CORSA 2012: NECC: FW: FW: Corvair (UNCLASSIFIED)

[rbuckridge at comcast.net]

Brian, 



I think you could go either way. Buy a restored car or restore one, both ways will be a money maker. It will all depend on what sort of cars and deals are out there. 



Restoring a car would require more work than expense. But then I am assuming all the labor would come as free or for the price of a lunch per session. 



Buying a trailer queen does have some draw backs too. Just because it looks pretty, how well does it actually work? 



I think it simply comes down to what deals are around. In this economy, I would guess a restored car may be the best way to go. 



Roy 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian M CTR USA O'Neill" <brian.oneill1 at us.army.mil> 
To: neccexec at corvair.org, conv-2012 at corvair.org 
Sent: Monday, December 6, 2010 10:42:48 AM 
Subject: NECC: FW: CORSA 2012: FW: Corvair (UNCLASSIFIED) 

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED 
Caveats: NONE 

Sarah's answer to my question gives me food for thought!  May instead of 
restoring a car, we buy a really good one and raffles it off.  Comments? 

-----Original Message----- 
From: sarahvair at juno.com [mailto:sarahvair at juno.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:45 AM 
To: O'Neill, Brian M CTR USA 
Cc: corvair1960 at cox.net 
Subject: RE: CORSA 2012: FW: Corvair (UNCLASSIFIED) 

Brian, 
  
We paid 10K for the car.  We did VERY little to it. Remember it had 19K 
original miles, was a past documented AACA winner, the car was solid 
original. 
  
Three of us busted our asses almost every weekend attending shows and 
events starting in January 2009 up until 1 month before the convention 
when we took the car off the "circuit" as we called it and started 
detailing it for Concours.  The car scored 97 something. 
  
We also on blind faith sent out tickets with a letter and pictures to 
chapters asking them to purchase in advance.  I'd say over all that 
helped, but you really need someone who will stay on it and make sure 
chapters return with correct money, etc.  Many chapters did not respond 
at all and did not return un-purchased tickets, so I had to stand there 
with a list and explain this before we drew the winner.  I had to make 
sure the ticket was purchased.  If it hadn't and the person was present 
give me $5 here and now and the car is yours.  If not we would draw 
again.  Thankfully that didn't happen. 
  
Bottom line, we made over 20K AFTER expenses...