Is it posable that your car is a shriner car? It look as if it had a blue top at one time. --- Mark Evans <mark.a.evans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gang, > Thought I'd share some photos of my 'vert. Some > might remember my recent > move to Austin. The mover (Dependable Auto Shippers) > dropped my Polara > onto the trunk and rear-end of my Imperial crushing > the rear header > panel and bowing in the driver's side quarter panel > by about an inch. It > took nearly 6 months to get through a settlement > with them before I got > enough money to get both the Polara and the Imp > repaired. > > Once it went to the body shop back in Houston, it > took an additional 9 > months to get the car back (a whole other ordeal). > Then, being stubburn, > let the cars sit in the garage until I could finally > face going out to > put the car back together. > > Anyway, here's some pictures. > > http://www.imperialclub.com/temp/MarkE/2006-09-10-Imperial/ > > The first 6 shots are of the car at the body shop. > The body guy ground > down the rear end area to see how bad the damage > was. The first three > show the car after he pulled out the valence panel > below the trunk lid > and fixed the trunk lid. > > We did solve a mystery. The car had been hit from > the front at some > point and someone did some fancy filler work on it. > Explains why the > Imperial emblems were missing from the sides of the > car. I had all of > the filler pulled out and the panels reshaped > properly. > > The second row shows the car on the day I picked it > up. There's the > reason why I like white cars. The sides are nice and > slick. All the > metal work came out great. > > The last row is the result of work over the last few > weeks. I color > sanded and buffed out the paint. I've been buffing > stainless and chrome > nearly every night. I got the rear bumper mounted on > Saturday. Now, all > I need to do is turn the car around and get the > chrome on the front clip. > > Starting to see the end of the tunnel! > Mark Evans > 1963 Imperial Crown Convertible > http://www.imperialclub.org/~maevans/MyImperial/index.html > 1968 Dodge Polara 500 Convertible > http://www.imperialclub.org/~maevans/MyPolara/index.html > > > > > ----------------- 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 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------- 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