Friday, February 24, 2023

Automotif CCCXLV...


I was going over the SD card in my Nikon Coolpix A and found this shot from last May.

It's a 1967 Imperial Crown hardtop sedan in Haze Green, from back in the day when Imperial was a brand unto itself at Mopar, competing head to head with Lincoln and Cadillac for the premium domestic car market.

The 1967 model year was one that marked an event horizon for the Imperial marque. Up to that point, it had been a body-on-frame design using its own platform, but the '67 models were unibody designs, sharing the same "C-body" platform as the full-sized Chryslers. You could get any motor you wanted as long as the motor you wanted was a 440 cubic inch Mopar RB-block with a 4-barrel carburetor.

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