Re: IML: A '56 Imperial Story

[will hawk <bigbadvladfan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see you have a 63 conver in boxes.  I just recently
aquiered a 63 convert that is rusty and in need of a
total restoration.  Would like to hear more about your
63.  thanks!

--- Brooks Harkey <vm.dude@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  
> 
> I might as well tell this here, or it?ll never get
> told.  I?ve never owned a
> ?56, but I do admire them and would enjoy having
> one, so this story is for
> all you ?56 owners out there.
> 
>  
> 
> In the mid-late 1960?s (this story comes from
> somewhere between 1965 and
> 1972) my sister (born 10/1954, HS class of ?72) had
> a friend whose father
> was a dentist in Irving, TX ? a Dr. Givler.  That?s
> all I know.  (his
> daughter?s name was Karenlea).
> 
>  
> 
> Her mother drove a ?56 Imperial.  The Dr. had tried
> for years to get her to
> trade it in, get a new car, but she would not part
> with her black ?56.  She
> LOVED the ?56.  She liked the styling, the way it
> drove, etc.  My sister
> would relate these stories to me and say ?You and
> Mrs. Givler would get
> along so well? (unfortunately, I never met Mrs.
> Givler, just knew who she
> was; my sister is deceased, and had long lost track
> of Karenlea).  Of
> course, Karenlea and my sister both ridiculed the
> car ? it was an ?old car?
> to them and they were on the Dr?s side ? get a new
> car!  LOL!  But Mrs.
> Givler would have none of it.
> 
>  
> 
> Anyway ? I would always admire that car if Mrs.
> Givler brought Karenlea over
> to our house, or when I would see it on the road. 
> Then the unthinkable
> happened:  It got rear-ended.  I even saw the car
> after it had happened,
> before it was towed away.  It just made me sick. 
> Crunched pretty bad in the
> back, while at a stop sign.  I knew it was totaled. 
> All I could think of
> was ?Oh, NO, not the IMPERIAL!?  Again, this would
> have happened somewhere
> between 1965 and 1971?. So I?m sure they probably
> totaled the car and
> crushed it.
> 
>  
> 
> But Mrs. Givler pined for that car.  My sister would
> tell me stories of how
> Mrs. Givler was more concerned about the car after
> the accident than if
> anybody had been hurt!  She reportedly kept
> lamenting ?Oh, no, my Imperial!
> My Imperial!? 
> 
>  
> 
> Of course, then they had to get a newer car, don?t
> know/remember what kind,
> but my sister would always tell me Mrs. Givler was
> never satisfied with
> another car after that ?56.  Nothing else ever
> measured up.
> 
>  
> 
> So there ya go ? for you ?56 owners out there. 
> That?s all I got.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> --Brooks in Dallas
> 
>   ?61 Custom
> 
>   ?63 Crown Convertible in boxes (shut up, George
> (:-D) )
> 
>  
> 
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