RE: IML: '67 LeBaron Auction

[Mark and Theresa Elliott <deadfishe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the same car that was for sale on Ebay last summer.  I saw the car 
at a local show back then and spoke with the owner for 15-20 minutes.  You 
can go back in the archives and probably find my post about the car 
then.  The owner was really clueless about Imperials, and I gathered that 
he bought the car for an inflated price out of California, expecting to 
sell it at a big profit.  He had receipts for most of the work that the 
previous owner had done (including recovering the front seat in a wrong 
type of leather).  The owner was asking $7500 last summer if I recall 
correctly.

Last summer the car was being listed by a dealer in Meridian Idaho that 
specializes in selling (or attempting to sell) collectible type cars at 
rather high prices (though most of them look good in the pictures, so maybe 
they are worth more than the cars I usually look at).  It is currently 
listed by (or at least was, since it seems to be gone now) a different 
dealer, this one also specializing in collectible cars.  When I was last at 
the current lister's location he had 2 Imperials on the lot, a 66 and a 
67/68, and said he had 2 or 3 others at an offsite location.

Last summer the owner mentioned that there was a few things that were 
needed (I saw a few things that were needed that he didn't mention), that 
he was planning on fixing, so I presume that the car is better than it was 
then.  The owner of the lot that currently is listing the car also restores 
cars (it is actually more of a restoration shop that also sells cars), and 
the cars they have restored that I have seen all look really good.  So the 
car could be in much better shape than when I last saw it (and it looked 
pretty good then).

Mark Elliott
64 Crown 4 door in Nampa Idaho
At 08:15 PM 1/8/2005 -0800, you wrote:
> From: "Anthony Bianchini" <ABianchini@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: IML: '67 LeBaron Auction
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:51:35 -0600
> Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> This same car was for sale just last year, the color and the black vinyl
> roof appear the same. Also the old (last year) ad stated the same info
> emphasizing "one of 19". Another thing is the front seat appears to have
> been cheaply reupholstered just like the LeBaron on e-bay last year; the
> only difference is now the car is outfitted with proper white side wall
> tires instead of the gaudy raised white letters it sported in the past.



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