Re: IML: Eagle Trivia Answers

["Bill Watson" <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx>]

Political climate?  No. As far as war goes, there was not much going on in
the world around 1959 or 1990, at least in comparison to the 1960's.  The
design of parts takes place a year or more before a car goes into
production.

The changing to one side over the other was probably a stylist's decision.
After all, in the case of the 1990-93 Imperials, the Imperial had not used
an eagle since 1975, so there was nothing in recent memory for the stylists,
who probably weren't around in 1975 for the most part, to use as a
reference.

Bill
Vancouver, BC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gale jorgensen" <gjorgensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: IML: Eagle Trivia Answers


> well this is an interesting question esp. since we had very interesting
> designers at this time - I never gave much thought to this - but I do
> know that
> in times of war  the presidential seal the eagle's head is turned
> toward the arrows and times of peace towards the olive branch - the
> white house has 2 sets of rugs for the oval room.............  Is it
> possible that the eagles head was turned at various times on our
> Imperials? Depending on the political climate?
> how cool would that be !
>
> On Nov 12, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Kenyon Wills wrote:
>
> > What direction do they face on the rear lock cover,
> > which is not reversible and could unmask the
> > designers' intentions?
> >
> > The brochures are filled with matching rightey birds,
> > so I just figured.  They don't pay me to figure here,
> > though.
> >
> > I don't have a car handy for inspection.
> >
> > -Kenyon
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Brad Hogg <luxoliner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> The 90-93 hood ornament is the same front and back
> >> so if one were to simply
> >> turn the thing around, the eagle would look to the
> >> left.  A detail the guy
> >> taking that picture obviously overlooked.  This
> >> being the case, this isn't
> >> really a "righ tlooking eagle" IMO.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Kenyon Wills" <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "IML" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:36 PM
> >> Subject: IML: Eagle Trivia Answers
> >>
> >>
> >> The eagle head looks to the right and not the left
> >> in
> >> the following places on Imperials:
> >>
> >>
> > http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1961/SpottersGuide/Flitesweep-Eagle.jpg
> >>
> >>
> > http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1990/ImperialBrochure/Page02-reg.jpg
> >> 90-93 all had it....
> >>



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