This is a very good looking 4 door crown. No AC, but leather-cloth. Actually,
I really like the color too. There is a great present! This car is expensive,
but if you have the $, its probably worth it. The effort and money to bring a
car in this shape (unless I am missing something, or they are lying) will be
greater than the $5.5K asked (which I am sure can be negotiated). I doubt the
car will be sold on e-bay with these conditions, but we will see.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=6181&item=1875446415
And may be you can add a couple of plywood fins for crosswind stability! ;)
As for the previous thread about the stabilizing fins, here is a thought. The
car designs represent the era at which they were built. In the fifties, it was
all about external appearance. Everybody was trying to out-do the others in
styling themes. Car design was a sculpture first, and an engineering product
second, and as a result, they were extremely attractive and beatiful machines,
especially the more expensive ones. If one however wants a car engineered to
absolute perfection, American cars of that era would certainly NOT be the right
choice, even though some were better than others. It appears that the fins was
just another design exercize that became fashionable very quickly, and then
forgotten and abandoned, just as rapidly. Or then again, may be the
advertizing gimics were true, and it was about crosswinds. If you really buy
that, you can ask yourslef, why were the fins abandoned in 62-63? Cross wind
performance was not as important in 63? Why don't modern cars with highly
developed aerodynamics do not have fins? Many modern high performance cars
weigh a lot less than an Imperial, and they would be very sensitive to
crosswinds without fins, wouldn't they? Have you seen any high speed racing
car with fins? May be I am not fully informed, but I know of no modern high
performance car with fins.
D^2
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