1982 Imperial on Hoovie's Garage

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Haven't watched the whole thing yet, but it seems like he wasn't as lucky as Derek from VGG was with his Imperial.

 

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Haven't watched the whole thing yet, but it seems like he wasn't as lucky as Derek from VGG was with his Imperial.



Not really, it's a lot nicer then the vice grip one and was drivable from the start even tho it has some problems. Which it shouldn't have as much of for what he paid.
He'll probably come back with yet another Chrysler product he bought having problems even tho all his cars do.

Those poor rocker panels and the hoist placement...
 

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Haven’t watched it, but man do I want an Imperial so bad. Them and the ‘80s cordoba/miradas with the rectangular tail lights are my favorites of these cars.
 

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I don't know how "Super Rare" the Frank Sinatra edition is. There seems to be plenty of them around, along with some of the other designer editions. I think they were produced for a couple of years, with at least 1000 each year. Nice looking cars, but somewhat derivative of the Lincoln MK4/MK5, at least in exterior appearance. Aside from the "V" shaped front grille, they are almost a dead ringer for the older Lincolns (athough the cut line coming down from the roofline through the rear fenders is a little different). Nice cars though. and I wouldn't mind getting one myself, but it would have to be a non-fuel injected one, as I wouldn't want to have to deal with that old fuel injection system and its impossible to get parts. The wheelbase on the Imperial I think is longer than the wheelbase of the Mirada/Cordoba.

I wrote the above before watching the video.

Only 270 of these sounds very, very low; maybe Hoovie was talking about only the 1981s? I think they came with a case full of Frank Sinatra's music on cassettes; and having that would probably increase the value considerably.

I really must question the logic of driving a car home that is in that bad a state. I know its probably cost prohibitive to get it towed, but waiting a day for Eurasian Bob to come back with a trailer, or even renting a vehicle and trailer to get the car back home seems more practical to me.
 
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Not really, it's a lot nicer then the vice grip one and was drivable from the start even tho it has some problems. Which it shouldn't have as much of for what he paid.
He'll probably come back with yet another Chrysler product he bought having problems even tho all his cars do.

Those poor rocker panels and the hoist placement...
Crushed rockers make it more rare! 1 of 1 ruined rocker package!
 

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There wasca follow up video today. Car wizard pulled the computer and went way back replacing it with a points distributor... they were still working on it.
 

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There wasca follow up video today. Car wizard pulled the computer and went way back replacing it with a points distributor... they were still working on it.
points!? ah yes, the car wizard, where the only trick is how fast he makes hoovie's money disappear
 

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i recall in some Hoovies garage vids, you can see he has a Dip AHB. usually seen sitting in the background. idk if he ever did a focused episode about it
 
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