<VV> MuseumBrier now lives in Virginia

[peter koehler]

My Labor Day celebration was a 17 hour road trip to 
Virginia and back to deliver the MuseumBrier to its new 
owner. I borrowed a flatbed trailer since I sold my own 
flatbed and the enclosed trailer pushes too much wind on 
the road for my poor little 1/2 ton Silverado to handle 
effectively.

Ray Davis has a beautiful house and an even better garage! 
His Rampside now has a stable mate. I loved the wire 
wheels (Clark's re-pops) on his red convert. If I could 
have found a way to talk him out of his Lakewood it would 
have come home with me! Of course the '65 VW 1500 
Notchback was a rare sight as well.

So the MuseumBrier Tour is over. It was an experience. 
Over 7,000 miles covered in five months, almost all of 
them riding on my flatbed trailer. With several side trips 
to run the CPF's Fitch Sprint around there are 20k more 
miles on my Chevy pickup since it was rebuilt (wrecked in 
the rear before I bought it). Seems like I spent a lot of 
"quality time" at gas stations around the Eastern Half of 
the country feeding the Silverado. But it was worth it. 
Hemmings Motor News has given us some good Press and a 
future issue of Hemmings Classic Car will include an 
article about John Fitch and his Sprint. All of this made 
possible by your friends at the CPF.

And now Ray Davis is the caretaker of the soon-to-be World 
Famous CPF MuseumBrier.

And I miss it already. - Truck Driver Pete