RE: IML: Imperial Love Stories

["marc boulanger" <yeuxverts1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI
Could you send me pics of your 59 together with your vin?
mboulanger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks
MArc B
IMP 59


> From: "Clint and Laurie Carter" <imperialschooner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: "Imperialist" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: IML: Imperial Love Stories
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:21:02 -0700
>
> The news of Kenyon and Liz's recent nuptials got me thinking about our own
> Imperial Love Stories. No, not our love affairs with the car, but our love
> stories with our spouses, partners, significant others, etc.
>
> I'll go first:
> I was married for 16 years to a man who didn't know what end of the
> screwdriver to use. We divorced (not because of the screwdriver!). I grew 
> up
> in a family of aircraft mechanics and I knew how to get my hands dirty,
> although I didn't like it much as a kid. My current husband, Clint, was
> married for 30 years. He has a lot of experience with cars; as a teenager 
> he
> worked in a gas station and later moved on to a parts house. He has had
> various cars to tinker with and brought a '65 Valiant into our marriage.
>
> We decided shortly after we were married to look for a project car to work
> on together so we looked around and found "IT"...our 1959 Persian Pink 
> Crown
> 4-door. I always was a sucker for fins (the first family car I remember was
> a 1960 Plymouth). So we bought the Crown with the intention of restoring 
> it.
> I'm working (slowly) on the interior and he's charged with the engine,
> transmission, brakes, etc.
>
> This has turned out to be quite an experience and has opened up a whole new
> level in our conversations...."When are you going to move the Imperial
> inside?"   "How do you rebuild an engine?"   "Why is the carpet coming out
> in chunks?"  Well, you get the idea.
>
> So, how has your Imperial - past or present - played a role in your 
> on-going
> love story?
>
> With love,
> Laurie Carter
> Ilwaco, WA USA
> '65 Crown Coupe (his)
> '59 Crown (mine)
>
>
> -----------------  http://www.imperialclub.com  -----------------
> This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please
> reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be
> shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the
> Administrators should be sent to iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx
> To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm

_________________________________________________________________
Partagez votre vécu à l?aide de Windows Live Spaces 
http://spaces.live.com/?mkt=fr-ca


-----------------  http://www.imperialclub.com  -----------------
This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please 
reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be 
shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the
Administrators should be sent to iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx
To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm