I should NOT want this ‘57 Imperial! But I do! Watch out for bright turquoise!

noelekal

I love convertibles, but you're right. That Imperial coupe is more eyecatching. Don't know if it's the styling of the hard top or the color ... or both.

Love ol' Buicks too. My grandmother was driving a 1956 Buick Roadmaster four door hardtop just like this one with the same paint scheme when I was a little kid. I can still recall the fragrance of the ethyl gasoline wafting in when she had it filled up. Soon traded it for a '59 and then a '61, all Buicks. That's all she would drive. Last one was an '83 Electra Park Avenue.

airansun

God help me, I should not lust after this car.

It’s huge and gaudy. I know from experience; back in the day, my father owned a far more conservative black four door ‘62 Imperial that I was expected to wash once a week.

It gets maybe 8 miles to the gallon. There are NO parking spaces anymore made for a car this wide and this long. Nearly 19 feet long and over 6 and a half feet wide.

But there’s something about the combination of colors and shapes that is driving me crazy!

I love this detail, the bar on the roof carried inside like this.

I know there’s a way that this car is ugly. Still.

Somebody spent over $100k on restoring this car.

Last year of the Hemi, but you’ve seen those.

Added benefit: (from Wikipedia):

“One advantage of Imperials of this vintage was their strength; their crash worthiness got them banned from most demolition derbys for being too durable and too tough to take down. Unlike the rest of the Chrysler Corporation, the Imperial retained separate full perimeter frames for rigidity through the 1966 model year. These substantial frames had a box cross section with crossmembers forming an "X”.”

It’s currently on eBay, but it’ll never sell there.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/163500345221

Thank goodness, I don’t have the means or the space to take this on.

But, I keep looking at the photos.

Gold plated trim.