I think the Imperial always had a very distinctive look all it's own, from as far back as I can remember. The 1956 Imperial certainly flowed into the 1957 style much more gracefully that Cadillac of the same years, and Imperials continued a unique style with a wedge type shape, growing higher and wider towards the rear, and always having an elaborate treatment around the tail lights. They continued to evolve this unique style until 1963, when the Exner era was over. Even the 1963 resembled the 1962, but they began to loose one of the unique style elements, the stand alone elaborate tail lights, and finally after 1963 they lost everything unique to their style, and became an entirely different car. I think bringing in a stylist from Ford was Chryslers biggest downfall to the unique style of the Imperial. Just my thoughts, I know as a kid that's when I started to loose interest in them, because they started looking like every other car. Bill '59 Crown