Re: IML: Please Welcome Jim Lorenzen

["Tom Scott" <shelbyguy@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,
Good luck with bringing your 60 back to life...well worth the effort.  I 
bought a 60 about a year and a half ago and I am still constantly amazed at 
the amassed wealth of knowledge that this group possesses.
Got any pictures of the Imp you could share with us?
Tom
60 Crown 4dr Southampton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve B." <Imperial59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:57 AM
Subject: IML: Please Welcome Jim Lorenzen


> New Subscriber(s): Jim Lorenzen
> Email Address is: jdlpdx@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Member Location: Portland, OR
>
> Car(s) owned: 1960 Crown 4dr Southampton (Glacier Blue with white leather)
>
> Self-Introduction: I bought this car in 1970 from the local (Portland, OR) 
> Mercedes-Benz dealer for $300.  It was originally from the SF Bay area and 
> had a little over 55,000 miles on the odometer. I was 22.  In 1972 I was 
> coming home from a party in Beaverton and as I was coming around a bend I 
> found a 1968 Chev Impala in my lane (the far right) I tried to jump the 
> curb but it was too high and we hit.  Even though the Imperial had factory 
> seat belts, I wasn't wearing them (for the last time) and I flew all over 
> the inside of that car and wound up in the hospital.  A week later my dad 
> took me out to the lot where my car and the Chevy both were.  The 68 
> Impala was a mess.  The front end wasn't recognizable  and the engine had 
> been shoved back to the front seat.  Fortunately the driver of the Chevy 
> WAS wearing his seat belt and walked away.  As for the 1960 Imperial.... 
> If it wasn't for the fact that the motor mounts had broken alowing the fan 
> to chew into the radiator I could have dri
> he bill came to (needless to say his insurance was the big loser) the only 
> thing that needed to be done to the Imp was a new front bumper, grill, 
> left front fender, radiator and (of course) motor mounts. That Imperial 
> was more or less my daily driver until about 1982. The only reason I got 
> something else was the tailights got vandalized a couple of times and I 
> became concerned about replacement body parts. That car was/is truly 
> amazing.  It only "broke down" a couple of times and both times it was 
> minor and it got me home.  In 1994 I put it into storage in a friend's 
> barn where it has sat ever since.  But this Spring, I think I bring her 
> home start work on the restoration I "promised" 37 years ago.  I was going 
> to start a year or so ago but "life" intervened.  Now I think (I hope) the 
> time is right!
> I found out about this website from an article in Hemmings Classic Car 
> magazine.  I am blown away! Thanks
> Jim




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