Re: IML: Doris has gone on to start a new Day...

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

Gee, that is SO odd. I saw a '61 Imperial Southampton Four Door (Custom or Crown, not sure which) in Burien yesterday. I was going to call and find out if you were the driver. He looked JUST LIKE YOU!

Paul W.

In an email dated Wed, 30 11 2005 3:42:15 pm GMT, "twolaneblacktop" <twolaneblacktop@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Well, I gone done it and sold my Doris Day to a great guy in California who has been kind enough to wait till after I delivered the
>car, personally, to announce his new ?girlfriend?.
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>Dan Melnik has been asking a lot of questions about items for a ?66 Imperial, and that Imperial was (was being the operative word!)
>my Doris Day.
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>Due to my new condo, getting my current condo fixed up, on the market, and getting some debt paid off, I kept in touch with Dan all
>the past year since my failed attempt to sell Doris last year. ?Last year the car would have been given away at the price range I
>was dipping to, but this time around I put out my price, and Dan graciously accepted it. ?It was a smooth, gentlemanly, well
>communicated transaction, and I have to say that if I had to give her up, I could not be happier that it was Dan Melnik who
>purchased her. ?I have no concerns about her care, and even the ?Face Lift? I am certain she will have bestowed upon her.
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>Thanks, Dan, for everything.
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>That car will always be a part of me, and I will have another classic one day after I close on my new condo, but who knows what the
>future holds? ?Perhaps an Olds? ?I could borrow for a Toronado! ?I drove Imperials daily for 11 years, or more than ¼ of my life. ?I
>doubt I will be Imperial-less for very long. ?Maybe I will by the hybrid ?70 Chrysler 300 Hurst that has the Imperial interior?
>Maybe it could be a ?69-?70 Chrysler 300 Convertible? ?Any of those would do. ?When the time comes my boss said we could have our
>weekly meetings cruising up and down Hwy 99, or wherever, checking out what would be my next baby.
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>I may even make use of the Roadmaster and her tow package to just buy a restored Silverstreak, or an Airstream. ??I don?t need no
>?stinkin Motel, I got my house on the back of the car!?
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>There were adventures on the way to California that caused me some headaches, but it all boiled down to a piece of the hood pad had
>come loose and was being sucked into the air snorkel. ?I could elaborate on that, but I will save that for another time, if there is
>one.
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>On I-5 Southbound I did get to blow out some of the built up carbon from the bad running pad/snorkel deal, and she stayed at 115 mph
>for a good minute before I became fearful not of the car, but the Highway Patrol!
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>Thanks go to Daniel Le Plaunt for the BRAND NEW Triple band whitewalls that helped Doris just float like a dream. ?Best tires I have
>ever had on an Imperial. ?Diamond Backs. ?Forget the Firestone 721?s and the Yokahama/Dimension IV wide whites and spend the dough
>and get the good tires! ?I wish I had done it years ago! ?Of course I got the set of 5, yes even the spare, for .50 cents on the
>dollar of what Daniel paid, but that is his story to tell about how he fought the Rubber Co. and the Rubber Co. did not win! ?Go
>ahead Daniel, tell them all!
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>A special thanks to all the great people I have met on this list, but especially, Leslie, Mikey Sutton, who after Dick Benjamin is
>the definitive final word in all things Imperial related, in my own opinion, and Mikey has always been there with technical
>knowledge, then the layman?s version which I can understand, and has passed his opinion of Doris, which he has driven on more than
>one occasion on to Dan. ?I think that helped make both of us more comfortable with a long distance, sight unseen purchase.
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>I volunteered to drive the car to San Francisco as my Swan song farewell cruise, Dan flew up from southern CA to S.F. and I barely
>made it to the Airport on time, after stopping to pick up my Mom so I could GET to the airport on time! ?The car was full of parts,
>and all turned out well. ?Dan may have some input on that though too.
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>Anyway, I guess that?s that. ?I am not signing off just yet. ?I am not quite ready to cut the cord altogether, and hope my page may
>stay for at least awhile, and my (Dan?s) FSM makes it onto the website. ?I was glad to donate it?s spine for a worthy cause, and the
>spiral bound version Kenyon returned is just great!
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>Happy motoring ?ya-all!
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>Billy
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>Wm. R. Ulman
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>Seattle, WA
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>'95 Buick Roadmaster - Rock Hudson - WA State Vanity Plates: FIT4KNG (soon to have the traditional plates: FIT4AQN transferred to
>Rock. ?If that?s not ironic, I don?t know what is! LOL!)
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