[alfa] on the road again (NAC) now has Alfa content!

["Gordy Hyde" <gohyde@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tess -
Call Alfisti Stark Shelby at 425-483-5758 and he will set you up with
vintage insurance.  He got me a great price with Parish Heacock (Great
American).  YOU determine the value and pay, like $7/$1k value plus an
annual fee.  The agreed value for my Spider is $12k and I pay $128/year.

Gordy Hyde
Tess' friend (I really didn't do much work on her 9xx which smokes more than
my 74 Spider!!)
Alfa Potlatch 2005 chair

> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:36:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tessie McMillan <tessmc@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] on the road again!!! (pseudo NAC -- yes, there's a
question buried in here)
>
> As some of you know, I've had a restoration project on a very slow burner
> since 1997. That has been long enough for me to practically forget I still
> owned the car! It's not an Alfa, but it's an interesting car that some of
> you know, so I was hoping you'd celebrate with me and also answer a
> question.
>
> The car -- originally a 911T with a magnesium engine -- was totally torn
> down, the body media blasted and repainted, and the fenders flared. Lots
> of work was done to the engine and the car sat for couple of years in my
> mechanic's shop as well. This year my BF Steve, my friend Gordy, my
> mechanic, and some of my other friends helped here and there to get
> things in and on the car with an eye to having it on the road in the not
> too distant future... say 2005....
>
> But for a birthday present, Steve ramped up the assembly. The result is
> that a couple of weeks ago, I was able to drive it as far as the corner
> and back (there were a few important things missing, like seats). And I'm
> very proud to say that yesterday I was able to drive the fully licensed,
> "street legal" (quotes are mine &:-)) car for the first time since
> 1997!!!! I drove from my home in Bellevue up through back roads to Mill
> Creek, then back down to Bellevue's business district on the freeway,
> then home at night on multi-lane arterials. It wasn't a perfect drive -- 
> the tires are very hard 10 year old R compound that haven't been tracked
> for... well ... 10 years, the rear end rides a little low so I'm bottoming
> out, thick plumes of smoke still pour out of the exhaust pipe due
> to a seal failure that happened early on in the engine rebuild, the
> engine is harder to start than the dickens, the odo doesn't appear to
> work, the mirrors are only johnnie-rigged on the car, and I'm
> driving the stick without a shift knob, which is a little painful, but
> the engine sure makes a sweet sound!!! I can even put up with the gas
> fumes in my clothes after the drive. It's like, I Have A New Car!!!!!!!!
>
> So here's the question: PEMCO doesn't really want to insure the car, now
> that I have a collector plate on it, so I only have temporary insurance
> with them. I was thinking about collector's insurance. Can anyone give me
> tips on insuring this car? How do you get the insurance (I seem to recall
> the name "Hagerty".) How would you calculate the car's value, since it is
a
> restoration to a different 'spec' (if you will) than what it was
> originally? I am planning on driving it at the track, as well.
>
> Thanks for listening, everyone! Happy Birthday to Me!!!!!!!!!
>
> Tess
> in Bellevue WA, USA
--
to be removed from alfa, see /bin/digest-subs.cgi
or email "unsubscribe alfa" to majordomo@domain.elided