Imperial Luxury - When Size Matters
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For sale is my 1973 Imperial. I had intended to give this car away however to my surprise, there was very little interest from my local non-profits. So, instead, she's listed for sale and we're searching for the next caretaker of this fine luxury automobile.
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She sounds strong, that interior is great, I bet she rides and drives like a dream. The small chips,wear and dings give it character.
In 1973 I was 11 years old. I remember these huge cars as being the normal cars that everyone drove. I really liked the 4 door hardtops like this car is. It was so fun to ride in with all the windows down. One of my friends Mom had the 2 door version of this car. Same color inside and out as this car is.
Im 18 years old and most youngins my age want new luxurious mercs and fast cars and all but i just cant stop thinking about buying a old school car !!this is my favourite old skool along with lincoln continental
Isaia Leuila good lad make it happen
So there is normal kids out there ,,right on
i absolutely want a lebaron '72 with sunroof. + a Mercury Marquis brougham '74 wich have been dusting down in my grandfathers garage since 1998
Dude same, im 17 and am in love with my 1974 Chrysler new yorker. While everyone else practically wants a Mercedes or a lexus, im here with my classic chrysler.
Same here! I don't want some muscle car, my dream car is a 1979 Lincoln Continental Town Car Collector's Series!
Such memories. In my first job in 1975 my boss drove this car. He always came in each morning, gave me his car keys and asked me to do him a favor and park his car. So I would go out to the hotel entrance, and drive his car several times around the hotel grounds pretending to find the best parking spot. It was like stearing a floating car, but I loved it. Especially pretending that it was mine. Lol.
Love these old boats. They have a smooth ride that is unmatched by most anything today. While it’s nice to have a sharp handling car, sometimes it’s nice to have a super smooth cushy ride.
5 years later I am watching this video and just bought a "Sky blue" '73 Imperial identical to this one. Took awhile-but I got it.
I turned 19 a week ago and not but a month before that I bought a 71' Newport in Ohio. Original jet black paint with a thin red stripe running down the sides. I love these big luxury cars, makes for the smoothest ride anyone could be in.
Congratulations on your birthday and for buying a fantastic Mopar from the fuselage era. You clearly have fine taste in automobiles. I think you'll find that for a vintage car, your '71 will drive and handle like something much more modern. Yea she's big and heavy and the suspension is designed for comfort but she have everyday livability with strong brakes, competent handling and easy steering. Parts are pretty inexpensive too. You made a very good choice in automobiles!
Good to see people keeping these old time Yank Tanks alive as they were certainly from an era of excess and we will never see cars like these again , its amazing that they ever existed in the first place .
You guys down south are blessed with a perfect weather. Cars live long, no snow, no salt on the road. Car body last much longer than in Canada. Here cars may last 10 years max, then they rust to irreversible damage. This Chrysler is a pearl. Take good care...
I love these old school land yachts. I recently owned a 1978 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham which was the former Imperial LeBaron. What a ride that was. Sold it to a guy in Cleveland, Ohio who flew to Birmingham, Al to pick it up and drove it home.
You brought back memories for me when as a teenager just training to be an auto mechanic the big Chryslers and Dodges (family cars) were the first vehicles I worked on and kept maintenance up on. My mom didn't know a Oldsmobile Cutlass from a Mercury Marquis but the cars she could always spot was a Chrysler. My next door neighbor has a 69 Imperial and there were times he took out the back seat and hauled furniture in it. I miss the smooth ride, the cornering lamps and that big torquey 440. Thanks for sharing.
I note that Wild Cherry was in the 8 track, so that you could Play That Funky Music, White Boy. That is a great car in which to Lay Down the Boogie.
Hey man, thanks for checking out my '73 Imperial video. Love how you're thinking too! -Chris
ahhh the old days -- Driving around in a living room was soooooo awesome. I remember when vent windows disappeared. I was so pissed... LOL that baby even had power vent windows. Pure luxo-barge.
Yeah the last year for them was 68 for gm cars I liked them you didn't have to let down the large window to get a little air
in 1975, i was asked to drive a 1972 Imperial LeBaron from Annapolis to Richmond. Since the owner paid for the gasoline, i did it for free, just for the experience. It was a once in a lifetime amazing drive in that car!
I miss driving these barges, when I was much younger. I cannot explain the feeling to those who never have.
9mpg be dammed...these are the best highway cruisers....
