Re: IML: yardsale finds

["Clay Smith" <imperialman67@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also have a story about a yardsale type  find.
Not too long after purchasing my 60 Custom I started having trouble with the 
brakes locking up.
We were going to be leaving on a family vacation so I parked the imperial in 
the garage until we returned..
While on vacation on a whim we stopped at a small antique store to look for 
treasures.
My at the time eleven year old daughter was looking thru a bookcase at the 
back of the store when she called me over.
She said "Dad these say Imperial on them!"
There wedged between a couple of hardcovered books was  session number 96 
"The new center-plane brake " booklet. There was also booklet number 153 
"brake system service" and number 144 "The new 6-cyl OHV engine". The store 
owner didn't know anything about the booklets ,but sold them to me for $1.00 
each.

I would like to think that it was my deceased father helping me out.
He had been a lifelong mechanic and though he wasn't an Imperial guy he 
really did like the slant six engine.

Clay Smith
60 Custom(with great brakes now!)
67 Crown Coupe(needs brake work)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pnkmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: IML: yardsale finds


> I occassionally stop at yardsales, hope springing eternal that some fool 
> will be selling a precious artifact.  As it happens, I'm more frequently 
> the fool as I often come home with bargains that we don't need, haplessly 
> populating our own yardsale box.  My wife is patient.
>
> I was traveling to Jackson, Louisiana about a month ago on a Saturday, 
> headed with my 10 year-old son to a car and train museum.  I'm forever on 
> the lookout for  Imperial-related stuff (required Imperial content), and 
> with that and other things in mind I stopped at a little yard sale/junk 
> shop in a nameless town just east of Jackson on Highway 16, i.e. 
> Nowhereville.
>
> My son Sam found a tiny bottle with a penny trapped inside etched with 
> "Las Vegas."  That cost a dime and he considers it treasure.  Oddly, there 
> was also a Chryslter 300 chrome badge.  I believe I paid 50 cents for it. 
> It's got a few surface pits, but it's certainly salvageable.  I suspect it 
> is from a mid-60's model 300 (I had a '70 300 and it didn't have this 
> badge on it) probably from a quarter panel.  I've scanned a photo if 
> anyone needs to see it.  I'll email the photo and mail the badge to 
> whoever is interested, and will waive the 50 cent purchase price and 
> postage.  Allow your guilt to arrest the urge to take it simply for the 
> purpose of reselling it, though it can't be worth much.  Plainly, I'm 
> anticipating the recipient being someone who can match it to their own 
> 300.
>
> Patrick
> Covington, Louisiana
> '58 Southampton (project)
>
>
>
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