1971 Chrysler Royal commercial

[TheRedneckdragon]

That's the ugliest fucking car I have ever seen...Ugly ugly ugly. Ugly commercial ugly color...No wonder they almost went broke.

[dvc0987]

I'd buy one, no need to compare to peanut eating, great looking car

[Christianpreaching]

i need one of these

[TheFETTIMagazine]

That old school is clean! I never heard of a Chrysler Royal but now I'm gonna shop around for them. It's from a time when cars were cars and not toys for manginas.

[Neville6000]

@TheFETTIMagazine: The only 'mangina' here is you, who will be paying through the nose for fuel at the gas pump one day. Better see if said car has enough room to accommodate a retrofit hybrid engine-you'll be needing it.

[TheFETTIMagazine]

@Neville6000

Only a mangina would get offended. Go watch your kiddie porn.

[Neville6000]

@TheFETTIMagazine: I have no car, and nothing to lose vis-a-vis fuel costs and the like. You obviously do, which is why you make these sexist, misogynist comments about how everybody who doesn't drive cars like this turd wrapped in steel that you think is great. Maybe it's you with the manhood problem, not I or anybody else. As I said before, good luck with your search and your eventual purchase-operation of said ugly POS; you'll be needing it.

[TheFETTIMagazine]

@Neville6000

Man you have problems and need help SMH

[Neville6000]

@TheFETTIMagazine: Because I said that I think your comments are full of it, you say I have problems? Get a load of this guy insulting me and anybody else who doesn't drive (or doesn't drive a muscle car)-he thinks he 's the shit! (Obvious answer to question-you're not.)

[TheFETTIMagazine]

@Neville6000

Were you picked on and bullied by guys that have muscle cars and had women that love them LOL.

[Neville6000]

@TheFETTIMagazine: No, I wasn't; I just don't like shitty cars being praised as better than newer ones that are better than it, LAST LONGER, and get better miles to the gallon (or litre.) As I said before, if you want something big as a barn, Chrysler still makes them, get off of your ass and find one.

[ntxguy]

Big, awesome Chrysler... I get quite tired of hearing the kool-aid drinking wussies (and enviro-Nazis) on here complain about these type of cars being too big and inefficient. This was when America was much greater and stronger than it is now, sadly. :-)

[beatlespersun]

@ntxguy Agree 100%. Also, I dont know if its me or not but I like my big cars like the ones they sold back then (even though Im only 15). Screw these clown cars w/1.4L engines. I want a car that doesnt require lots of lotion or acrobatics to get in & out of every time Im in a car

[itsmegp46]

@beatlespersun As a daily driver, you need to understand that those big cars back then only got about 8-10 miles per gallon in city driving, about 14-15 on the highway. Now that gas is around $4 a gallon, that gets pretty pricey.

[Neville6000]

@itsmegp46: These idiots don't care, they just like to rub it in the nose of all that don't share their love of cars. Let them be ignorant-they'll all feel some serious shit one day.

[Neville6000]

@ntxguy: Wait 'till the fuel prices get REALLY high-you won't be calling anybody 'Kool-Aid drinking wussies' (or 'enviro-Nazis'.) Looks like we got another Faux Noise zombie talking out of their ass as usual.

[Neville6000]

@ntxguy: My being 'from where I am' has NO basis as to your insult, so can it. I like great cars as much as the next guy-I just don't like shit from the past being praised as being better than cars made now. NEWSFLASH-most cars made now get better mileage to the gallon, are made better and are safer (thanks to almost-POTUS Ralph Nader) and most of them live longer. If those cars happen to be Japanese or Korean, tough shit-Detroit needs to smarten up and do better.

[itsmegp46]

Thank gosh those cars have come and gone. The quality was AWFUL! You'd be lucky to get 80,000 miles before the car would fall apart.

[beatlespersun]

@itsmegp46 The Chrysler Royal Pain In The Ass???

[auaiao9]

@itsmegp46 That was pretty much the case with all American cars from what I remember. People didn't put the miles on them back then that we do now. 80,000 miles would've been a high mileage car expected to show wear and tear.

[Lousybarber]

I got some really rotten tasting peanuts with my Chrysler Concorde. I wanted to love the car but it was running me into bankruptcy.

[cheomire]

here comes high gas prices!!

[Navdan87]

Wow! That's a BOAT!! Haha

[The6000Sabre]

This car was priced and opted out to attract Chevy Caprice and Ford LTD owners to trade up to Chrysler quality. The Royal was in the same class as Olds Delta 88 and Buick LeSabre class. But priced only slighter more than top of the line Chevy and Ford full size sedans.

