Re: IML: Is it a Old Man's car or Prestiage driving?

[aeyn <mr85000@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guesss that I did not meet the critera - I got my 2 year old 69
LeBaron 4DrHt when I was 17 and loved it.  Also, my Dad wanted to
make sure the I would be safe, (in something built to TANK
STANDARDS - HaHa!).

Aeyn

--- "Hugh, 58 Imperial" <imperial58@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Imperial was always a car for the upper echelon.  It's very
> rare to meet 
> anyone who says they actually owned one.  They were cars for
> bankers and 
> doctors.  Because of their high initial cost, I'm quite sure
> they always 
> skewed towards the older, wealthier demographic.  The 300 was
> once called 
> the banker's rocket or something like that, wasn't it?  It was
> sold as a 
> thrill car for the wealthy set.  No one ever said that about
> the Imperial. 
> They were a different kind of halo car.  To be aspired to but
> only 
> attainable by the few.  As "youth" culture became the
> predominant force, 
> those dang baby boomers wouldn't be seen dead in some old fuddy
> duddy 
> albatross, their "betters" had driven.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <mamrom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:59 AM
> Subject: IML: Is it a Old Man's car or Prestiage driving?
> 
> 
> > My Question: When, exactly, did Cadillacs, Lincolns and our
> beloved 
> > IMPERIALS go from being a prestige car to an "old people"
> car, at least in 
> > the eyes of reviewers. Surely the prestigious people that
> bought them as 
> > late as 1974 could not all have reached old age by 1987!?! I
> cannot 
> > believe fuel economy is the cause either, after all the 1980s
> Broughams 
> > can get 20 mpg on the highway, not too shabby for the 1980s!
> When did 
> > successful people switch from Cadillacs to BMWs and Lexuses,
> and what was 
> > it that did it? Because surely a successful 40 year old in
> 1975 would buy 
> > a CaddyImperial or Lincoln , not a BMW. What made him decide
> that by age 
> > 50 Caddies/Imperials were too "old man?"
> >
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