<VV> Fwd: Corvair recovered! Good news again.........

[Louis C. Armer, Jr.]

Well Gang, Good news for all owners and especially for Phil Parkey, Ben Lewis
and Spence Shephard.

Chuck Armer
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>To: carmerjr at mindspring.com
>From: Ben Lewis <tr6r at comcast.net>
>Subject: Corvair recovered!
>Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 10:42:18 -0400
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>Hi Chuck!  I got your voicemail this morning.   Sorry I didn't contact you 
>before now, but we've been caught up in trying to get the car back and 
>deal with insurance.   Here's all the down and dirty:
>
>Duluth Police Department actually found the car early in the morning of 
>April 22 -- that's the Friday morning of Springfest weekend, so the whole 
>time we were in Helen, they had the car in impound.  It was abandoned in 
>an apartment complex about 2 miles from Phil's shop (where it was stolen). 
>On Monday 4/25, Phil got a call from the insurance company asking if we 
>had heard from the police department.  That's the first word we got that 
>the car was found.
>
>After several calls to Gwinnett PD and Duluth PD, we rode over to the 
>impound lot to see the car.  It was still sitting outside, and dirtier 
>than it's been in 10 years, but otherwise it looked to be in mostly good 
>shape.  We did find a scrape on the right rear quarter panel.  But Duluth 
>& Gwinnett spent two days fighting over whether the paperwork was complete 
>or not before they would release the car to us.  On Wednesday, 4/27, 
>determined to get our car back in our garage and out of the elements, we 
>rode back over to the Duluth PD to wrap up the paperwork.  We found the 
>place covered with TV cameras... turns out a young lady named Jennifer 
>Willbanks had been "abducted" the night before.  (So if you watched early 
>coverage of the runaway bride story, you might have seen us leaving the 
>police station.)
>
>The first lady that we talked to at the window was no help.  "Sorry, but 
>you'll need the paperwork before we can release the car."  But a police 
>sergeant heard us arguing with her and asked which car we were trying to 
>recover.  "Oh, the Corvair?  Yeah, that's a nice car!  Hold on, let me see 
>what I can do."  So he left the window and was gone maybe 15 
>minutes.  When he came back, he asked if we could prove we owned the 
>car.  Phil asked if he could run the license plates.
>"Sure... do you remember the license plate number?"
>
>"NC plates - 65 CORSA."
>
>Then as a joke he asked if we remembered the VIN number.  I don't think he 
>was prepared for both of us to rattle it off from memory.   :o)  So he 
>released the car, and we drove back over to impound to pick it up.
>
>Like I said, the car was filthy, and the underside was trashed -- they got 
>it stuck in the mud getting it out of the trailer.  Surprisingly, the gas 
>tank was completely full.   The top was in excellent shape.
>When we washed the car, we found that there were some blemishes in the 
>paint (bird poop or acid rain), in addition to the scrap on the right rear 
>quarter.  After several days of trying to touch base with the insurance 
>adjuster, we finally sent the car over the Ted's again this week, and the 
>adjuster looked at the car a couple of days ago.  They also found a scrape 
>down the left side of the car.  (BTW, Ted has the car now.)
>
>SO... right now we're waiting on the adjuster to write the estimate, and 
>then hopefully Dr. Ted can start putting the car back to its original 
>glory.  We owe you and everyone else a huge THANK YOU! for getting the 
>word out and keeping your eyes open for us.  We really can't thank you 
>enough for that.  Honestly, we were starting to think that we would never 
>see the car again.  BUT - it's back, it's repairable, and you'll see it on 
>the road again very soon, I promise!
>
>Let us know if you have any questions for us.  And THANKS AGAIN!!!
>Ben


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