>My father and I went the route ourselves back in 1967 on my mother's '60 Imperial. It was very low miles but the >ozone in L.A. ruined the car. It took us 11 weeks and over $600.00 (1967 dollars) in parts and tools to do the >>>job ourselves. NEVER AGAIN. I'm not complaining about it. I have very much enjoyed the process and learned a lot more about my car. The joy of owning them to me is working on them. I've been through several cars that I got all fixed up and then was bored with them so I sold them. Eileen has actually been around longer than any car I have ever owned and I think that is because there are so damn many things wrong with her that I can't get bored :-) I have done a better cosmetic job than most shops would do. I took all the parts down to bare metal and repainted them. No more greasey mess under there. Next project is the transmission. I have three options #1 Put in the unknown trans from the parts car and see what happens #2 Have the trans rebuilt #3 Rebuild the transmission myself. I'm a little afraid of transmissions mostly because it is so dang much trouble to take them out and put them back in if you make a mistake so I am currently leaning toward having it rebuilt but only time will tell! Steve B. -- Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.5 - Release Date: 4/7/2005 ----------------- 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