Hi and Happy New Year to All!
I remember comming across what I believe must have been a Dealer parts book for
a 1966 Imperial. It was about 6-7 inches thick, was basically a giant loose-
leaf binder with metal front and rear covers. It had metal fold-out X-shaped
locking bars that kept the pages in the binder but by twisting them down ( or
out, I think) you could open the binder up and remove, if needed, any page. I
was wondering if anyone out there knows what it wold cost me to purchase on of
these books today, assuming I can find one of course. I have a shop manual
already and while I may not actually "need" to have the parts book I always
figured its better to have too much documentation then not enough......feel
free to reply back directly to me at: "dan.donna.m@xxxxxxx"
Thanks all!
Dan Melnik / (2) 1966 Imperial convertibles (Brandy & Cinderella)
> When I took apart my very low mileage 67 to prepare it for painting, I
> discovered that everything you aren't supposed to see inside the grille area
> is painted flat black - this is probably also true for 1968 - this would
> tend to hide the structure back there, perhaps that has worn off or been
> remove from the car you saw. The distortion on the cornering lens is
> probably collision damage - these are really delicate - almost as bad as the
> lenses on the 67s (don't ask how I know that.)
>
> Dick Benjamin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark McDonald" <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 9:38 PM
> Subject: IML: Imperial Encounter
>
>
> > Well, I was driving back home from the grocery store this afternoon when
> > I happened to look up and what did I see? To my surprise I saw a Meadow
> Green
> > 1968 Crown 4 dr. coming at me from the opposite direction. I was
> > flabbergasted! I've NEVER seen another Imperial of any kind around here
> > (well, maybe some 80-81's), and to see one almost the same as my own '68
> > was even more amazing!
> >
> > So, after I got turned around (I was in my '71 and turning around a '71
> > takes a lot of room), I chased the guy down and nearly gave him a heart
> > attack by the way I came up on him and started waving him over. We
> > stopped and talked about our cars and it was quite interesting. His
> > name is James and I told him about the IML, so maybe he'll join.
> >
> > The Imperial was in good shape and had been repainted once in 1978. It
> > originally belonged to his father, who is 80, and he was sitting in the
> > front seat the whole time.
> >
> > The curious thing was, there were a few details on his car that were
> > different than mine. For one thing, the grill, though it looked the
> > same at first glance, appeared to be much shallower than mine and there
> > were vertical ribs behind it that were quite visible. By that I mean,
> > on most 68s I've seen, the horizontal "slats," or bars, are fairly
> > wide-- maybe 2" deep from the front of the grille to the back, or
> > radiator side. Because they're so
> > deep, you can't really see any reinforcing vertical ribs behind that.
> > The grille
> > just appears to be a mass of horizontal lines. (Hope that makes
> > sense.) but the way this car looked, it was almost an egg crate
> > effect-- horizontal slats broken up by vertical ribs every 4 or 5
> > inches. I've never seen this before, but it appeared stock.
> >
> > Also, the part of the grille that wraps around the cornering lamps (in
> > the leading edge of the front fenders; on a '67 these would be the
> > translucent plastic eagles). On all the 68s I've seen the front edges
> > of this
> > piece are straight and vertical (when viewed from the side). Well, on
> > this guy's car, the one on the R was straight up and down, but the one
> > of the L had a very slight bow in it, or curve, that followed the lines
> > of a '67 more. Again, this is hard to describe in words . . . pictures
> > would be better.
> >
> > Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has seen such variation in
> > Imperials of this year.
> >
> > And it sure is good to know there are at least 2 Imperials in this town!
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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