The car may have been wrecked and front fenders from a different model used to fix it. The other reason would be if the car was painted and the letters were ruined or lost prying them off, so the holes were eliminated. Paul In a message dated 3/11/2004 1:03:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, thulse@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > Can anyone explain why some Imperial Crowns have the word crown spelled by >the Imperial script on the front fenders and some don't. My Id tag clearly >shows it is a Crown but only > has Imperial script. > > Thanks > Tim