Beautiful Imperials. The cost to stamp those front fenders unique to the Imperial was substantial. But the designers convinced Chrysler executives that it was necessary to set Imperial apart from the New Yorkers and Newports in the showroom.
Very nice Imperials. I have a 62 Imperial - Crown I bought about 25 years ago and the tag at the rear is DeBown - Lincoln, Nebraska. It has 75,000 miles. Thanks for sharing.
My first car was a 73 imperial, maroon with white top and white leather and tan dash. Has vent windows, rear air, and automatic headlight control, and 4 wheel ABS which was a rare option.
Hello my friend my name is Omar I see your video of 1973 Imperial I really like your videos And I am interested to buy your car If you interested for selling Let me know? Regards Omar Take care and stay safe
I bought the identical car when two scrappers showed up at my office in 1992. They decided it was worth the price of a night out for pizza, beer, and pool, which totaled $45.00. I drove that baby for about a year before I scrapped it. What fools we were. ENJOY THOSE TOYS!
Hi from Sydney, Australia. My dad was American and held a key role in strategic command here for years. He had an identical tri-black one of these as his "company" car, complete with New South Wales diplomatic rego/license plates, it also had eagle crests in gold on the front doors, very swish. As a personal car he had an Aussie, 2 door pillarless 1971 CH series Chrysler by Chrysler also in triple black, this car had factory paisley patterned vinyl on the roof. These were Mopars' premium local car, with 115" wheelbase & just short of 17foot, they really looked like a pygmy version of the big Imperial 2 doors. He only had the '71 coupe for almost 2 years when a drunk woman ran into it while parked on a street. In the CJ model update the poor selling 2 door was deleted, so was black paint. So, he ordered a 4 door instead in a very pretty slightly pale copper, with off white nylon brocade trim and beige roof. The earlier version had no chrome/stainless wheel arch molds, sill rail molds, nor complete door glass frame molds. The CJ model update address this short coming and placed stainless covers on the sill or rocker panels, delicate wheel arch trims and total covers over the glass door frames, dumped the horrible tacky red reflector running between the rear taillight s and replaced it with a classy really nicely patterned burnished alloy applique. The earlier 4 door CH looked a little miserly in the chrome department with micro 1/4 inch trims in the middle of the near 2inch wide glass door frames. Looking side on the shape & stance of the two 4 doors, your large Imperial and the Aussie 4 door Chrysler the stance & shape is SO similar, certainly with the front & rear screen angles and the roof shape. In mid 1979 the giant triple black Imperial was collected & replaced with a tri-black new for '79 Dodge St Regis, it was so underwhelming that my mum said jokingly .. did you get demoted ?? When I saw it I thought, what a come down, how disappointing by comparison to the beautiful black Imperial. Only trouble with the Imp' was re-starts on hot days, or when humid & wet in summer mornings or early evenings. My parents' house has a super long driveway a garage at the halfway mark on the drive, plus it runs direct to the street behind, so no backups required. The garage was ultralong but single width, so in my last 2 years at school, I'd turn my mum's giant Jaguar mk10/420G around and jump start the Imperial the Jaguar had a BIGGER battery and heavier alternator as well. Jump it with the Jag & the crazy sounding Chrysler starter motor rolled & flung over like it was supercharged. I have always liked the 4.2 litre XK Jaguar engines as all and only 4.2's have a pre-engaged starter that connects & engages WHEN YOU TURN IT OFF, so even if you have a low battery the thing will start, plus their starters also have a unique & vicious sound. Good luck with the sale of this one. I do not have an Imperial, however I have a white 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, with a 70th anniversary trim pack, plus a black1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Talisman both are GM export CKD (completely knocked down) "kit cars", not built in the USA, and not USA spec, so full power engines with no anti-pollution gear save a charcoal cannister to stop fuel turning to vapor & disappearing. From 1971 GMH-Aust only ordered 2 CKD cars for '71, 72 & 73 the Buick Riviera, and '71,72,73 & 74 the big Fleetwood Broughams. Ford Aust stopped Lincoln mk4's & Galaxie/LTD's in 73 , and Chrysler Aust's Dodge Pheonix (plymouth fury 3's) dressed inside like an Imperial in 1971. Which was just a 1970 model fitted with an American grill, hub caps etc as prior for 1970 we had our own Aussie unique trims etc, I guess re-cycling the 1970 US stuff gave an extra model year for zero extra cost .
