Welcome, Chad! It's really great to hear of someone in his teens, like you, getting a vintage Imperial and wanting to preserve and enjoy it- particularly someone one who wasn't even around yet when the last one was built and sold. I bought my first Imp just out of high school, and would give just about anything to still have it, and many of the others that have passed through my hands. I spent many hours (and days) under my car with a [thoroughly inadequate] generic repair-manual in one hand, and what tools I had available to me then in the other- lots of trips to the store to buy some needed tool before driving again. Now I do most of my own service and maintenance work on my car, and have a good time doing it. It sounds like you have a good start, working in an auto-body shop and gaining skills a lot of the rest of us would love to have and use with our own cars. Your most valuable asset is this on-line group; I have gained more information and priceless knowledge here in the last couple of years than in all the preceding... well, in a long time, anyway. Good luck with your car, and above all- ENJOY IT! Kristian Oyen 1963 Imperial Crown Southampton 4-door 1966 Imperial Crown Sedan 1967 Imperial Crown Coupe -----Original Message----- From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve B. Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 8:50 AM To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: IML: Please Welcome Chad Parker > New Subscriber(s): Chad Parker > Email Address is: parkerc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Member Location: Russell > Springs, Ky. > > Car(s) owned: 1965 LeBaron 4-door (orignal dark blue paint) Car is > totaly orginal except exhust system. It shows 46,380 miles which is suppose to be correct and is pretty well documented. I am now the third owner and it is a local car. Needs paint and interior but has little to no rust and no body damage. > > Self-Introduction: My name is Chad Parker and I am sixteen in the tenth grade. I work after school at a local body shop. I just bought my Imperial (LeBaron) 2 weeks ago with money I earned and saved over the past 3 years at different body shops. This is my first car (that I paid for with my money.) I also have a 68 Dodge Cornet but it's not the same as I didn't buy it with my money. I plan to keep my Imperial orginal as it is. > Man is it something.....soo long. If I would drive it to school, I'll have to get 2 parking places....one behind the other. Really! > > Dad has given his approval for me to write this and join your club. Hope you will let me become a member....I know I'm only sixteen but am a hard worker at and behave. > > Thanks > Chad Parker > > > ----------------- 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 --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! --- ----------------- 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