With a model lineup that led from modest sixes to semi-custom eights, Chrysler covered an unusually broad spectrum of the luxury and near-luxury market in 1941. The company was the 10th-best seller in the model year and the eighth-largest producer of American cars in the calendar year, standing based upon careful engineering, thoughtful features, attractive subtle styling, and sound value for the money.

The 1941 New Yorker featured a steeply raked ve’ed windshield, complemented by a sharply pointed hood, a grille blended into the sculpted lines of the body, and delicate accents of bright beltline moldings and chrome parking lights atop the front fenders. The proven Chrysler straight-eight, now called the Spitfire and boasting 137 horsepower, ensured that owners would enjoy both excellent performance and a level of refinement, comfort, and safety as good as anything else from Detroit.

The New Yorker Convertible represented Chrysler’s most elite, sporting open model for 1941, and one of its rarest production cars, as only 1,295 were made. Relatively few have survived, making the model a desirable acquisition for any fine collection.

Acquired by the Bill Boucher Collection in 2016, the car offered here was once a part of the noted Charles Cawley Collection in Maine, known for its well-curated assembly of the best American convertibles from the 1940s and 1950s. Restored in the wonderful year-correct color, Polo Green, it features a complementary two-tone brown and tan interior and matching cloth top. In addition to its standard Fluid-Drive transmission, it is equipped with a push-button AM radio, dual fog lights, dual mirrors, and spotlights, as well as the rare rear wheel fender skirts, hubcaps with beauty rings, and wide whitewall tires.

This New Yorker’s prior restoration still shows very well today both inside and out; its engine compartment shows signs of moderate use—as can only be expected on a car so well-suited to carefree touring. This is clearly an excellent car to enjoy on the road or at a local concours d’elegance events, savoring the quality and beauty that is the 1941 Chrysler New Yorker.