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  • Dad had a 1976 Cordoba, 400 big block, 4bbl thermo-quad! Wasn't designed for a race machine but it did ok. Was about the same size as Monte Carlos, Grand Prixs. Was a smooth riding, great looking machine. Wouldn't mind finding one like it today.

    And I got to drive a 300 series of the same vintage new, would smoke the tires and handled great!

  • These Cordobas are incredible cars that have stood teh test of time!

  • MIKEY is wrong, wrong, wrong. You want to talk about a shit box? Try a PINTO!

    FYI -- not all Cordobas were 318's with lean burn... L or P code Cordobas were about as quick as any other car at the time. The 1979 Cordoba 300 was a nice combination of the above with an E58 four-barrel 360 and posi rear (granted the gearing was a bit tall... but it was a sign of the times).

    And if you look at the rest of Chrysler's line up at the time... the Cordoba WAS the "Small Chrysler". Look at C body!

  • my cordoba had plenty of power with the 360, handled great on the highway and the streets. this was a sexy mans car and the guy that posted this shit has never driven one a day in his life.

  • It was a manly car.

  • It was a beautiful car, but highway driving was a bitch in this car. The front end would lift up, and if it was windy, you fought the car all the way. It was great for cruising the streets, it was a head turner, plus the coach lights on the rear piller were really beautiful. It needed more power though, as all the extra junk added just killed all the power it could have had. My 94 Ford Crown Victoria was a car with great pick-up, when you needed it, the Cordoba never did have very much.

  • @vexacon

    you are a jack ass, the cordoba had plenty of power, mine had a 360 and had no ploblem smoking anybody when it needed to.

  • Mikey is right! How 'bout that Lean Burn System that didn't work? They're cool looking cars but if you have one you need to put a Chevy engine in it. I don't know why Chrysler marketed this as "The Small Chrysler." Most cars would fit in the trunk of this thing.

  • maybe if you bought a 300 option and not the plain cordoba hed shut his mouth

  • These make good short track stock cars if you add a 4 barrel carb!

  • My' 76Cordoba is very nice and unrestored, 400-4 bbl, runs like new, no squeaks or rattles. It normally places at Mopar shows. Glad some of you don't like them, means there is more for me.

  • @Johanpromo i got a 77 charger which is identical.no rattles everything works and it rides like a caddy.its a great car with 70 k on it.all o.g.

  • Mid 70's American cars generally were some of the worst cars ever built in the history of the automobile. I realize some people have some nostalgia for this period. But come on be honest with me here I need a little truth. The entire exhaust assembly from front to back of the car came out from under the car while going 60mph in a 1974 Cadillac. Also the wiring spontaneously caught fire in the trunk. That just doesnt happen today but back then it happened all the time.

  • @Silvertrine I know your comment is old, but come on. You can't compare a car from the 70's to a car from today. That's like saying a blonde today has a better body then a blonde from the 70's. The two cannot compete.

  • I loved the look of my Cordoba but the engine seized up in bad weather for some reason. I think it spent more time on a tow than without! Still, the courtesy lights were a nice touch...

  • Corinthian leather was a phrase invented to describe the leather used in certain Chry luxury cars in the 70s. "Corinthian" does not actually indicate any type of leather and was added simply as a linguistic cachet. The first use of this term was to describe the leather in the 74 Chry Imperial,best use of this term is from the advertising campaign for the 76 Chry Cordoba. many misquote Montalbán as saying "rich Corinthian leather" in the Commercial, he actually says "soft Corinthian leather"

  • Yeah!!!!!!!!! But what about the fine Corinthan leather???????  JAMES.

  • @buzzclark How many Corinthians were killed to make the leather???

  • The Cordoba is FARRRRRR from being a shit box!!!!! I have 3 of them, '75, '76 and '79, and they are the most beautiful and best cars I have ever owned. Cordoba will end up being one of Chrysler's most remembered cars!!!

  • This commercial sucks. The only thing the Cordoba was good for was beating the hell out it.

