IML: Please Welcome Paul Rinehart

["Steve B." <Imperial59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New Subscriber(s): Paul Rinehart
Email Address is: dilly@xxxxxxxxxx
Member Location: Dayton, Ohio

Car(s) owned: None right now, but seriously considering purchasing a 1951 
Crown Limo, a "barn find." It is the full limo, but with an oddity. Someone 
sent this car to a coachbuilder, I assume anyhow, and had the rear doors 
extended up about 9 inches into the curvature of the roof, and an 
upholstered section was added above the window.

Self-Introduction: Folks, I have been a general MoPar nut most of my 58 
years, but just never before planted the seat of my britches behind the 
wheel of an Imperial. I grew up with a neighbor owning a white over pink '56 
Imperial 2 door hardtop, and my uncle drove a pale yellow '62  4 dr hardtop 
Imperial for years. Anyhow, on this '51 Crown, it is way too much, too rare, 
and too solid of a car for someone to snatch the 331 out of and lose the 
rest forever, it just asks to be driven again as a whole.
> My dilemma, the Ausco-Lambert disc brakes. What is anyone else who owns 
> one of the so equipped cars doing with these? I know wheel cylinder kits 
> do not exist. Somebody, somewhere must have been in this predicament and 
> found an alternative or source. This is what is stopping me from 
> purchasing right now. Change it to early drum brakes? Replace the third 
> member with a later unit and build brackets for later model calipers and 
> front discs? I have been in touch with Brad and he has not needed to do 
> any work on the brakes of his 7 passenger yet. Also I read a lot of this 
> list's archives and unless I missed it, I find no mention of solutions for 
> these brakes.
I hate to come knocking on the front door of the group and begging, but the 
fate of this Imperial sits in my hands right now and I need advice from the 
largest Imperial knowledge base I can find.
Many serious thanks in advance,   Paul in Ohio 



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