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My cousin the late Patricia Neal preferred the Chrysler Imperial, when visiting her uncle which was my great grandfather, she talked with me for about an hour however she was in the beginning stages of her stroke this was in the 1970's, Her Imperial was also black but was not special ordered.

As an interesting side note, Rockefeller's other Imperial limousine he spoke of here, the 1959, is on display at the Rockefeller family estate 'Kykuit' in Sleepy Hollow New York. You can visit both the house and the garages. It's there with many of the other Rockefeller family cars going all the way back to old John D. Sr.

Thank you for posting that! Interesting car and it's history.

Growing up in the 60's we had a family that had an Imperial, it was black, and and all decked out with every option, it was beautiful. But....just around the corner from him was another neighbor that had two Lincoln Continentals, a Town car and a Mark 2 or 3 I don't remember which one...and having two Lincolns in the same household was unheard of at the time. This guy would go out of his way to drive by the Imperial just to gawk at it, he was very jealous.

Just a magnificent car…but why weren’t we shown the rear seat area? Still, those doors closing - wow!

It must be nice to have that kind of money

Paid for it 🤔. With taxpayers money.. Corruption that goes so deep.

The key specification for the Eagle bus was that it had an independent front suspension from its origin in the late 1950s while all the other buses had a simple solid front axle. The other visual aspect was the classic Eagle was known to have its rear tag axle IN FRONT of the drive axle, while all other travel buses had the tag axle behind the drive axle. Eagles used torsion rubber suspension springs for its suspension and not air bag spring that are the industry norm from GM. Air springs allow a soft spring rate where air can be added or removed to maintain the correct ride height. The Eagle had an active mechanism to change the pretension on the torsion rubber springs to have a soft spring rate yet compensate for changing weight in the bus. Prevost, MCI and GM have had stainless steel monocoupes forever making them fair well long term in North American salt treated winter roads. They are not free of rust for metals used in the suspension and engine. European motor coaches were not made of stainless steel and rust which is the origin of Eagle bus manufacturing. European motor coaches don't typically travel as fast or nearly as far as is in North America. Mercedes has recently tried to enter the North American motor coach market and to do so they made the new motor coach Tourrider stainless steel www.mercedes-benz-bus.com/en_US/home.html. The rigidity of a monocoupe is typically better than a space frame for useful interior space and of a different character to a sensitive driver not necessary better or worse, but different. What is not wanted in a rigid vehicle is use of a latter frame popular with trucks that is great at accepting varying heavy loads through deflection. All the major school bus manufactures for North America use a truck frame and are built to have superior crashworthiness and rollover protection than travel buses. Thank you for this history of the Eagle bus. It's a very different vehicle origin where the end user Trailways, came up with a design and concept then shopped the world to find a manufacture to make it in the late 1950s. The Eagle is not a traditional brand, but a design that advanced for about 40 years that was made by a series of manufactures. For its time and possibly today the Eagle motor coach was renowned for its ride and vehicle dynamics. To have 98% of the entertainer motor coach market means it was a motor coach that was superior at navigating sketch roads, reliable, comfortable able to make time to maintain schedule.

The Rockefeller's tell them all to get in and take a long drive off a short pier !!

Sounds like modern politicians. Driving $100k Teslas. Living like they’re better than everyone else. Poor guy didn’t like the Cadillac so he had a car custom made.

In NY …. You cannot register a LIMO after being 10 years old …. Thanks to the POS 🐪 Jockey that willing and knowingly had a defective limo on the road killed 20 people…. So the Queen on NY passed a bill with no exception…. So. I know people with Packard ,Caddy,Lincoln,chrysler limos. Can’t drive them

This car was in the Rockefeller parking garage until Christie's renovation. The parking guys would get stuck on the ramps between levels. Sitting with heavy dust when I first looked at it.