  • this car is so cool

  • Cordoba was essentially a Charger with Chrysler Cordoba badging and maybe better trim levels...If you look at a Dodge Charger of the same era this is painfully obvious...

  • jimice16 ...who the fuck is Mikey...this sold well because it resembled the chevrolet monte carlo...are you telling me that was a shitty car?....I'd hate to see what you drive

  • Dude - Monte Carlo was a piece of shit. The only thing it was good for was getting a blow job while parked because nobody could see the back seat.

  • Haha x2 he probably drives a ricer lol.

  • I beg to differ,the BEST CAR EVER MADE!!

    I own a '78 that has the 360 v8 with 82,000 miles on it,as one of my show cars,and have won several awards at car shows. People theses days don't appreciate what the Doba did for Chrysler,it saved the company from going bankrupt in the 70's.

    Would love to see the 1978 TV commercial for this,as well as the '76 New Yorker one with Jack Jones singing "what a wonderful New yorker"

  • I agree man the cordoba was the best car ever made and they sold really good too i love my cordoba im 21 and i wanna keep mine in perfect shape that way i can keep enjoying it because with the crap thats going on these days they will never build another car as good as the cordoba ever heck no one builds a rear wheel drive 2 door anything cars now all suck except the new challenger, 300 and charger. The cordobas real boss

  • i like the music :)

  • Does he have Tattoo in the trunk?

  • The Cordobas a good car i own a 1980 and if its such a shit box why is the body in good shape original engine still running excellent and why can i get aftermarket parts for it and the bigger question why did it sell so good Mikey knows shit about cars

  • this commercial is 35 years old, but i think it's well done for the time period.

  • The car was crap, but the commercial is classic. Ricardo Montalban, brilliant actor, underused talent. Descanse en paz.

  • Lol my grandpa gave me this car and it has around 250,000 miles on it though every piece of the car mustve been fixed at some point. All my friends laugh and call it the boat. Parking is a bitch. The hood must be 8 feet long.

  • You obviously hav'nt seen the Chrysler Newport from the early 70's... forget the boat.....that thing is an aircraft carrier !

  • Well if you dont like the classic chrysler you own i suggest you sell it to someone that appreciates it and that will keep in good shape and dude its easier to park with a long hood i have a cordoba and you actually see the hood new cars you cant even tell were the hoods at thats one of the many reasons older cars are better

  • This "small" Chrysler?  RIP Khan noonian Sing, Mr. Roarke and Soft Corinthian Leather!

  • RIP Ricardo Montalban. You AND the "Doba were both great!

  • Chrysler's Windsor Ontario Canada plant had a moment of silence for the man who touted this Car that was made in Canada.

  • that's cool of them to do that.

  • sure was. as a tribute.

  • LoL! In bad taste there BigDickG, but very funny! Rip Ricardo!

  • He calls it a "small" chrysler. LOL. Cars were huge back in the day. RIP Ricardo.

  • goddamn cars were hideous in the 1970s

  • Cars of the 70's were beautiful.

  • and so were the women !

  • as kids are.........now, i'm 40 and was a kid in the 70's

    what i can tell you........YOU DONT KNOW WHAY YOU MISSED

    wish i was an adult THEN

  • Rest in Peace. RM

  • My mother had a 1976 Plymoth Gran Fury. Very similar. I wish she didn't get rid of it.

  • Best car Chrysler ever made...

  • I wish someone would post the version of this commercial with the "fine corinthian leatha" line.

    People made fun of that commercial for years afterward.

  • I have a 1975 Cordoba with 17,000 miles, 360 with the lean burn engine that gets 9 miles to a gallon. Last time I started it was 1995.Hasn't been driven on the road since 1987.

    It has the original Goodyear radials which flex so much, the hubcaps will squeek while driving. It is for sale.

  • Lol I have the same car but with 270,000 miles.

  • my dad had one, best car he ever had he said.

  • By the way the dude ihn this ad is Ricardo Montalban. He was a Mexican television, theatre, and film actor.

  • The Cordoba 1st edition is very good lookin and actual, I don't understand the discrimination around it...

  • Smiles everyone...Smiles....WELLLLCOM­E to FANNNNTASY ISLAND !

