Hi Tom, Well, there is a 60 for sale right now on Ebay! A wonderful purple Crown Southampton, the opening bid is $14000 and the buy now price is a whopping $20K... The one on Ebay looks like a #2 car to me so let us wait for 5 days and see if it sells and for how much :) Makes me realize again that I have loads of luck last summer in buying me a beautiful 60 Crown for only $8300 !! Good luck, Robert Op Do, 13 juli, 2006 2:35 am, schreef Tom Scott: > I just got my beautiful powdered bronze lady (60 Crown Southampton) back > from the body shop. The mechanical/body restoration has taken about 9 > months but the effort was well worth it. She has a minor tranny leak and > the gas gauge and radio are both inop but they are more petty annoyances > than problems. I have 2 questions for the group. > > 1. An old time Chrysler mechanic told me that the leak was probably the > connection for the speedo cable. He said the cables had a long rubber > boot where they attached to the tranny and they had a tendency to dry out > and crack. My car sat since 1979 so this made a lot of sense to me. I > haven't crawled underneath yet to verify that's where the problem is but > has anyone run into a similar problem before with this kind of leak. If > so, is there a fix other than trying to find a NOS cable boot? > > 2. I spoke to my insurance carrier today about the agreed value of the > car. It is probably a #2, -2 or so. Still a few things left to do...a > few chrome parts, carpets, detail engine bay, etc. They said they didn't > have any information on late 50's early 60's Imperials. I sent them > pictures of the car and they bumped me up to $15,000 for the agreed > value. Does this sound reasonable? Most of the 60's I've seen sold > during the past 9 months have either been parts cars, in need of total > restos or customized jobs. I know I could go to an appraiser but before > I spend the money I though I'd ask the older...I mean more experience Imp > owners their opinion on the general value of my lady. Does anyone know > of any restored/survivor 60's that have sold recently? Oh, mine has a > grand total of 16,000 miles which I can document with service receipts. > > Thanx > Tom > > > 60 Crown Southampton, big, bold , beautiful and on the road again > 80 NYer 5th Ave > 82 Cordoba LS > 99 300M ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm