IML: Texas meet good fun, to be repeated next year

["Hugh, 58 Imperial" <imperial58@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, just a short note to say the Texas meet on Saturday went quite well. 
Joe Strickland, Doug Norton, Mark Evans, Brooks Harkey and I met at Round 
Roc, near Austin.  Four nicer, better exemplifiers of what this great site 
and mailing list is all about would be hard to find.  They had to put up 
with me but nothing in this life comes for free, does it.  We saw Mark's 
lovely 1963 at his house but, other than that, we were all without 
Imperials.  While that might seem odd it just shows the value of these 
gatherings because when we discussed trying to have another Texas meet, we 
all promised to ourselves that we'd try to get our cars running and to bring 
them next year.  Because three of the five hailed from the Dallas area, it 
seems only right to hold the meet there next time.  We thought it might be a 
good idea to try to get together at the same time as the Arlington swap 
meet, which is usually in September.

I'm hoping that those of us who have to come long distances might try to 
stay at the same hotel near the swap meet.  Then those closer could meet us 
there for breakfast before heading out to the show, which we just know will 
be full of hard to find yet inexpensive vital parts for our Imperials, of 
course.  And then a nice meal in the evening before heading our separate 
ways.

Just some thoughts.  I've had the good fortune to meet quite a few members 
of the IML.  Very, very few have felt so embittered that they resigned their 
membership, which speaks well enough of their characters that you might want 
to join us next year.  I shall be, as usual, a shrinking violet and sit at 
the back and not say much.  You know the type.

Hugh Hemphill
1958 Imperial
San Antonio, Texas.



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