Just curious - were those CKD Cadillacs RHD? I believe RHD was mandatory for a car to be sold in Australia until quite recently? A RHD Talisman sounds very intriguing! Cheers from Sweden (were we used to have US CKD-production until late 50’s)
@@paullundgren6319Hi there, GM Holden Australia after creating a new 17foot long local luxury Holden, The Brougham in 1968, the HK series , using the Chev327ci v8 & 2 speed powerglide same as what had been in the "flat-pack" ckd cars of the earlier 1960's as our own 308 ci ultra high compression V8 was running late , same with our "shrunken copy" of the original Cadillac division spec early GM THM400 automatic , as in later years it had been asset stripped. GMH-A could see sales were not as high as the basic Chev Impala & Pontiac Parisienne sales even though the 1969 HT series Brougham went on sale & '70 HG, with way more power & more upmarket internal trim. GMH-A would need some real US cars to sell to the cashed up buyer. So with the new 1971 to '76 body style to launch late 1970 GMH-A would select just 2 cars, being the Buick Riviera and Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham -- NOTE-- ZERO other choices as a FACTORY RHD car. This meant serious re-engineering to suit Aussie roads, heat, lighting requirements, braking distances, etc. In 1971 GMH released their new, bigger, better HQ Holden Statesman available in Custom, or De Ville trim levels these from rear and rear side on looked very much like the 3 foot shorter little brother of the new 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. In just over a month I will have owned the black '74 Fleetwood for 41 years. I bought it because a pair of thieves stole my wonderful Aussie version of a Cadillac, my 22-month-old 1980 Holden Statesman Caprice and I had to wait for a new one to be built. When I realized in 1986 that Holden would never make such a car again I bought some more US style CKD kit cars. in '86 a 1965 Galaxie LTD, in '88 a 1979 Collectors Series Lincoln Town Car, another Fleetwood Brougham in 1990 a '72 model & in 1992 a 1973 MK4 silver luxury series Continental mk4 Coupe in the alternate 2nd color choice a Cranberry Firemist, with deep cream padded vinyl roof & dark plum color leather seats. ALL RHD. I still have them all now in 2023, plus 2nd Holden Statesman Caprice that I bought after the first one was stolen, PLUS, my prior car to the Holden, a 1967 giant Jaguar mk10 or as these last of the line were called 420G (same car different name) . Holden made a common RHD firewall & identical wiring loom etc for the Riviera & Fleetwood so our Aussie CKD Fleetwood's have the Rivera exclusive combined traction control & ABS brake system called trackmaster. When GM USA neutered the rear end of the Riviera for upcoming 1974 model the Riviera finished in late 1973 there were no RHD '74 Riv's. The big Fleetwood's soldiered on until July 1974 when an even more upmarket Holden Statesman Caprice was launched the HJ series, followed by HX , HZ , SL/E, then in mid 1980 the fantastic new WB series 1 updated by the WB series 2 in 1983. I have owned since new a late 1982 series 1. Made for just 6 years with just one mid-term update of componentry, there was no visual difference save for hubcap pressing on the DeVille. There was a rationalizing of parts/options nothing else. These cars never depreciated, they were bought and kept, when production stopped in late 1985 examples that did come to the market were selling for higher than new prices and people happily paid. When 5 years later GMH-A re-introduced a Commodore wagon platform based "statesman" in late 1990 it had a retail price of $10,000 less than the prior car, and occasionally you would see a WB series Caprice at a Holden dealership that with a 100,000k's + on the odometre for sale with a higher selling price than a BRAND NEW little Commodore wagon based Caprice. Swiss carmaker Peter Monteverdi made a 4 door car in 1970 powered by a 7.2litre, Chrysler 440 v8 the 375 / 4, the giant WB Holden Statesman looks like it owes 80% of its looks to that Monteverdi. Give it the same big rectangular headlights and parking/indicator lights as Rolls Royce Silver Spirit, a classic style full metal grill coming to a slight V at front but looking like a Rolls. Then for the interior, cover all the doors, seats, console in best grade soft Aussie leather and give it more lights and features than any Cadillac ever, then make it $138 less than a new 560SEL Benz, expensive. Imagine if you mixed the best of a Fleetwood, with the best of a Benz 560SEL, you made it 17-foot-long, 77 inches wide, 120 inch wheelbase, it weighs 2.5 tons as it's built out of heavy duty thick GALVANIZED steel. It's a near silent cocoon as has thick glass, massive amounts of insulation for heat suppression, noise. 36 ounce wool carpet, woolen flannel headlining with stitched joins to go on the roof bows to hold it in place, Bilstein, or adjustable Koni gas shock absorbers. This exceeds the Talisman, and my 1979 RHD Collectors Series Lincoln Town Car, for luxury and internal space and legroom. The premium Caprice is a 4 seater like the Talisman 4 huge leather thrones made by Scheele in Germany way superior to anything offered by Mercedes at that time. Plus from inception in july '74 Caprices had ABS brakes. WB's have tall rear mudguards, a high bootlid, giving a huge deep boot with spare sitting upright in the left rear mudguard. The 5litre V8's were the identical engines used by Peter Brock for his car racing exploits durable V8 capable of over half a million kilometres with ZERO failures of any kind, bullet proof. The WB'S have a strange construction, a full Monocoque body, then fitted to a 2/3rd forward chassis & a separate 2/3rds rearwards chassis, meaning the passenger cell was a double chassis zone for exceptional strength. The doors are double rubber sealed, the engine bay bonnet/hood has a full rubber seal the whole way around. Then there's the front clip the entire front of the car from windscreen/firewall to front bumper. made from a multitude of heavy gauge steel the nose cone, inner nose cone, inner guards, outer guards, engine bay side walls, firewall to nose upper reinforcing bar, complete wheel well shell. When being designed the benchmark was to be able to drive home virtually damage free after hitting a sheep, cow, or 8foot tall Murray Grey Kangaroo at 100kph/60mph, a battering ram & is why for its size in length weighs in at 2.5 tons it's like a fortress, pure quality.
