IML: 1957 Convertble Imperial used to make a boat

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

You HAVE to see the story & links below!!


--- DickB@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi, Kenyon;
> Can you forward this to the list - it bounced....
> 
> Dick Benjamin
> 
> From: DickB@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:DickB@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 8:55 PM
> To: 'mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Imperial in the water
> 
>  
> 
> I've been lurking quietly for months now, because
> we've been on various
> family outings and car tours, and I haven't really
> had time to participate
> in the IML to the extent that I did over most of the
> last 11 years since it
> started.  I may in fact be one of the oldest (and
> longest time members!)
> still on the list.
> 
>  
> 
> ANYway, on one of our old car tours (with the
> Packard club in our 56
> Patrician), we took a tour of a wooden boat facility
> on Lake Tahoe, CA.
> Most of the boats were beautiful old Chris-Crafts or
> the like, many with
> Chrysler or Packard engines, but one boat in
> particular caught my eye. I
> asked about it, and was told the following story:
> 
>  
> 
> In 1957, a wealthy family on Lake Tahoe (aren't they
> all?) bought a new
> Imperial Convertible for their son, who was
> graduating from High School, and
> of course needed a reliable car to drive to college.
>   As 18 years olds were
> the same 50 years ago as they are today, he promptly
> took it out and ran it
> into a tree.  
> 
>  
> 
> The family had the car towed to a repair shop, where
> it was pronounced
> unrepairable.  Sooo, since they were thinking about
> having a new boat built
> for them at that time, they decided that the remains
> of the Imperial could
> be used in part to build the boat.  So what you see
> here is a 1957 Imperial
> Convertible BOAT! Power is still provided by the 392
> Hemi (I saw it but
> could not get a picture - it's in the engine hatch
> in the "trunk"), and has
> as much of the interior and dash as could be saved. 
> 
>  
> 
> It is rumored to be the fastest boat on the lake!
> 
>  
> 
> The interior is the original, the top still works
> (and has to be put down to
> enter the boat, as the doors don't open any more),
> the power windows still
> work, as do all the other standard accessories for a
> 1957 Imperial
> Convertible.   This was a real knockout, and I hope
> to see it on the lake
> next time we get up there.
> 
> 
> The links to the pictures follow:
> 
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> 
>
http://users.sdccu.net/dickb/1957%20Imperial%20Boat%20Left%20Front.jpg
> 
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> 
>
http://users.sdccu.net/dickb/1957%20Imperial%20Boat%20Right%20Front.jpg
> 
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http://users.sdccu.net/dickb/1957%20Imperial%20Boat%20Dash.jpg
> 
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> 
>
http://users.sdccu.net/dickb/1957%20Imperial%20Boad%20Rear%20Seat.jpg
> 
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> 
>  
> 
> Yes, I know I mis-spelled Boat as "Boad" on the rear
> seat URL, and I've
> reversed the Left and Right front views, (my
> dyslexia creeping in again),
> but those are the correct URLs as written above.  
> 
>  
> 
> I hope you will take the time to "click on" those
> URLs- you'll enjoy the
> pictures, I think.
> 
>  
> 
> If one of the Webmonsters or whatever we call them
> these days want to post
> them on the IML site - I'll be happy to see them
> there!
> 
>  
> 
> Dick Benjamin
> 
>  
> 
> 



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