Re: IML: Fuselage cars (and coupes) under valued?

["john sadowski" <jsadowski@xxxxxxx>]

I agree about the handling. Compared to my 60, the 69 can be pushed quite a 
bit on twisty country roads with surprising control. I paid $2200 for mine 
12 years ago. Except for the rust problem in the roof, the rest of the car 
is very solid. It is a LeBaron coupe with black leather bucket seats in very 
nice condition.
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenyon Wills" <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Fuselage cars (and coupes) under valued?


> --- john sadowski <jsadowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> No matter how nice, nobody seems
> > to want to pay much for the 69-73's.
> >       This is much like Lincolns of the late 60's.
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> And that's the BEST part of all of this!
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> 69-73 (some would say through 75) represent the most
> depressed of prices and yet the most highly refined of
> the full-size car engineering & execution.  New shocks
> and a front end rebuild and you'll swear that you're
> driving a car that's 30% smaller!
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> If folks here cared that much what others thought,
> well, Imperial isn't the first stop on the popularity
> parade.
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> Aside from the seller of the white car, who cares if
> these cars aren't fetching top dollar.  Unless you
> bought a 427 Cobra used in 1972 and put in storage,
> the fact that they're $500,000+ now just means that
> you'll not likely be owning one soon, and driving it
> would be a tremendous risk.
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> Cars as "investments" is crazy talk.  They really
> shouldn't be financial instruments, and I'm happy just
> not losing money on them, as you do with new cars that
> have depreciation schedules.  That white one should
> make someone really happy, and represents a bargain
> for someone that wants to USE their car.
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> Anyway, I bought a 72 coupe, and the sheetmetal
> between the back edge of the door and the rear bumper
> is absolutely incredible.  Take a look at the
> brochures from that time, and I think that you'll
> agree that if nothing else, it's pretty unique and a
> nice design element from the standpoint of such a
> large surface area that you'll never likely see on
> another car again.
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> Checked the production figures for coupes on the club
> website?  Mine's one of 2000 or so.  Although I've
> never seen another Fuselage Imp on the roads here in
> the Bay Area, I'm feeling even more confident that I'm
> one of only a few on the planet with one of these
> cars, AND I got it for fifteen hundred bucks!
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> Almost as nice as having a car that everyone else
> agrees is rare without the headaches of insuring a
> half-million dollar car.
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> Kenyon Wills
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