mmarshall

I don't think you would have liked the Chrysler column-shifters of that period. In high school, I drove one on a 1968 Plymouth. They were the complete opposite of the durable, solid Torqueflite automatic...........sloppy, loosely-assembled, weak 2-3 synchro which required a slow shift, and lacking a synchronizer on first gear, so you had to come to almost a complete stop to downshift into first.

Jezza819

This morning a guy I work with rolled up in a 1971 or 72 Chrysler Imperial. Blue with a white vinyl top, 440 cu. in. engine, 72,000 miles. He was at a classic car show this weekend and saw it with a For Sale sign on it. He said he had always wanted one and just bought it.

mmarshall

If my memory is correct, the 1971 Imperial and 1971 Lincoln Continental were the first American-designed cars to offer anti-lock brakes as an option....but, as with early attempts by GM (mostly in Oldsmobiles) to sell air bags in the 1970s, there were few takers back then.