Pics of 69-73 C bodies

[71Polara383]

 

[LocuMob]

Hose!

 

[ceebuddy]

I met an 72-Imperial owner on friday, his is white vinyl over white, with cologne leather in brown inside. Made for export to Europe back then, so the speedo is in km. He owns it since 2014. Has power vent windows, twilight sentinel aaaand the Bendix anti-lock system (not functional anymore).
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But no tilt/telescope steering wheel.
Nearly excellent shape.
Nice owner.
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Does the current owner have any knowledge about the car's past, e.g. who was the first owner?

 

[crv]

I used to have the Brooklands book which featured this road test, lifted these images from a fb page:

 

[fury fan]

I used to have the Brooklands book which featured this road test, lifted these images from a fb page:

Yeah, that book is a decent one, I have one.
Plymouth Fury only, models from 1956-1976.
Would've been great if it were thicker and had more coverage.
But great to see such a book in any form.

 

[crv]

Yeah, that book is a decent one, I have one.
Plymouth Fury only, models from 1956-1976.
Would've been great if it were thicker and had more coverage.
But great to see such a book in any form.

Not that one, the one I had was a compilation of Mopar muscle car road tests.

 

[330dTA]

Does the current owner have any knowledge about the car's past, e.g. who was the first owner?

Indeed, it would be nice to learn that. What country & who?
(Some Imps were imported to Finland, too, once in a while. Some years none, some years one. Sorry, I do not have records on those.)

 

[Tobias74]

 

[Daly]

Some pics I found of my car, someone took while I was at a meet Thursday night.

 

[Joerg]

Indeed, it would be nice to learn that. What country & who?
(Some Imps were imported to Finland, too, once in a while. Some years none, some years one. Sorry, I do not have records on those.)

It seems that the Imperial has been in Austria from 1972 on, as official import with metric speedometer and was owned by the former owners of "Kleinbahn", a (then well-known) manufacturer of small scale H0 railroads and trains for young and not-so-young children.
After the death of Erich Klein 2011, who had quite a collection of cars (including Cadillacs as well), the heir was quick to sell the collection.
Michael bought it 2014, so that would be around that time, but I have to check back with him.

 

[330dTA]

It seems that the Imperial has been in Austria from 1972 on, as official import with metric speedometer and was owned by the former owners of "Kleinbahn", a (then well-known) manufacturer of small scale H0 railroads and trains for young and not-so-young children.
After the death of Erich Klein 2011, who had quite a collection of cars (including Cadillacs as well), the heir was quick to sell the collection.
Michael bought it 2014, so that would be around that time, but I have to check back with him.

Thank you, Joerg. It all makes sense. Practically all American cars that came to Finland as official imports, as new, had a KPH speedo as well. What is curious regarding the Fuselage Chryslers is the fact that the scale (0-200) looked like it was glued on top of the MPH scale.

 

[330dTA]

Sorry about the lousy quality of the KPH speedo shot, it's the only one that I have in my files.
But you can see the notch to the right of the 200 digit: the MPH speedo is on level.

 

[fury fan]

Thank you, Joerg. It all makes sense. Practically all American cars that came to Finland as official imports, as new, had a KPH speedo as well. What is curious regarding the Fuselage Chryslers is the fact that the scale (0-200) looked like it was glued on top of the MPH scale.

Not really any other way to do it.
The speedo must be recalibrated to measure correctly - then the odometer reads correctly.

Other speedos with the numbering on the speedometer assembly (like the 69-72 Fury) got a different silk-screened (?) metal plate with the appropriate numbering.

But for Fusey Chryslers, the numbers are on an injection-molded part. That's too expensive to make new tooling for.
Even to modify the existing tooling, such that the numbering is done via a changeable insert, would've been expensive.

 

[70 Sport Suburban]

Just an old S23.

 

[King Hooter]

You mean to tell me that my 81 Imperial is only 2 inches shorter than a Sport Fury GT?

 

[polara71]

You mean to tell me that my 81 Imperial is only 2 inches shorter than a Sport Fury GT?
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Ida thought it was longer. Gotta be heavier.

 

[Joerg]

Sorry about the lousy quality of the KPH speedo shot, it's the only one that I have in my files.
But you can see the notch to the right of the 200 digit: the MPH speedo is on level.

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I have another photo of km-speedos on my harddisk, just for comparison (maybe they are from FCBO, i don´t know):

Miles:

metric:

the metric-scale seems to have been mounted over the mph-scale, nowadays there is an adhesive scale for that...

 

[ceebuddy]

Not really any other way to do it.
The speedo must be recalibrated to measure correctly - then the odometer reads correctly.

Other speedos with the numbering on the speedometer assembly (like the 69-72 Fury) got a different silk-screened (?) metal plate with the appropriate numbering.

But for Fusey Chryslers, the numbers are on an injection-molded part. That's too expensive to make new tooling for.
Even to modify the existing tooling, such that the numbering is done via a changeable insert, would've been expensive.

Not only was the plate with kph numbers mounted on the bezel, the actual speedo was different, too: The angled white lines on the face were spaced differently and the odometer had a different gearing to accurately show distances traveled in Kilometers.

 

[Snotty]

I have another photo of km-speedos on my harddisk, just for comparison (maybe they are from FCBO, i don´t know):

Miles:
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metric:
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the metric-scale seems to have been mounted over the mph-scale, nowadays there is an adhesive scale for that...

Fuel gauges almost to empty; that's where mine usually is too.

 

[Mid70's Chrysler Fanatic]

Egad: The gas mileage (kilometerage?) sounds so much worse in km/L.