Re: IML: Re 69 Imperial badging

["Rob P" <fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may be part of the problem with having Imperial considered as a 
separate make.  Just as a Plymouth and a Dodge are (Plymouth was :^(  ) 
Chryslers, an Imperial is a Chrysler even when it's not a Chrysler Imperial. 
 That is not easy to distinguish for the general public.


> From: "Bill Watson" <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: IML: Re 69 Imperial badging
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:55:19 -0800
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>
> The pentastar was placed on the curbside of the car, or the side opposite
> the driver.   On our North American vehicles that means the right side, but
> on LHD vehicles built in Great Britain, Australia and South Africa, that
> means the left side.   And Rootes/Chrysler U.K. placed the pentastar on the
> right side on LHD vehicles shipped to North America.   Rootes and Simca
> started using the pentastar in 1967.
>
> The pentastar meant Chrysler all over the world,. for cars, trucks, 
> outboard
> engines, marin & industrial engines, boats, air conditioning units,.heating
> & cooling systems, transmissions, electronics, chemicals, tanks, missiles,
> financing - everything that Chrysler was marketing.
>
> Bill
> Vancouver, BC
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher H" <imperial67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "IML (main)" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:05 PM
> Subject: Re: IML: Re 69 Imperial badging
>
>
> All Chrysler Corporation products from early in the 1963 model year to a 
> few
> days into the 1972 model year wore the Pentastar on the lower right front
> fender, behind the wheel arch. It¹s the corporate symbol, and it appeared 
> on
> every Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler and Imperial from those years.
>
> It should only be on the right side, not the left.
>
> Chris in LA
> 67 Crown
> 78 NYB Salon
>
>
> On 11/17/05 7:45 PM, Frederick Joslin at fljoslin@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Part of the reason that I initially asked about the emblems on the 
> fenders
> is
> > that my 1969 LeBaron 2 door has the eagle emblem and immediately below
> that
> > the "Imperial" script and then about 12" below that there is a chrysler
> > pentastar emblem about 3/4" in diameter. The chrysler emblem seems very
> > "un-Imperial".
> >
>
>
>
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