Re: IML: 1957 Convertble Imperial used to make a boat

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Beautiful conversion, but does it have fins?

Neal Herman
1959 Imperial Crown
1966 Imperial Crown
et al.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 8, 2007 1:35 PM
>To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: IML: 1957 Convertble Imperial used to make a boat
>
>You HAVE to see the story & links below!!
>
>
>--- DickB@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Hi, Kenyon;
>> Can you forward this to the list - it bounced....
>> 
>> Dick Benjamin
>> 
>> From: DickB@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:DickB@xxxxxxxxx] 
>> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 8:55 PM
>> To: 'mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>> Subject: Imperial in the water
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I've been lurking quietly for months now, because
>> we've been on various
>> family outings and car tours, and I haven't really
>> had time to participate
>> in the IML to the extent that I did over most of the
>> last 11 years since it
>> started.  I may in fact be one of the oldest (and
>> longest time members!)
>> still on the list.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> ANYway, on one of our old car tours (with the
>> Packard club in our 56
>> Patrician), we took a tour of a wooden boat facility
>> on Lake Tahoe, CA.
>> Most of the boats were beautiful old Chris-Crafts or
>> the like, many with
>> Chrysler or Packard engines, but one boat in
>> particular caught my eye. I
>> asked about it, and was told the following story:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> In 1957, a wealthy family on Lake Tahoe (aren't they
>> all?) bought a new
>> Imperial Convertible for their son, who was
>> graduating from High School, and
>> of course needed a reliable car to drive to college.
>>   As 18 years olds were
>> the same 50 years ago as they are today, he promptly
>> took it out and ran it
>> into a tree.  
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The family had the car towed to a repair shop, where
>> it was pronounced
>> unrepairable.  Sooo, since they were thinking about
>> having a new boat built
>> for them at that time, they decided that the remains
>> of the Imperial could
>> be used in part to build the boat.  So what you see
>> here is a 1957 Imperial
>> Convertible BOAT! Power is still provided by the 392
>> Hemi (I saw it but
>> could not get a picture - it's in the engine hatch
>> in the "trunk"), and has
>> as much of the interior and dash as could be saved. 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> It is rumored to be the fastest boat on the lake!
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The interior is the original, the top still works
>> (and has to be put down to
>> enter the boat, as the doors don't open any more),
>> the power windows still
>> work, as do all the other standard accessories for a
>> 1957 Imperial
>> Convertible.   This was a real knockout, and I hope
>> to see it on the lake
>> next time we get up there.
>> 
>> 
>> The links to the pictures follow:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>
>http://users.sdccu.net/dickb/1957%20Imperial%20Boat%20Left%20Front.jpg
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>
>http://users.sdccu.net/dickb/1957%20Imperial%20Boat%20Right%20Front.jpg
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>
>http://users.sdccu.net/dickb/1957%20Imperial%20Boat%20Dash.jpg
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>
>http://users.sdccu.net/dickb/1957%20Imperial%20Boad%20Rear%20Seat.jpg
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Yes, I know I mis-spelled Boat as "Boad" on the rear
>> seat URL, and I've
>> reversed the Left and Right front views, (my
>> dyslexia creeping in again),
>> but those are the correct URLs as written above.  
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I hope you will take the time to "click on" those
>> URLs- you'll enjoy the
>> pictures, I think.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> If one of the Webmonsters or whatever we call them
>> these days want to post
>> them on the IML site - I'll be happy to see them
>> there!
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Dick Benjamin
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 
>
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