  • lol you should see my cordoba if you don't like them. 454, no cat just flowmaster, leather seats, 40k on body,2k on motor. These cars aren't bad cars! I bought mine because I thought it was badass looking. Never had a problem with anything on it so I dont know what the hell other people are talking about. (btw obviously its not stock engine, stock had a 360 2barrel)

  • This was one V8-powered personal luxury car back then...mentioning the Corinthian leather seat trim was a real luxury; in fact, today's true luxury cars have leather (instead of velvet) seat trim.

  • Welllcome to Fantasy Island, wellcome indeed !

  • If you don't like the Cordoba you have no business commenting. By the way if it was back in the early 870's...whatever that is...how could it be a late 70's car?

  • Back in the early 870's, a friend owned a 78 with 20k miles. That car scared me. It seemed that someone took it apart and didn't quite put it back together properly. I truly thought it would just fall to pieces.

  • i have a 1976 cordoba its an awesome car, i'v never had problems with it and mikey is a loser he knows nothing.

  • Mikey still thinks the DOBA (homo word for Cordoba) is a shit box. Mikey knows best.

  • Mikey doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground!!!!

  • Did I hear him say "small Chrysler"?  Damn...back then, that WAS a small car.

  • KHHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!

  • Every time we see a piece of shit car on the road, I tell my friend "I bet it has that fine corinthian leather" LMAO

  • I remember the ad as saying "RICH Corinthian leather." Not "soft." Oh well, it was 33 years ago.

  • oh my gosh, i had to drive a 1975 when i was 17, it was the most embarrassing piece of junk. we called it the boat, we even had oars!

  • Its like driving your living room

  • thickly cushioned luxury of seats available even in soffft coreenthian leather

  • i like the music :) anyone know what song it is?

  • I thought you were joking, but when I listened again, I realised that I had a version of it on mp3, from the film 'Brassed Off' (good version). The song is called "En Aranjuez con tu amor" and many people have covered it.

  • Thankyou for uploading this again! Some cocksucker had it taken down months ago for copyright reasons.

  • Mikey says to all of you why don't you marry the car. Mieky still thinks the car is a shit box.

  • if its sucha shit box then why spend time to track down this video and post it??? just askin

  • The 75 brought a lot of attention to the Chrysler division,attention that was sorely lacking with the overweight/ugly 74 full size line.Teamed with the near identical Charger SE,almost 200,000 of these specialty bodied B-cars were sold.For Chrysler this was good,as these were merely restyled 74 B cars (so costs were not excessive).Looking as different as they did against the Charger/Sebring of 74,was a big hocus pocus that buyers never realized.

  • FROM ITALY, Cordoba in Italy today is standard of american art, one of the rarest (just 5 arrived new in Italy) cars to put in a private luxury cars collection.

    About Ricardo he's a legend and don't need descriptions. Go Ricardo and Go Cordoba!

    A detail the spanish name Cordoba in original version is pronounced Còrdoba and not as in commercial ad. Cordòba.

  • I once had a '78. I got tired of the spark control computer always messing up on me. (That thing was mounted next to the air cleaner. Where the heat from the engine would always have some sort of effect on the computers performance.) So I scrapped it and installed a Mallory electronic ignition. That car ran great. Wish I still had it today.

  • i miss my cordoba that i bot in the 90s

    it was a nice green 1976 cordoba and it was only 700$

  • I miss my 410BB 650CFM 77 Cordoba:(. Black and had balls, beat a cop car, corvette and mustang. And yes the engine was bored over 10 from the stock 400BB

  • This car saved Chrysler in the mid to late 70s,and made Ricardo Montalban a household name.Not bad from a car that tried hard to copy Monte Carlo (it one upped it in fact),and had divisional competition from the near identical 1975-1978 Dodge Charger SE (that one bombed).Long live Cordoba 1975-1979....not the best car ever made,but one that caputured a lot of hearts and pocketbooks for those few magical years.

  • what hpspeedster says is true. if you had one of those Cordoba's in the 70s, you had "arrived."

