBO discussion is more permanent. (I'm at my photo-pasting limit for the day)

Tomorrow is another day

 

[fury fan]

Might hafta red-X that comment...

 

[amazinblue82]

never really been a Mustang guy .. though i was a 1969 Boss-429 guy as a whipper-snapper 50+;years ago.

Stumbles on this Fox body throwback coming next model year.

Not gonna be a buyer ... but might at least stop by a FoMoCo dealer in retirement and vicariously take one for a spin.

the 5.0L V8, 6 speed manual (coupe not vert) should get me around pretty good without rolling over.

might even get me to defer/cancel a couple planned orange money restos in the queue and put one of these F/X's in the barn.

source: Ford-unveils-2026-mustang-fx-package-nostalgic-fox-body-styling

 

[fury fan]

Other than the plaid seat inserts, I see very little Fox in that one.
I actually see modern Camaro more than Fox.
Which is kinda funny, because the Fox chin spoiler and rear spoiler could've been emulated if they had chosen to do so?

 

[Samplingman]

There is not a single element, curve or line that resembles a Fox body Mustang in the image above. What am I missing?

the 5.0L V8, 6 speed manual (coupe not vert) should get me around pretty good without rolling over.

I was not so lucky.

 

[amazinblue82]

i see enough "knick knack" stuff (colors/trim, etc) to remind me of Foxes. i am admittedly am not/never was a Mustang guy after 1969, so i am easy to bamboozle..

"No way' architecture of a 40 year old design (necessary to get a more reminiscent shape) could come outta a modern set of presses, dies, jigs & fixtures, etc ... let alone weight, collision performance, fuel economy/aerodynamics .. to modern requirements to ever make any money.

Stated another way, a car rolling off the line today is of couse built with same overall kinds of equipement as 50 years ago ... but 1,000 things about TODAY's vehicle CANNOT be done with tweaks to TODAY's men/materiel WITHOUT HUGE $$$$ in time/moeny (too much [under the skin] about the vehicle itself is different -- no sane OEM would make tthat investment to maybe sell/service 15 years for only 15,000 cars).

to my knowledge of car building, a worthy effort. car still says "mustang"... same way modern reboots of challenger/ charger did (or GM with Camaro) ... only so far they could go with modern manufacturing systems/necessities for 40 year old body-in-white/plan views -- and have a chance at platform profits.

guess market will decide how well these Dearborn cats did on this improvised Fox 'Stang throwback.

i still think respectable effort at nostalgia. and i am still gonna spin one around the block this year.