IML: Please Welcome New Member, Gunnar S. Valdimarsson

["Eric" <gearhead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New Subscriber(s): Gunnar S. Valdimarsson
Email Address is: hippieking@xxxxxxxxx
Member Location: Reykjavik, Iceland

Car(s) owned: unfortunately none yet!

Self-Introduction: Hi all you Imperialists!
Greetings from the sub-arctic (actually it's anything but arctic these 
days, I don't know if its global warming or what, but it's springtime here 
already!) I've been a fan of Imperials since I was a kid in the Seventies. 
Back then there were a lot of American cars in Iceland, mostly 
bread-and-butter types: Ramblers, Darts, Valiants, Novas, there were also 
some beat-up Fifties cars with the fins, still in use as daily-drivers. 
And,of course, some muscle cars too.
I had a newspaper round in an upscale part of town where people had more 
"exciting" American cars: big Cadillacs, Lincolns, or maybe a Delta 88 or a 
New Yorker. But there was one car that caught my attention more than the 
others on my quiet early-morning round before the city stirred. It took me 
12 paces to pass it on the pavement where it usually stood parked. It had 
gleaming chrome letters on the rear fenders that read I-M-P-E-R-I-A-L. I 
didn't know until later that it was a Chrysler make. This was a triple-black 
1973 4-door and it belonged to the American Embassy in Reykjavik. It was the 
most stunning car I had ever seen. It made the Caddys look almost puny and 
Mercedes microscopic! Someone told me it was armored so, if true, it must 
have been around 3 tons at least. This car made me a "fuselage" fan and I 
decided to get me one before I got old. Of course, to me a person in his 
twenties was old at the time so I pictured myself driving an Imperial at 
seventeen! Tell you what: I'm 39 now and I still haven't got one. Hopefully 
I ca
n before too long. You have to have some aims in life:-)
Anyway, love your club's website, it's a great vent for my obsession. Keep 
the good work going!
Bye, Gunnar, Iceland




-----------------  http://www.imperialclub.com  -----------------
This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please 
reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be 
shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the
Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm