Re: IML: That Salon

["Bill Watson" <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Salon was available only as a NewYorker 4-door hardtop - the St.Regis
continued as the fancy 2-door package ($636) in both Newport and New Yorker
(series..

The Salon package (sales code A71) included :
- Silver Crystal coat metallic paint (RA3), "buffed to a high gloss on
horizontal surfaces"  (so says Chrysler Canada's "Specials of the Year"
folder)
- 50/50 cloth bench seat in Dove Gray (A3)  or Canyon Red (R4)
- Silver "Elk Grain" vinyl roof
- Red lower body side and deck stripes
- Formal backlite window
- Tilt / Telescope steering wheel
- Leather covered, 2-spoke, steering wheel
- Aluminum fascia road wheels

Not included, but were mandatory options (meaning you got them and paid more
for them) :
- Trunk dress up
- Electric rear window defogger
- Rear fender skirts

Thus the roof was, except for style of vinyl, the same as the 1974-75
Imperial LeBaron 4-door hardtop.  The regular Chrysler vinyl roof was
similar, but without the smaller formal back window.   And only the St.Regis
used the canopy style vinyl roof with the non-covered C pillar and the side
opera windows..

Bill
Vancouver, BC





----- Original Message ----- 
From: anthony bianchini
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Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: RE: IML: That Salon


Yes, the article did say that the salon used the smaller rear window. In
fact there are beautiful pictures of the 1978 New Yorker Brougham with the
salon package and special wheels. I have never heard of or seen one…ever.
Great Article on these full sizers.
-Anthony Bianchini
1966 LeBaron-refuse to give up!

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of randalpark@xxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:18 AM
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Subject: IML: That Salon

The article that you discuss is the first place I have seen any mention of
the Salon Package that was available on the '78 cars. That particular
version of the car looked more like the last Imperial than anything else.
Didn't it also say that the Salon used the smaller rear window which had
disappeared with the '75 Imperial?

Paul W.

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher H <imperial67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: IML (main) <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:21:51 -0700
Subject: Re: IML: The Imperials keep getting printed...
The Collectible Automobile article is actually on the Œ74-78 Chryslers and
only includes the Imperial as a sidebar, but since the Œ74-75 Imperial
became the Œ76-78 NYB, it¹s an integral part of the story.

The design saga reveals how the Imperial almost never made it past Œ73 save
for the desire of a certain design chief who fell in love with the waterfall
grille idea and wanted to see it brought to life. This was the first time I
had heard of a connection between the Œ74 cars and my favorite car designer,
Elwood Engel. Turns out he even personally picked up a knife one day in the
studio and carved the little bevel on the ³spare tire hump² (a la 1964) on
the trunk lid, so I guess I own more Engel-supervised cars than I thought!

There are a few small reproductions in the CA article¹s sidebar of the
design sketches leading up to the Œ74 Imperial, but they¹re too small (and
too few in number) to reveal how much of Engel¹s earlier Imperials is in
this car, and how the design continuity was carried through. (I¹ve always
thought my Œ78 and Œ67 look quite related when parked side-by-side.)

There is a much better place to see these sketches and more: our own
website! A reprint of a fantastic article from the WPC Club News from what
seems to be 1979 or '80 is at:

http://www.imperialclub.com/Articles/74-75WPC/index.htm

Interestingly, Chrysler seemed to think at the time of Imperial's 1975
demise that moving its body to the New Yorker combined the best of both
worlds: The name recognition and appeal of "Chrysler New Yorker" and the
design of the Imperial. When Chrysler let the New Yorker name die in the
late 1990s, it was the longest-continuously-running car nameplate in the
industry. (Funny how they couldn't make Imperial as marketable a name.)

Oh, by the way, if you happen to get the new (August 2006) issue of
Collectible Automobile, you can also see the first-ever mass-printed photos
of the 1978 New Yorker Brougham Salon Package, a model that did not appear
in any brochure or PR photography during its one model year. Twenty-eight
years later, a Salon has finally appeared in print!

Chris in LA
67 Crown
78 NYB Salon


On 5/24/06 8:14 AM, Christopher Middlebrook at delamothe@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hello Imperialists,
>
> Well, the fine folks at Collectible Automobile magazine have done it
again.
> Their latest issue features a great article on the 74-78 Imperials and
NYB's.
> Keep your eyes out for it at the newsstands, it just arrived.
>
> Chris Middlebrook
> 1962 Custom Southampton
>




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