[adape0884frank]

My dad would of enjoyed buying one of these but he never had the chance to do so.

[MRkallek91]

WOW these were the days!

BEST quality for cheap?!?!?!?!

totally fights modern cars of today!!!

[Neville6000]

@MRkallek91: What do you do when your car becomes a clunker, like most of these Chryslers of this era (early 1970's)? THEN you'll be buying a Toyota, Nissan, Honda, KIA, Huyndai just to replace it! What do you say to them apples, huh? The only thing this ugly-looking, gas-guzzling behemoth fights is other cars just like it in an ugly contest.

[The6000Sabre]

Chrysler, what a car. 1971, what a year!

[enigma413]

I love these kind of cars. Solid well built and gas-guzzling. :)

[TheLizardKing1967]

Not anymore....LOL

[linoleumcarving]

built by a bunch over hung-over, over-paid stoners and it showed too !

[michaelpc64]

I don't remeber the Royal...was that slotted below the Newport series?

[andean89]

@michaelpc64 This car was only offered in Canada.The standard engine was a slant 6!

[charlie8575]

@andean89 I was wondering about that. I don't ever remember seeing mention of the Royal in the U.S. Criminy a Slant Six in one of those would've been terribly slow. Interesting little piece of trivia, though.

[The6000Sabre]

Car commercials like this one dominated the air waves back then. And Detroit iron ruled the road. But this all began to change slowly when the first Arab/ OPEC oil boycott occurred in late 1973. And it's been down hill ever sense for Detroit as well as all of America's industrial might.

[The6000Sabre]

'Marcus Welby MD' drove one of these

[dieudonneMC]

these were great cars to ride with your girl in! I miss the front bench seats. I want my honey next to me!

[skylark68]

What's the font type on this commercial? I remember lots of things had this font back in the '70s. Very cool!

[masterlee123]

I don't like peanuts

[Beethoven80]

I believe they have sold Chryslers that way, but were they all in peanut color??

[70Kenny]

These cars are our American birthright. To hell with the C.A.F.E. standards. If Barack Obama wnted to save the American auto industry, he would recind, not toughen, the C.A.F.E standards. Let Detroit make what the consumer wants to buy! Forget the ridiculous Chevy Volt and allow GM and Chrysler concentrate on their respective Camaro and Challenger and they will both be FINE!!! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[ILVRACN]

Right on! I'm tired of these little marshmallow ugly slow ass cars that everyone is making now. I want a fast stylish american car that can get around all of the rolling turds on the road.

[Neville6000]

@ILVRACN: Then why don't you go and buy one then, instead of making stupid comments on YouTube? The 'little turds' are a hell of a lot more safer that that big POS you're getting a hard on for instead of the women that you should be getting a hard on for.

[ILVRACN]

@Neville6000 You need to work on your grammar.

BTW - You aren't going to get a girl driving a Honda Marshmallow.

[Neville6000]

@ILVRACN: Geez, one little mistake...

Most girls drive 'Honda Marshmallows', they even have boyfriends who drive them and tune (customize) them. And most Hondas, having a V6 powerplant and fast acceleration, would leave that ugly Dodge in the dust.

[auaiao9]

@Neville6000 you have no sex life

[Neville6000]

@auaiao9: My sex life is just fine, thank you. 

[auaiao9]

@Neville6000 uh huh. I'm sure.

[Neville6000]

@auaiao9: It's also NONE of your fracking business, too. Looks like your sex life is caught up in buying and lusting after big old ugly gas-guzzling POS's like this.

[auaiao9]

@Neville6000 A little bitter, aren't you? I'm making it my fricking fracking frocking business just because I'm in one of those moods. Yes, my sex life is all about buying and lusting after big old ugly cars like this one.

[fenix144]

@ILVRACN get around? 1/4 mile style i suppose? silly american.

[Neville6000]

@70Kenny: Different era, different standards. The CAFE regs are what keeps cars clean to begin with. Also, Obama's got nothing to do with Chrysler being a company that was run in a shitty manner-talk to the idiot execs that run it (who should be all fired anyway. And as for the 70's-the NIXON government was the one that started rules similar to CAFE. If you still want to drive Chrysler, you still can-nobody's stopping you.

[studpuppy69]

@70Kenny Since a V6 now has the power of a V8 and extremely better fuel economy, whats the problem? Case in point New Mustang. Impressive!