I liked the 72 2 door Le Baron, better than the 73, but a 72 or 73 Imperial is just a find to have. I am glad people are preserving these gorgeous cars! Too many of these Imperials were lost in demolition derbies, due to the distance between the front end and the engine block. There was a slight grill change from the 72 and 73. And, the bumper guards were added for the 5 mph front and the 2 and a half for the back on the 73. Hate to admit this. I miss vinyl tops. I loved the 72 Satellite Sebring plus with the half top. That was a class look.
Wonderful! I owned a 73 TB and still dream about it. So glad to see not one, but two, looking good and functioning! How about the climate control module? They were hard to come by in the 80s. Oh, the headlight cover motor was notoriously finicky, too. The paint and leather seats were pretty amazing.
The 72 and 73 are very much the same. The differences I like with the 73 are the tail lights, electronic ignition(now standard on Chryslers and Imperials) Thermoquad carb, and the Chronometer clock that maybe only loses a minute in months.
You just got a love the super tankers of the highway. The gas mileage is horrible, but damn the ride smooth. My first car was 1971 Plymouth Fury. It was purchased from the salvage yard for $50.
Love those matching Imperials! You stock a lot of products, BUT you are missing the Bleechwhite for the tires. It's a must have got detailing whether for whitewalls, raised white letters or just clean the tires - you'd be surprised how dirty plain blackwall tires are. Anyway, yeah, Bleechwhite is the product. You don't have to apply tire shine afterwards if you don't like it, they stay clean for a bit without...
The brother doctor -surgeon team partners in a medical practice in Berkeley had one and a New Yorker, too I thought those cars were so cool because of the huge dimensions and the interiors. Funny as a kid I remember. Had to hang around their office a lot as a kid because Mom was in very bad health . She never drove a car we had to wait fir grampa to pick us up in an old Chevrolet
VERY, VERY beautiful collection of 73 IMPERIAL. Thanks for all the detailed photos of the repairs. Great. 👍 Good luck to you in JACKSON'S GARAGE. Regards. CHRYSLER FAMILY CARS 1969-73 / CZECH REPUBLIC.
When I was little kid, black wasn't as popular as today. Though I don't find black cool. I never saw a black Imperial or black Lincoln or black Cadillac of that era. I lived in Florida. Nearly every Cadillac SUV, sedan today...is funeral mafia black. I always liked Imperial especially those in 1960s. That model was outrageously gigantic. Maybe that's the point, here I am. I read onc RMN and RR both had 72 Imperial limo.
Nice car man. Is that a 440 or 400 cid engine? I have a 73 triple black Charger SE it's my first car and I bought it in 1979. The only thing I don't like about your car and mine is the ridiculous front rubber bumper things. i call them rammers. Years ago around 1972 they had to add the ugly rammers to our cars since the cool looking bumpers weren't' "safe" enough. I had a wimpy 400 2 bbl carb on mine. It was six years old when I bought it too young to buy it new. I rebuilt the motor for performance a dozen years ago and converted it to fuel injection and put on a MSD ignition system. The 73 Chrysler Dodge Plymouth year was the first year that they came with standard electronic ignition so tune ups easy. Plus could run on unleaded gas. I took my engine from 175 hp ti 425 hp. Starting in 1972 all the car makers had to cut back the horsepower to get economy. The hemi last year was 71 . That's definitely a sweet car you have. I've been a mopar man my whole life. My daily driver is n 05 Magnum R/T
Thanks for the great story on your Charger, I am doing a mechanical restoration on a 73 Plymouth GTX right now in the garage. My Imperials and all Imperials from 1966 come standard with 440 4 barrel engines. Thanks again.