Joe, thanks for the comment, and you're right! To hell with the mileage. These cars just eat up the highway miles effortlessly and in comfort. None of todays care compares.
Joe, thanks for the comment, and you're right! To hell with the mileage. These cars just eat up the highway miles effortlessly and in comfort. None of todays care compares.
Joe R more like 5 mpg.
Love the vagina shaped tail lights
They did better you know.
I get 9 mpg too, pulling 35ton.
I had a 1971 Imperial and loved it. The steering was so easy. Great on the highway. AC shouldn't be a problem to repair.
The car! The color! The quality! AWESOME! What a CLASSIC! I MISS THE DAYS!!!
i was born in '72 when i started driving i grew up with these cars along with the olds,impalas,caddy's,catalinas,bonneville's,and so on but the chryslers were my favs.i hav a 72 town/country wagon with 53k miles all orig that i saw sitting in a front yard in mexico so i asked if it was 4 sale and man told me i could hav it for $800.put a batt and some gas in carb and cranked right up smooth cant tell its on! like you said they dont hold much value so now im gonna sell it cause i will never get my $$ back if i start fixing it up...wish i could keep it but times are hard.....beautiful imperial...
Love the 'fuselage' cars! Great styling by Chrysler IMO.
Yea, I agree. Then consider how much better of a 'drivers' car these are when compared to anything from GM, Lincoln or Mercury. These really are great road cars.
One of my favorite cars, imperial was far superior in terms of handling to gm and ford. And the 440ci is a very strong and bullet proof engine
Hey, thanks for your comment. I agree that Mopar just plain outhandled anything GM and Ford was making at that time. This Imperial is a great example as it was a great driving car. In fact, she was my daily driver for about 8 months. She drove, steered, rode, braked and handled like a much more modern car.
OH YEAH, THE 440 WAS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST.......FAR BETTER THAN ANYTHING FORD OR GM HAD TO OFFER BACK THEN......
my father used to get loners from the local garage every time our cars went in for repair ... all the loners were big ol' Chrysler boats ... loved them ... and those fender mounted turn signal indicators were the coolest, maybe I'll put some on my Hyundai !! lol
Beautiful automobile... I remember my aunt who was only 4' 11" drove a '73 it was maroon. She was so tiny in that car. Refused to ever get rid of it drove it every day until she passed away 5 years ago. I would have loved to had that car it was in mint condition. Thanks for sharing this.
The interior looks more comfy than my bed. If I was to jump into this after a hard days work I'd probably just fall asleep in there until the next morning!
You'll notice that the back seats from front to back are deeper than the competition. These had more leg room than Caddies or Lincolns. The only car that had more leg room was the Fleetwood, which was a stretched Sedan deville.
I was just thinking that last night. If I owned that great car after a long day of brick-laying ( job I took after the military) I KNOW I WOULDVE SANK IN AND CALLED IT A NIGHT, HELL ID BRING MY OVERNIGHT KIT , WAKE HIT MCDONALDS BIRD BATH IT GO BACK TO WORK .
As an update, the Imperial has been sold and she's on her way to the new owner in England and should arrive sometime in February 2017. I hope the fine folks in the UK enjoy her as much as I did.
East Coast Classics You can stuff FOUR bodies in that trunk! :)
As for the four bodies comment, I had actually planned and even filmed pieces for a follow-up video showing how many of my nieces and nephews I can fit inside the open trunk of this car. I had eight in there with room to spare. I had some other footage too but all for not as I sold the car a few weeks ago.
I'm sure that we will. I'm from England and love American cars from the late 50s to the late 70s.
East Coast Classics beautiful car, i love these fuselage mopars, i have a 1966 chrysler 300, which is dwarfed by comparison. is that a corvair van or pickup in the garage??
You should have kept this car in America where it belongs...
It's a beautiful car. My piano teacher always drove Imperials, she had a yellow 1973 just like this one. Thanks for the video
Simply BEAUTIFUL!
I had a 1971 Chrysler Imperial two-door coupe, white leather, and burgundy, two years old at the time and very cool for a twenty-one-year-old kid.
Nice video, thankyou for making and posting it. A totally impractical impossible car to have here in France. I respect the Americans, you cherish, look after and keep older cars on the road. I always enjoy watching these videos, they put a smile on my face. I've always loved big floaty American cars.
