More info on 65 Coupe

[marinmcgreevy]

Last Friday I went to the DMV to pay the registration fees on the 65 coupe I have just purchased. The license plate has 1984 tags. I did not get a title but I did get the bill of sale from the prior owners purchase of the car in 1993. The person I bought the car from never bothered to register the car. He only drove the car once.

Anyway, at the DMV office, I give them all my paperwork and it seems that the person who the person I bought the car from never did register the car! The DMV says the registered owner is a person I have no knowledge of. Looks like I am not going to get the car registered or even titled in my name! I get the nice person at the DMV to give me the name of the person they list as the registered owner. They would not give me any additional information.
Depressed, I go home and look up the name in my local phonebook. There is a person by that name and I call him up. An elderly gentleman answers the phone and says "yes I used to own an old Porsche" and he did sell it to the person that the person I bought it from bought the car from. Today I went over to the gentlemans house and we sorted out the paperwork.

This prior owner is Frank George, the founder of Competition Press and Autoweek. He is now 85 years old. He bought my car in 1967 from a relative after the wheels were stolen off the car. Frank owned the car for 22 years and was able to provide the full history of the car. He says he got the 70 S engine from the newly opened Easy Automotive after the original engine was destroyed by an engine fire (Solex issues). Frank said he put over two hundred thousand miles on the car. The original owner painted the car silver over the Dolphin Gray. Franks son had the car painted brown. Frank and his wife Margaret had fond memories of the car. Frank gave me the original key fob to the car that he had kept. He also gave my son and original Autoweek logo jacket patch.

This is such a great story I wanted to share it with some other car guys.

[37yrold911]

Great story!

Restore it like he had & then drop by to give him a ride.