Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
This crappy review and accompanying comments prompted my reply, cut/pasted below. A sewing-circle of know-nothing, bitter hags.
Frank Sinatra Edition: 1981 Chrysler Imperial
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Just like you don't need a license to have kids, I suppose you don't need much knowledge to write or comment here. Let me start by addressing facts, than moving to the subjective.
1) Leather was offered, velour was a choice. It was probably popular in the SW, and a nice consideration no longer offered. I hear people complain about being forced into leather to this day.
2) As was mentioned, Sinatra did own one. He called (his friend) Iacocca and offered to "help" Chrysler's situation at the time by doing some ads. A touch of class you won't see among what passes for celebrity today. Sinatra owned several Chrysler products of the era, including a FWD LeBaron station wagon that also appeared on eBay years back.
3) The problematic fuel injection was not the result "quality control" issues. In fact, the car had the highest initial quality-by-owner rating Popular Mechanics had ever scored (the closest thing to JD Power of the era). However the introduction of alcohol began in the era and started destroying components. That's also documented by PM. Coupled with some legit design issues and techs who weren't up to EFI speed and simply threw parts, Chrysler started offering carb retrofits that kept all the gadgets functional. There are unconverted examples still running, but that obviously requires some mechanical ability and resourcefulness.
4) Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but intelligent people can offer them in the context of the era. Which is to say a market full of people on bailing large, heavy cars. An oil-crisis/shock and a government mandating fuel economy standards (which failed to apply to German imports because their sales were deemed insignificant). This gave you V4/6/8 and diesel Cadillacs and not-to-pretty Mark VI's breathing through variable-venturi carbs. Judged against those, a smaller size and EFI doesn't seem like such an outrageous move does it?
Feel free to resume you critiques, but do so with the knowledge that to a more educated and thoughtful mind, you sound like a cliqué of bitter high-school shrews trashing the "new girl" without ever meeting her.
Frank Sinatra Edition: 1981 Chrysler Imperial
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Just like you don't need a license to have kids, I suppose you don't need much knowledge to write or comment here. Let me start by addressing facts, than moving to the subjective.
1) Leather was offered, velour was a choice. It was probably popular in the SW, and a nice consideration no longer offered. I hear people complain about being forced into leather to this day.
2) As was mentioned, Sinatra did own one. He called (his friend) Iacocca and offered to "help" Chrysler's situation at the time by doing some ads. A touch of class you won't see among what passes for celebrity today. Sinatra owned several Chrysler products of the era, including a FWD LeBaron station wagon that also appeared on eBay years back.
3) The problematic fuel injection was not the result "quality control" issues. In fact, the car had the highest initial quality-by-owner rating Popular Mechanics had ever scored (the closest thing to JD Power of the era). However the introduction of alcohol began in the era and started destroying components. That's also documented by PM. Coupled with some legit design issues and techs who weren't up to EFI speed and simply threw parts, Chrysler started offering carb retrofits that kept all the gadgets functional. There are unconverted examples still running, but that obviously requires some mechanical ability and resourcefulness.
4) Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but intelligent people can offer them in the context of the era. Which is to say a market full of people on bailing large, heavy cars. An oil-crisis/shock and a government mandating fuel economy standards (which failed to apply to German imports because their sales were deemed insignificant). This gave you V4/6/8 and diesel Cadillacs and not-to-pretty Mark VI's breathing through variable-venturi carbs. Judged against those, a smaller size and EFI doesn't seem like such an outrageous move does it?
Feel free to resume you critiques, but do so with the knowledge that to a more educated and thoughtful mind, you sound like a cliqué of bitter high-school shrews trashing the "new girl" without ever meeting her.
