Re: IML: Imperial "woodies"?

[<tcrowley2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 David, 
Thanks so much for the tour of the woodies on the wharf.  Those cars are so beautiful they could make a guy just cry.  It's almost like they're not real.  

Thanks again.  

Tim
---- Henry Hopkins <hhrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
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> From: "David Whitney" <david.whitney@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: IML: Imperial "woodies"?
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> 
> > I was at the wonderful Woodies on the Wharf show on the pier in Santa
> Cruz,
> > Calif., last month.  This got me wondering if there was ever a woody
> > Imperial.
> >
> > The club president says you can display the car if it has "structural
> > wood", as opposed to decorative wood or paneling/lining of areas encased
> by
> > metal body panels.
> >
> > Sooo.....
> >
> > The 1926 Imperial brochure says the bodies are "pressed steel over rigid
> > hardwood frame" -- is that or is it not structural wood?  And how long did
> > this go on until the bodies were all steel?
> >
> > Oh, before I forget, here's a link to photos of the show.  There were
> about
> > 200 cars, lots of brands starting with F, L, B, C and O.  A few VWs and
> > some miscellaneous.  I took photos of the Mopars and a Packard(!).
> >
> > http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/desperate_not_serious/album?.dir=1447
> >
> > Happy motoring,
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
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