I love a 4 - door hardtop. Driving with all the windows down is awesome.
I Like the power vent windows!
They were great in that you could open them enough to have air blowing on to you instead of having to turn on the AC all the time.
Learned to drive in one of theses, the power steering was awesome. Slept in the back window as a kid on long trips. So many memories!! Gold exterior with green pleather.
EXCELLENT HIGHWAY " YACHTS " , BEAUTIFUL INTERIOR , .....THE GREEN-HORNET IS REBORN & IT IS FANTASTIC..!!!
My favorite car I owned was a 1972 Cadillac Sedan Deville with the 472 cu in. V8... that was also a beast and could pass everything but the gas station!
I failed to mention my family never owned one of the fuselage cars but went from a '64 Sedan Deville, to a '67 Newport sedan to a '69 Olds 88 Royale to a '71 Sedan Deville and finishing out with a '79 Sedan Deville - every single one a memorable car. All bought no more than one year old. I've always driven pickup trucks and sports cars since. We had a neighbor who was big on Chrysler products. They owned a magnificent '72 Monaco Brougham with every option including sunroof and cassette player (mounted on the transmission tunnel /microphone). They traded it for an all black '78 New Yorker (last full size) before we moved away. What an american car era!
Having Olds, Cadillac and Chrysler is a pretty diverse group of cars. It seems folks that buy Chrysler products typically stay with the brand so I'm betting your family had a bad experience with the Newport or the Olds was just fresher. Chrysler products of the era had a pretty unique ride and handling combo when compared to the others. It is very distinctive and noticeable and is a result of the torsion bar front suspension while the others had coil springs. Chryslers started using torsion bars in 1957 and even won the Motor Trend Car of the Year that year for this. Thanks for checking out my video and if you haven't already, take a look at the Corvair Greenbrier, Desoto and some of the other videos I made. Hopefully they're not so cringe-worthy.
Funny about the Chrysler loyalty...we had neighbours in Edmonton who had a 19621 Chrysler 300 (non letter), a 1964 300(non letter), a 1965 New Yorker and a 1968 300 while we lived there 1962-68. I dropped in on them to say hello 20 years later and she had a late model Olds Toronado which did not surprise me as her car in the day was a 1966 Malibu SS, but he was still driving a Dodge Dakota truck in his retirement.
The one Mopar my father owned was dreadful build quality , a 1970 Plymouth Sport Satellite and he always owned Fords or GM after that. Turned him right off their cars.
Hey, I don't disagree about build quality. Pretty disappointing as the rest of the industry was making low quality stuff too. A buyer would have to really step up in price in order to get a well build and engineered car. The Japanese stuff during that time wasn't competitive and the European stuff was crazy expensive.
Dad had a knack for finding 'like new' cars for a song - always finding the 'deal'. None were bought new and I don't remember any as being particularly troublesome. I recall the Newport needing an a/c repair and power window repair when dad first brought it home. The 'Chrysler' neighbors I mentioned elsewhere really had it in their blood and they had a number of relatives who even worked at local Chrysler - Dodge - Plymouth dealerships. I remember them bringing a like new '48 Chrysler (w/fluid drive) home from a elderly relative who had recently passed away. I recall the radio backlight changing colors - pretty cool (late '60s). We had many neighbors who owned C-P-D products; don't recall any complaining about the build quality.
What a beauty.....brings back memories of a car driven by an elderly family friend years ago, it may have been a late 70's Plymouth Gran Fury, it was big like this and featured rear opera windows.....rode so quiet and smooth.
My Dad had a brown '73. He set it up to run on propane to increase economy and power. My Mom nicknamed it "the Walrus ".
Sorry but propane decreases power!
I had one of these back in the 80's - it was white, so it looked even bigger. I got a lot of good-natured attention with it and when someone asked me what possessed me to buy such a huge car I said: "Because just once in my life I wanted to hear a woman say, regarding something of mine: 'My God that's the biggest thing I ever saw!'
Beautiful land yacht! I can't believe such amazing finds still exist!
If I owned this great car I would keep it and go the full distance with a complete cosmetic restoration! This is one of my favorite luxury cars from any era. I cannot buy it myself but whoever does should do the full restoration!
I think Imperial was the only full sized Mopar that still had vent windows in 1973. Beautiful RARE car!!!!
Mopar began to offer VENT windows AS AN OPTION as the 1970s rolled along. The '78s were the last ones to offer them.... and long after the competition no longer did.
