I'll try to remember to look through my material to find the reference of the sale of the Ghia tooling. My recollection is that this information was published in a book from the early 1970's so it is very possibly accurate.
Paul W. -----Original Message----- From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 5:04 pm Subject: RE: IML: 1965 Chrysler : Imperial Limousine Notice it has the 66 grille. Anyone
know of historical reasons this may be the case?
Ghias were slow to be produced by hand, and some were delivered awfully late in the year, lagging behind chrysler's model change by some time, I suspect. An enterprising owner or someone along the supply chain likely did a simple swap to magically update the front end of the car in one fell swoop. The rear bumper and wheel covers obviously missed this transition, since nobody would notice that, I guess. Guess they didn't dig the retail price or look of the gold leaf surround on the HL lenses for 1966? Thought we were talking serious luxury here! Probably an interesting, and now forgotten story there. Kenyon Wills _________________________________________________________________________ ___________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. 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 ________________________________________________________________________More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
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