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From my own recollection of when these cars were new, I'd
have to say that green & tan were the colors I saw most often. Black seemed
to lose favor in the mid 60's.
John
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Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:01
AM
Subject: RE: IML: triple black 72s
Chrysler Historic Collections has many of the records for
production option "take rates", including colors. You could what percent of
Imperials in a given year had black paint, black tops, ATC, etc. as a %
of total production. This was used to determine popularity for future models,
and for inventory order.
Many years of these records are intact, I found
the paint color rates on my 65 300 from Chrysler Historic. Can't comment on
availability for '72.
What they cannot tell is how many of a vehicle had
combinations, i.e., black paint/top/interior. Some of the muscle car guys have
figured this out for Challenger, et al, but not so for the big cars.
You
might try contacting Chrysler Historic, mail only, they do not have staff for
calls.
Mark
Pete Engel <peter.engel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
First
of all, I don't think that anyone can tell you with authority which
color
COMBINATION was the most popular. That information is lost to the
sands
of time since the records, if Chrysler did have them, were purged
long,
long ago.
Having just said that, I do know that Chrysler included
past year PAINT
color popularity in advance sales literature meant for
dealer eyes only.
Presumably this was to help them order cars for
inventory, car's that would
sell quickly since they were a popular
color.
I have a dealer color and trim album for the 1973 model year
and it has a
supplement showing the equipment installation rates and
paint color
preferences for the 1972 model year Plymouths.
For
Valiants and Dusters, black was the least popular at only 1.6%
Black was
a little more popular on Barracuda models: 4.2%
Only 1.9% of Satellites
were black.
Finally, black was again the least popular color for Fury
models: 1.0%
Now I realize that black is a more popular color on
luxury cars but for
someone to say that triple black was THE most popular
combo for a 72
Imperial seems like a stretch. Frankly, I think it's
ridiculous.
Greens and golds were very popular in the early 70s so my
money is on one of
those shades for the top seller. In 25+ years of
Imperial spotting I've
only seen a handful of triple black fuselage era
Imperials.
Hopefully and IML member owns a 73 Chrysler and Imperial
dealer album with
the supplement and he can provide the paint color info.
Hint hint.
Pete in PA
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007
13:29:06 +1300
From: TRACY
Subject: IML: 72
imperial color schemes
just wondering if any one knows how many
triple back 1972 4dr lebarons
were made?? I was told this was the most
common color scheme, is that
correct or not???
just curious now as I
haven't seen any for sale but haven't been looking to
hard
either
thanks
Tracy
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