Re: IML: Imperial names

["Dave & Tracy" <dave-tracy.sherratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course with being English , I could all ways call my Imperial Britannic !
Dave.
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From: "Steve B." <imperial59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: IML: Imperial names


> This is a second try on the reply for Neal Herman
> 
>  like ocean liner names because of the mystique (and I don't meant
> Mercury!) and the size of our Imperials.  One of my choices was obvious:
> Imperator, a Hamburg-America Line competitor to Cunard's Mauretania &
> Aquitania (see below) and White Star's Olympic (sister to the Titanic).
> Another reason for this is the large bronze eagle figurehead on the bow.
> After World War I, she became the Cunard Line's Berengaria.
>  
> The Imperator's sister ship was the Vaterland, which has no panache.
> But as part of the war reparations she was transferred to the United
> States Line and became the Leviathan, a much catchier name.  As the
> Leviathan, she was the largest ship in the world in the 1920s.  
> 
> Neal Herman
> 1959 Imperial Crown "Aquitania", for reasons aforementioned
> 1966 Imperial Crown "Miss Dorothy", after my grandmother who owned a '64
> Imperial
> et al.
> 
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> [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay King
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> 
> (Imperial names)
> 
> Hello, list,
> 
> Maybe my children and I had been watching too many Kevin Smith movies
> around the time I acquired my '73 LeBaron, but it is named "Silent Bob."
> I don't really know why, except that my nickname is "Jay." Previous to
> Silent Bob my driver was an '84 Olds 98 called "the Wide Ride." After
> son Jamie was t-boned in that car I was given another '84 Olds 98 that
> is known as "Ordell" after the Samuel L. Jackson character in the
> "Jackie Brown" movie, who shot and killed a henchman in the trunk of a
> similar car. Elsewhere in the fleet: "Baby Flattop," a 1985 Fifth Avenue
> named by a co-worker who called my driveway an aircraft carrier dock, a
> '93 Caravan called "Dodge Van Dam," and my daughter's '93 Grand Am, "Rob
> Grand Am." Yeah, she watches wrestling. Thanks for all the stories of
> Imperial names!
> 
> Jay King
> Meridian, Mississippi
> <a href=mailto:j_king@xxxxxxxxx>j_king@xxxxxxxxx</a>
> 
> Honey Gold 1973 LeBaron 4DHT
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