All Time Favorite?

["Currell Pattie" <currellpattie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 69-73 dates are correct for the fuselage styling, but the first year 
(and maybe the second) displayed the concept in a more extreme way.The trim 
on the 72 and 73, along with the grille changes, seems to tone the "look" 
down a bit. So maybe that was a Freudian Slip, cutting the date in '71. : )

I see an interesting parallel with the 34 Airflow, and the deemphasizing of 
that theme on the 35-37 models, still sharing the same body platform.

Tony, while it is true that Chrysler Corp pioneered something,  with the 
extreme tumblehome and tuckunder on the 69 corporate line, I still see a lot 
of the well-admired 1965 GM line of cars. Especially the 65-66 
Impala/Caprice in the Plymouth. Not so much in the front view, revealing the 
"fuselage", but in the side view, showing the general shape.

Maybe it's just me...

Anyway, that 69 Imperial Coupe always fascinated me, with such a small A to 
C pillar volume, and such a huge trunk. It was almost El Camino-ish in 
proportions.

You could land a helicopter on the trunk.   Currell


>From: "Tony Fortner" <keith_f79@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:42:33 -0500
>
>Yes you are right....My typing has never been too great!!...lol..I meant to 
>type 73...LOL
>
>
>>From: "Woolf,Richard" <richard.woolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:24:47 -0500
>>
>>Tony,
>>  Didn't the fuslelage bodies end in 1973?
>>If so that means the fuslelage which started in '69 went until '73 not 
>>'71.
>>Rich Woolf
>>'66 Crown
>>'73 LeBaron
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tony Fortner [mailto:keith_f79@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>>Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:57 PM
>>To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: IML: All Time Favorite?
>>
>>
>>Hey Gang,
>>
>>I think that I will chime in on this one...Well IMO I think the 69-71
>>fuslelage cars are the nice ones.
>>
>>I first got hooked on the 69 Imperial by a couple buddies of mine and then 
>>I
>>
>>soon had to have my own. Well the first one that I bought has since passed
>>on but now I have 3 fusleage cars in which I dearly love.  I like the 
>>smooth
>>
>>body lines and how they appear to be well ahead of thier time. ,,,,maybe
>>they are....but at any rate they caught me at a young age (16) and I can't
>>let go of them to this date.  There are soo many things that I like about
>>them that I can't type them all.....
>>
>>Tony Fortner
>>1969 Imperial 2 door
>>1971 Imperial 4 door
>>1971 Newport 2 door
>>1992 Lebaron GTC vert (5 speed turbo)
>>1990 Imperial
>>
>>
>> >From: DONALDDICKINSOND@xxxxxx
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>> >To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >Subject: Re: IML: All Time Favorite?
>> >Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:51:21 EST
>> >
>> >Mark, I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, as the saying goes.
>> >This past summer I came close to buying a 1962 Imperial convertible but 
>>I
>> >just
>> >couldn't get it out of my mind how ugly it looked to me, frog eyes and 
>>all.
>>
>> >  My
>> >vote would go to #1 1955, #2 1957, #3 1958
>>
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