  • I felt like I had arrived twelve years ago when I found a 300 Edition of the Cordoba with Tee Tops and Soft Corinthian Leather...

    Great old beast it is...

  • Ricardo Montalbán was already famous by that time.

    Of course, he was best known as Mr. Roarke on "Fantasy Island".

  • Not to nitpick, but this looks like a 1976 Cordoba, not a 1975...judging by the grill.

    As far as Mikey goes, we should all chip in and get him a new seeing eye dog...and some more powerful meds.

  • Corinthian leather............ Loooooooooove it!

  • 32 years later, i think this is still an effective commercial

  • LOL, Yeah! Where can I get a car with some of that Coreenthian Leythur?

  • I want to know who the hell is this Mikey character. He claims he thinks the Doba is a shit box, What does he know??

  • mikey isn't very smart then

  • Mikey says whatever you people say about the cordoba it still is a shit box.

  • KHAAANNNN

  • hey the chrysler cordoba is not the worst car in the ever! I mean look at the geos, pintos, pacers, and it goes on and on.......

  • AMC Madator was the WORST car EVER! Jesus fucking Christ UGLY too!

  • Mikey says how homo can you be to call the car "doba". This goes to eightymopar too. Mikey asks this dick when was the last time he pick a ho' in his doba? Mikey says to join the 21 century and to get a life. Im just passing his messege..

  • actualy often for that matter. like i said, everywhere i go it attracts all kind of attention. and it can whore the shit out of most import honda POS's out there.

  • i have a 76 doba and its built like a tank. i love my car

  • I have a ford.

  • This IS NOT, I say NOT the worst car ever made! There is stuff way worse! Id love to have one of these!

  • did you know that there is no such thing as Corinthian leather? it was a sale term used to make the car seem luxery.

  • yeah i have a 80 doba *license plate number L6 DOBA* with the 225 slant six and its a kick ass car. and thats an 80!! the boxy ones. i wish i had a 76-79 doba. all dobas are rare cars and mine attracts attention EVERYWHERE it goes

  • is it me but this Mikey guy seems to hate the Cordoba and its fancy leather. I happen to have a doba and until this day this car runs 3 girls per mile. What does he know about cars? STOP HATIN MIKEY!!

  • This car was built in Windsor, Ontario Canada. Canadian automobile workers are a different bred than their American counterparts. They are European who are hard working and come from The British Isles(England, Scotland, Wales) Germany, France, Italy and Ireland.

  • This commercial does not show "Corinthian Leather" even though he describes it.

  • The 79 Cordoba was my first car...passed down from the folks. It had real corinthian leather. I must have looked like a 16 year old pimp. ;) I luved it though.

  • Mikey says he hates the doba. He also asks if you could clean skid mark stains off the "Corintian leather"? I dont know why the devil he asks that.....

  • Because he shits himself in his own car.

  • OMG, I am so LMAO!! My brother and cousins used to make fun of this ad and I can't believe I found it here. Too funny!

  • Ricardo knows his needs!

  • I love my doba

  • fuck yea! i got an 80 doba with a slant 6. wow, i bet the dick who posted this vid REALY hates my car! lol

  • They call it "The Small Chrysler". Wow, everything is relative.

  • oh c,mon luxury....puuuleeeese....

  • You know, I happen to have a 1976 Cordoba. It is not a 'Shit box' or the worst car ever built, nor is it the number one collectible automobile in, well, ANYBODY's opinion.

    Sorry, Mikey.

  • it was a shit box, and by the way what is Corintian leather?

  • 'CorintHian leather' is nothing more than a marketing term. It is no different than any other kind of leather you might find in a 70's personal luxury car. And, it was manufactured in Newark, New Jersey. Not Corinth.

    And no, the Cordoba is still not a 'shit box.'

  • I just think it's hilarious because Ricardo Montalban publicly stated on a late show that a)he did the commercials solely for money and hated the car; b) Chrysler made him intentionally mispronounce 'Cordoba' (syllabic stress should be on the first syllable in Spanish; it's a city; and c) ther's no such thing as Coreeeeenthian leather.

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