Re: IML: 1966 Chrysler : Imperial Limousine Possibly Built in Spain

[Jeff Ingraham <jeff_ingraham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent catch Paul!!!
   It is not a push button drive car and all 65 ghia's
would have been having started life as 64 sedans, and
the jump seats are all wrong with the lights below
them, and there is vinyl on the front doors not
leather, and  so I am pretty sure you are correct that
it is a spanish made car!
Jeff

 

--- PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now that I have read the auction, I believe that
> this could be one of 
> the Spanish built cars. The fact that it originally
> came from there 
> lends itself to this possibility. I studied the
> photos and could not 
> see the Ghia script anyplace, and I believe that it
> is on the Ghia 
> built cars. The photos aren't really clear enough to
> see this, though.
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> 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.
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> -----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
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> Notice it has the 66 grille. Anyone
> > know of historical reasons this may be the case?
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> Ghias were slow to be produced by hand, and some
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> delivered awfully late in the year, lagging behind
> chrysler's model change by some time, I suspect.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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