jaunty75

Saw this last week at the Imperial Palace Hotel collection in Las Vegas. $45,00 takes it. An unrestored original with 55,000 miles. It even has a 45 rpm record player. Was that an available option?

citcapp

The 64 starfire is the next best looking Olds to come off the assembly line second only to the 57 Olds

jaunty75

My apologies, though! It's a '63, not a '64. I've corrected the title at the top of the thread.

It is a good-looking car, though.

The full-size body styles starting in 1961 through 1966 were very attractive, I've always thought. Clean and smooth. They started to get a little large and land yacht-looking with the '67s.

rocketraider

Hi-Way Hi-Fi 45 rpm record players are aftermarket in anything but a Chrysler product.

"One of the finest Starfires in existence" and priced about $15k too high. Comparable 61-62 rarely approach that money.

It's a beauty though. Antique Rose inside and out is a pretty rare combination and just screams early 60s high style. I've seen only two of those in nearly 40 years of fooling with Starfires. I'd hate to have to try and duplicate that pink metallic finished leather.

jaunty75

Yes, but it was on display at the Imperial Palace. That's gotta be worth some kind of premium!

Oldsguy

Beautiful color. I think a photo of that car might be on the cover of my reference book which kind of makes sense considering the condition and beauty of that car.

jeffreyalman

awesome car love the velvet ropes

aliensatemybuick

I saw the Imperial Palace collection back in 2005. My recollection is its not easy to find, even when you know its on the premises.

jaunty75

You're right. Even the Imperial Palace Hotel itself is not right on The Strip, but is actually back about a block with an entrance driveway on the Strip. But if you walk in to the registration area and look around, you'll see signs for the auto collection. You have to make your way to the back of the lobby/casino, find the right elevator, and go the 4th floor or something like that. It also costs $10 per person admission fee, but we were there, so we paid it and went in.

Probably the reason it's hard to find is that's it's actually housed in a converted parking garage, which would certainly not have been placed front and center when the hotel was designed. The cars are located along the sides of sloping walkways with large garage doors at the end. At one time one would have driven through those doors and into one of the spaces now occupied by the collection. Of course, there would have been no carpeting and velvet ropes!

I happened to take a wide-angle shot of one of the rows of cars, and you can see what I'm talking about. This row slopes downward toward the garage door.




In some areas, they parked cars in the center aisle as well as along the sides.


Here's a shot looking over the top of a '62 Imperial Crown convertible (price: $65,000), which, along with other cars, was parked in the center of the aisle. (Side question: The sign called it a "Chrysler Imperial," but wasn't Imperial its own line back then, like Dodge and Plymouth? So it wouldn't have been a "Chrysler Imperial," but rather just an "Imperial.")

redoldsman

When it comes to Starfires, it has to be a black 62. A friends mom had one when we were in high school. Still remember that car with the red leather interior. I would love to own one but I don't think it will happen.

agtw31

my dad had a blue starfire ragtop for a demo when i was a little kid,i still remember him picking us up from school in it..

that Imperial is awesome!!

jaunty75

Here's a couple more photos of it plus the little sign describing it. I particularly like the huge "I" in the Imperial script on the fender.

The '63 Starfire is just barely visible in the background just above the Imperial's windshield.