'67 Imp with a '68 nose

["Dick Benjamin" <DickB@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some of us (OK, maybe just me) would be interested to know whether your car
has 915 heads like some 67s, or some other head.  Would you take a look at
the 7 digit cast-in number that shows up when you take the valve covers off
and let us know the number on the heads?   Thanks.

Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edmund Villasana" <edmundv@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: IML: '67 Imp with a '68 nose


Thank you very much for the info!!!  My dad and I went out to the car and
got under it to check everything out and make sure the frame and suspension
was sound and found good news:  its all straight and unharmed.  I found out
that the first owner's wife had "bumped" the grill and fender and the body
shop used what they could get to repair the car.  I was very happy to find
out that the damage had only been cosmetic.  After thinking about it for a
while I decided that I liked the 68 front clip on the 67, it gives the car
character,lol.  I'm sending the heads in to get them reworked next weekend
and I will be back on the road with my 1/2 67 Imperial in two weeks.

                                                                Thanks
again,

Eddie V.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: William Herbert
  To: Imperial
  Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:37 PM
  Subject: Re: IML: '67 Imp with a '68 nose


  It could be that 68 parts were readily available when repair time came..
The blessed internet..was not always so useful and available to us.  People
probably used what they could find and was expedient. Not such a sin....ask
Brad about his Newporker!

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Christopher Hoffman
    Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:16 PM
    To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: Re: IML: '67 Imp with a '68 nose

    Welcome, Edmund...

    Since some of the follow-ups to this didn't seem to note the magnitude
of
    Dick's statement, you'd need to swap out the entire front end of the
car,
    except for the hood (I'm talking bodywork only here, of course).

    The front fenders do not interchange between '67 and '68. The bottom
edge of
    the '68 fender goes straight across from the front wheel arch to the
bottom
    of the grille, whereas the '67 fender dips down to accommodate the "J"
shape
    of the wraparound bumper.

    As far as front-end bodywork goes, only the hoods interchange. And even
so,
    the '67 has a hole for a stand-up eagle medallion (the actual medallion,
not
    the mid-80s AMC-Renault car) and the '68 windsplit extends down the
front
    edge of the hood.

    Sounds like someone put the front clip of a '68 on this '67... as Dick
    noted, the most obvious reason to do this is to repair a wrecked front
end,
    so a thorough check of the mechanical stuff underneath the mismatched
    bodywork would be worthwhile.

    For now, consider your car unique!

    Chris in LA
    67 Crown
    78 NYB Salon

    Dick Benjamin (DickB@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
    > It is a simple bolt-on job to replace the front end sheetmetal of a 67
with
    > 68 equivalents, the only problem being that the side trim is
different, and
    > you will have side marker lights in the front and not in the back.



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