Vinegar Hill is a scruffy, almost old-world collection of cobbled streets and tiny houses sandwiched between trendy DUMBO and the sprawling Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s also home to this long-entombed ’72 Chrysler Newport sedan with a duct tape formal landau covering the presumably absent rear window. It’s not entirely clear through the chain link, but there’s a decent size tree against the front bumper as well. It may be a fuselage, but this one isn’t flying anywhere.
Perhaps this is one of them VTOL Fuseys.
I don’t wanna know what’s in da trunk! 😉
Breaks my heart to see a fuselage in this shape????
I grew up with a ’69 Newport driven by my best friend’s mom.
Excellent coverage of these cars at fuselage.de
I’m with ya, always had a soft spot for fuselages. Sad to see this one so neglected 🙁 .
I have a soft spot for the 72, likely due to the black Newport 2 door that my best friend’s dad bought new. Pictures like this always make me wonder about what was the final straw that caused the car’s owner to walk away from it one day.
Just yesterday or the day before I spotted a 69 Fury at the post office, a 2 door hardtop that was green in and out….though a fair amount of paint was rubbed off.
Had my phone-camera with me but the car was in heavy shade under a tree with a car on each side.
My grandfather had one of these in yellow. He finally traded it for a 1979 LeBaron sedan after ripping off the passenger side molding one too many times on the side of the garage door frame. A 1972 Chrysler in a late 1920’s garage was not a good fit!
That’s not a small tree in back either. I wonder how long it’s been parked in that spot, for that tree to get that big?
The quality of work on that duct tape rear window looks reasonably good though. Wonder if it actually holds watertight when there is a decent amount of snow on top of it? And the fact that they bothered to do that at all (presumably the rear window was broken at some point in between when it was first parked and today) seems at odds with the car’s decidedly non-mobile status.
“I’m gonna restore it some day”
Nice Oldsmobile. 🙂
I can’t get too excited about the base sedans. But, the ’72 Newport Custom hardtop with a generous dollop of options would be very welcome in my garage. My Cub Scout Den Mother had a Newport very much like this picture, but the obligatory ’70s brown instead of green.
I’ve softened a bit on period colors like this – I don’t mind this green at all.