For those of you who subscribe to Old Cars Weekly News
& Marketplace by the Krause people in Iola WI, there
is a nice Imperial article in the March 4 edition. the
article is Motor City Milestones by Byron Olsen on
page 14 & 17.
Bob Schoenberg
-1953 Custom Imperial Sedan
-1954 New Yorker DeLuxe
--- "B.A. Samoila" <fift8imperial@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What a wild thread...to think Imperials went Hippie.
> Anyway, Plymouth sales catalogs state that the Mod
> Top
> option was indeed available in 2 distinctive colors
> in
> 1969 ( It was the Barracuda catalog ) and I remember
> one ( again a Barracuda hardtop ) being unloaded
> from
> a car carrier that year at Maloney Plymouth in
> Canton,
> Ohio... Believe me it stood out like a Barbie doll
> among all those Roadrunners and GTX's ... so I
> believe
> with these recollections that they were
> factory...but
> seeing as this one's on an Imperial and no mention
> was
> ever made in an Imperial Catalog...probably dealer
> installed...would love to see a photo of this
> "flower
> child".
> BAS
> --- Richard Woodside <rwoodside@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Don Uhl's going to check out the paisley-topped
> '71
> > Imperial this weekend. Please keep us posted, but
> > let ME know FIRST if it's a great bargain that
> > you're going to pass up, won't you, Don? [As if
> ...]
> >
> > I corresponded with the seller last year about
> this
> > car, and while it looked OK in photos, the seller
> > could or would not supply any documentation of the
> > originality or authenticity of the top. While I'd
> > like any 71 Imp, at the right price/condition, the
> > CAD$4,500 or so that the seller was asking seemed
> a
> > bit high to me for a car that had been parked for
> > quite a while (IIRC) and may or may not have a
> rare
> > top that may or may not need to be replaced.
> >
> > I wonder whether anyone knows whether the paisley
> > tops were installed at the factory or at the
> > dealership?
> >
> > I have a George Barris "Mod Tops" folder of
> samples
> > and templates that were sent to Chev dealers circa
> > 1968, for dealer installation on Camaros, but I've
> > never seen a Camaro with such a top. (Not nearly
> as
> > tastefully baroque as Mopar's paisley tops).
> >
> > And we all know that dealers do install tops
> > themselves. I sat in a Lincoln showroom in the
> fall
> > of 1992 and watched a "carriage roof" white vinyl
> > top being installed on one of those "grass green"
> > Jack Nicklaus editions, to try to help move a
> > left-over 1992 Town Car. The new top didn't help
> the
> > look of the car nearly as much as a color change
> > would have ....
> >
> > But surely the Mopar paisley tops were never
> > installed by dealers to try to boost the sales of
> > slow movers, were they? And, even more certainly,
> no
> > dealer could ever have thought that a paisley top
> > might help boost the sale of an Imp, since
> > prospective Imperial customers were statistically
> > more likely to prefer somewhat conservative and
> > understated fashion statements, weren't they?
> >
> > Dick Woodside
> > (now where the heck did I put my old
> bell-bottoms?)
>
>
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