Mark:
The next step is real simple--since I take it you have at best a 2 car
garage, your daily drivers sit outdoors, while your toys are inside the
garage, and one covered up in the yard. You start building another
building out back but discover that the town authorities will not allow
that, so you move to the country. You build another building, get more
cars and stuff, and first your daily driver, then your sife's ends up
outdoors again.
I ended up with a 50x100 barn, full of my toys. Our daily drivers are
in the garage attached to the house. I air conditioined my shop.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McDonald" <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1904 9:43 PM
Subject: IML: Stages of Imperial Ownership
> My sudden burning need for a new vinyl top-- as if I were a crack addict
> trying to think of ways to improve my old car "high"-- got me to
> thinking about the stages of Imperial ownership I have gone through.
> Here they are, in rough form:
>
> 1. Gee, wouldn't it be cool to have an old Imperial someday?
> (I was in this stage for roughly 30 years)
> 2. Wow, suddenly I have enough money to buy an old Imperial!
> (bought my first at 40)
> 3. Sure is fun having an old Imperial
> 4. Hmm . . . wouldn't it be more fun having another old Imperial??
> 5. (INTERMEDIATE STAGE) But what would the neighbors think, me having
> 2 old cars?
> 6. To heck with the neighbors, I'm getting it.
> 7. Sure is fun having 2 old Imperials
> 8. I'll just check the internet to see if there's anything interesting
> out there . . .
> 9. Geez, if I get a 2nd mortgage on the house I could probably get a
> 3rd Imperial
> 10. Mortgaging the house
>
> And so on. I don't know where this ends up . . . anybody?
>
> Mark M
>
>
>
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