68plymouth383
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Man..... that car is rough! !
For Sale 65 imperial flower car craigslist
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68blackbird
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No way....
patrick66
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Looking at that picture link, I noticed the OK state inspection sticker on the windshield - it shows due in September 1996. So, it's been off the road nearly 20 years, and apparently parked in that very spot the whole time. I'm not going to go look at it. I do not need nor desire a huge project like that right now, anyway. It's about 40 miles from me.
patrick66
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He returned my inquiry about parting that car out and asked what I'd give for the whole car. I'm more interested in parts, versus the whole car. If I were totally project-free and did not have five registered & titled Mopars in my shop already, I might otherwise actually be interested in this as a project.
bajajoaquin
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Keep in mind that the car is more interesting to "Professional Car" enthusiasts. For them, this is a rare example of a rare breed: Chrysler Corporation professional cars. All flower cars and hearses were, to some degree, "hacked" together by outside companies. It's rough, and there aren't many salvageable parts for a stock Imperial, but that's not what he's going for. He's going for a narrow enthusiast window for whom this might just really work.
Dan Scully
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For Sale 65 imperial flower car craigslist
The true commercial chassis flowers cars are pretty low production. Even the major company's typical build less then 20 a year and lots of years only a handful where made. A few would convert a 4 dr sedan into one also. This looks like a back yard attempt to make a flower car or a El Camino style pickup. My 96 is a true flower car built by Eagle Coach.
terrible shape but an interesting car. note the ragtop in front of it also.
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The true commercial chassis flowers cars are pretty low production. Even the major company's typical build less then 20 a year and lots of years only a handful where made. A few would convert a 4 dr sedan into one also. This looks like a back yard attempt to make a flower car or a El Camino style pickup. My 96 is a true flower car built by Eagle Coach.
patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
I don't see the Imperial as an actual coachbuilders' product, either. There would be a manufacturer's plate on the car somewhere, I would think. Those tubular pickup side rails are things out of the mid-'80s, not the late '60s. Lots and lots of work for that one guy out there...somewhere.
Fratzog
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If it was compete with a tailgate that would make for an interesting pickup project. Likely one of a kind.
i was wondering about this too, but i can't see a previous owner going through the trouble and expense of fabricating the vinyl top, moldings, bed floor bracing etc. doesn't look like a backyard build to me.
bajajoaquin
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If Dan Scully has a flower car, he's way more of an expert than me, so I'm prepared to be corrected here:
I don't think that the lack of a tailgate is a good indicator that it is or isn't a backyard job. I've seen lots of flower car pics that don't have tailgates. Remember that these aren't El Caminos or pickups. They were designed to carry high-bulk, low-weight flower arrangements.
Also, and this is really stretching my memory, I think that the coachbuilders who specialized in Chrysler products by that time were not exactly top-of-the-line organizations. It would not surprise me to find out that their products didn't hold up over time.
I don't think that the lack of a tailgate is a good indicator that it is or isn't a backyard job. I've seen lots of flower car pics that don't have tailgates. Remember that these aren't El Caminos or pickups. They were designed to carry high-bulk, low-weight flower arrangements.
Also, and this is really stretching my memory, I think that the coachbuilders who specialized in Chrysler products by that time were not exactly top-of-the-line organizations. It would not surprise me to find out that their products didn't hold up over time.
Dan Scully
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There were two types of long wheelbase coupe style flower cars... Eastern and Western, or Chicago style, as Chicago was where the Western style flower cars were most popular. Chicago style cars had a large open well, with no deck, but often had a canvas device like a tarpaulin which could be suspended at different levels in the well. They also had the usual rear loading door or tailgate, and it wasn't uncommon for them to have a pair of casket rollers mounted in the door sill. If there was any hardware on the floor of the well, it was usually skid strips, with no rollers. A Chicago style flower car could be used as an open top casket car if desired, as the boot could be raised, and usually had to be raised before opening the rear loading door, and this provided access to load a casket into that compartment.
Over the years there has been about 4-6 big company's making professional cars = hearses ,ambulances, limousines, flower cars and service cars. Even the big company,s made very few flower cars because of the expense and limited usage. But there where tons of small body shops and other company's that would build you just about anything and there are plenty of 1 off,s. My 62 Buick is a example of this Gm contracted with the Flxible company to build 2 as a cost study ,never went into production but it falls into that category of you know they never those.
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