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Hi All,
Just in case some of you are wondering about what happened to the
Ercoupe at Deer Valley, AZ that was offered on eBay about a month ago,
heres "the rest of the story."
My friend Larry Markey, here in Wausau, who won the bid asked lots
of questions of me, my mechanic, other Ercoupers like Dennis Spiegel
(who is also a friend) and an Arizona mechanic he hired to look the
plane over, he decided not to buy it after all. He lost his 10%
deposit, but that's all he lost. He found out that the plane is
completely gutted inside. Everything is out from the firewall to the
tip of the tailcone. We figured that it would take a huge amount of
time and money to bring it up to flying condition, so he dropped it. It
was a very long way to go for a project.
Dennis told us about Paul Tanzer's E model, N94821, that is for sale
at Schaumberg Airport in IL. Larry contacted Paul and was impressed.
So tomorrow I'm driving Larry's Porsche (!) from Wausau to Schaumberg,
will get the key from Paul, fly the plane up here to Wausau so my
mechanic can do a pre-purchase evaluation of it, and will fly it back if
a week or so. The weather has been quite bad here for about a week, but
looks great for tomorrow. So Greg, even though Fred's spirit can't help
us with the Deer Valley Coupe, it looks like he is helping with Paul's
Coupe.
I'll keep you posted on the events here.
Oh, what happened to the Deer Valley Coupe? I guess the seller
contacted the next highest bidders. I hope they don't have to haul it
very far.
Syd Cohen
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