My ultimate dream car was the 61 LeBaron! Not able to actually own one, I created a collage from 61 sales brochure. The Black LeBaron is the largest and central image. Every time I look at it hanging on my wall, it reminds me of an era unfortunately never to be seen again. I did the same with 61 DeSoto.

A truly INCOMPARABLE Imperial! Recall that Chrysler advertising used INCOMPARABLE Imperial. This one is beyond INCOMPARABLE if that is possible. All Imperials were also said to be America's Most Carefully Built Cars. The 60s and 61s took Exners fabulous finned fantasies to a grand finale!

I think I might load up the Packard and drive down the mountain to have tea with the Vanderbilts!

Rockefeller was smarter than I thought ! Chucked the caddies for a real car !!!!

Horrible presenter - horrible camera work - this could be an amazing video about a beautiful car - you guys are doing it dirty.

Beautiful car - horrible presentation was barely able to stay awake.

Chrysler needs to bring back the Imperial and give cadillac a run for there money. to bad Lincoln stopped building a sadans😢

My fami9ly lived just across the Bronx River from Rockefeller's home. Yeah he liked Chrysler's BUT the car I remember and the one he waved to all us kids from was a fire-engine red 1956 Lincoln Mark II WHICH (unlike his limousines) he drove himself.

Nice , that car meets my standards !

My Grandparent’s Next door neighbor purchased a Tucker dealership and had one. As you can imagine, on early Car Bingo cards I could kick butt! It was an amazing car.

The Parthenon lives in Greece, not Rome…

If you own one of these it's useful to also own an oil company 😅

take us for a ride in it !

Should have showed more of the car, disappointing.

I learned to drive in my mother's 1960 Imperial Crown convertible, white with red leather.

People would ask me why you buy that Chrysler. They depreciate. I said that's why I bought that Chrysler it depreciated. Bought it late.

Iv e always had real good luck with old Chryslers where they start aging and having trouble. 220000 miles. The Chrysler beat 2 buicks and an Oldsmobile. In repair costs.

Chauffeurs said imperial shifted smoother than cadillac.

Most underrated car. Imperial. My opinion

Great video - thanks!🙏🏽

Now they pretty much stretch a CADILLAC XT5 for funeral or airport limousines. Hey if it works fine since it’s just transportation.

Great video. Thanks

Too bad CHRYSLER decided that quality was no longer important. Perhaps the IMPERIAL division would still exist if they had cared enough.

Excellent Presentation. I had 2 door model from 1973 2 door coupe oh man she was a beauty I bought it in 1985. If I ever get up that way I would love to visit the Museum.

thank you from manhattan ©2024

I'll give you 5 grand for it.

The Pate museum in Texas had one of these with a prominent owner but I don't remember who it was

Amazing car , but your sentence "There's no plastic in this car" is wrong. You SAID it was fitted with Nylon carpet. Nylon is a strong, stiff engineering plastic with outstanding bearing and wear properties. I wonder why it wasn't fitted with wool carpet like a contemporary RollsRoyce would have been? Curious!

tear out the engine and make it an electric car!!

I have obviously been spoiled' by Queen jolene's camera work !! I now expect to see the details that he's talking about !!

that's REAL true car its a LAND YAUHT 20ft plus long BEAUTIFUL big FINS GEORGOUS

An interesting and knowledgeable video, unfortunately let down by a gentleman who is rather awkward in his speaking abilities, and not nearly enough footage of the details he attempts to speak about.

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What a beauty!

Fenders and headlights are very similar to the 1960 Cadillac.

this is what limos should look like. max privacy.

I remember seeing this car numerous times parked in front of 22 West 55th Street, which was the townhouse where NAR lived and worked with his gubernatorial staff. One of his chauffeurs was an older jockey-sized man. My father, who was on NAR's staff, was privileged to have the services of an amiable ex-trooper named Warren, who was his chauffeur, who drove a Buick Electra 225.

Please tell me it gets driven on occasion and not just sitting there