Agree!!! No missed opportunities!!!

I have yet to visit “the rock” one day!!!

Ryan

Detective Martin! Good call on the March visit, she is 82!

On my way to Newfoundland tonight. Picking up Bob Mercer, who was the sales manager at Corner Brook Garage Ltd, in the 70's, in the morning.
Bob will be coming with me to Stephenville to meet Loretta Burrell, the original owner. She has some original photos of the car. We will be recording and taping the interview.
On Friday I am hosting "happy hour" at the Glynmill Inn in Corner Brook for the people who helped with my search for the original owner. The second owner will be there as well.
Fun times!

That is awesome!!!!

Can’t wait to find out how this unfolds!!

Ryan

Now that sounds like a good time - look forward to hearing about it in person next week.
Detective Martin is on the case!

I had a great day today meeting With Bob Mercer and hearing about his career with Corner Brook Garage, the selling dealer for my 442.
We met with Loretta Burrell around 10:00 AM in Stephenville. Loretta brought along two early photos of the car being used in Baseball League Parade circa 1973. She explained her car was called on a lot in this small town as it was the only convertible here.

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The Photo is very fuzzy but it shows the car circa 1973 with Loretta at the wheel,and a full baseball team on board.
Those 442 enthusiasts will note the car has a chrome rear view mirror and the stripes may not be correct. Loretta explained thar the car had been in three accidents during her ownership years. One accident required the replacement of the left front fender, door skin and repairs to the quarter panel and door jam. Obviously a sport mirror was not replaced.
This was noticed when I got the car as the drivers door still had the original frame with a newer Skin. My restoration guy Mark had noticed the jam area had been hit before and required some massaging.

In this photo, left to right, Bob Mercer, Loretta Burrell and myself.
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Loretta is about 4 feet tall and she always required the seats in her cars to ne raised with additional metal rails so she could see over the steering wheel.
Lorettas previous cars were a 68 Impala Hardtop, a 69 Impala Convertible, the 442. After the 442 she ordered a 75 Monte Carlo with a sunroof and then a 1978 Camaro Z28.
What possessed Loretta to special order a 1971 442 W30 convertible with every option other than A/C and cruise control.
She stated,she saw the 1970 sales brochure with the Orange 442 W30 and went to the dealer and told salesman Walt Everett she wanted that car in a convertible,and they checked all the boxes for options.
Loretta waited a long time for her car due to the 67 day strike in the fall of 1970 and the car finally arrived in March 1971, as a 1971 with 1970 colours and argent painted wheels.
The car was the hottest car in Stephenville.NL (population 6700), and sought after by every 17 year old waiting for Loretta to buy a new car.
That lucky second owner was Barry Fowlow. Barry,17 in 1975 with a newly minted Newfounland drivers liscense was working at the Stephenville Branch of CBG when Loretta traded her 442 in on her New 1975 Monte Carlo. Barry was on duty that day in June 1975, washing cars and pumping gas,and told Walt Everett that he wanted to buy the 442.
With an agreed purchase price of $2000.00 supplied by a bank loan signed by Barry's father, the 442 was his.
I will be meeting with Barry tomorrow and getting the details of his two years of ownership.

Here is the latest photos of my project.
The frame has all been straightened, results of three accidents required a lot of tweaking.
Body had been returned to frame with all welds drilled in preparation of removing the shell, less floor pans and rockers,to make way for full new floor pan and full trunk floor.

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Body has been well braced for surgery.

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More photos to come now that PhotoBucket is behaving.

Looks like an awesome visit!!!

Well done:-)

The car must have gotten away on her a few times?

Ryan