et tu, Detroit
Well I finally did it. I made a web page. Not one of those "So, you're in computer science class and
we're going to force you to be creative and make your own web page and we're going to GRADE you
on it and you're going to LIKE it!" web pages (I speak from which I know), but an honest to goodness
heartfelt "I really feel like I should share my slightly perverted sense of reality with the world" page.
One with excellent grammer and no run-on sentences.
Anyway, as you may have guessed, this web page is about cars. How original. I think in the past
week I've visited around a dozen such sites, but none had what I wanted in an automotive web page.
Hence this attempt.
My HTML is a bit foggy from the college days (see first paragraph) but I'll do what I can. I also don't have
a digital camera nor a scanner, so much of what I speak will have to be taken sight unseen, at least
until I get my lazy butt off this salvaged 4 legged computer stool and to Office Depot and buy one or the
other. (Editor's note: Otto Motive got off his lazy butt and to Best Buy recently and bought a scanner.)
BUT THE POINT OF ALL THIS IS: Detroit doesn't build cars anymore. It builds "personal transportation
devices". "Environmentally friendly eco-mobiles". "Multi-purpose" this and "Omni-use" that. I think if I
see one more sport utility thingamawhatchit being shoved down my throat by some hip gen-X'er between
Simpson's episodes, I will vomit.
I guess this section below I will modify as times dictate...
Eventually I hope to have separate pages for all of my various categories...makes things easier on me when editing it all. For now, though, I'm just slapping up pictures accompanied by little blurbs of text.
Like this first picture, taken recently, of my newest automotive acquisition, a 1967 Chrysler Imperial Crown. Its name is "Silver", as in "Hi-Ho Silver, away!" (tm) I bought it off the stereotypical little old couple who drove it twice a week to church and once a year to visit the grandkids in Skokie, Illinois. It had 79,000 miles on it when I limped it home that rainy March day...Click on the Imperial to get to the 1967 Imperial Crown Home Page!!!
Since arriving home to its new home (rear brakes smoking and the windows leaking like seives) It has acquired about 1000 miles, most of which from the trip to and from my parents' house in upstate NY. I don't drive it much, due to the fact that it hasn't been running much, and when it is running the brakes aren't working and vice-versa. The brakes are finally fixed, but the A/C is no longer working. So its at Pep Boys.
Here's a picture for all you IML'ers who ventured into my lair...its one of the Toyota Supra rotors which will supposedly fit Budd brake laden Imps from '67 to '69. Click on it to see my analysis of the Budd/Supra interchange issue.
This picture below is of my current daily driver,
a 1974 Plymouth Satellite Sebring, better known as "The Green Monster". Since this picture, some metalurgical redistribution has occured on
the passenger side front, caused by a Stupid New Jersey Driver making a left turn in front of me. YOU
KNOW WHO YOU ARE!
6:05PM, May 6th, 2001
Some stuff to keep you amused
Mopars.com.
Where I found both of my cars.
A club for Chrysler Imperial owners
Anglefire's Handy Dandy Easy Bake Oven List Creator (Or why I like old cars):
