Frank Barrett wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:50 pmSebastian: Please write an obituary for the Registry and Panorama. Surely many people (Brad Ripley, Bill Green, Jim Perrin, et al) could contribute great stories. Chuck was far too much of a positive influence on Porsche in America to be allowed to slip away unnoticed.
I just contacted Rob Sass at Panorama to volunteer. I expect I will hear back as he was a regular customer of my shop until a year ago when PCA made him move to the DC area for the editor's job. I'll let you know as soon as I hear back if it is a go or if they already have something planned.
I heard back from Rob sass about volunteering to write an obit/story in Pano about Chuck. It turns out Karl Ludvigsen has already written one and that is as it should be. Karl and Chuck were close friends and MIT classmates. Look for after the first of the year.
Chuck graduated from MIT in 1952, six years before I did. Chuck and I visited MIT in about 1980 and visited the Mechanical Engineering Department. He told me that he had been fascinated by the engine work being done there when he was a student. He bought a used MG TD while at MIT, which I’m sure was his first sports car.
Someone earlier asked what some of the most interesting Porsches were that Chuck owned. In addition to Porsches, a few of the other cars Chuck had in recent years were a BMW 700 coupe (two cylinder opposed, and the “Sport” version of course), a Fiat Multipla mini-van (with Abarth engine upgrades), a Morris Minor Traveler (also with improved performance), and a 1939 Studebaker pick up. Chuck once told me that he wanted to work for Studebaker after graduation, but he ended up working for the company later known as TRW in Cleveland. He later left TRW to open his own foreign car repair business. He was married by this time, and he and his wife had only one car, a VW. He sold it to help get the business rolling.
Jim
1957 oval-window beetle
