Re: IML: 1960 Imperial Trade in Value

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

Burbank Chrysler-Plymouth-Imperial in Southern California offered my folks $3,275 trade in on their 1960 Custom Sedan, fins and all, in November 1964 towards a brand new 1965 Crown Four Door that they had on the lot. Our car had appeal because at that time it had only 23,000 miles on it. There were some people who still liked the older sytle.

That was the last time that the car seemed to have any true trade-in potential. When they bought the '68 LeBaron in the fall of '67 they decided to keep the '60 in the garage where it stayed until I retrieved it in 1985.

Paul

In an email dated 10/4/2005 7:10:11 pm GMT Daylight time, "Greg and Russell" <65luxuryliner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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>>I distinctly remember my family's Forward Look finned transportation 
>>looking way out of place on the roadways around 1967 -68.
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>> I would imagine that the owner of a 1961 and older finned Imperial would 
>> have started to feel conspicuous in the wrong sort of way after the 1964 
>> cars were introduced.
>> Oh to have been cruising the used car lots back then with a pocket full of 
>> money!
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>For most of '64, I was nine years old and even at that young of an age, was 
>very conscious of automotive styling. ?As most kids of that era who were car 
>oriented, I bought and assembled the plastic 1/25 scale models of the 
>current models from the Big Three. (wish I still had that collection!). ?The 
>finned cars (model kits) even disappeared off the model shelves at the local 
>5 and 10 cent stores where the models were sold!
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>I clearly remember my dad buying a new '65 model (Ford LTD) and our family 
>going out for a drive in the new family car. ?It was so clean and 
>streamlined as compared to the finned cars that were still on the road. 
>They almost looked like cartoon caricatures of automobiles instead of the 
>real thing! ?Once that styling fell out of favor with the buying public, it 
>was DEAD. ?You probably couldn't have gotten much for your trade-in (finned 
>car) once they 'were out of style' and nobody wanted one. ? It amazes me 
>that any of the cars from the finned era survived.
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>Of course, we have come full circle regarding the popularity of the finned 
>cars (as collector cars, that is). ?They are the ones that are commanding 
>huge prices at vintage car auctions. ?How ironic! ? ?Now pristine examples 
>are fetching megadollars. ?Bet very few if any finned car owners could have 
>predicted that back in the early sixties!
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>Greg McDonnell
>'65 Crown convertible 
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