Re: IML: Goal not met

[Charles Hansen <hansencw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My restoration project will probably be complete before your updated  
target date, but overall you will most likely beat  me. I bought my  
1959 Imperial on July 7, 1967 when I was 19 (for $350). I used it as  
a daily driver for 5 years and just hung on to it, thinking pretty  
soon I'll have some time and I'll restore it. Well it took many  
different storage garages (with accompanying rent payments) over a  
period of 32 years before I finally got the restoration project in  
full gear in 2004. I've already experienced the small fortune of the  
re-chroming along with a multitude of other expenses involved in an  
off-the-frame restoration. Now my car is mechanically complete, but  
still waiting (now more than a year) for some final interior  
components (door panels). Once they are available my car is just  
weeks away from completion. Hopefully it will be done by July in time  
to celebrate the 40th anniversary of purchasing it.

So don't lose faith. Hang in there and you will get it done! Wishing  
you Good luck!

Regards,
Charlie Hansen
1959 Imperial LeBaron Southampton (always known as "Old Baron" - but  
looking real new these days)

On Mar 26, 2007, at 10:44 PM, <mtnose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
<mtnose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All,
>      I set a goal to have my 1959 Imperial completely restored by  
> the anniversary of 20 years from the date I bought it. Well,
>  tomorrow will be 3/27/2007 20 years later that I bought the car in  
> Penndel Pa. on 3/27/1987 when I was 25 years old. I still have  
> interior work and a small fortune in some rechroming, along with  
> getting the radio, window washer system and other minor things  
> going. I'm still paying off loans from the 16,000  dollars I put  
> into it in 2005. I have had many people in my life say that I'll  
> never get this project done and to sell it. I have to admit, it has  
> been a long hard road to get the car this far and with out the help  
> of this site, the vendors, friends and family I would have most  
> likely given up. So, I've set a new deadline, 1/28/2009, that is 50  
> years from when the car was built. Wish me luck, and thanks for all  
> your help.
>
> Marty Trendler
> Red Bluff, Ca.



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