And you can have a big 1979 mustache to go with it.
ChryslerDetroit went on a downsizing binge during the second half of the 1970s, with once-vast machines such as the Buick Electra and Ford LTD getting shortened or even put on smaller platforms. Chrysler opted for the latter approach when it came time to shrink the Newport for the 1979 model year, moving it from the big C platform to a version of the midsize B platform used by the Cordoba and Plymouth Fury. Here’s a magazine advertisement for that newly shrunken Newport.
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This turned out to be a smart move, what with the Iranian Revolution about to send oil prices through the roof that year. The Newport had been the cheapest Chrysler-badged model in North America since 1961, essentially a lower-spec New Yorker (or a Dodge Monaco with more bling and nicer standard equipment), so a smaller version with the same sort of plush Bordello Red interior made sense.
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