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Thank you very much for the info!!! My dad and I
went out to the car and got under it to check everything out and make sure the
frame and suspension was sound and found good news: its all straight and
unharmed. I found out that the first owner's wife had "bumped" the grill
and fender and the body shop used what they could get to repair the car. I
was very happy to find out that the damage had only been cosmetic. After
thinking about it for a while I decided that I liked the 68 front clip on the
67, it gives the car character,lol. I'm sending the heads in to get them
reworked next weekend and I will be back on the road with my 1/2 67
Imperial in two weeks.
Thanks again,
Eddie V.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:37
PM
Subject: Re: IML: '67 Imp with a '68
nose
It could be that 68 parts were readily available when repair time came..
The blessed internet..was not always so useful and available to us.
People probably used what they could find and was expedient. Not such a
sin....ask Brad about his Newporker!
----- Original Message -----
From:
Christopher Hoffman
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:16
PM
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: '67 Imp with a '68
nose
Welcome, Edmund...
Since some of the follow-ups to
this didn't seem to note the magnitude of
Dick's statement, you'd need to
swap out the entire front end of the car,
except for the hood (I'm
talking bodywork only here, of course).
The front fenders do not
interchange between '67 and '68. The bottom edge of
the '68 fender goes
straight across from the front wheel arch to the bottom
of the grille,
whereas the '67 fender dips down to accommodate the "J" shape
of the
wraparound bumper.
As far as front-end bodywork goes, only the hoods
interchange. And even so,
the '67 has a hole for a stand-up eagle
medallion (the actual medallion, not
the mid-80s AMC-Renault car) and the
'68 windsplit extends down the front
edge of the hood.
Sounds like
someone put the front clip of a '68 on this '67... as Dick
noted, the
most obvious reason to do this is to repair a wrecked front end,
so a
thorough check of the mechanical stuff underneath the mismatched
bodywork
would be worthwhile.
For now, consider your car unique!
Chris
in LA
67 Crown
78 NYB Salon
Dick Benjamin (DickB@xxxxxxxxx)
wrote:
> It is a simple bolt-on job to replace the front end
sheetmetal of a 67 with
> 68 equivalents, the only problem being that
the side trim is different, and
> you will have side marker lights in
the front and not in the back.
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