IML: Roger's Road Trip, Exner

[Bob Schmitt <bsbrbank@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger -

You seem like a good candidate for "Imperial Road King" this 
year!  Is anyone going to the event at Notre Dame honoring Virgil 
Exner and a book signing on September 
29?  http://www.nd.edu/~art/calendar/Exner.pdf

The press release states he was a student in the '20s there, but 
probably did not graduate.  Maybe he had a run in with Knute 
Rockne!  I never knew that, but did know his son, Virgil Jr., was a 
graduate in 1956, exactly 10 years before me.

It would be great for a few Imperials to show up!

Bob

PS There was a sports car club started at Notre Dame about 1963 and 
for 2 or 3 years we put on a spring car show at the Stephen Center, 
the then radical geodesic dome on the north side of the campus.  It 
had about 100 cars on display, including the recently introduced 
Cobra, the Griffith, etc. One year we had a bunch of Duesenbergs from 
an Indiana club.

At 10:49 AM 9/10/2007, you wrote:
> By the way, I'll have my '54 at Hershey before I head home with her 
> on the final leg of a journey of around 8000 miles this year,  I 
> left Phoenix in May bound for Atlanta, then on to Maine for my 
> sister's wedding, to Michigan for the Airflow meet, then Chicago for 
> the WPC meet.  I was very surprised when she took best in class over 
> a very flashy red '53 New Yorker convertible.  Wait, there's 
> more.....next on to Moline for an AACA meet, then to Milwaukee for 
> their very nice Masterpiece Concours, finally, she's resting 
> comfortably near Pittsburgh where I'll pick her up next month to 
> drive her to Hershey.  Of all the goofy comments one can hear when 
> travelling with an old car, I did have one lady toll collector who 
> got the year correct!
> See 'ya out on the road......
> Roger



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