Ask someone about any car made between 1965 and 1972, and the chances of you getting a musclecar as a response is all but guaranteed, with a popular pickup a very close second. You didn’t have to live in the era to understand why old trucks and cars that were built for speed and showing off have a draw to certain demographics. Even if it’s a ten-year-old kid who knows what a Chevelle and Charger are simply because Vin Diesel drove one in some movies, that connection is there. But find someone under the age of 40, someone who wasn’t alive in that era and was young enough to have missed most of the cars when they were still on the roads in droves when they were a child, and ask them about any car that isn’t a musclecar and isn’t an old truck. I bet you can actually watch the error code pop up behind their eyes.
There was life beyond Torinos, Camaros and Ford trucks. Not everything was painted lime-green and sounded like the gates of Hell were wide open and ready for business. In fact, quite a bit of it was pedestrian, large, and meant for families…station wagons. Just like today, where SUVs with all sorts of tricks are all the rage in the era of “OMG” levels of performance, station wagons played the sensible tune to the rock and roll soundtrack of high compression thumpers out cruising the streets. Able to seat a medium-sized extended family, built for comfort and offering up battleship-like proportions and weight, wagons got the bad end of the stick for a couple of decades…they were too big, too overdone, too dorky, too old-school. 
But this 1971 Chrysler Town & Country is far from those marks. Okay, maybe the fake wood isn’t your thing, but at least this isn’t sun-bleached or shredded to bits. Maybe the hubcaps aren’t your thing, but at least nobody has messed with this car so badly that you start to get nervous about what you can’t see. This is the perfect example of somebody’s baby, the car that has seen nothing but love for nearly half a century, doted on, waxed, polished and cared for as if it was a relative itself. The big C-body platform still had power, the fuselage shape still had the good curves, and the interior is acre upon acre of green inside.
If you did anything besides put some properly sized Cragar S/S wheels on BFGoodrich T/A radials to this survivor, have your head checked out. This Chrysler will sail down the road like nobody under the age of thirty has ever seen!
It IS good, but not eighteen friggin’ thousand dollars good. And you’d better like green, because boy is that thing green. It is green everywhere it is possible to be green.
Cragars? Well, I suppose since “Cragar” now owns the Keyston Kustomag Classic wheel, you could call them Cragars. But anything but Keystones would be a sin.
Agree with both. Definitely Keystones! And 18 Large??? not on a good day, skippy!
Chrysler put that shitty green interior in just about every car they ever made. It was ugly then and it is ugly now. 5Gs is all the money.
Creager SS for me too . But yeah 18 big ones for one of the largest unibody cars ever made ? I don’t think so . But if it were a 2 door in triple black yeah .
Sold for $10.5k – a very reasonable sum for a tidy wagon that is *guaranteed* to gain value.