Re: IML: Jay Leno Mentions Imperial

["Bill Watson" <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx>]

In 1988 Chrysler introduced the Dynasty and New Yorker (C body) on a 104"
wheelbase - basically a K car with four more inches in the rear seat area.

Two years later the Fifth Avenue and Imperial were introduced - the Y body
on a 109" wheelbase, this time the C body with five more inches for the rear
seat passengers.  So the 1990-93 Imperials were based on the New Yorker (and
Dynasty) which were derived from the Reliant and Aries.

Actually, after 1933 only the 1957-66 Imperials did not share body parts
with any other Chrysler model.  The first 'non-Chrysler' Imperials, the 1955
and 1956 models, shared their bodies wth Chrysler and DeSoto.   The 1937 to
1939 and 1950 to 1952 Chrysler Imperials shared their bodies with Chrysler,
DeSoto and Dodge!   To really add insult to injury, in some peoples minds,
the 1937-38 Custom Imperial and 1940 Crown Imperial used the same long
wheelbase body as the Chrysler six, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth.

Which is not really that bad.  That is how car companies can afford to tool
and build multiple car lines - by sharing bodies, engines, etc.  Even the
Cadillac deVille shared its body with its lesser siblings.  Starting in 1959
the Cadillac body was shared with the Buick Electra 225 (it was 225" long
that year) while the basic body structure and cowl was shared with all GM
cars, including the Chevrolet Biscayne.  Outside of the V-16 models, the
1938-41 Cadillac 60 Special and the pre-1950 series 75, Cadillac has been
sharing bodies with other GM car lines since 1936.

Lincoln has been sharing body structues since the 1960's - the 1968
Continental Mark III used the Thunderbird body while the full-size
Continental (later Town Sedan) was based on the LTD/Marquis body starting in
1970.  By then even Ford could not continue to tool a unique body for the
Lincoln.

Bill
Vancouver, BC



----- Original Message ----- 
From: alan1416@xxxxxxx
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Jay Leno Mentions Imperial


OK i will bite    Im a the glass is half full guy so
  I say a newyorker is a stripped down IMP    It has less options and nyers
weigh less by some 240 #  as for the debate over 90s well the last truly
separate IMP was 73 and some may say back to the 68. from 74 on the nyb
newport and IMP started live of the same body/ unibody.
OK now i have my flack jacket on so fire away  LOL

Alan Jordan
90 IMP
75 IMP Lebaron
-------------- Original message from ken brather
<oef_1947_isf@xxxxxxxxx>: -------------- 


ken here i saw the show i think the piock of the other imp is the same 1.
not shure. ne way, i spotted another ' 90's imp yesterday & no 1 has answerd
the ? i asked is a ' 90's imp a real imperial or just a dressed up new
yorker w/ an imperial name slapped on? what ever the case, my [ entery leval
wannabe baybe imp] dart is every bit as big if not bigger than the "
imperial " of the 90's lol;-)





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