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In a similar fashion, the 1962 Newport Town & Country station wagon was created by mating the updated front end of a 1961 Newport to the body of a 1961 Plymouth Suburban 4-door station wagon. A Plymouth wagon was chosen because it was Chrysler Corporation's only finless full-sized station wagon. [19]
Because the program to create all-new Chryslers for 1962 was abruptly canceled in 1960, both of the Town & Country wagons for the 1962 model year (Newport and New Yorker) were instead created by mating their 1961 front ends (updated for 1962) to the body of a 1961 Plymouth 4-door station wagon. [9]
Compounding this, when Chrysler marketing showed that consumers were likelier to buy an entry-level Chrysler than a DeSoto, Chrysler introduced the Newport as a 1961 model, selling more than 45,000 units in its first year. At less than $3,000, the Newport covered the same price range as the 1961 DeSoto, which had sold 3,034 units total.
Chrysler Newport. The Newport served as a two-year, one-off vehicle in the '40s and '50s, then as an entry-level sedan and wagon in 1961. Then, 50 years ago, it was transformed into an absolute ...
Newport: 1940 1941 1950: 1950 1961 1981 New Yorker: 1939 1996 New Yorker Fifth Avenue: 1983: 1983: 1990: 1993 Royal: 1933 1950 Saratoga: 1939 1953 1957 1960 1961 1966 Shadow [n 4] [n 5] 1988 1994 Six: 1924 1935 Spirit [n 4] [n 5] 1990 1995 Town and Country: 1941 1977 Turbine Car [n 6] 1963: 1963 Windsor: 1940 1966
The Chrysler Windsor is a full-size car which was built by Chrysler from 1939 through to the 1960s. The final Chrysler Windsor sold in the United States was produced in 1961, but production in Canada continued until 1966. The Canadian 1961 to 1966 Windsor model was for all intents and purposes the equivalent of the Chrysler Newport in the ...
The only visible cue at the front of the car that was different from the 1961 Dodge was the addition of a horizontal bar across the grille, bisected by Dodge’s new three-pointed "Fratzog" emblem in place of the stylized star bar from the 1961 Polara. The 1962 Custom 880 was identical to the Chrysler Newport from the rear, except for Dodge ...
In 1961, Chrysler added the Newport as its entry-level model for the American market, slotted below the Windsor. It used a name which in 1961 was commonly associated with Chrysler's expensive hardtops in the early and mid-1950s to take the market segment left open when the manufacturer's DeSoto brand was canceled.