@@34Packardphaeton OOHHHHH yeah!!!! That's right!! I had a neighbor who had a 1978 Chrysler Newport 4dr. hardtop that had vent windows. I totally forgot about that car.
I used to have a 1971 Imperial Le Baron, fully loaded, what a car that was I wish I still had her today. For a big car, she sure could go, lol fooled many people at a light.
Amazing classic !! Love your car ! I bet it floats down the road . That's when they made real cars !M
I had a 71 Imperial. Dark green. Front was a little different but the interior was the same. Loved it. Power windows, air conditioning and rust spots can all be fixed.
That’s a real beauty...and original to boot. Personally, I think the ‘73 Imperial is one of the best looking Imperials ever designed. Nice job!
That vinyl top issue isn't about "shrinking" There is rust around the glass and on the roof. Rust repair, R&I the back glass, replace the vinyl and replacement of rear window motors and possibly regulators. That's a good $2000 depending on the shop.
How much to just rip off the vinyl & paint the metal? A $2 paint scraper & $10 rattle cans do it, or is there something messed up about the underlying metal?
@@user-ut9ln4vd5m Old cars with vinyl roofs routinely have lots of rust underneath, and based on what I can see this one will be no exception; you see bits of rust in varied places on the car. So that needs to be addressed first, especially where the trim is located, as the holes where those trim pieces usually have enlarged from expanding rust. Plus, you have to match the paint, and you're going to have a hard time doing that with rattle cans. Best option is usually to cut out the badly rusted parts, weld in replacements, and replace the vinyl roof, because trying to get the metal right after fixing the rust will be near impossible without costing a fortune in order to keep the panels looking perfect.
@@d.e.b.b5788 not to mention that lead line probably wasn't finished finely at the factory, seeing as it had the vinyl top "option"...
Had it the "optional" painted roof, they'd have gone those extra few steps to finish it off nicely.
Beautiful car! It's crying out for a full restoration (when you get the time and money). I love how the indicators are visible from the driver's seat (small lights flashing atop the front of the fenders) and the look of the grille. I was a 12 year old when this car was new. Only a few made their way downunder (Chrysler were building a slightly smaller luxury car for our market...the "Chrysler by Chrysler"...yep, that was the name of it!) but I drooled over every one I saw. If I owned one like this I'd fully restore it, change the lights to LED, retrofit the modern Chrysler fuel injected V8 from the 300, install an ABS booster system and install a modern airbag steering wheel. The rest I'd leave as is...just fully restored. What a dream! One day, if I win the lottery......
Agree on the exhaust, it has a big hole. My aunt had a '72 Newport, same powder blue. Also identical to a state cop car. The trunk was huge. Every Christmas she would fill it with toys for her nieces and nephews.
Got about 12 mpg. We also had a '72 Saab. What the Saab ate in parts, the Newport ate in gas.
"Corinthian" leather was only available on the later Córdoba models; which were endorsed by the late Ricardo Montanan.
no such thing as "Corinthian leather", this was made-up ad copy
Seadweller451D Da plane Da plane!
I remember those commercials in the 70s.
My dad and I pitched in to get a 1969 Imperial Crown for my 19th birthday. Can't wait to have it be my college car next year. For $3500 it was quite the steal. That's what's great about these cars though, you can still find decent Imperials for less than $5k and they are worth every penny.
I am keeping my 2008 Lincoln Town Car mainly because of 28 MPG. I Love traditional American cars V8 body on frame and RWD
I had two Imperials both 1972s both four doors the first one was darker blue with a AmFm stereo only in factory had a 440 4 carb But my second was brown also 4 door with AmFm eight track stereo sounded great and had a TNT 440 in the original air cleaner had that sticker on it had rear air conditioning but sold it when I got laid off back in 1982 Wish I still had it took a while to wash it but it rode so nice and the chrome would shine I’d like to have another once more before I die
What a BEAST! I'm in love.
I love these cars......My dad had a 67 New Yorker with the 440 and I loved driving that baby! BTW love the Wild Cherry 8 track!
Hey man, thanks for checking out my Imperial video and for your comment. I'd love to get me a '67 New Yorker. It's actually on my bucket-list of cars to get. May soon! Anyways, thanks again. -Chris
A work of art! Just beautiful. I love this eras land yachts. I have owned a few in my time as well.
