Here's a thought!

[patrick66]

I remember as a kid, living down the street from both the new Chevy showroom and the Dodge showroom. Watching transports come in with the new cars was always a fun thing for me when I was in grade school. The Chevy store was just two blocks away, while the Dodge store was a three-mile bike ride South. You'd almost always see a mixture of either Chevy models or Dodge models on the same truck. I once saw a hauler with nothing but Corvettes on it, and three of those got off at the local dealer.

I do remember when the Dodge dealer got a new '69 Dodge Daytona winged car in - you'd have thought a spaceship had landed! That created a real stir among me and my fellow nine-year-old buddies!

OK, to my point now...Does anyone know if Imperials had a dedicated haul where the transport was nothing but Imperials, without a mix or more plebian Plymouths and Dodges? Especially back when Imperial was its own distinct marque, and not simply a model with the Chrysler name on it.

Since Imperials were sold at Chrysler-Imperial, or Chrysler-Imperial-Plymouth dealers, it would seem they were not. But, since Vipers have their own transporters, why wouldn't Imperial have the same distinction, years earlier?

I was thinking about this this morning as I gazed upon my Imperial ragtop before going to work. Would be pretty cool if it were so.

OKC Thunder Cheerleaders not included!

 

[bigmoparjeff]

I'm going to say probably not. One lone photo doesn't really tell you what the most common procedure was for transporting Imperials, but it does tell you that Imperials didn't get shipped exclusively on their own trucks. This 1969 Imperial coupe is mixed in with a wide variety of vehicles.

Starting in 1967, Imperial production was intermixed on the same line with lesser C bodies. One would guess that they had their own line up to 1966 when they were still full frame cars. You can see in this photo, a 1967 Newport being assembled right behind an Imperial. The one thing that I believe was different between Imperials and many other C bodies is that they were only built at the Jefferson Ave. plant, at least from 1967 on.

Jeff