Patrick,
Take your parts to a local Monument company after you have cleaned the
grease off of them and they will sand blast them for cheap.
Neva Nolan
----- Original Message -----
From: <pnkmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: IML: The "Mopar Muscle" article/paint help
> We need a Mike Veronesi in Southeast Louisiana! Tell him we'll feed him
if
> he comes down. Out here in the boonies it ain't so easy to find folks who
> are comfortable working on a 46 year-old vehicle unless it's a pickup or a
> tractor. If my '58 Southampton had a Deere motor in it, I'd already be
> motoring daily.
>
> They sell "Mopar Muscle" magazine at Wal Mart, at least that's were I
> finally found a copy today of the October issue. Barnes and Noble, I
> suppose, is too snobby to carry such rough and tumble fair because I rode
15
> miles to the next town after being assured that they carried it, to no
> avail. THe article has great techy descriptions of all of the model and
> accessory variations for the '57 through '59 Imps. The website, of
course,
> has much of same the information already, but it's nice to have it all in
> one place and on paper.
>
> I spent this afternoon in a barn north of town, pulling ten years of crud
> and dust off of a '71 Carmen Ghia convertible that the owner wants to
sell.
> I had great fun, but I kept wishing it was an Imperial Ghia Limo! Maybe
> next time. (The Ghia wouldn't start, by the way, despite my
ministrations.
> Bad coil, and cheating with a bypass [channel wrench] didn't work. The
guy
> bought it 12 years ago right after it had been restored, drove it 500
miles
> and figured he was too old for it. He's now 83 and he was perfectly able
to
> help me shove it out into the light to work on it today. I plan to follow
> in his footsteps if I can. I won't write more about it [stop worrying
> Steve], as it's non-Imp, but rest assured it will live again! )
>
> The Ravin' is still in the garage down the street, resting comfortably
> despite the 95+ degree heat that makes me think of something cooler to do
> every time I come close to going down there to work on it. I did pull the
> radiator last weekend and it's been riding around in the backseat of my
> daily driver waiting for a long lunch hour so I can take it out to a
country
> mechanic I keep hearing about who still boils out radiators. There's an
old
> radiator shop here in town that's been in business for 50 odd years, but
I
> used to bring stuff there from my '62 Chevy when I was in high school and
> they always took forever and treated me like crap. Old, bad memories die
> hard, and I'll be danged before I go back there even after 25 years. The
> Imperial and I both deserve better.
>
> I'm thinking of buying a cheapy sand blaster to clean off some of the
engine
> components and other parts of the car, especially the rims. I don't have
a
> garage (yet. The slab has been poured but the rest of the cash hasn't
> arrived) so this all has to take place in the driveway/yard/garden shed.
> In particular I want to clean off and re-paint the air cleaner, just to
get
> a start on cleaning up the engine compartment, and next the valve covers
and
> oil pan. I've read Kerry Anderson's/Elijah's great articles about
painting
> Elijah's car, so I've got a start with respect to instructions about
> prepping surfaces, but can anyone give me any specific advice as to
painting
> engine parts? And how about cheap, I'm-only-gonna-use-it-for-one project
> sand blasters? I thought I might start looking for a blaster by checking
a
> few local pawn shops. It never ceases to amaze me what I can get from
> places like that in the way of "single use" tools. I painted our house
> about ten years ago and got the greatest sanders from there.
>
> Happy Firepower motoring everybody!
>
> Patrick Moore
> '58 Southampton 4 door
> Covington, Louisiana.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Meyer" <donkiyoti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 4:59 PM
> Subject: Re: IML: A Mechanic 4 U! and Exhaust
>
>
>
> On Sunday, Aug 22, 2004, at 14:39 US/Pacific, M Turner wrote:
>
> > This is an unpaid advertisement! Mike Veronesi of East Bridgewater MA
> > has been working on my 1962 Imperial Custom Southampton for the last
> > several weeks, replacing lower wheel bearings, cleaning & rebuilding
> > the carburetor, bleeding the brakes and adjusting them. Mike replaced
> > nearly all hoses, corrected the elevation of the car and put new
> > brackets on the torsion bars. Mike also found an ace muffler shop
> > that replaced the cherry bombs (Yes! cherry bombs) with nice dual
> > exhausts. He also showed me driveshaft problems to be corrected,
> > because the rubber has vulcanized. He will undertake that repair
> > shortly.
> >
>
> It's always nice to find a good Imperial-friendly mechanic! I've found
> a place like that in Tucson: Meyer's Garage on Grant Road. (No relation
> to me).
>
> And cherry bombs make great resonators! I had a dual exhaust put on my
> '65 using those so-called "turbo" mufflers. Well, they were too loud
> and they would set up a harmonic frequency that would drone and give
> you a headache. I had a couple of big, long glass-packs added after the
> mufflers, close to the tail pipe and that mellowed it out beautifully.
> I love how this car sounds....
>
>
>
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