1961 Imperial Crown Convertible.
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2023
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Someone did a bang up job of putting this car back to its full beauty. Imperial was so fine in that day.
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I would proudly own AND drive this Car over ANY Car built today!💕
It would make a very nice grocery getter. Thanks for watching.
I notice that this car has the triple-trumpet horn option. That would have been a really good item to zoom in on. The L-shaped "Bass" horn is about two feet long, and it is identical in sound to an eighteen-wheeler's horn. When you honk it, it is saying "Get off the freeway, peasant... His Imperial Highness is coming!"
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Buddy of mine bought one identical to this in '64. it was super low miles & got it for $1,000. What an impressive car. Great highway cruiser.
For sure. Thanks for watching.
@@Mikesclassicautoworld Keep in mind in '64 there were a lot of '55-'57 Chevys, various 50s Fords, Mercurys & MoPars around & everyone seemed to pine for 409 Chevies, 427 Fords & big block MoPars. My buddy kept justifying the Imp saying he just couldn't pass it up & in retrospect he was right.
The 1957 Imperial was the first production car to have curved side glass. There are only two light bulbs in the '61 Imperial dash - The turn signals at the top of the two pods. The rest is fluorescent green electroluminescent panels - scrape off the black paint, and the whole thing glows.. They use 180-volt electrics, and so do the bright red gauge needles, which also light up like little neon tubes.
They were and are still beautiful cars!
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Absolutely stunning you Americans knew how to build cars back then.
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Very beautiful perfect looking car just love the colours wow thanks friend have a very nice weekend
Thanks Keith for watching. 👍
The cars from this time period were works of art. Love the color
Me too Eric. Thanks for watching.
That monster is Beautiful in its own way. Talk excess, it says see me coming and going !!
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Thank you Scott and Mike for showing this stunning Imperial Crown 🏆
You're welcome Dave. Thanks for watching.
Absolutely beautiful car……all the way around. And what a gorgeous shade of blue. Spectacular!
I agree. Thanks for watching.
The grill was designed to resemble the grill on the Cord 810. In the '61 Imperial's case, there was a mid-year recall to install rubber pieces behind the grill, because it sang like a harmonica at freeway speeds! I like to tell folks that same guy who designed my '61 Imperials also designed the Karmann Ghia... Virgil Exner. It's a fact! He designed the Chrysler Special, and VW told Ghia that they wanted that same design, but smaller.
Thanks for that info Tony and thanks for watching. 👍
I think I heard that Virgil Exner designed the Karmann Ghia! I have a different car a '64 Buick Riviera
@@joed5901 Actually Ghia was an Italian coach builder and designed the body for the Karmann. I don't believe Exner ever worked at Ghia. Either way I'd take your Riv any day of the week. Thanks for watching.
This car is amazing and looks like there are plenty of stunners in it's company there. Wow, just wow.
For sure. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic ! When I was 10 I built a '60 DeSoto 2 Dr ht from a AMT kit . Painted it candy turquois with full Painted w/w's . Got 2nd place in the hobby shop monthly competition ! Man , I was proud ❤👍
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This car is impeccable, I love it and yet no A/C kinda stumps me that someone wouldn't have added that option along with all the other treasures from the Imperial Hope Chest. Still I wouldn't kick the lady out of the house, it's so beautiful. You mentioned the competition between Cadillac and Lincoln but I think the Chrysler had the others beat. One of the hallmarks of these Land Yachts was how it didn't "dip" down in front when braking, nearly as severe as it's rivals at Ford and GM. When you mentioned "these cars being a favorite at demolition derbies," I cringed and my spine chilled and my heart skipped a couple beats! Hope that don't happen ever again! 😢
I agree Wayne. I believe the thinking of the time was ac. OR convertible. Having both isn't that common even for the high end class. I agree with you I wouldn't say no to this beauty either. Thanks for watching.
Yes, my Grandfather’s last new car was 1963 New Yorker (* air Conditioning was a gross , unnecessary “” Bad Luxury “ ( weakened People, etc..) for Him)…. Quality was Ok! Anyways, nOT sure I could have got Him to order CHRYSLER 300 Letter CAR Options, IF ………interestingly,I bought (with Patents Help) ,a **1961 CONVERTIBLE **FORD :GALAXIE::: Red/ Red INT/352//4 BBL/ auto in 1966-1968:: lot of miles.. BIG car !,
Agree with what you say about AC for a convertible, rather AC or a convertible. AC still seemed to be a bit excessive in 1982 for the K-based LeBaron convertible, which had AC standard, and I suppose Lido wanted that car to seem as luxurious as possible.
