Restoration Cost Advice - 69 Imperial Coupe

[fury fan]

Okay Ladies and Gents, looking for a bit of advice. The car in question is the 1969 Imperial Coupe featured in this thread. Please see Post #21 for my full write-up and assessment of the car including photos.

how much do you think it would cost to get this car to be a decent driver?... I'd only want maybe a 10 footer. ...there isn't the time or money to give it a Barrett Jackson/Concourse restoration. Just a clean and beautiful car ...

For a comparison, here's a 71 that sold recently, price was nearly the same but condition was notably nicer.
NOT MINE - 1971 Imperial 2-door.

I'm reading what seem to be some contradictions for 'your' blue '69. Decent driver, 10-footer (lots of flaws can be seen at 10 feet) but also a clean and beautiful car.
That car cannot be that, it needs a restoration, which is the most expensive route. (the car in the link could've met your targets)

All the guys who said to find an already-nice example are giving the best advice.

 

[crv]

chase the mice away

Ha!, funny but true.
Maybe something like the Imperial discussed here: NOT MINE - 1971 Imperial 2-door. would be a better option, they started quite high on the price, which is almost always very negotiable.

 

[chrysler_fan]

However we're all sounding discouraging . I hope he picks it up and pecks at it. They all don't have to be perfect.

And the sad part is no matter how well he does the restoration, it likely will not be worth what he has in it when finished. At least to most.

 

[azblackhemi]

I think we scared @Yeahrightgreer away.
Hasn't been back since shortly after this thread started.

 

[marty mopar]

You Fools! Wasting all your time bringing the dead back to life. There is nothing like a new car.

Once again, I have the solution. Oh yeah baby: A time Machine. You walk into a dealership in 1969
and buy a cheap but new Imperial. Put it in a time machine with you in it and you have a brand new car.
No warranty but who cares?

Now it might take some fabrication/time for this machine, but I am up for it.

 

[ayilar]

I think we scared @Yeahrightgreer away.
Hasn't been back since shortly after this thread started.

If memory serves, @Yeahrightgreer is in and out depending on military postings. He used to own a red 1970 Fury iii 'vert, PM27G0D271331 -- which is how I first got to chat with him.

 

[fury fan]

Once again, I have the solution. Oh yeah baby: A time Machine. You walk into a dealership in 1969
and buy a cheap but new Imperial. Put it in a time machine with you in it and you have a brand new car.
No warranty but who cares?

Now it might take some fabrication/time for this machine, but I am up for it.

Yeahbut -
How you going to get the cash to buy a car back then when all the cash you brought back has dates from the future?
You better start collecting old money today, to take back with you?

Unless you were alive back then, and still have that same bank account, that you can load up today.
But wait - that money won't be in the account back then.
So you'd need to have had the money for an Imperial back then somehow.

So far the time machine seems to only work to generate future wealth, unless one can go back to some older times and make some stock investments. Like Royal Typewriters or something.