RE: IML: Imperial names

["Steve B." <imperial59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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(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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