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  1. From the records I have dealer code 43-765 is the correct code for Roger Rodewald Buick GMC They received two Reattas in 1988. The other was 902275 - a Claret Red/Tan coupe with 16 way seats. Most dealers only received one Reatta for the 1988 model year. a handful received two and only a few big dealers got as many as 6.
  2. Yes, when you come to the host hotel, walk into the lobby and turn left. Go down the ramp towards the banner that says registration and talk to Roy and Michelle. They will get you registered
  3. In the trunk! We are packed tight but tonight is the last of 5 nights camping in Yellowstone and Grand Teton
  4. We've been traveling through said heat and storm wave. Uneventful so far though. The Reatta is purring along well and averaging between 27 and 30 MPG. We're in western North Dakota this morning and will be in Yellowstone tonight. Camping for a few nights there and then in to the Tetons.
  5. The show field will be on the hotel parking lot which is paved
  6. No, they were ours as evidenced by the fact we are getting over 100 less now than we were supposed to get at the start of the week. You can complain about my prices all you want, but who else do you think would invest over $100,000 in this project? I don't see anyone else spending anywhere near that kind of money to support these cars. Sorry I don't have $5 parts for your $10 car.
  7. We’ve been receiving messages and emails from a lot of you regarding our rear shock project. I owe you all some correspondence, so here’s what I know so far. Firstly, this info may change as I haven’t been able to get up with our sales rep at Monroe all week. They have gone radio silent all week. Secondly, we had to place an order for a minimum 1000 rear shocks in order for Monroe to produce the 71966 shock for us. We committed to that back in April. We were told Monroe would tool up and make them for us with that minimum order and only that minimum would be made. They assured us they had zero interest in holding inventory for what they referred to as an “obsolete part number” for them. They would produce them, but we had to buy them all. However, it appears that Monroe has been selling OUR order off the top of our pallets in their facility to everyone at well below our wholesale price without requiring the minimum order that they required from us. Essentially destroying this project for us. Our order was even shorted with only 976 units or less reportedly coming If you ordered shocks from anyone and the packing list says 71966-ST, you can thank us for that. That was our special part number for the order. Monroe has been stealing out units off our order and selling direct for well under our wholesale pricing. Monroe has continuously lied straight to our faces saying “we don’t fulfill direct for any retailers”, and that they’ve shipped our order. We still have yet to receive our order despite reportedly shipping from Monroe on Monday. Please bear with us while we try to get to the bottom of this. We have thousands of dollars tied up in this project and are committed to finding a resolution. Our intention is to renegotiate price with Monroe on what is left of our order (given how they’ve screwed us) and still fulfill all orders and offer folks a refund or store credit for the difference. Please stay tuned for more info, and we sincerely appreciate your patience in this matter. We are a small, family-run business who has been screwed by corporate America big time on this project and we are working to do our best for our loyal customers.
  8. I'm registered and leaving in a week and a half! My wife and I'm are driving our 1988 Reatta out. Taking about 4 weeks for the trip total. Camping in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Who else is driving?
  9. If all goes as planned, we are about 90 days out of having reproduction rear struts ready to ship. They will be Monroe units sold exclusively by ECRP. Stay tuned for more info.
  10. I have this 1988 with just under 4,000 miles that we’ll be selling at some point this year.
  11. What is it with you guys and all this speculation? I’m not hard to find if you were genuinely interested and had questions about the history behind it. Happy to answer if you asked but I guess you guys would rather speculate that I dumped this car on this guy. Not the case at all and anyone who knows me knows I wouldn’t do that. I bought this car out of an estate along with 2 other cars. I bought them all as parts donors. The red coupe wasn’t even worth bringing home. That was stripped for anything usable and scrapped. The proceeds for that were donated to the Forney Transportation Museum in Denver for their employees help with some of the logistics of this buy. the white coupe had a partially disassembled motor and wouldn’t move under its own power. the blue car was probably the nicest of the three. Dirty, and a poor repaint but an extremely nice running car (ram so smooth I could hardly feel it running). The aforementioned mileage and attractive color combo along with the extremely clean underside caught the eye of my customer when I stopped to work on his car. He made me an offer and we came to a deal. Since it was headed for the parts yard, I figured I’d be willing to take a hit on what I could make parting it out to keep another car on the road. Plus he was just so excited about it. So we pulled it off the trailer and off I went. so as you can see, no nefarious dumping or leaving it for a “good reason”. The only good reason I left it was it kept another car on the road and out of the scrap heap. my customer did a great job cleaning up the Inteiror. Looks WAY better than when I left. This is a lot of car for the money. I think the only reason it hasn’t sold more quickly is the geographical location.
  12. Replace your Mass Air Flow sensor. I've had this issue about 4 times. Always solved by the MAF. It won't set a code.
  13. My 2018 Ram Eco Diesel did that right as the starter started melting. I’ll be in Auburn tonight. Left at 5 this morning, traveling light in a Reatta which helps make better time…
  14. I was told as co-chair of the meet formerly-known-as-concord, I was in charge of weather. So I will take full credit for planning this weather 3 years ago Also, for what it’s worth, NC is 100% open as was expected by this time. It’s also interesting to see some of the people who voted against having this meet decided to register for Auburn. 🤔 I’m very much looking forward to Auburn and am quite thankful for the AACA’s hospitality and support of the old car hobby. See you all soon!
  15. With the long bolt loosened you can slide the sensor forward and back in the holder. I’ve replaced several dozen myself and had to adjust probably half of them.
  16. Is anyone interested in splitting a flea market space? I don’t mind footing the bill, I just don’t have a ton of stuff and don’t want to sit around all day waiting for someone to walk by. willing to split a space and take shifts to man it if someone else is in the same situation of “some parts but not a ton”
  17. That is one of the drains for the channel between the tonneau cover and trunk lid. If you open the tonneau with the top up you should be able to see the other one
  18. What is a "good price" for you? If it's free? I just forked out $475 for this poor car, plus will have probably another thousand dollars in getting it home. Not sure what you expect parts for a 30 year old, limited production car to cost, but I guess if they're not free they're too expensive. Nobody is making you buy anything from anyone. I'm perfectly fine if you don't buy anything from me, but please quit the "Marck's too expensive" schtick. At least I'm keeping the good parts from getting destroyed and helping Reatta owners keep their cars on the road.
  19. That's very sad to hear. I spent a good bit of time talking with Bob at national meets. Most recently the Allentown meet. He was deeply passionate about Reattas and their history. He will be dearly missed.
  20. Matt, Sorry to hear you're having such issues with your TourX. That's extremely frustrating. I bought a 2018 over the summer for my wife. It's a more base model version than yours so doesn't have the lane departure or there pesky features. It also has the more base radio which, while it works well, it is slow to respond. Honestly my 1988 Reatta responds quicker. Nevertheless, we've been really happy with it. Bought it way under MSRP with 6800 miles (former dealer loaner car), and two weeks later drove it across the country and back for vacation. Very capable car and never gave us any issues. I hope you can get the issues solved on your car. I think you'll love it when it's all functioning right again
  21. Also I noticed on the bottom of mine it said "Made by Ian Pickering". A brief google search yielded this tidbit "In 1984 Ian produced a 1:32 Buick Reatta for Hawtal Whiting, a company who had designed and developed prototypes for General Motors of the full size car. He made 100 or so models to be produced and presented to various people involved in the development of this car. These were mounted on a base with the name of the recipient on them. Ian recalls the names changing as various people were sacked and others replaced them. It was of interest that joins in the brass body pattern mirrored those on the full size car; a detail pointed out to Ian by their engineering director"
  22. I recent acquired another of the Hawtal Whiting models from a guy who was also involved in the tooling side of the project pre-production. Unfortunately over the past 30+ years, mine has had it's mirrors liberated from the body, but it is otherwise complete and in good shape. I would love to find info on how many of these were produced, but like the pewter models, I fear we may never know the answer. He also had some other interesting items that I bought from him such as the Cross pen and pencil set, and some tie tacs that he had produced by the company that originally made the hood emblems. Very different from any other one I've seen.
  23. The last convertible production day was actually 3/11/91. I currently have two Reattas here built that day. 0621 my white/flame red convertible, and 0610 Frank Sinatra Jr's silver convertible. If I remember correctly there were three total built that day. Which begs the question, which Reatta convertible was really the last one to roll off the line? Back to the original topic at hand, the top can pretty easily be identified as an OEM top by the back window. In the lower RH corner of the glass, an OEM top will have a PPG logo. Also no stitching around the rear window, and the bottom corners of the window are not rounded like the top corners. The vinyl surrounding it will come to almost a right angle. There is also the possibility that the top has been dyed at some point in its life. Given the faded red, this would be my best guess if it is indeed an OEM top. Best way to tell that would be to look at the piping around the edge, and perhaps the inside of the top to see if maybe she has worn off to expose white underneath.
  24. They're covers for the subframe mounts. Only on the front two mounts on the engine subframe.
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