Tracy, I remember seeing that car on E-bay and thought that it looked like
an excellent restoration candidate. As I recall it was very reasonably
priced too. Hope you have lots of enjoyment with your new toy.
Bob
>From: "TRACY AND CLIVE" <imperial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: IML: my 1960 le baron arrived saftley
>Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:47:36 +1200
>
>Wow I got my 1960 Le Baron yesterday, I have been waiting 3 months fro it
>to arrive from the usa to new zealand and it was sure worth the wait.
>I brought the car of ebay in December from a guy in north Carolina , it
>needs a huge amount of work to get it on the road but I am very pleased
>that most of its chrome etc is all there, there is a bit of rust but is
>repairable and not beyond repair , needs a major engine job as the guy
>never had it in storage for aprox 10 years, so I rescued it just in time,
>the dash is so cool and boy there's heaps of room in the back, I really
>like the way the back doors close on their own , the interior has been
>redone but I have a feeling its not exactly the way it would have been
>originally, but its nice anyway.
>the hood lining is wrecked but I guess that easy to fix,
>its black and the paint is very bad in areas and good in others but I quite
>like it like that as at least the kids will be able to touch it without me
>screaming don't touch every five mins.
>Its got all its original hub caps which I wasn't sure cause it was really
>hard to see in the photos so that was great, its windscreen unfortunately
>like them all has a crack in the centre.
>could anyone tell me how many pillared 60 le barons are around as I would
>love to know aprox,
>hope I haven't rambled for to long but I really wanted to tell all the
>imperial friends about my new car as I am rather excited about having it
>here and it seemed like forever for it to arrive.
>take care
>Tracy Jennings
>
>
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