I just love those big 70's cars! The size and styling is what made them distinctly AMERICAN. The European and Japanese car makes during those times pale in comparison to our styling. I used to own a 79 Mercury Cougar and what a beauty she was. You sir, have one fine gem of a car!
Hey, thanks for checking out my video and your comment. I appreciate what you said and distinctly remember the Datsun 210 and 610 from the early 1970's. They were almost comical in comparison to what the big American cars were and could do. Of course, the gas crisis hit and the last laugh was on the gas guzzlers. Thanks again for sharing.
I had an Imperial in the early 1980's. Mine had all the base stuff, but what sets mine apart was. Posi rear end, anti lock brakes, lock alarm, and the stereo with the micro phone to dictate.
I was about 10 my dads 71 triple white caddy was nice.i have to admit your car is stunning in blue
Holy crap, that bench is literally wider than my bed is long! I could comfortably sleep in that car
Awesome car.
You can stick your latest Merc or BMW .
These old land yachts are the business!
Years ago I owned a 9 passenger Chrysler New Yorker station wagon I forget what year was somewhere in the 70s 440 what a beautiful car. It drove down the highway like a train once I was moving and I got good fuel mileage
Great car, Great video!!
We had a 1973 Chrysler New Yorker growing up 440 4 barrel with Torque Flight Transmission
We had our New Yorker 25 years and replaced with a Chevy Tahoe
I remember how wide and long the 1973 Chrysler New Yorker was also yet great weekend road trip car ran great great tow vehicle and great smooth ride
The front fenders from front to crack were the two longest metal stamping ever manufactured for a production car.
2:30 that was a really nice gauge layout for 73 ... very cool car, worthy of still being on the road
Not only does this car have the expensive leather interior option but it has the extremely rare separate rear air conditioning option. If you watch the video where it shows you the shot of the dash, you can see the rear air conditioning switch. Beautiful car but needs some cosmetic restoration.
Gave you the Thumbs-Up... and you make me long for my youth!!
I grew up in Lincolns & Cads, and as much as I LOVED our Continental Town Car, I've learned that I wish Dad had an Imperial for more than (yes) FOUR days....
I'm not sure this car is bigger than a Town Car, though it certainly looks like that trunk & overhang beat the Cadillacs on space. I DO prefer the "deep-well" trunks on the Lincoln/Mercurys though.
I admire Chrysler for KEEPING the wing-windows (in power, of course), and that Torsion-Bar front suspension was always superior to the other two! Plus, they had THREE-speed wipers while everyone else had only 2-speed... Also, while most of the features/options were common among all three automakers, only Chrysler gave you full gauges AND an idiot-light to say, "Hey, look at the gauges, Idiot!" LOL
Imperial even had an option for "Fuel Economy" in the Left-Front fender turn-signal, and low-beam WIPERS in the 70's, though finding one is like finding a unicorn - I think their biggest problem was rust... like under your vinyl roof.
All things said, thank you for your video!
Thanks for checking out my video and for your comment. I never knew Chrysler had a mileage minder in the fender. That's a pretty cool feature and I'm guessing appropriate too given the '70's gas crisis. Thanks again for sharing.
Yea, it was called the "Fuel Pacer System". The idea behind it was to indicdate if you were giving the engine more fuel for the speed you were going. The turn signal indicator light on the left fender would come on to let you know. My neighbor had a 1975 Dodge Dart with it.
Bill Slater - thanks for the trademark information. though it was basically just a vacuum switch that tripped when you were leaning into the fuel enrichment it was still something that Chrysler did before Caddy ... 😋
This is definitely a car worth a few dollars in upgrade. Paint, roof, some interior work, check the suspension, give it a good going over. Truly a survivor from the land yacht era.
Thanks for checking out my video and your comment. Yea, these cars are certainly worthy of restoring simply for their out-of-the-norm shear size. Unfortunately they just don't hold much value and it's real easy to get upside down financially. As an example, I bought this car for $3K, had it shipped from Alabama to Delaware, spent another $500 on parts. When I was done I had $4300 in the car but only got $3500 when I sold it one year later. It's a real shame these cars just don't command higher prices and thus warrant more restoration work. I believe the same holds true for Cadillac and Lincolns of the same era too.
