PS: I forgot to say the Caddy burned up in fall of '62 so he ordered a new '62 Crown. That lasted until '69 when he got a blue 4 door Crown and then in '76 had to go with NewYorker since no Imperials that year! -----Original Message----- From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Isenhour Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:20 AM To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: IML: Were most Imperials bespoke? In Salisbury, North Carolina (pop. 20K) we had one Chrysler/Imperial dealer called Foil Motors. My dad was a die hard long time Cadillac owner that seemed to just hate anything Ford including Lincoln that is until one day in the mountains when his '58 Cadillac Fleetwood 62 series with the 3 dual barrel carbs backfired and caught the car on fire. Only ashes remained by the time the fire dept. got there. He went back to Foil Motors and ordered a fully loaded Crown 4 door in Rosewood. From there he never went back to Caddy and remained an Imperial owner until he died in '82. I think a lot of the Imperial owners had to do with their loyalty to their maker. You know "I'm a Chevy man" so you went with Cadillac when you came into some money. Or I'm a Ford man" so you tool around in your new Lincoln 4 door convertible and of coarse the "Dodge man" which Petty seemed to mold made you go after the top of the line Imperial brand. Chrysler has been No. 3 for as long as I can remember. Even IKE brought Imperial to the Whitehouse because he was a Chrysler man. ----------------- 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 iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm ----------------- 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 iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm