Hi, This week end i've made a 1000 miles trip to go (and return) to the "Chrysler Anciennes" meeting. It was the first time that the Imperial had to drive a so long distance in 3 days. My trunk was full of spare parts but as you know it's the part you haven't which failed .. The car drove beautifully all the 3 days. I was anxious but i didn't have any problem except one: failure of the windshield wiper motor. It's the automatic stop which failed: the wipers didn't parked themselves and you heard "click .. click" every 5 s: it's the circuit breaker which closes and opens when the switch is off. When the switch is on and the breaker is closed the wipers run but they failed totally the last day. And it was raining ... I put some "RainX" on the windshield and i could drive back to home. Now i'll put my spare wiper motor .. I've also measure the mpg on the 1000 miles (exactly 977 miles): 12.25 mpg with 3/4 highway and 1/4 roads. Average speed on highway was around 60 mph with sometime a max speed of 80 mph. Just some minuts because the convertible is noisy over 70 mph (no engine noise but wind noises with top on. I don't want to test the car at such speed with top off !..). I'll made a report of the rallye (and not on my car) in some days; i have more than 100 pics ! Two cars came from UK: Tony & jackie Vickers (i knew them since last year) and Ian & Peter Rubrey in their '59 Plymouth Suburban. I think they were very happy to be with us.. Only one thing was bad: the weather.. -- Philippe COURANT (Pau, France) Imperial 57 Crown convertible Buick 58 Roadmaster sedan - American Car Club de France (ACCF) : http://www.accf.com - Chrysler Imperial France : http://www.ifrance.com/c-i-f - Cadillac " Standard of Excellence " : http://www.ifrance.com/accf-cad - SportsCars : http://www.ifrance.com/accf-sprtcar -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Need an answer fast? Search the 17,000+ pages of the Forward Look Mailing List archives at http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm |