re:DERBY AN IMPERIAL BEFORE THERE GONE?????/from the Netherlands

Hello,

For me it's unbelievable that demolition derbies actually EXISTS in the states. In the Netherlands we drive rally's, but don't destroy cars.....

The Imperials are of course the rarest of the luxury cars, too bad they perform so well in derbies because of their unibody construction and strong overall body..

What they should be DERBYING is old cars that are absolutely NOT restorable, costing not more that $1000.. Can't they make a law out of that, for preserving vintage American automobiles.

Thanks, Dirk

>From: Mike Pittinaro

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>Subject: IML: THERES NOT MANY IMPERIALS LEFT.DERBY ONE BEFORE THERE GONE.

>Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:30:44 -0800 (PST)

>The above statement, taken from the ebay auction for

>the 64--

>http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2454648200

>has got to be one of the most disrespectful lines I've

>seen written about an Imperial. The grammatical

>mistakes of this knuckledraggin' moron

>notwithstanding, if there's not many left, why on

>earth would you want to destroy another! That's

>absolutely disrespectful.

>A few months ago, I caught an episode of Monster

>Garage on the discovery channel where they turned a PT

>cruiser into a wood chipper. This was kinda cool, I

>thought, so I decided to try to catch some more

>episodes. Well, on the next two that I saw, they

>utterly destroyed a 1972 Caddillac Hearse trying to

>make it into a car crusher (they failed, so they

>crushed the caddy in one of those car chipper

>thingies) and demolished an ultra-rare Delorean after

>a failed attempt to make it into a hovercraft. I will

>support the senseless destruction of rare automotive

>artifacts no more!

>I can't fathom why people would prize diamonds, a

>false commodity that can be artifically reproduced,

>and yet trash a car which had a production of only a

>few thousand for that year, and of which there are

>maybe a few hundred left.

>*Getting down off my soap box, now*

>=====

>--Mike Pittinaro

>One point eight litres

>Stromberg carburators sing

>Loose nut at the wheel

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