Before he was battling Captain Kirk as Khan, Ricardo Montalban was extolling the virtues of the 1976 Chrysler Cordoba...
...which you can still find at Fred W. Smith's.
They've got a lot full of old Chryslers, Plymouths and Dodges
The Dart Swinger: If you were a swinger in the 70s, this was your car.
You could get all the Bradys, as well as the entire casts of My Three Sons, Family Affair, Nanny and the Professor and Bonaza in this Imperial wagon.
John Voight's LeBaron?
Our kindred roadside spirit RubberatRoad 's post about a Chrysler LeBaron reminded us about an eccentric roadside attraction we came across close to home: the Fred W. Smith vintage Chrysler dealership of Wakefield, Rhode Island. Wakefield's Tower Hill Road is a typically busy main drag, with fast food joints, gas stations and strip malls. Typical, that is, until a lot full of 1970s Cordobas, LeBarons and Imperials induces a neck-craning double-take. The name Fred W. Smith has been on the shingle of Rhode Island car dealerships since 1916, but a Mr. Bill Jeffrey is the proprietor of this retro establishment, and his passion, you may have guessed, are Chryslers from the Kojak era. These brown, Landau-roofed land yachts seem huge in a way different from today's oversized SUVs and they possess an aggressive attitude, as if they're saying "what are YOU lookin' at?" I remember these boats from my teenage years and how badly their owners suffered during the first gas shortages of the 1970s. Deja vu all over again. So get out your powder blue double-knits, grab your Peter Frampton eight-tracks and head down to Fred Smith's. And tell them Ricardo sent you.
