IML: 61 Imperial Useless Trivia (some 57/58 too)

[Ken Miller <kdmiller44@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess it really doesn't matter, but where else can things like this be 
posted?

I am reassembling my 61 rear deck area trim and attempted to bolt in the 
taillights.  Somewhere along the line, one of the two nuts for the right 
hand assembly came up missing.  I removed a nut from my spare 61 
taillight and found that the half-inch socket I had used to tighten the 
other three nuts wouldn't fit (after being on my back for a while in an 
ungodly position [especially for an old man like me]).  It turns out 
that at some time and for some reason, Chrysler changed the head size on 
the nut from half-inch to 9/16.  Why, I'll guess we'll never know.

It reminds me that I found that they used machine screws to hold in the 
turn-signal switch on the 57 while the 58 switched to self-tapping.  I 
guess it saved some money to stop tapping holes in that unit so I can 
understand that change.

Ken Miller
61 and 67 Converts

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