Last Year's Model: A 1957 Chrysler on a 2008 Showroom Floor

If you act now, you can see a showroom-fresh 1957 Chrysler New Yorker on display in a contemporary Chrysler showroom. It's very then-meets-now, but in a good way.

At the corner of 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, Albera Brothers Chrysler and Jeep has the '57 New Yorker sitting in the glamor spot on the floor: in the corner, facing the street.

And let us tell you — it looks sweet, and not just when you compare it alongside a 2008 Town and Country minivan.

If you can't make it to Albera Bros. to see the spectacle for yourself, we took these photos to facilitate Internet-based teletravel. Just don't ask us to offer a test drive.

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(PHOTOS: All images by Telstar Logistics)

Comments

[striatic]

you know, i just watched the movie "Tucker" the other night [a very interesting, yet flawed film] .. and was thinking that i'm not very impressed with many cars today. i can only think of a handful i'd not be at least somewhat embarrassed to own.

and yet here was an age where even the ugly cars looked good .. and i don't think that's just 'nostalgia' talking.

there's a kind of blobism in modern design which i find problematic. modern vehicles look like they're trying to retain the basic geometry of a nurbed auto-cad rendering. all sweeping curves but no teeth. i'm hard pressed to think of a modern automobile that doesn't look like it has been squeezed out of a tube of toothpaste.

bah humbug!