Re: IML: colors & upholstery '57-'60

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

We have posted the very nice, complete hardbound
dealership sample books as "showroom brochure" where
we can:

http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1960/Showroom/Cover.htm


1961 is in the pipeline, and there are a few others
here and there on the site already.

-Kenyon



--- Neal Herman <chrycordoba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Most manufacturers, Mopar included, would carry
> popular colors from one year to the next, dropping
> those that didn't sell and replacing them with new
> hues.  They also might use the same color but change
> the name, or have different names for the same color
> but on different model lines - Dodge calling it one
> name; Chrysler & Imperial another.  Look on the IML
> year-by-year section and compare the various years,
> looking also at the paint codes.  I think upholstery
> was more likely to NOT carry over year to year.. 
> The '60 material is quite different than the '59. 
> As I mentioned, I have the '59 upholstery book. 
> Perhaps someone out there on the IML has the '58
> and/or '60 book.
> 
> Neal Herman
> 1959 Imperial Crown
> 1988 Imperial Crown
> et al.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: henry ford 
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 4/19/2005 7:21:48 PM 
> Subject: RE: IML: leather seat reconditioning?
> 
> 
> my 59 imperial is a crown 4 dr ht, with the 15''
> wheels . so I believe it would have been built
> towards the end of the 59 year production, and may
> have used 60 model color options , but this is only
> a guess, because on the iml site in the 60 model
> paint chips I see a few colors that closely match my
> car.
> 
> I'm not sure what the color is on my car as most of
> it is faded and has surface rust , but in the door
> jambs and under the trunk lid the paint looks
> original, it could be aqua mist , Normandy blue or
> maybe turquoise gray metallic. the paint that is
> under the truck lid and door jambs have a metallic
> paint , but I cant tell what color it is,
> 
> the body tag is in very poor shape and I cant make
> anything out on it, any numbers or letters look the
> same , I can only make out the top left and a few on
> the second row just below the top , it reads as
> follows, if anyone can get any info from them, let
> me know. 
> >   A     9416   WE17105518
>      614   B  515 
> 
> the rest I cant make out .
> 
> my dash is covered in black and the front and rear
> seats as well are black carpet, my door panels have
> the light blueish or aqua vinyl and below that is
> black .  I will ask my wife if she remembers where "
> I put my camera" it may have a more pictures of my
> imperial , I then will be able to post them and you
> can look see if you can tell what the color is.
> 
> last month my Compaq  kicked the bucket and I lost
> all the pictures and info that I was building up
> from the iml web site, as with more pictures of my
> 59 and a few other imperials that I have found . now
> I have a dell, and I'm just getting into it, my old
> system was running windows 98, this dell is running
> win xp. and its totally different, but if I can I
> will take some new picks of my 59 and post them
> soon, 
> 
> thanks for all the leather information that everyone
> has giving, and thanks for bringing to my attention
> that the seats may not be original. 
> 
> did the 58, 59, and 60 imperials use the same
> interiors and colors?
> or are they year specific as for as style and
> colors?
> 
> Neal Herman <chrycordoba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hate to tell you this, but if your '59 Imperial has
> black upholstery at all, it's not original.  I don't
> remember whether you have a Crown or a Custom. 
> Leather was available in the Crown series, but only
> in a light-to-medium blue, tan, red and white.  Is
> your car Aqua Mist, like mine?  If so, the only
> all-leather interior color with that paint was
> white.  Even the LeBarons only came in
> broadcloth/leather in blue, green, tan/brown, light
> grey leather/dark grey broadcloth, and rose
> leather/red broadcloth; in addition to those colors
> in all-broadcloth.  I have the complete dealer paint
> chip & upholstery sample binder, and there's no
> black.
> 
> The dash is vinyl, not leather.  The door panels are
> also vinyl.  A clue to your original upholstery
> would be what is on the middle part of the door
> panel, below the armrest but above the strip of
> carpet at the bottom.  What is there should be what
> was once on the seat inserts.
> 
> On another note, I returned a week ago from the
> Anniston show in Miss Dorothy, my '66 Imperial.  She
> did quite well, except for a fan clutch that froze
> up on I-85 in South Carolina.  That was an easily
> obtained part once I got to Atlanta (thanks, Chris
> H. for the diagnosis!) and cruised the rest of the
> trip with no problems.  She did like her high-test
> Ethyl, though.  I averaged a shade under 12mpg on
> the highway.  But that was at my average cruising
> speed of 75-80mph.  With a car as large and solid as
> she is, the speed just creeps up on you without you
> being aware of it.  Ratchet it back down to 65, and
> you might as well be in reverse!
> 
> Neal Herman
> 1959 Imperial Crown 4-door Southampton (Aqua Mist,
> Silvercrest Landau roof, "Balmoral" cloth & leather
> interior) "Aquitania"
> 1966 Imperial Crown 4-door hardtop (Haze Green,
> Ivory vinyl roof, pearlescent white leather
> interior) "Miss Dorothy"
> et al.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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