Pirate Treasure

[tccrab]

Ahoy Maties!!!
Fellow Brethren of the Beast!!
Listen' Up!
I've a Pirate tale to share with 'ye all...
A tale that involves TREASURE!!

Last year around November, some guy was cleaning out his storage because he was moving his shop halfway across the country.
He dug up a bunch of old (but new) leftovers and decided to unload them on eBay at very reasonable prices.
I bid on and won a very nice set of metal door sill protectors for "Girlfriend", my '90 ZR1.
The only problem was that the passenger side didn't have the "ZR1" sticker...
Girlfriend said she wasn't going to put them on unless they matched...
Women can be so tempermental at times....

I eMailed the seller and asked politely if he had a spare sticker.
He said he would look.
I guess I should have recognized his eBay seller name, but I didn't pay attention.
A couple of months go by, no Sticker.
I send another eMail and the seller replies, saying he was sorry for the delay but that he'd been very busy getting his business settled into the new facility.
He said that he had found a sticker and if I would send him a SASE he'd send it to me.

I asked for his company name and address and a big BRIGHT LIGHT went on.

Automasters of Bowling Green
790 Interstate Dr.
Bowling Green, KY 42101

I had been talking to a Legend.
A real FAMOUS ZR1 CELEBRITY.
Somebody I had read about in the Heart of the Beast.
Somebody I'd seen on TV.
Somebody I thought I'd never meet or talk to in a million bazillion years.
The father of the infamous Black Widow ZR1.
The guy who added the "R" to the C5.
The Pirate himself.
....
...
..
Jim Van Dorn.

Wow.

I got a package the other day and I'm still in a state of shock.
PIRATE TREASURE.










TomC
'90ZR1 #792
Honorary Pirate