Marker lights were required starting with 1968 production cars in the US.
An earlier US built car with these lights has had them added somewhere along
the line. There is one known 1967 Imperial with the square lights as used
in 1968, but there is no way to document whether these were factory
installed - personally, I doubt it.
Your 1964 certainly didn't come with these lights. The round ones were
popular aftermarket kits sold by J.C.Whitney and others, and also factory
MOPARs used a similar round marker light, which is what the subject car
appears to have. How this could be on a 1968 is a mystery to me, I suspect
this car has been rebuilt with 1967 rear quarter panels (it's a rust belt
car, so that fits!), and some creative person put the lesser MOPAR lights in
it.
Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark and Theresa Elliott" <deadfishe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: IML: 68 convertible on ebaY
> Are you referring to the round little lights just in front of the rear
> bumper? If so, those look like the marker lights on my 64 (I have them on
> the front and back). I had been told that they weren't original, and I
> hadn't seen them on any others. I wondered where they came from.
>
> Now I am trying to decide whether I want to put them back on after
> repainting it. I like them, but they aren't original. Any opinions?
>
> Mark Elliott
> 64 Crown 4d
> At 10:13 PM 6/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >We had a discussion about marker lights a few months ago - for those
> >interested in trivia, take a look at the rear marker lights on this poor
sad
> >thing! These seem to be off a Plymouth?!?.
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2419044566
> >
> >When I see a roughed up example like this of a once beautiful car, I
thank
> >my luck all over again that I live in the dry southwest - whoever falls
for
> >this one is going to spend a lot of time and money chasing trim parts and
> >rusty body parts!
> >
> >Dick Benjamin
>
>
>
>
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