Jack...Here is the email I just got from my friend
in PA who was on the tour. He is a certifiable Mopar nut. I'll send
the pictures to you offline but to me they look like add ons.
Tom
I talked to one of the two shop guys about the "Imperial" T&C. He
said
the story was that the owner of a dealership ordered the car new, took delivery, and never titled it. When he died it sold at auction and the second owner never titled it either. Bulgari bought it at auction from the second owner (with less than 4500 miles). One of the Imperial badges is visible on one of the shots from the auction site that I sent you yesterday, so we know the shop in Allentown did not add the them. My guess would be that the dealership owner added the badges way back when. Never say never with Chrysler, who knows, a dealer with connections (or just the right order sheet) might have been able to have a one of one built by the factory. It must be nice to have cubic money.
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