1956 Imperial

Many Imperial owner know “Miss Pearl” – it’s Bob Ross’ 1956 Imperial 4-door Sedan. I liked the car from the first moment I saw it – the color combination, the story, everything. Also Bob seemed to be a sympathetic guy, although we have never met.

Unfortunately, Bob had to sell “Miss Pearl”. Therefore he offered the car some time ago, but it didn’t sell. At the end of August 2009 I saw a classified ad on Imperialclub.com, where Bob offered it again. Unfortunately I had no money to buy it. He should be in good hands and so I mailed Lars, who still owns a 56 Imperial, that “Miss Pearl” is for sale.

Then after a few mails between Bob, Lars and me, Lars bought “Miss Pearl”. Lars called a shipping company for the transport from Bob to the company in Humble, TX. Bob met the truck driver on a parking space of a mall, told the truck driver, how the Imperial works and helped him to drive it on the truck. The truck left Round Rock and should be in Humble soon.

Lars was waiting for a call of the shipping company, but “Miss Pearl” didn’t arrive there as expected. Lars got a little bit nervous. Some phone calls later he knew the reason for the delay: the truck had a breakdown. With a delay “Miss Pearl” reached the shipping company. There she and a ‘58 Imperial Lars also bought where loaded in a container. Some pictures from the shipping company:

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With a delay the container reached the ship, which is actually on his way to the Netherlands, Europe. It will arrive at September, the 17th 2009.

Meanwhile Lars let make a cool license plate (only for decoration):

To be continued after the arrival in Germany.

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