Calypso Restoration Thread, Need Wiring Snorkel Help! Options

[billh1963]

That is an awesome color!

[turk22]

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The car looks great! I like the work you did with the engine, I may have to pick your brain, because I think my car's engine is going to need a similar refresh, and it really looks like you did a great job. I think the 600 miles is testament to that.

Turk

[rnellums]

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The car looks great! I like the work you did with the engine, I may have to pick your brain, because I think my car's engine is going to need a similar refresh, and it really looks like you did a great job. I think the 600 miles is testament to that.

Turk

The work I did was all topical. I didnt touch the engine internals, just cleaned repaired and replaced - something that needed to be done badly after 20 years of storage.

[rnellums]

So I was running through some of the service history on Calypso this morning and decided to do a Google search on the dealer that sold the car originally TNM Lathrop Porsche-Audi. Turns out it closed its doors permanently in 1989, but more interesting the search brought up a few results from The Day newspaper from New London, CT. Long story short, I was browsing through the paper and hit the classifieds.

Bingo: 1974 2.0 Litre. Ice Green Metallic, beige leatherette Interior, 5 speed.

Its dated the right year, from the right dealer and describes my car perfectly, further confirmation that the original color is Ice Green Metallic!

[Chris H.]

That's a one in a million find...nice work internet stalking your teener!!! The odds of that NOT being yours are more than one in a million. They didn't have too many special order Ice Green Metallic '74s. Counting yours I've only seen one.

[turk22]

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That's pretty amazing, now see what you can do finding any history on my car!
Cause I'm not having any luck (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[rnellums]

The crazy part is I also have been stalking the original owner to pump him for some more info. I'm to the point where I have his name, age, where he went to college, did his residency, and where he worked up to 2008, but nothing after that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[bigkensteele]

The crazy part is I also have been stalking the original owner to pump him for some more info. I'm to the point where I have his name, age, where he went to college, did his residency, and where he worked up to 2008, but nothing after that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

Luckily, my car came with all of the service history. The original owner's name is Hal Holt, and it was clear from the records that he was in the Air Force for most of the time that he owned the car. It spent time in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and finally back to Minnesota, where he is from. It took about 2 minutes on google to find his number. I called and left a message. Didn't hear anything for a week, and then he called me back. We talked for about an hour. It was his first new car, and he bought it while he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy. It really was great to hear his stories about the car, and he seemed very happy to find out that it is in good hands now. He is a pilot for Delta/Northwest now, and I have promised him a drive if he ever has a lay-over in Cinci.

Hope you can find a number for the original owner. Talking with Hal made me love my car that much more.
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[tscrihfield]

Wow Ross! What a find..... But please don't go all Misery on us. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)

But really cool that you are able to dig all of this up!

Thomas

[KELTY360]

Interesting that the ad is Dec. '74, meaning the car didn't sell during the model year. With a special order color like that it makes me wonder if the original 'purchaser' didn't take the car once it arrived and the dealer had to 're-sell' the car. Hope you can find the original owner and flesh out the details.

[rnellums]

The crazy part is I also have been stalking the original owner to pump him for some more info. I'm to the point where I have his name, age, where he went to college, did his residency, and where he worked up to 2008, but nothing after that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

Luckily, my car came with all of the service history. The original owner's name is Hal Holt, and it was clear from the records that he was in the Air Force for most of the time that he owned the car. It spent time in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and finally back to Minnesota, where he is from. It took about 2 minutes on google to find his number. I called and left a message. Didn't hear anything for a week, and then he called me back. We talked for about an hour. It was his first new car, and he bought it while he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy. It really was great to hear his stories about the car, and he seemed very happy to find out that it is in good hands now. He is a pilot for Delta/Northwest now, and I have promised him a drive if he ever has a lay-over in Cinci.

Hope you can find a number for the original owner. Talking with Hal made me love my car that much more.
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I do have a fairly extensive service history also, but the name is fairly common. Google searches keep turning up the baseball player, maybe I can use that if I ever sell it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif). My story is fairly similar to yours, he was a medical doctor in the nave and bought the car immediately after graduation from undergrad in CT, and promptly moved to San Francisco with it, where it lived till 82'(although it had Florida plates the whole time). I would love to chat with him about it. Who knows, maybe he even has a few photos of it from back in the day!

Interesting that the ad is Dec. '74, meaning the car didn't sell during the model year. With a special order color like that it makes me wonder if the original 'purchaser' didn't take the car once it arrived and the dealer had to 're-sell' the car. Hope you can find the original owner and flesh out the details.

I had wondered that actually. The owners manual with service history etc. has the car dated sold Feb 13, 1974. Looks like it was ordered, delivered and sold again in 6-months. Although the asking price in the ad is so high it makes me wonder if it even left the lot. MSRP for a similarly optioned car was around 7000.

[gms]

So I was running through some of the service history on Calypso this morning and decided to do a Google search on the dealer that sold the car originally TNM Lathrop Porsche-Audi. Turns out it closed its doors permanently in 1989, but more interesting the search brought up a few results from The Day newspaper from New London, CT. Long story short, I was browsing through the paper and hit the classifieds.

Bingo: 1974 2.0 Litre. Ice Green Metallic, beige leatherette Interior, 5 speed.

Its dated the right year, from the right dealer and describes my car perfectly, further confirmation that the original color is Ice Green Metallic!

That is a great find Ross!

[rnellums]

I have just realized this thread is missing all the glamour shots I have taken of my car recently, So I had better update that! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


From MUSR 2012!

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Porsches 2 Granville event!

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Garold's get together

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Cincinnati VW/Porsche Reunion!

[rnellums]

In other news, I just heard back from what I thought was the original owner of the car! He turns out to be the third owner, but has given me the story back to 1975, and also the contact info for owner number 2!

[veltror]

Excellent pictures, excellent colour...even good weather unlike here...

[Zimms]

How about a matching 911?

'75 IGM 911

[rnellums]

How about a matching 911?

'75 IGM 911

I could do that, but storing the ones I have properly is beginning to be a problem!