@@bc5441 For sure on that LeBaron. I agree.
In those times few convertibles had A/C, even in the south and west,it didn't matter how nice the car was. Mom drove a 63 Cadillac de ville convertible, triple-black and no A/C
Great looking and as someone said the cars from that time period are works of arts. Only thing is I would hate to have to detail it, probably would take a week to do.
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Actually they were banned from demolition derbys because they were so well built no other vehicle could stand up to them.
Yes /////////////////
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What an amazing beautiful car and color combination.
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The cars back in the 30s, 40s, 50s and ESPECIALLY the 60s were nothing short of works of art. Every one was unique & seemed to have a personality! Now, every SUV has almost the very same profile. There isn't a nickels worth of difference, inside or out. These large fins, on whichever car or brand were absolutely incredible!!
I hear you Frank. Thanks for watching.
The Design of the Rear End is Beautiful
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There was a member of our club that had 3 of these. They were blue, yellow and tan. I remember him talking about the tan one. It was sitting on the back lot of a Ford dealer for quite a while and he ended up buying it for $450. The tan one needed a bit of work. The other 2 had a lot of work done and were very nice.
Wow. Thanks for watching.
The detail to this car is something to behold. And it's a great color!
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What a beautiful car. Thanks for showing it .
You're welcome Don. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful automobile. Thanks for look
👍Thanks for watching Steve.
The color chart lists the color as "Tahitian Turquoise" Thank you for the share, Mike.
Thanks Chris and you're very welcome. Thanks for watching.
When working on my old 300g years ago I haunted the wrecking yards in the Los Angeles area. They had mopar product sections and I would see vintage Imperials and New Yorkers awaiting the crusher. Occasionally something from the late fifties and more often early 60s would pop up. They were very impressive even 40 years back, and it upset me somewhat to see them scrapped. The build quality and details were fantastic. Later models just weren't as impressive.
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I had a '59 Caddy convertible. This car is almost as outrageous! I love those floating headlights. Sad to hear they were used in demolition derby's!😪😪
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How elegant and beautiful it is, a REAL road Car, I think my Apartment is smaller!!
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I CAN SEE MYSELF DRIVING AROUND IN IT ❣️
Me too. haha. Thanks for watching.
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Now that is super impressive, thank you to you both for this video, I'm currently restoring a 1960 Imperial LeBaron so I love to see these beautiful cars complete.
You're very welcome. Good luck with that Imperial. It'll be worth it in the end. Thanks for watching.
That Ride was worth the 15 years of the full restoration that it deserves and to have it back the same way it is supposed to be even better when it was built, made and manufactured.
You can’t get no better than that. My Hats 🎩🧢 Off and Two Thumbs Up 👍🏾 👍🏾 to the Restoration Restorers of that Magnificent, Marvelous, Splendrous and Wondrous Beauty that that Ride is.
Scott and Mike definitely 👍🏾 keep up with the barn finds and videos that you keep on making.
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Thank you sir I'm glad you like the video. Yes it is a special car for sure. A lot of work went into this one. Thanks for watching. 👍
Perfect !
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This is my favorite year and model. Just Fantastic!
It is a beauty. Thanks for watching.
outstanding car. immeculate.
Thanks for watching Chris.
Finally. FINALLY. Someone who DOESN’T call it a “ Chrysler !!”
(IMPERIAL was It’s OWN BRAND/MAKE and DIVISION.)
And a hell of an Imperial it is to. 👍Thanks for watching.
Gorgeous! Big hunk of love there.
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What a beautiful example of the 61 Imperial Crown Convertible! Stunning! Thanks for sharing .
You're welcome Mike. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful Vehicle and Color Scheme 😊
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Very gutsy design, I love it!!!
They did an incredible job restoring it - looks like it just came out of the showroom.
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Thank you Mike
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
Radical is an understatement
😆Thanks for watching Mr. Howard.
@@Mikesclassicautoworld Mike, you and I share the same "eye" for cars friend.
Beautiful car!
The color is dreamy!
Thank you for showing this car
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
Love this car!
Me to Mike. Thanks for watching.
