Let me be the first to apologize to those of you who kept hitting “refresh” all day long yesterday only to be disappointed… it’s just that five of your normal CC authors (including the esteemed Mr. Neidermeyer) were AWOL, hobnobbing at the first-ever CC Heartland Meetup in and around Iowa City, USA.
More to come, but rest assured, gentle readers, the car stories flowed like fine wine, and no CC was left unmolested.
Good. The CC Rust Belt Gathering is still open for June 8 at the Walter P Chrysler Museum & the Packard Manufacturing Complex (hopefully).
What is happening on that day?
The Walter P Chrysler museum will be open for the Chrysler Employee Car Show that day from 9:00 AM-4:00 PM.
You’re going to have to message me on FB and let me know more of the details. I can’t promise, but I will see what I can do.
We had a wonderful day and evening together. It was great to meet the CC brain trust in person; they’re even more awesome, witty, handsome, funny, and knowledgeable than as cyber-personalities 🙂 Thanks all for coming and making it a most memorable day!
I’ll be in Iowa a few more days with very limited web access (my MIL doesn’t indulge). We’ll be back to full speed by next Wednesday.
Oh, yes, there is truly more to come!!!
It was truly awesome to meet Paul, JP, Tom, and you, Ed. Putting a body with a face, a voice with a writer, and a live personality with a cyber one is truly fantastic and was a great time.
Rest assured we will be seeing this Cordoba again. As JP told me in the car, “dammit, I’ve been wanting one of these for a long time.”
I could make an Oregon meeting in June. I have some free time the last two weeks. Possible?
Aww, three live humans showing interest in a Volaredoba. The thing didn’t get that much love when new. 🙂
Jealous of all who were there. Looking forward to CRANDIC pics.
It was like all the clowns jumping out of their clown car, only in this case it was three cars. I was first. I pulled off to the side and my uncle said “What are you doing?!”
“I HAVE to get pictures of that Cordoba!”
Jim, Ed and Jason followed with their own cameras. My uncle said “someone’s going to call the cops!”
It was a good day.
Inquiring minds want to know: Was the leather still soft and Corinthian?
I saw it and I’m still not sure…
I’ve got a review of that poor automotive orphan sitting on the shelf in our flat, via Consumer Reports in 1983. In the same test, they liked the new Olds Cutlass Supreme quite a lot. What about the Cordoba?
‘The Cordoba doesn’t compete. The six-cylinder engine consumed gasoline like a V8. The car didn’t ride or handle as well as it should. The long, heavy doors were awkward to use. The cap on the coolant tank says the level should be between the MIN and MAX markings. There were no markings. The Cordoba hasn’t sold well, so we don’t have any reliability information on it.’
Sad trombone: ‘wah-wuh’.
“You’re all gonna get arrested” was my first thought, too. Good think they have enough John Deere conventions-with their associated “papperazi (sp?) that the local police don’t get wierded out by middle-aged guys with cameras surrounding a piece of machinery.
Oops-was thinking of Davenport. In Iowa City, so long as you don’t look like an under-age college student with a drink in your hand, you are pretty much good to go.
I was thinking – the original owner could not possibly have been this happy when it was new (and had whitewalls!).
Nice going guys, greetings from Helsinki Finland.
I’m on another business trip here but would have loved to attend a real meeting with my imaginary internet freinds.
Looking forward to the full report.
A fabulous time all around. After a long time of emails, occasional phone calls and lots of posts and comments, it was great to meet the man behind CC, as well as most of the Midwestern contingent of editors/contributors.
Now, about this Cordoba, guys – I know I was the last one out of the car, but I REALLLLLLLY love these. Fake convertible top version, even. Or, maybe this can be the first CC with multiple takes. We can have Brown Cordoba Day! Four different pieces all in one day. Can never have too much brown Cordoba, I always say.
I will also confess that on the way home, Mrs. JPC and I stopped in Tom Klockau’s territory of Davenport and peeled off a couple of shots of a great car I will be writing up soon. Tom, any time you are in Indy, feel free to shoot some of the cars here in Jim Grey’s half of the city. 🙂
Go for it, Jim! I have plenty of other cars in the works 🙂
Wish I’d been there
That Duesy needs to be starred in the new Gatsby movie. From what I’ve read, the movie is more Cordoba than Duesenberg.
I think there is one in the movie, from what I have seen in the commercials at least…..
I’m pretty certain it is exactly the Duesenberg in the new movie. Which by the way is brilliant and great fun.
I sure wish I could have joined you all. I’m glad to hear that you all had a great time.
As I mentioned in another thread the other day, I did get to meet our good friend “geozinger” the other day in Grand Rapids. We had a nice visit.