1976 Chrysler "Imperial" Town & Country

426 Hemi. Imperial front end. Power glass sunroof.

This looks to be a very well-done mild customization.

That Imperial nose with hidden headlights look made for it! :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1976...2424754?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item43b958f932

 

We veterans of the SWF have seen this one before.......
Has a lot of interesting features - like the fuel-injected Hemi. (I wonder how the performance compares with say a mildly warmed-over 440?)
This one's been up for sale before - a couple of times while I've been here.

Anybody here got a few shimoleans they're not doing anything with? This one will probably cost you 30,000 of them.

 

Very cool wagon!

 

Don't understand why they would re-do the front seats, not matching the rest of the seats, which look to be in pristine original condition. Especially on a car with 18k original miles. And I'm not feeling the custom console either.

 

I am in total agreement. It must be a personal preference of the current owner.

 

they really think anyone is gonna belive that milage? maybe an idiot. all ya gotta do is look at the odometer WAY to many #s outta alignment and the wear on the steering wheel (left side pay particular attention to the horn pad in the 1 photo).

 

Not feeling the tiki wood either.

 

I really like this wagon from the outside but not crazy about the interior. What is up with that $25,000 price tag?

 

Gorgeous car with an amazing engine but they totally detroyed the dash and that console looks awful! Looks like something a kid would make in wood shop... Really sad since the rest of the car is so nice and done so well.

 

Yup, although the seats do look like they were done nice, but this is not the car to have miss mached interiour seats. As for the console and dash......lets just destroy a nice car even more

 

wood dash

Wow...the wood isn't unattractive in of and by itself, but that they hacked in square pieces with a screwgun.

It might look ok if they had used some woodworking skills and shaped it decent and laid it in there.

 

Yeah, I agree. The engine is obviously a professional installation. The dash bits and console - are not. Also should have been very easy for a trim shop to alter the second and third seats to match the front buckets.

Notice - no bids yet. It would be a very cool wagon to have, but I'm not sure I could afford to drive it.

 

That consoles works very well...in a custom van! Definitely NOT a fit here!!! A much better choice would be a B-body or a J-body Mopar console from a mid-to-late-'70s Mopar. The dash problems are easy to fix.

Since these did not have buckets from the factory, I can see why the builder did what he did with the interior. I don't agree with it, but I can see it.

Around 1989 - 1990, there was a '76 New Yorker T&C wagon with an Imperial front clip in Cologne, Germany, that I remember from several shows in Germany and the Netherlands. It was a black 440 car, and had the woodgrain and associated trim removed. A very cool car that the German owner drove every day. So, when I read the initial description at work (minus pics!), I thought this might have been that car.

This is very nice, save for the previous mentioned "flaws".

 

Depends on what they butchered under the bad wood job.....mite need a new dash face, and finding one.....

The whole wood custom job looks horrible, I made a console box for my honeys van in 99 while I was just plastered, it still looks good today....we all have made things that we have gotton a bit of flack from our friends.....but where were this guys friends at the time?

 

The engine is a nice conversion, and with the overdrive, probably decent on gas. That interior, however, needs to be done right! Get the front buckets, console, floor shift, and steering column from a Cordoba, and make it all match. Make a proper IP with full gauges that match, and then you have something. Better yet, put the interior from and Imperial in. That would be the way to go when making a true Imperial wagon. Wonder if you could graft the rear lights of an Imperial into the back end, and have something truly special here. Hmmm. Imperial donor, combined with this one, and go to it. Go whole hog and make it a 4 door hardtop wagon. Now you are talking!