1975 Chrysler Cordoba
The Chrysler Cordoba takes everything cliché about the 70’s and puts it on four wheels: A massive, swooping front end with quad headlights and a checkered billet metal grille, a hood that’s about as long as any modern car’s wheelcase, an equally bodacious rear end that tries to mimic a Cadillac, and a leatherette hardtop rear cab cover with a small window so your mobster friends or bell-bottom adorned backseat buddies can watch the skyline pass by on the way to Studio 69.
Everything about the 1975 version of the Cordoba screams excess and furry, leopard-spotted opulence, and we love it. Measuring over 215” in length and just shy of 80” wide, this land boat commanded attention and weighed nearly 3,700 pounds. A perfectly suited “Cordoba Gold” was even introduced, with paint-matching wheels, a gold, all-vinyl interior, and an Aztec eagle hood ornament. All that was missing were OEM fuzzy dice.
The Cordoba apparently resonated with disco players nationwide, with over 183,000 units selling in one year. Available 318, 360, or 400 C.U. motors mated to a 3-speed A727 auto trans kept the land boat Cordoba jiving along with just shy of 300 horses, not bad for a personal luxury car.