[nokia26300]

trans - am is the best

[TechForThought]

I love how a lot of the 1970s car looked alike. Not totally alike but a good few were similar and were huge boats

[Drivermatic]

Boats? have you seen the popular SUV's today....they are all bigger than these great 70's touring cars!

[fenix144]

@Drivermatic SUV's shouldn't exist in my opinion. what a waste

[grooteschuur62]

hard to believe cars were ever this big...Mmmm, other times...I love the seventies!

[enigma413]

Wish I had a mint condition '71 Chrysler. :(

[somewhatlongdong]

love the blazer the guy has on

[EgaoNoGenki]

Why do I think of the word "THURBEBA" when I think of this commercial?

[duncan36]

Ads today are awful, hyperactive, with 100 camera cuts and someone shouting. This is much better.

[798389]

A REAL car.

[Neville6000]

@798389: The guy that runs Top Gear and Jay Leno would have something to say to you about that.

[folgers69]

Great sales style great car and i love salted peanuts

[ChryslerESOP]

When you drive a well-maintained original car cross-country in a hurry; as they were designed for, there is nothing better.

The fact that they were such good cars means they stayed on the roads long enough to pass through a half-dozen owners who've beat them to a pulp.

[ChryslerESOP]

As someone who has owned several, stop looking a fool and "comparing" a 38-year-old car to anything, unless the example you're using is 95% like new.

The "Royal" is a sub-series of the low-priced Newport. This model has no New Yorker trim.

With the top engine, the car is good for about a 16.5 sec 1/4 mile, with a highway rear axle designed for 75 MPH cruising.

Read a magazine review of the day. These cars were praised for handling. They "float" when they're beat to hell and not maintained.

[markbotv3]

mine likes to go 85 mph if i dont keep an eye on it.

[Paulosoy]

Huge car, love it!

[roxme2]

you could build 4 mini's with the metal in that thing!

[legorret1]

LOL

[Fairfaxcat]

I loved those ads. Don't ever take them down You Tube! These cars looked great and their ads were the best. Unfortunately their quality was terrible. My dad had the '71 Newport Custom. The rear end sang like a choir when he took his foot off the gas pedal and the engine shook the whole car when idling at a stop light. The wind noise was unbeliveably loud.

[798389]

Great video!

[600SELV12]

Chryco tries to con you into thinking youre driving a New Yorker when really youre driving a base newport with "royal" badges on it. lol.

[ridgerunner72160]

My parents had a 1971 Newport Custom. I remember it was almost identical to the Chrysler Royal. I gotta admit it lasted forever...lol. My dad kept it until 1997 and then traded it in for a Buick Skylark.

[sirlordwhitman]

The Newport had a front end. The one shown in this ad is clearly a New Yorker style grille.

[ben5017]

when this car came out, gas was about 28 cents a gallon.

IT's only about 5 metric tons of steel in this barge that could run the 1/4 mile in a cool 21 seconds ... a true tuna boat that will demand the respect of your friends!

[UberkingRobert1]

Ah, but for the days when American autos were all-American and the size of an aircraft carrier, and gas didn't cost nearly a dollar a gallon...

[charlie8575]

I don't ever remember seeing the Royal mentioned anywhere? Was it a Newport sub-trim or a separate model? The only Royals I'm familiar with are the ones produced from +/-1939 to around 1950 or 51.

[phguy76]

I will never buy another Chrysler, My Town & Country went thru 3 auto trans, that's really

suck.

[WookieCookie]

That's easy... I use different source material. I don't "lift" other videos off of YouTube and "clean" them. This clip came off a 2" off-air recording from 1971. Oh, and I posted this in Sept 2007. The other copy was posted in Jan 2008.

[ChomuSclavus]

Takutaq has the same video but inferior quality. How does WookieCookie manage to improve the quality of his videos?

[paktype]

'71 was before the age of catalytic converters and electronic ignition

[Gary7even]

Actually, electronic ignition was an option on the Imperial and New Yorker in 71. It was an option on New Yorker and std on the Imperial in 72 and std on all Chrysler models for 73.

[mynameismic]

had a 71 newport "the general staff car" green, green int. 383 2bl ran great on reg gas ,manuel drum brakes ,floated down tne freeway ,used to coast down this hill and up the outher side to in front of my moms house

[jupitr2]

Wow! I forgot how much these car commercials used to rule the airwaves. Haven't heard that music in over 35-years and it all came back to me. Loved their cars and styling. Too bad so many of them only got like 12-MPG. LOL

[enigma413]

I know. I used to own a Chrysler.

[snarkdetriomphe]

They don't make tanks like that anymore!