Copies for $??.00 per set? Computer scans to be e-mailed? You hit the
jackpot. Enjoy your new money-pit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBricklin. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Jess Nicholas <jessn@mindspring.com>
To: <bricklin@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 9:15 PM
Subject: A possible gold mine?
> First of all, let me raise a toast to myself...#2417 is officially in
> the fold today! I have wanted one of these cars since I was age 10 and
> today the dream comes true.
>
> While I originally intended this post to be a virtual lovefest for my
> first Bricklin and bore you all with stories of woe on all the Bricklins
> I might have owned earlier in my life but never did, there is something
> far more important to discuss.
>
> When I bought the car, my friend told me he had some "documentation" to
> go along with the vehicle. I assumed he meant the owner's manual, and
> asked him if this was so. He mistakenly said it was.
>
> When he delivered the car, though, he did not have the owner's manual.
> He did, however, have a pristine set of shop manuals. That was valuable
> enough, but I wasn't prepared for what else he had.
>
> The person who owned the car before him had apparently been two things:
> (a) a meticulous record-keeper, and (b) friends with someone in the
> Bricklin company. In addition to full receipts of everything he had done
> to this car (including a $6,000 paint job and various mechanical work),
> he also had kept a five-inch thick file from Pinckney Volkswagen in
> Pensacola, Florida.
>
> In that file are many things, including a letter from Lee Iococca's
> department at Ford detailing their production stop on supplies for the
> 351W. There are mountains of papers on Bricklin Corporation letterhead,
> including letters to dealerships.
>
> The most intriguing thing we found, though, was what looks like a
> Bricklin engineer's personal notes, taken during what looks like a
> brainstorming session. The notes are filled with sketches, doodles, and
> random suggestions for improvements to the 1976 models, including the
> possibility of adding a cigarette lighter and ashtray and discontinuing
> Safety Green as a color.
>
> I haven't even begun to look through all this stuff. It's like finding
> artifacts from a long-lost civilization. It will take me weeks to weed
> through it all.
>
> In the meantime, I guess I'll just have to enjoy driving ol' #2417.
>
> Jess
>
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