RE: IML: Fuselage cars (and coupes) under valued?

["Isenhour" <isenhour@xxxxxxxx>]

No doubt looking at these vintage cars is exciting but driving one is the
ultimate enjoyment.  I'd be afraid to drive around one of those mint jewels
from Barrett Jackson Auctions. Give me a straight looking daily driver
anyday of the week. You'll turn more heads going down the road then sitting
in your heated garage. 

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Subject: Re: IML: Fuselage cars (and coupes) under valued?


--- john sadowski <jsadowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:

 No matter how nice, nobody seems
> to want to pay much for the 69-73's.
>       This is much like Lincolns of the late 60's. 
 

And that's the BEST part of all of this!

69-73 (some would say through 75) represent the most
depressed of prices and yet the most highly refined of
the full-size car engineering & execution.  New shocks
and a front end rebuild and you'll swear that you're
driving a car that's 30% smaller!

If folks here cared that much what others thought,
well, Imperial isn't the first stop on the popularity
parade.

Aside from the seller of the white car, who cares if
these cars aren't fetching top dollar.  Unless you
bought a 427 Cobra used in 1972 and put in storage,
the fact that they're $500,000+ now just means that
you'll not likely be owning one soon, and driving it
would be a tremendous risk.  

Cars as "investments" is crazy talk.  They really
shouldn't be financial instruments, and I'm happy just
not losing money on them, as you do with new cars that
have depreciation schedules.  That white one should
make someone really happy, and represents a bargain
for someone that wants to USE their car.



Anyway, I bought a 72 coupe, and the sheetmetal
between the back edge of the door and the rear bumper
is absolutely incredible.  Take a look at the
brochures from that time, and I think that you'll
agree that if nothing else, it's pretty unique and a
nice design element from the standpoint of such a
large surface area that you'll never likely see on
another car again.  

Checked the production figures for coupes on the club
website?  Mine's one of 2000 or so.  Although I've
never seen another Fuselage Imp on the roads here in
the Bay Area, I'm feeling even more confident that I'm
one of only a few on the planet with one of these
cars, AND I got it for fifteen hundred bucks!


Almost as nice as having a car that everyone else
agrees is rare without the headaches of insuring a
half-million dollar car.
 

Kenyon Wills
 
 






















 
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