It could be that 68 parts were readily available when repair time came.. The blessed internet..was not always so useful and available to us. People probably used what they could find and was expedient. Not such a sin....ask Brad about his Newporker! ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Hoffman Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:16 PM To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: IML: '67 Imp with a '68 nose Welcome, Edmund...
Since some of the follow-ups to this didn't seem to note the magnitude of
Dick's statement, you'd need to swap out the entire front end of the car,
except for the hood (I'm talking bodywork only here, of course).
The front fenders do not interchange between '67 and '68. The bottom edge of
the '68 fender goes straight across from the front wheel arch to the bottom
of the grille, whereas the '67 fender dips down to accommodate the "J" shape
of the wraparound bumper.
As far as front-end bodywork goes, only the hoods interchange. And even so,
the '67 has a hole for a stand-up eagle medallion (the actual medallion, not
the mid-80s AMC-Renault car) and the '68 windsplit extends down the front
edge of the hood.
Sounds like someone put the front clip of a '68 on this '67... as Dick
noted, the most obvious reason to do this is to repair a wrecked front end,
so a thorough check of the mechanical stuff underneath the mismatched
bodywork would be worthwhile.
For now, consider your car unique!
Chris in LA
67 Crown
78 NYB Salon
Dick Benjamin (DickB@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> It is a simple bolt-on job to replace the front end sheetmetal of a 67 with
> 68 equivalents, the only problem being that the side trim is different, and
> you will have side marker lights in the front and not in the back.
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