Re: IML: Kenyon's Bagged Big Game - low hanging fruit out here

["A. Foster" <monkeypuzzle1@xxxxxxx>]

Kenyon;
  I am convinced that Van Isle must have experienced a similar level of
prosperity to the SF bay area during the 50's and 60's. I went to a swap
meet in my area to pedal my Chrysler parts ( the only one among all of the
Chebby and Mustang garbage) and I saw a light blue 62' Crown circle the
parking lot before it found a space. The only down side was that the 62'
needed a lot of work to undo the bondo body work and redo the interior.
 The previous year I saw a 61' attend the meet which was actually in very
nice shape. There is also a white 64' or 65' Crown convertible rolling
around town. In the past year I have run into no less then three Imperials
for sale a 57' being the oldest and a 75' being the newest and that's
without even trying. Maybe I'm just more observant then most people but who
knows, I bike around alot so you tend to see more that way.
Best Regards
Arran Foster
1954 Imperial Newport
Needing A Left side tailight bezel and other trim parts.
1975 Chrysler Newport
Just picked up a Reman master cylinder for it.
1978 Puch Newport
Need to put that back together soon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenyon Wills" <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Kenyon's Bagged Big Game - low hanging fruit out here


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...)
>
>
>
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