My Mom had a 1967(?) Chrysler Crown Imperial 4 door and my dad had a 1968(?) Chrysler 300 (no letter) 2 door. ;-)
Beautiful Mopar! Nice to see one that hasn’t been modded or pimped.
Sorry to see her go, She is an absolute beauty & you've done an excellent job of taking care of her. I will bet driving some of those back roads feels like 'the titanic@ sea' with the huge front bow and enormous trunk space..... "All hands on deck, prepare to come about.."
You have an absolute treasure of a car there! Very nice!
The car got 12 gallons to the mile and you had to go to a big state like Texas just to make a U turn. If you can find one today, they make great rentals for a family of 6.....not to drive but to live in, with a swimming pool in the trunk.
wurly164 They remind me of that line in the B-52's song "Love Shack", because saying one of these "seats about 20" isn't too far off the mark, lol.
You got 12? Wow. Must have gone real easy on the gas pedal. We got 8.
@@d.e.b.b5788 read it again, 12 gallons ..to the mile 😆
@@wurly164 To get 12, we'd have had to push it for four! (Or maybe only drive down hill!)
I remember seeing a lot of imperials in junk yards, not because they were bad cars but because the middle piece that supports the back doors would rust off and break. The only old big sedan I owned was a 67' Pontiac Catalina. It was definetly a big car. When you opened the hood it made the Pontiac 400 Big Block look tiny but it had plenty of power. As for large 70's vehicles I owned a 76' Mercury Cougar, although it was a large car, the inside was tiny.
Most of the issues can be addressed. Body roll can be controlled if you can find the Addco sway bars which were often used on Plymouth Fury III's. Vinyl top should be replaced or removed, as they often have rust underneath. I would get it replaced. Exhaust is noisy, it should be almost silent. But whatever floats your boat, or in this case, land yacht! Nice car. Oh, rear door window modulators are pretty easy to work on, I replaced the ones in my dad's 1970 Fury III. Usually only need to replace the plastic strip that works them.
So beautyful, especially the 4 Door Hardtop Bodystyle without the B.Pillars, i love it....& The American V8, nice greetings from Bavaria! ;)
Ißm still restoring an 67 Chevy Caprice/Impala 4 Door Hardtop, a full restoration of an Ohio car, with rebuilding sheet metal shaped by hand to get new wheel arches at the f.fenders an Quarters, + the whole lower windshield frame and sections of the trinklid weatherstrip channel.....and some more spots....I learned to rebuild/Shape new sheet metal by my hands/myself, with this project and ai´m proud of that craftmanship/to can do that now. I wish more people would do that to safe more cars instead parting "Partscars" out.... Because there will come more, new, young generations who like to get affordabe project cars from places like "Jnk Yards" or something else to restore. And i can tell you how bad it is when the generations before you was doing with classic cars had crushed them and closed the "junk yards"...Because at germany it is done so...And so i can´t tell you how much i would live at usa, especially with all the american classics what you could still find tehre at places like these "Junk Yards"...That´s an big dream in my eyes. I´m 35 years old now and the american classic cars of the era between 1950-1970s are my favorite cars. I´m also working on present muscles, true american style cars like the Dodge Charger R/T or something else like that....What are new true american style cars in my eyes, like it should be. :) I wish Chrysler, GM and Ford would build Mid- and Fullsize 2 & 4 Doors with V8 again, also with body on frame design and even with V8 engine....And the Charger, Chrysler 300C are very good examples for that right way in my eyes. But i they would add the "4 Door Hardtop" Bodystyle withouth the B-Pillars, for example to a Charger/300C that was FANTASTIC! ;) And in my eyes it´s not only a styling part, it´s also s nice and good for a better sight at crossroads what could make that possible to see crossing cars earlyer and better....It´s a big part for sefety!
what a great car !!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice, good to see history. Enjoy, in the day I would enjoy it.
What a lovely original car; a pleasure to watch your video.
Very nice original example. She's a beast and a beaut!
Glad someone is giving the C body love. Own two C body Furies myself, I'd LOVE to have an Imperial.
The '57 through '66 (at least) IMPERIALS were "D-bodies" --- NOT C-bodies. It says so right in the factory shop manuals!
Beautiful car. May you receive fortune for the sale and may the next owner have many good years with it.
I wouldn't complain being all original. That's a wonderful looking car for the age
“what you have here is
an amazing luxury car.. with no air conditioning.”
Beautiful car. I can imagine what it must be like to drive one. Like an old towncar with a mile long hood.
