Re: IML: Moments of Discovery/Giving Thanks

["Clint and Laurie Carter" <imperialschooner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very cool, Paul, Thanks for sharing.

And thanks to everyone who participates in this community.

Laurie Carter (who's fixing Mexican food NOT turkey today)\
Ilwaco, WA
'65 Crown Coupe (his)
'59 Crown (mine and it WILL come back to life!!)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PAUL WENTINK" <randalpark@xxxxxxx>



This story reminds me of the feeling I had when my '55 began to "come 
back to life" after over 30 years of sitting. Most of the cars I have 
purchased were drivers, or they were SO dead, that nothing happened 
when the battery was connected, and needed lots of electrical work.

The '55 was different. It had been parked for over 30 years. When I 
connected the battery for the first time, I could tell there was juice 
going to everything that there was suppose to be. Things began to 
function, slowly at first. The dim glow of the map lamp, the power 
windows one at a time beginning to move, carefully so as not to 
overheat the motors, and the even the power seat. I remember the 
feeling I had when I pressed the front cigarette lighter into its 
socket. As it began to heat, I could smell the remains of the last 
cigar the driver smoked before the car was parked back in 1965. What an 
ODD feeling! On that day, the car was christened The Gray Ghost.

This car has a special feel to it for me, electrically, since it was 
the first six volt positive ground car I had ever owned. The headlights 
glow softly, and that is the way that I have chosen to leave them. The 
engine was a challenge, but that's a story for another time and is 
posted someplace out on the world wide web.

Its time to give thanks and be grateful for my wonderful life. I am 
very privileged here to be allowed to enjoy my relics without too much 
encroachment from the rest of society. How lucky we are to live well 
enough that we can become obsessed with finding a perfect steering 
wheel for a 1964 Imperial, while others are struggling to find food.

Even though there are times when I feel like I am experiencing one 
train wreck after another, and my life is far from ideal, I do not wish 
to change a single thing. Special thanks to the folks that keep our OIC 
& IML forum functional and growing.

Paul W.

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