@@Mikesclassicautoworld you’re welcome! Keep up the great work mike
A quick google found it was a Firestone tire manufacturing process that dipped all the internal components of the tire in rubber gum before molding and curing the tire. The idea was to make the tires "blowout-proof".
Thank you DL for that info. I appreciate it. We had no idea what that meant. Thanks for watching. 👍
The 1960's had many automobile models that were both works of art and also motor vehicles.
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Really amazing car 👍
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Simply stunning!
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Era perfection.
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What a beautiful car super awesome
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Scott & MIke My Aunt Had A Impreial Crown 63 & Was Like A Living Room Floating Down The Road. Loved It.
Thanks for watching Thomas.
That's an amazing car! I want one!!
Me too. Thanks for watching.
BEAUTIFUL CAR GEM!💯
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Thank you for a trip down Memory Lane. The convertible is absolutely beautiful. My grandmother's was a baby blue four door hard top. On one of our grandparents/family visits to the Bay Area when I was 12 or 14 (we went every other year) I set about polishing it. That is a lot of sheet metal! I recall my grandmother missing her '57 though.
Great memories. Thanks for watching John.
beautiful , even regal love the colors
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What a magnificent car. The 61 thru 63's are my favorite Imperials. This one is just outstanding.
I agree. Thanks for watching.
When I was a little kid when these were new I was eye to eye with the headlights and I reached around them the way you did
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It’s Very Tastefully Done. 🌹
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nice to see close up view of this rare car.....don't recall seeing a '61 convertible in person .....would have remembered.....don't even recall seeing '61 Imperial in movies.....except believe there is a black 4 door with red interior in opening scenes of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'..(1961).... when Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is returning from an all nighter and Imperial is parked across from her apartment with her 'older' boyfriend snoozing and waiting ......for her to show up. There is a beautiful powder blue '62 Imperial convertible in 'It's a Mad Mad Mad World' (1963).....driven by Milton Berle....so glad this car has been so well preserved and pampered......thnx a mil....there is one more '68 Imperial (yellow) convertible in 'Point Blank'....but is disturbing to watch the car being trashed....although they claim it was repaired back to original....always irks me to see cars trashed and wrecked in Hollywood movies....
Thanks for that info and thanks for watching.....O ya Mad world is the best movie ever made. There I said it! Lol.
Gorgeous dream car! Designed by Virgil M. Exner Sr. Exner excellence! One of my Top Ten Dream Cars! Love the color! Exner designed the floating chrome headlamps and tail lights inspired by the classic cars of the early 1930s.
Yep it is a beauty. Thanks for watching Dejael.
Virgil Exner's sculpted Imperials to me are just rolling pieces of artwork.
Agreed. Thanks for watching Kev.
one of the nices cars in the world
That's a pretty big statement but if any car can live up to that than it might be this Imperial. Thanks for watching.
Love your channel Michael
Thanks Mike I appreciate it. Always trying to bring neat stuff. 👍
@@Mikesclassicautoworld your doing a great job!
A piece of art!
Yep. Thanks for watching.
This is an amazing time capsule.
Thanks for watching Jim.
We’re it mine, a white convertible top would be my choice. Beautiful cruiser for sure!
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I love that car❤
Me too. Thanks for watching.
thanks for showing this car
You're welcome Rusty. Thanks for watching.
As good as top-down American motoring ever got…
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Imperials were cool because you didn't see that many around , and they were loaded with everything.
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The wheel covers are from a 1961 Imperial LeBaron. The standard wheel covers for the Crown looked the same except they did not have the center floating ring.
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Expected a Marvin A. Martian badge. Imagine who initially purchased it. Cool car.
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Really a beautiful car, all they have to do now is get those doors properly aligned
Thanks for watching Jeremy.
@@Mikesclassicautoworld That is not a constructive reply....ignoring my point deliberately.
I actually owned a 1961 Imperial ( 4 door hard top ) . I so regret letting that car go. It was so much fun just loading every one in and going for a drive. It put ever one back in time, the tube am radio that took a minute or two to warm up and find a station :) and every body had an ash tray and a lighter .The drive was better than the destination .
Looking for an other one That example would be forever dream car :)
It is a great car for sure. Thanks for watching.
Wish it was sitting in my garage !!!
Me too. Thanks for watching.
I’m 71 this year and never knew the rear taillights were floating like the front lights … I was 9 when this car was new 🌟
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Es el último modelo Art Decco de la década de los 60s. Chysler hizo un auto, que ya no volverá a haber y hacer. En mi opinión, es el gran icono de la década. ¡¡ precioso!!
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I can’t imagine how much lead was used in the body finish operation to get all those compound curves to blend. You can’t stamp that in without getting the part stuck in the tool so all the seams were filled with molten lead. The guys that did the finishing were considered artists. They had to be fast and accurate so nobody could tell where the seams were.
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how nice, I've never seen a convertible in this body style.
I'm not surprised - They only made 429 of the '61 Imperial convertibles!
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What a *BEAUTY!* 😍Talk about *CHROME & FIN* Heaven! Thanks for showing us this classic, Mike and Scott...you have a new subscriber with me! Cheers from British Columbia, Canada 👋😎
Awesome! Thank you! Thanks for watching.
I'd never seen one of these. It is SCABULESS!!
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My nana had a white 61 Imperial Crown , when she came visiting my childhood house she paid me one dollar to wash it. The floating tail and head lights were a pain to wash. Before she gave me my one dollar dollar pay for washing her car, she checked if I washed behind the floating lights. My nana had multiple Imperials through my childhood.
Haha. great story Chris. Thanks for watching.
It's in much better shape than me, and I'm the same age.
Lol. Thanks for watching.
Woo Woo manifique
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Just like my grandfather's car.
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The Imperial was surely top of the line, but perched above Cadillac was the Brougham in the background.
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The 1961 Imperial convertible was the lowest production number for its year from 1957
to 1968. Less than 500 were made, and the one displayed is possibly the finest example left.
I agree Ron. Thanks for watching.
I hope this car is in Heaven……❤️❤️
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Dude is touching that car like a teenage girl does with a rotary phone..."what does this do?" lol
hahaha. Lets go with that. Thanks for watching.
This piece of art on four wheels makes the short list of the best vehicle i've ever seen. . . :>/
Yep. Thanks for watching.
MY DAD HAD A 1957 CHRYSLER CROWN IMPERIAL IN LIGHT SEA FOAM GREEN I REMEMBER THE PUSH BUTTON TRANSMISSION . MOM HAD THE 1958 CADILLAC COUPE' DEVILLE SLIVER/BLACK THAT'S WHEN THEY MADE CARS OF STEEL & CHROME 5,000 LBS
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Lovely automobile
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If I can't visit this artwork in person, this video is the next best thing. Hey, when/ where CAN we visit this in person?
Keep attending those car shows. You never know what will show up. Thanks for watching.
This is the most beautiful car I ever seen I will like to know how much a car like this cost if you don’t matter
It varies but safe to say a lot. Thanks for watching.
Love that car how much 😂
Its not for sale. Thanks for watching.
Someone spared no expense and did a fine restoration. The only thing that caught my eye are the secondary radio knobs appear to be incorrect.
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What is really interesting is... it was 1961 that Lincoln came out with the down-sized "square" body style. Total complete opposites in styling!!!
True. Thanks for watching Don.
Imperial It Sure Is
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Many 1961 episodes of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" feature Ozzie driving around in his '61 Imperial convertible. Interesting car, at the time dealers were cutting the fins off of it for export to avoid luxury taxes. When ChryCo heard about this, they removed the fins from '62. But I think it looks better with the fins.
Ouch. I never heard that one. Thanks for watching.
When I look at the 61 Imperial it's not been a favorite of mine. Those extreme fins were by 61 looking out dated, Cadillac had already taken fins to the ultimate extreme two years earlier in 59. So in 61 Imperial was showing almost cartoon like fins. Hanging rear lamps and headlights on stalks, I can only think of incongruent. Imperial's philosphy of design from 1955 was the famous Forward Look. The incongruence of the 61, they tried to continue with futuristic styling at the same time the retro look. Just didn't mesh. So. . . . . Here's a chance for anyone to take down my favorite Imperial. A 1960 Imperial LeBaron 4 door h/top. But either way, as long as these wonderful auto's are kept alive and well, this is the aim of any car lover. Nice video keep up the good work.
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I’m a huge fan of imperial another Chrysler product myself just don’t have the money to invest in them but I could’ve had a 1960 imperial with a oval steering wheel and pushbutton automatic 12:03 transmission. Big fins faux tire well in the trunk lid . And I kick myself for not buying it but I opted for the Windsor instead, but I actually the white, the color and everything of the imperial over the Windsor.
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