Exactly! Nice point Kenyon---Let's drive these cars like they were designed to do and stop worrying about any kind of "investment". Hell, if I wanted an investment, I would have bought Trojan back in '69! CW --- Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > --- 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for earth-friendly autos? > Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' > Green Center. > http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ > > > ----------------- 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 > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ----------------- 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