Re: IML: Imperials are a "C" or a ...???

[aeyn <mr85000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,
   The Y as in YM43, is the car line, the M is the
Cost/Accessorized code.

Æyn
--- SpicemanII@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Where is the referrence to Imperial is the D or C body? All my
> parts books, 
> starting in 55 have Imperial as a Y body. It goes till my
> newest, 71 and it is 
> still a Y. 
>    DeSoto is an S. Chryslers are C. D is full size Dodge. P is
> full size 
> Plymouth. 
>    Who and what determined otherwise? 
>    Are you all using the series platform as determining a
> certain body? 
> Because, again, Imperials have 57 thru 68 that do not share
> sheetmetal. I am not 
> sure, but I think the platform might refer to a chassis as the
> platform. There 
> could be some argument here again. Yet, these and other years
> are Y bodies. I, 
> in selling parts, have always used Y for Imperials, never a C
> body as 
> referrence to an Imperial. 
>    Now, 1954, and older, Imperial is referred to as a C, or,
> top line 
> Chrysler, not a seperate car model as a Dodge or Plymouth from
> the same time period.  
>  
>                          Someone clue me in.    Joe Machado
> 



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