Great front end style. Only 2 seasons left to this fine marque, little did anyone know..
I'm a Ford guy but secretly love old early 70's Mopars, my old man had a 71' Newport with that same "fuselage" styling, loved that car at it's 383 4bbl.
Love your comment and thanks for checking out my '73 Imperial video.
I had a '72 Chrysler Newport Royal. "Mabel" was the same color as this car, except she had a white vinyl roof. This Imperial is a hardtop. "Mabel" was a 4-door sedan. Sedans are better built and safer. If you roll a sedan, you at least have a roof pillar in the middle to help keep the roof from collapsing and crushing the occupants.
I tried to buy this car a short time after this video came out-but I missed it. I talked with Chris on the phone actually. I had a '72-bone stock with the quiet muffler and resonator on it and it still had a burble. It's a 440. Inside was very quiet when driving. As far as the front-it's sinister looking. This car looks it wants to run you over. The tear drop tail lights are also awesome. When you think about "Christine"-they could have also easily used one of these.
Hey man, thanks for the comment about the '73 Imperial. I spoke with a few guys about the car when it was for sale so I hope you had a positive experience when we talked. She really was a very nice driving and riding car and you're right about the 440 V8 having a nice sound. I had replaced the stock muffler on the car with the longest glasspak muffler I could fit and I think it gave the car a nice deep and throaty sound without being too loud inside. I liked it, at least. And you're right about the cool styling of the car. I love these fuselage cars, the hidden headlights, tear drop lights, grill and size. I'd like to get another at some point since there's just so much to love about the Imperial! -Chris
Yeah,we did. I mentioned to you do lots of work to the 70's Brougham style cars and loved these. You can find me on bestride.com under "The Car Whisperer".
It looks good with the bumperettes taken off. My family had a 73 New Yorker Brougham hardtop sedan with all the extras. Funny you had trouble with the rear windows, we did too.
How many Prius Drivers have you made cry with this MOPAR Magnificence?
I am not a fan of light blue/sky blue/powder blue/robin's egg blue or any other shades of light blue, but this car is magnificently gorgeous, either due to or despite the light blue exterior! Simply gorgeous, simply stunning.
I had a '73 Dodge Monaco that was loaded. Bought it from a barber for 800 bucks. Rode like a cloud and was very quiet.
My god i would love to have that amazing Chrysler
This was the last year of the true Imperials. After 73, the Imperial was little more than a glorified Chrysler, ending up with same body as a big Chrysler. Though this "true" Imperial is almost identical to the 1972 model, I prefer the 72 because I like the grill better. As to size, the Imperial, Caddy Brougham and Lincoln Sedan were almost identical in specs. The Caddy Brougham had a longer wheelbase (and rear legroom) but the Imperial did have alonger body. The Caddy was a tad bit wider. All three cars topped 5000 pounds, though the Lincoln barely tops the scale on weight over the Imperial, but those numbers can vary. One production Cadillac that is often forgotten is the Fleetwood 75 Series. These were really the biggest production (non-custom) cars made in the US with over 2000 built by GM in 1973. As a reference, GM sold almost as many 75-types in 1973 as Chrysler sold Imperial coups.
Wow, great information and I appreciate your commenting and sharing! And yeah, it's amazing how many Cadillac's, or maybe it's how few Imperial's were sold when compared to each other. The Cadillac really owned the luxury car market at that time. I had once owned a '74 Calais and they really did have the best ride in the world. Now, if you're looking for competent handling in a luxury car, than Imperial was your only choice. Thanks again! -Chris
Jaquar always had the best ride that I ever experienced.
Imperial did not share the same wheelbase with the 'regular' Chrysler until the 1974 model year... FWIW.
my parents had a 1966 Cadillac, and that front bumper is the same as a rear '66 Caddy
3:43 That white ceramic resistor on the firewall at 11 O'clock to the air cleaner kept many Chryslers from starting. It was common for the hood gasket to perish and water would leak onto it.
Hahaha, great comment and thanks for sharing that. I too struggled with that resistor. Frustrating but at least it's a cheap and easy fix! -Chris
All the way from Australia, you have a fabulous car.
Awesome car dude, keep up maintaining it and it'll last forever
Thats a nice land yacht! Mopar had the best design just at that era!
Congratulations! You now own the most interesting thing in the entire state of delaware