I guesss that I did not meet the critera - I got my 2 year old 69 LeBaron 4DrHt when I was 17 and loved it. Also, my Dad wanted to make sure the I would be safe, (in something built to TANK STANDARDS - HaHa!). Aeyn --- "Hugh, 58 Imperial" <imperial58@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Imperial was always a car for the upper echelon. It's very > rare to meet > anyone who says they actually owned one. They were cars for > bankers and > doctors. Because of their high initial cost, I'm quite sure > they always > skewed towards the older, wealthier demographic. The 300 was > once called > the banker's rocket or something like that, wasn't it? It was > sold as a > thrill car for the wealthy set. No one ever said that about > the Imperial. > They were a different kind of halo car. To be aspired to but > only > attainable by the few. As "youth" culture became the > predominant force, > those dang baby boomers wouldn't be seen dead in some old fuddy > duddy > albatross, their "betters" had driven. > > Hugh > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <mamrom@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:59 AM > Subject: IML: Is it a Old Man's car or Prestiage driving? > > > > My Question: When, exactly, did Cadillacs, Lincolns and our > beloved > > IMPERIALS go from being a prestige car to an "old people" > car, at least in > > the eyes of reviewers. Surely the prestigious people that > bought them as > > late as 1974 could not all have reached old age by 1987!?! I > cannot > > believe fuel economy is the cause either, after all the 1980s > Broughams > > can get 20 mpg on the highway, not too shabby for the 1980s! > When did > > successful people switch from Cadillacs to BMWs and Lexuses, > and what was > > it that did it? Because surely a successful 40 year old in > 1975 would buy > > a CaddyImperial or Lincoln , not a BMW. What made him decide > that by age > > 50 Caddies/Imperials were too "old man?" > > > > ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com > ----------------- > > This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. > Please > > reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will > be > > shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for > the > > Administrators should be sent to iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx > > To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to > http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm > > > > > > ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com > ----------------- > This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. > Please > reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will > be > shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for > the > Administrators should be sent to iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx > To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm