Re: IML: '68 Convertible on Ebay

["Bill Watson" <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I have no figures on options by series or body styles, just model
year totals.   So the most detailed I can go is, of the total 1968
production of 15,361 cars, 97.2% were built with air conditioning.  And thus
2.8% of the 15,361 1968 Imperials built did not have air conditioning
installed.

I, too, suspect the installation rate of A/C was lower in convertibles than
in the hardtops and sedans.

Bill
Vancouver, BC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob P" <fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: IML: '68 Convertible on Ebay


> I know with lesser makes a/c was unusual in a convertible.  Did 97% of
> Imperial convertibles have a/c?
>
> >From: "Bill Watson" <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: IML: '68 Convertible on Ebay
> >Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:05:44 -0700
> >
> >
> >Believe it or not, but air conditioning was a $493 option in 1968.   And
of
> >the 15,361 Imperials built that year, 2.8% (about 430) were not ordered
> >with
> >A/C.  So it is a rare version of a rare car.
> >
> >And, stranger yet, 2.2% of the buyers (338) did not fork out for
whitewall
> >tires and 0.6% (92) did not order a radio.   One day we might come across
> >one of these 'stripper' Imperials - no A/C, no whitewalls and no radio.
> >
> >Bill
> >Vancouver, BC
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <RandalPark@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:56 AM
> >Subject: Re: IML: '68 Convertible on Ebay
> >
> >
> > > This one does NOT have air conditioning. I don't think I have ever
seen
> >a
> >'68 w/o a/c. Seller says that it never had it.
> > >
> > > Paul W.
> > >
> > >



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