All Time Favorite?

["Bill Watson" <wwatson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Check the 1962 Plymouth and Dodge Dart/Polara.  You can see the tumblehome
and tuckunder on those models.   And if you see the original versions,
before the downsizing, you can also see the curved side windows.   Also, the
C pillar flowed smoothly from the roof into the side panels with no
beltline, similar to the fuselage models.

The fuselage 2-door hardtop roofline was used by the Fury, Polara, Monaco,
Chrysler and Imperial.  Which gives is that pimple on a shoe box look on the
Imperial.   It is a very balanced style on the Fury.  By the way, the 2-door
hardtop was designed with the old club coupes in mind.  Thus the smaller
greenhouse area.  The Fury formal hardtops used the 4-door hardtop roofline
and thus had a longer greenhouse.  Always wondered what an Imperial 2-door
hardtop would look like if they used the 4-door hardtop roofline.

Bill
Vancouver, BC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Currell Pattie" <currellpattie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:27 PM
Subject: RE: IML: All Time Favorite?


> 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>
> >Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: RE: IML: All Time Favorite?
> >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>
> >>Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>To: "'mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Subject: RE: IML: All Time Favorite?
> >>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
> >> >Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >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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