Re: IML: '66 Imperial w/ Original Triple Band W.W. Tires!/Dreamland

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

There was a lot like that in still business here in Seattle in the early '70s. They had not sold a car since 1957, but they still came in everyday. I had the privlidge of speaking to the owner. I think the place was called Walkner Pontiac. He had decided to sell DKW's and still had a few on the lot with less them 10 miles each after over 15 years. The car I was interested in was a black '55 Pontiac Convertible, but that is a story for a different car club.

Interestingly, it was on a walk past that place a few days later that I saw my '62 LeBaron. It was on a lot down the street. It had ended up there after it had been traded in on a new Ford LTD by its original owner, wholesaled out, detailed, and set out on that lot. It was still not meant to be mine though, until it turned up again several more years later. Our own Eric from the IML found it on a street corner. That's also another story that has been written and can be read in the OIC Web site.

Paul

In an email dated Thu, 17 2 2005 1:44:30 am GMT, Cebuisle2@xxxxxxx writes:

>The abandoned cars described remind me of an experience years ago. had just ?
>visited a friend in the Perkasie area of Pennsylvania.who owned a nice '56 
>Imp. ?He suggested I stop and view an old used car lot on my way back home to ?
>Maine. The site was a short distance from his home. I found the place and ?
>stopped the car on the street next to a patch of overgrown woods. The day ?was 
>foggy and misty, and I left the wife in the Imp and pushed through the thick ?
>undergrowth for a hundred feet or so until I was completely out of sight of the ?
>busy ?traffic area I had parked in. Suddenly-there it was-an abandoned used ?
>car dealership that hadn't seen a customer in probably thirty years. Rows ?of 
>cars from the forties and fifties sat there on the cracked blacktop on their ?
>flat whitewalls amid ruined colorful advertising flags and a complete salesman's 
> shack. Not a window smashed ?-no vandalism evident. It was a ?spooky 
>feeling, one I have never forgotten, as if a time warp had occurred ?and this was a 
>remnant of a lost period in a Huxley novel-
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>My friend said the owner had died years ago. He would not dicker on his ?
>fleet of cars-so never sold them. The old man stubbornly sat in his shack ?day 
>after day. After death the site became tied up in litigation between many ?
>potential heirs-and thus it remained. There were Packard convertibles from the ?
>Forties, Imp hardtops, and Crown Victorias galore. I got soaked pushing my way ?
>back to the car, and my wife said "What did you see?" I couldn't explain it. ?
>What a waste-
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> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Ted
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