Re: IML: '59 Imperial on Speed

["Chris Strohmeyer" <chrisstroh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I nominate Chris Hawkins  to anybody who wants there car restored correctly! 
I'm impressed.
I, too would be interested in what the buyer thinks-I wonder if he has any 
recourse?

Chris Strohmeyer
67 Imperial Convertible


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hawkins" <imperial1966@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:32 AM
Subject: RE: IML: '59 Imperial on Speed


> No kidding!  I saw the car at Barrett Jackson, and I
> was not particularly impressed with it.  The car was
> nice and straight and shiny, but that's about it.  At
> it's stratospheric selling price, I feel justified
> being very critical about it.
>
> Just about everything about it was wrong - starting
> with a paint color not found in any 1959 paint chart.
> The interior was wrong, also, and not simply because
> of the non-factory color.  Flat, featureless seat
> padding and incorrectly stitched biscuits - using
> cheap straight stitching rather than the correct (and
> expensive) fold-ever style was used.  And the
> embossing of the crowns on the upper bolsters was so
> slight you couldn't see it unless the light caught it
> just right. And the leather - oh my. Instead of using
> the factory correct gleaming white pearlized leather,
> there was this yellowed ivory leather used throughout
> that had the gloss level of oxidized rubber.  Outside,
> the addition of a 1953-54 eagle hood ornament was bad
> enough but it was compounded by the gold plating on
> the bird's body.  Gold plating also added bling the
> "Imperial" hood letters.  Really garish.  Then there
> were those silly wire wheels which were not available
> from the factory on any Mopar after 1956.
>
> I understand the high bid came over the phone.  Hope
> the new owner is not too disappointed when he gets a
> car that has had so many liberties taken in its
> restortion - to the point that there is not a visible
> surface that is factory correct.
>
> Chris H.
>
>
> --- Dick Benjamin <dickb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The buyer must be on Speed also!
> >
> >
> > Dick Benjamin
> >
> >
> >
> >   _____
> >
> > From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of James carter
> > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:08 PM
> > To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: IML: '59 Imperial on Speed
> >
> >
> >
> > it sld for 130,000
> >
> > "D. Howland" <howlands@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Just an FYI. A '59 Imperial is coming up on Speed
> > Channel coverage of the
> > Barrett-Jackson auction.
> >
> >
> >
> > Daryl
>
>
>
>
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