<VV> Carl Sagan's 64 Spyder Convertible & a question (more humor?)

[Norman C. Witte]

Sell it to Hubbell.  Besides being named after a telescope, he's trying to
collect "billions and billions" of early convertibles from outer space. gggg

Norm Witte

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> [mailto:virtualvairs-admin@corvair.org]On Behalf Of Ruth Dorogi
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 1:54 PM
> To: virtualvairs@corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> Carl Sagan's 64 Spyder Convertible & a question
>
>
> In 1983 my oldest son Mark was a graduate student in physics
> at Cornell
> University in Ithaca, N. Y.  While cruising around Ithaca in
> his 1966 Corsa
> convertible he spotted a 1964 Spyder Convertible in a
> driveway.  He ended up
> buying the car & had it trailered home to Brocton, NY.  It
> was very rusty, but
> had the smoothest running turbo engine that we had ever seen.
>
> We pryed open the locked glove compartment and found the
> usual mouse nest and
> urine stained documents including doctor and repair bills and
> the 1964 Owner
> Protection Plan made out to the original owner - Carl Sagan.
> My son thought
> that was neat!  We called the woman that sold the car and she
> said " Oh yes,
> that was Carl's old car." It had been sandwiched in an
> accident and had slight
> damage to the front and rear and never repaired by the new owners.
>
> Carl Sagan was an astronomer, educator at Cornell, author,
> and adviser to the
> NASA Apollo Moon program.  He popularized science in the PBS
> series Cosmos
> seen by 500 million people in 60 countries.  The movie
> Contact starring Jodie
> Foster was based on one of his novels.
>
> The Spyder was exposed to the weather from 1972 to 1983 when
> my son bought it.
> We never did anything to it, and it still is in our backyard somewhat
> protected, but very, very, rusty.  It still has structural
> integrity (early
> models are stronger than late models).  I have the
> mechanical, welding, and
> painting skills to restore it but I'm afraid not much of the
> original car
> would be left.  I have restored other corvairs nearly as bad
> (West Coast
> owners would faint) to concours condition but at 70 years old
> it would be a
> tremendously difficult and expensive task.
>
> My question is - would it be worthwhile restoring this rusty 64 Spyder
> Convertible because it was owned by Carl Sagan? It would be a
> challange.
> Thanks.  Dennis Dorogi
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