For Sale ‘61 Imperial Crown Coupe F/S - NOT MINE!!!
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78Brougham
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Wow that it purdy!
lemme pile on with commando1 ... I cannot even get anywhere near this price even if Canadian but ...dang. seems worth every penny
Nice one -- i could see myself in this, at this age now, back then.
My Dad lusted after the '57-'61 Imps/300's .. never could chin one while he and mom were busy having four kids
Nice one -- i could see myself in this, at this age now, back then.
My Dad lusted after the '57-'61 Imps/300's .. never could chin one while he and mom were busy having four kids
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This car has had a full frame-off restoration. Details of restoration are too extensive to list. Please contact Ross at .. (see ad)
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Has to be one of the most complex bonding of body stampings in a mass production car in history.
The amount of lead filling in the seams would probably outweigh a Civic today.
The workmanship to manufacture these cars blows me away.
The amount of lead filling in the seams would probably outweigh a Civic today.
The workmanship to manufacture these cars blows me away.
couldnt agree more chief.
tangent alert - since I aint a buyer
I built vehicles (not an engineer or manufacturing guy) into the 2000's. Know kinda how to do it and make money at it.
While I am sure most any major auto manufacturer today STILL could theoretically assemble almost anything ever (made of traditional materials) built in the past (cost effectively - another story) ... I am NOT certain the fixturing/tool & die stuff, etc.,) that enables mass production could be built now.
Then (dunno) and probably today, a lotta human hands on stuff to seem to be needed make it happen.
this topic is dealt with in other threads here .. but i dont recall anybody posting vintage film of this vintage Imp in production in their day. maybe somebody can go to those threads and make some of us smarter on how it was done
These pics kind of shows you of the labor intensive work needed.
Remember kids.... This was done in steel, not plastic.
Remember kids.... This was done in steel, not plastic.
man .. many of those Mopar shapes could not be made with ONE stamping press .. yes especially with that hard, thick steel used before weight savings became necessary. that seems to mean lead seams/grinding/finishing in production.
like commando1 said, craftmanship, in a "mass production" environment is the only build suite that seems reasonable.
see Heavy Metal, post #496, vintage film a few years earlier of a Chrysler assembly line. Body line is 17:40 through 19:20 and its pretty clear to me what was likely happening in 1960 at the Imperial plant. Rouge Plant vid 11:50 to 14:10 shows body-in-white sub-assemblies.
my belief was numerous sub-assemblies in a few dozen presses (20 - 2,000 tons) in the old-time body shops to make panels (quarters with fins, swooping lines everywhere, etc) that in turn were fitted into welding fixtures that would numb the mind with complexity (and would be UN-doable with modern tools/work rules), lotta solder and grinding after welding/before paint.
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Been for sale for some time. I believe Marlow knows it. @Welder guy ?
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Were these made on a production line or almost hand assembled?
moparnutcase
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I'd drive that!!
I’m afraid I haven’t seen this Beauty before but I sure would like to!! It’s my favourite colour combination.
Dana Goetz
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Maybe he liked the look of the '59 covers. I prefer the correct ones myself. To each his own!
bluefury361
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It would be a lot nicer if the top went down.... and it was red.
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