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If the speaker grille rests on the dash pad itself, the two probably bonded a bit over the years. "Gentle and careful" are the operative words, I suspect. Can you raise the rear side enough to get a thin metal item, or one of the nylon trim removal tools, near the corner of the grille to help...

Your best option would be to get your OEM speaker re-coned. Any NOS speaker's cone will be as old as our car, which means it will fail sooner than later as the paper in the cone has dried-out and become more brittle with age. There are some speaker re-coning services which have been mentioned...

At least I didn't say "HIGH Noon" . . .

Perhaps the 12Noon orientations for both dots coincide with the #1 cylinder being at TDC in its bore (12Noon)? Or the simplicity of looking at the centerlines of the cam bolt and crankshaft bolt without parallax interfering?

I suspect that finding a shop which could emboss the design onto the new leather might be a trick. Having to make the tool and dies to do that would be expensive. Might get it digitized at a shop that does embroidery for car club jackets and such. But that many holes in the leather would...

The newspaper article quoted was also on the Mecum website description for the car. As were some of the pictures with foreign dignitaries at the White House. The prior Imperials, in limo form, tended to exemplify the modernistic, jet-age styling which was illustrative, to me, of the youthful...

That particular Imperial limo seemed to be overshadowed by the Presidential Lincolns of the time. Which were 4-dr convertibles (one with a clear dome, IIRC). That particular car, on the Mecum website, was allegedly Mrs. Kennedy's limo, which was later used by LBJ. LBJ had his white Lincoln...

I had forgotten about that car until I saw it on the Mecum website recently. The correct amount of "stateliness" for a Presidential Limo!

Possibly the reinforcement for a side marker light?

I would have gone for a '66 Crown Coupe, power everything with a/c and such. Would have been a nightmare to work under the hood, but "others" can do that, IF I could afford the price of the car to start with. I just like the styling of those cars! By '73, it would have been an Imperial 4dr...

I know there will always be the comments about "keeping it original", but is the paint on the car now the OEM-applied paint or has it been repainted previously? Is the car in need of a serious restoration or just a repaint? This is important as if you are going to do a full restoration, with...

Yes, there were several issues at play when the system was designed. One was Chrysler's on-going financial issues, I suspect, in the years leading up to the early 1980s. Which, to me, is why the system is pretty non-invasive rather than being something which could go many places on other...

The 4100 V-8 had many issues to start with, including an increased drain-back time for oil to return to the crankcase at oil change time. Not to forget that the cam carrier was not a machined part of the cyl block. But as with all things GM, they eventually got those things figured out as the...

Not across the board, but on selected high-level models. For Cadillac, it was optional on the 500CID cars in 1975 as an TBI system. Later to be expanded to the then-new Seville (with the Olds 350 V-8) and 425 CID DeVilles until 1979 model year. The Seville was the only one to receive EFI as...

On other EFI TBI systems, until the fuel pump pressure reaches the minimum spec (56psi), the engine will just spin and spin if the pressure is even 1psi too low. As soon as it reaches the spec pressure, THEN the injectors start to work and the engine runs. Which is one way to determine of the...

The KEY thing about the EFI fuel pumps of back then is the higher pressure AND flow rates. Most normal electric pumps can NOT meet those criteria, even the race-version fuel pumps. Getting one for the Holley Sniper EFI system can do it, though, as an inline pump. What pressure specs did the...

ONE of the quirks of those EFI systems is that if the TOP of the air cleaner is removed, the mass air flow sensor loses it's signal. So with no signal of air flow through it, the computer thinks the engine has died, so no fuel delivery. MOST people who worked on or traded-for those cars knew...

Enjoy the collection while you're still young enough! Congrats! CBODY67

In order to get you feet wet in these areas, you might peruse the body of knowledge on B and E-body Chrysler Corp products. I highly-suspect that the C-body and Imperial vehicles can be similar. As to "paint daubs" and "inspection markings", these might be somewhat consistent in some respects...

Yes, that's the same movie. LOTS of little things to watch, like when Phil Silvers is driving the older Ford convertible to the river to seek to "Ford" it. He allegedly hits a rock and the oil pan is broken, except the oil is coming from a barely-visible tube from an auxiliary oil tank. In...