Hello everybody!
After being a member for quite a long time now (joined right away when I bought my 1977 in Florida and took it back to Germany in 1992), I finally found my way to the NCRS-forum as well.
A few words about myself: I just turned 40 years old, work as marine insurance specialist for a German insurance company - and I am a Corvette-fan inside out! Furthermore the NCRS-devotion to originality is just my way (although I always feel like I am kind of "seeing among the blind" with this attitude over here - but I do my best to spread the word...
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I was with the UK chapter's first Flight Judging in 1998 and served as a Junior Judge - learned a whole lot! (Too bad, that there is nothing like a German chapter (yet).....)
Around that time I wrote an article for the Restorer (1977 t-top mount for the luggage carrier) and am about to write my second one (Firestone Steel Radial 500 tires) these days.
My car (as said earlier) is a 1977 (#37629), L82 automatic, orange on buckskin leather and is pretty much original. It still was, when I bought it back then from a 66 year old lady, who inherited the car from her late husband in 1988. I still have contact to her, writing for birthdays and christmas - and still trying to wring out more info on the car (once, she sent me a picture showing her husband with the car shortly after her got it - very cool!).
The first owner of the car (said to be some Bill Simpson or so working for the same phone company - GTE - as her husband) sold the car to a used car dealer, where William Kimball (the husband) then got it from in 1978 as his 50th birthday present to himself.
So (and not too) much on previous owners... If anybody knows something, I - of course - would be glad to know!
Bringing the car to Germany and having it registerd here usually means some changes on technical things, but back then I was able to keep the car just like it was - so very US! This unfortunately is no longer possible and major items have to be changed to meet German law... The more I am aware, of the specialty of my car.
Cheers from Hamburg, Germany
Oliver
After being a member for quite a long time now (joined right away when I bought my 1977 in Florida and took it back to Germany in 1992), I finally found my way to the NCRS-forum as well.
A few words about myself: I just turned 40 years old, work as marine insurance specialist for a German insurance company - and I am a Corvette-fan inside out! Furthermore the NCRS-devotion to originality is just my way (although I always feel like I am kind of "seeing among the blind" with this attitude over here - but I do my best to spread the word...
)I was with the UK chapter's first Flight Judging in 1998 and served as a Junior Judge - learned a whole lot! (Too bad, that there is nothing like a German chapter (yet).....)
Around that time I wrote an article for the Restorer (1977 t-top mount for the luggage carrier) and am about to write my second one (Firestone Steel Radial 500 tires) these days.
My car (as said earlier) is a 1977 (#37629), L82 automatic, orange on buckskin leather and is pretty much original. It still was, when I bought it back then from a 66 year old lady, who inherited the car from her late husband in 1988. I still have contact to her, writing for birthdays and christmas - and still trying to wring out more info on the car (once, she sent me a picture showing her husband with the car shortly after her got it - very cool!).
The first owner of the car (said to be some Bill Simpson or so working for the same phone company - GTE - as her husband) sold the car to a used car dealer, where William Kimball (the husband) then got it from in 1978 as his 50th birthday present to himself.
So (and not too) much on previous owners... If anybody knows something, I - of course - would be glad to know!
Bringing the car to Germany and having it registerd here usually means some changes on technical things, but back then I was able to keep the car just like it was - so very US! This unfortunately is no longer possible and major items have to be changed to meet German law... The more I am aware, of the specialty of my car.
Cheers from Hamburg, Germany
Oliver
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