They're laying around all over Northern Ca. and nobody else is paying attention. You just have to walk out the front door and you start tripping over them. I see them fairly regularly, in fact. There's a 67 with a dead transmission that is otherwise cherry in Lafayette. I have a bunch of good transmissions, and the car is only $850. I've been watching him drop from $1500 for a month now. I could probably go there and offer to tow it and toss $300 at him, pay a trans shop to install, and have a nice car for under $1000, but time, money, and so forth prevent it. Someone want a nice '67? Let me know and I'll set you up. Currently working on a yahoo that has a really cherry '66 that he wants the engine from for his 318 charger or whatever. Why stupid, destructive, cheap, lazy people all gravitate to the muscle cars is beyond me. Since I see more imperials actually driving around than completed muscle projects, I have concluded that the majority of these "projects" never get completed and wind up anchoring people's garage floors for 10-20 years in a state of screwed up disaaray that nobody else would want to deal with so they just sit there. Check out the Ebay listings sometime and you'll see a whole stack of screwed-the-pooch "project cars". The Imperials that you see are mostly tatty survivors that are on their third owner or pulled out of mothballs somewhere. Hmmm. So me and another IML'er have bought a similarly nice 1966 New Yorker that is a little rough but has a similar 1966 440 engine (the object of Stupid's Imperial desires). We're hoping that Stupid will take the NY'er for his charger project instead and trad us the Imperial for it. Plan is to retard the timing, richen the carb a little, and get it so that when you romp on the gas it takes off hard. That'll please him. If we're lucky, he'll give us back the carcass of the NY'er and we can part it or sell it to a derby guy for the $500 that we paid for it. That's how you get a free '66 imperial that just needs to be cleaned and loved. It's a real shame too, because the new yorker is clean enough to merit restoration as well and has lots of year-only cues on it. The chrome is bright, the panels rust-free, and only has a slightly mis-matched interior and rough black plastic top. We drove by a cherry 1964 after picking up that 62, and paying for the '66 ny'er. There's a rough but complete 1959 around the corner, and they just show up if you're looking in the right places. The bay area was affluent in the 60's and people bought em here. they don't rust, and they don't biodegrade, so here we are. By the way, if you have not looked to see if www.craigslist.org is running in your area, you'd do well to take a look. This is the strongest online business model since Ebay, and tremendous because it's free. I have 3 cars, a motorcycle, and a girlfriend that I picked up there. I put my junk on the FREE section and people in metallic flake green 70's vans with shag carpet come over and take my stuff and sometimes even pay me for it. My dad is convinced that I'm going out and picking up crap (these cars), but the scavengers that I meet reassure me that I'm not quite at the bottom of the food chain yet. Anyway, both of those imperials came from there. I should mention that I have a complete rig for dead-imperial retreival now, with a trailer and 10,000lb winch. That winch got real hot dragging that brown '61 out of the brush on flat tires... If you break down in the area I'm happy to coem get you. I also have access to engine and transmission cores for 64-72 Imperials for cheap if someone wants one. Swimming in 64-65 413's, so let me know if you want a paperweight for your garage. -Kenyon --- "Chris \"Creesto\" Lynch" <creesto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kenyon, Papa Hemingway (and my late grandfather) > would be proud of you > posing with that big brown game you bagged. > > As for the '62, why the heck can't you live in the > midwest and how the heck > do you manage to find so many cool cars? I think the > only time I've even > seen an Imperial driving around here in Ohio was in > a parade. > > I would so hock my kids to grab that pretty white > baby off you; some body > dings but you're right: so much of it looks great. > > Nice catch! > > > From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (List > Server) > > Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:27:19 -0700 > > Subject: IML DIGEST > > > > From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: IML: Have you wanted to own a cherry '62? > - See US Mint > > Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > I got one last night that has a serious engine > problem > > and needs seats/carpet/paint to be a serious car, > not > > much else at all (and yes, there is quite a bit > right > > other than those items). Chrome, door panels, > > headliner, rust-free body, pit-free chrome make > this > > guy worth considering. Do the repairs and the car > is > > worth at least $6k, and you will likely be into it > for > > far less if you do the work yourself. > > > > http://imperialclub.com/temp/Kenyon/1962/ > > (special bonus in that file: the brown '61 is > already > > at Lowell's place, so don't let him tell you he > > doesn't have the parts you see on that one...) > > > > ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com > ----------------- > This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing > List. Please > reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your > response will be > shared with everyone. Private messages (and > attachments) for the > Administrators should be sent to > webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to > http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm > > Kenyon Wills ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. 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