Beautiful' a man's man car , love the older cars everything about them, hidden headlights always have they make any car look better and Stripes look too good top-notch Cruisers calling them Landyachtz is almost insulting more like a man's machine' Highway Cruiser,
I LOVE YOUR IMPERIAL IM A FORD GUY BUT IMPERIAL WAS THE ROLLS ROYCE OF THE TIME,, I OWN TWO LINCON MARK V AND MARK IV 79 N 76 LOVE ALL THE BIG CARS IM 67 AND MY FIRST LINCOLN NEW I WAS 20 HAD A MARK IV IT WAS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE,, OK KEEP M ROLLING
I'm a Ford guy, got a 73 Tbird all 225 inches and 7 centimeters and this gorgeous Imperial is like 10 inches longer. Love Imperials, rolling pieces of art- work. Oh yeah, subscribed immediately. Truly thank you for posting this
I was a Chrysler/Plymouth showroom salesman back when these cars were brand new. They were special then, and are even more so now that big American luxury cars like this are long gone. I miss them. And even more, I miss the optimistic culture they symbolized.
Thanks for the great memories. I worked at a local old school Chrysler dealer, started in 77 as a general helper then car jockey for summer work. The lot at Mills and Hadwin was quite small, I became very good at parking the NYers, Imperials on the lot. The Boss was happy to get three extra cars per row, but the mechanics had to call for me to get the cars out as I was parking them door to door. Brings back memories.
In 1973 Imperials were still the match of Lincoln or Cadillac. Black paint is a real bear to detail without creating swirl scratch patterns in the paint. Ive had one car that color, never again lol! I hope changing the oil was part of the prep that was lost? Beautiful car.
Yes black is a difficult finish to bring back, but when you do get it, it is stunning on an Imperial. Of course TB got a good filling of Brad Penn high zinc oil and wix filter.
I've owned a lot of Imperials over the years starting in 1969 with a 63 Crown 4 door. I never had a 73. I think the 73 is last of the really nice ones. I currently have a 69 LeBaron 2 door not running.
This car reminds me of the 65 Lincoln Continental. Both share long, straight, no nonsense profile. Such a contrast to the Cadillacs of the era. Nicely filmed. Beautiful car.!! Such a nice reminder of the by gone days of American iron
I’m impressed. 73 Imperials are hard to find and simply have 2 of them. Both of your cars are beautiful. The fuselage body really caught attention. I have a 73 Imperial since 2011 and I’m in love of her still. You can see my car in this video, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tHFKAhPw57E.htmlfeature=shared Congratulations!!
Thank you. Unfortunately I had to sell TB, TB has ended up down in Texas. I just had a look at your Imperial, looks great, I have seen your earlier video about having dual exhaust installed.
Beautiful! Only thing I'd do is put Krown (Ontario CA) Fluid Film, NuOil or something like that on the underbody. It's beautifully rust free and it will keep it that way! I can remember visiting Windsor Ontario many times in the early 80's and driving by the Chrysler Assembly Imperial plant in Windsor. The last of the rear drive 1981-83? Imperials before they converted to Mini-Van production.
I have Krowned some areas, But I did not want to spray everywhere yet, so people can see that it is dry and not leaking. I am really temped to spray it tho.
I am an E and B body man however these Imperials are so luxurious. That long hood and plush interior . Definitely more luxury than the Lincolns . The ride is smooth as glass. Like a Limo. Another is the 1959 Chrysler New Yorker. I love those fins.
What a beautiful car. That is my favorite car…72 or 73 Imperial Lebaron sedan. I’ve looked and looked but can’t seem to find one that isn’t in rusted or bad shape. Funny, that car was sold new at DeBrowns in Greeley Colorado. They are no longer in business. I live in Colorado and went to school in Greeley in the early to mid 80’s. If you ever find yourself wanting to sell either Imperial to a good home, let me know…please. Thanks for rescuing her and sharing her! 👍
I strive to show every detail, so the next care taker will know and be able to handle it. If TB stays local or goes afar, I can keep working on what they want done. Thanks for your comment.
@@boydsdodge i might be one of those “far away” guys… all I need is storage 😬 I have 5 garage spaces… all taken up by huge land yachts from the 1970s greetings from Germany
Unfortunately I am down to one, that is Tux. Tux will be staying with me for a very long time, TB went off to Texas. Seems the buyer is flipping TB after giving a big story about this being the car he has wanted for so long and that he would be giving TB a good home. Oh well, free to do what we want. Can't complain. Just hope a legit good home is in TB's future.
hello my friend omar again about 1973 chrysler imperial i am really interested for buy it if you like to selling it to me let me know i am serious buyer regards omar take care and stay safe
I was on my usual site FCBO (ForCBodiesOnly.com) When I came across the ad for Tux a 1973 Imperial black with white interior, Tux the Imperial was not far from me so I went for a look. I wanted Tux, but the deal was I had to buy three Imperials to get Tux. I bought the three, two were unseen, one of them being TB the Triple black Imperial in this video. I hope you enjoyed the progress to get TB presentable.
