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That Imperial was representative of the last days of Exner design at Chrysler.
The movie car appears to be a '62 Olds Dynamic 88.
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It's not like you can realistically claim "Oh, no, I thought I was buying a Corvair and I got an NSU by mistake. I've been tricked!"
The '62-63 Imperial looked nice from the rear, I thought. But, once the '63 Valiant started copying it, I think it lost a bit of its cachet. As for those free-standing headlights, I think I read somewhere that they wanted to originally go with hidden lights for the '61 Imperial, but with those undercut fenders like that, it was complicated and expensive to do, so then they went with the free-standing lights.
I see a 'Connecticut Volkswagen Association' banner in the background.
Also a beige Cadillac XLR(?), Corvette based model.
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It was a very poor seller. They sold something like 7225 the first year. Their goal was "only" 25,000 units, to give it some snob appeal, but apparently it didn't appeal to enough snobs. Sales only went downhill from there.
As for the big, C-body Imperials, I liked the '69-73 models, with their hidden headlights. But, they still had too much Chrysler, and even Plymouth in their DNA. The '74-75 models were nice, at the time, but then for '76-78, Chrysler made the New Yorker look like the '74-75 Imperial, and I think that tainted their image. And, when fully optioned up, a '76-78 New Yorker was every bit as plush as an Imperial had been.
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I wish I still looked like this. Amazing what 23 years can do to you.
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A family I knew when I was a kid had a SportWagon (or was it 'Sportwagon')--Buick's version of the Vista Cruiser-- that looked just like that car--below the roof and from the front doors up, anyway!
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I grew up Chevy, but largely I like Pontiacs of that era best of all divisions now.
Yesterday evening, on my way home from work, I overtook a '68 Chevelle. Here's a hasty pic I took as I passed it...
And I tried to get creative and get a shot of the front, in the side view mirror, but it came out crappy...
It was kind of refreshing, seeing one that looked pretty much stock, and not turned into some kind of SS clone.
Similar nose design to the Porsche tractors.
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We had a new '67 Chevelle when I was a kid and I clearly remember going with Dad and Grandpa to see the new '68's in fall '67. Even as a kid of nine I could tell they had shrunk--although the sedan's wheelbase was increased an inch. They just seemed smaller--and the coupe was, fairly significantly.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, pretty sure only the Concours came with those moldings and not the SS. Going to check out the brochure now.
That was back-before 'uniform identification', i.e., the same nameplate style and font was used in more than one place on the car. I grew to appreciate the uniformity. On the Skylark, I notice the "Skylark" script on the exterior quarter panel and the block lettering on the instrument panel.
My '66 Studebaker is like this. It has the "Studebaker" script outside the car as had been used since the '64's, but on the glovebox uses a new-for-'66 "Studebaker" script that's curley-cue-ee and filigree-ee, like from a Cadillac or something. A small thing that bugs me.
Similarly, as much as I like '61 Impalas, I can't stand that the radio buttons spell "CHEVY", LOL. An Impala is a "CHEVROLET"! They dropped that from the radio buttons for '62.
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Always a sucker for turquoise, either light or dark, and that '68 looks nice with the white top I think. Not the typical '68 Chevelle champagne or light/medium green or pale yellow colors so popular.
I have never seen the Delco radio with "CHEVY" buttons but one of the cool things about the Skylark was that the radio buttons spelled out B-U-I-C-K.
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Whats funny is I’m not really a huge fan of those ... I always seemed to prefer Fords.
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I'm totally OK with the radio buttons spelling "BUICK"...my example would be like having "OLDS" or "MERC" (OK, I know, not enough buttons, LOL) on a car radio. It's shorthand-cheesy to me. But I'm wired weird, LOL.
My guess is that after the Impala, the Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe was the second-best-selling two-door model and series in the Chevrolet lineup, and offering this Concours coupe meant more than black vinyl Malibu interiors were available to the Chevelle two-door hardtop buyer. Still only black during the strike, but another-style interior.
The Concours Sport Sedan is in both the '68 and '69 brochures, with frilly cloth interiors. The '68-only Concours coupe, again, had only black vinyl interior available.
It's the '68 Chevelle I would like to own the most. There are pics online of them.
UPDATE: A friend who knows how curious I am about these cars, was talking to a guy with a '68 Chevelle SS396 at a show whose car had the Buick Skylark Custom interior and the guy provided my friend, who provided me, a copy of a letter "TO ALL DEALERS" dated March 25, 1968, talking about a labor dispute "for some period of time" that "is curtailing completely the trim supply for Chevelle and Chevy II lines". At this point, no cloth interior trims were available in the Chevelle lines at all, and only black vinyl in the Malibu. It appears to me that the Concours option (Skylark Custom or Cutlass Supreme interior trim, depending on assembly plant) of all-vinyl in black only, on the coupes, was done to provide some variation of the black vinyl regular-Malibu interior in what was probably Chevy's best-selling two-door hardtop after the Impala. I imagine there were probably some sore retail customers who ordered a Malibu in something else than black vinyl interiors though whose car didn't come in as ordered.
The Chevy II optional Custom interior (bench and buckets) was also only available in black vinyl at this point, and although the Corvair wasn't mentioned in the opening of the letter, below it is mentioned that "alternate trims for Corvair cannot be obtained and production of these models has ceased until trim can be obtained". Probably not a huge deal for Corvair assembly to be curtailed in '68!
The letter also states that "Satisfactory alternate trims cannot be obtained for the following models thus they will not be offered during this temporary period: Chevelle 300 Coupe, Nomad 2-seat wagon, 300 Deluxe Sport Coupe, and 300 Deluxe four-door sedan".
Lots of questions I've had were answered with that letter.
I know if I was ordering a Chevelle back then and was told that I could only get a black interior, I would look for something else.
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Pretty rare car I suspect.