Imperial Car Club Forum

If I recall right, one of the flashers is pretty much directly over the passenger’s right foot, tucked just up under the dash. But I can’t remember if that’s the turn signal or hazard flasher...

Search “forward look mirror” on eBay and they will come up from time to time. I believe the 57-59 ones are 5-sided shapes. Starting in 1960 they became rectangular (pics of ‘60 attached).

1960 had front fender LeBaron scripts, 1961-1963 Lebanons did not, 64 did, 65 didn’t, 66 did. I have always guessed that the reason it was left off was it might have been perceived as even more posh not to be quite as flashy about how posh you were. But clearly they kept repeatedly changing their mi...

Yeah, I think my favorite eagle was the one on the sides the 61’s But there were a variety of cool ones.

Do we know who designed the eagle logo that started appearing in 1961 and continued on eventually to Chrysler LeBarons? I always sort of casually assumed it was an Engel thing because they don’t seem very Exner-y to me. But when I think about it, I suspect those eagles were already in production bef...

I think they actually were aluminum or an aluminum alloy. They definitely wear down quicker than a brass key but I have fairly routinely used aluminum keys on both of my Imperials with no bent or broken keys. The trunk lock is really the only lock that’s not crazy easy to turn. My approach ideal app...

I believe the 66’s were just Pentastar keys like in the picture I tried to attach. I would probably try Jesser’s classic keys and/or ebay. I am not aware of any crown style reproduction key blanks but that would be cool and I’d want a couple. Forward Look flook logo keys are pretty easy to find (so ...