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"Cohorts" is the correct spelling.

Chipper said "corhorts"
Just a bad time for levity, I guess.

Yep, I know that Chippy Dippy said "corhorts", that's why I spelled it "cohorts" in my reply.

South africa woulds been XG like mine is.

Stefan

How did your car come from South Africa to Germany, Germanchevy? A German businessman returning home or what? Do you know the story?

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I could not find out many details, only:
The car was owned by Bert Card Pretoria and sold to a dealer Norman Frost of "Frost Brothers" in Knysna south africa.

A doctor from germany found the car on the website of Frost Brothers and bought it and did ship it to germany in 2004. As I posted often here, the doc had no feelings for vintage cars and had only horrible problems with the chevy. He did not finish one single drive out without breakdown and technical emergenzy rescue.

After about four years of complete frustration and a great loss of money he gave up and sold the car to a vintage car dealer in germany, Dortmund area. There I found the car on his website and was interested. But first I bought the manuals to be sure about the special difficulties to run such an old car. Yes, I bought it after lots of sleepless nights. And yes, since one year now I fight with lot of unprofessional details, done by professional mechanics. But step by step I am on the way to get a good car.
Think: Last year just before I bought it a professional did overhaul the brakes for about euro 1500.- and now i found out only the rear brakes did work with just 50% power.
So I as a musician (not mechanic) in an philharmonic orchestra made the job again and since few days I have four wheel brakes and it is a complete new feeling.

Sometimes I am really disappointed about "professional" work and ask myself "what and how did they learn"???

So I am still happy with my old bucket of bolts.

Stefan germany.

Thanks for the history. There are still good professionals around restoring the old ones, and they make them really running as safely as possible. The younger mechanics today will often make shortcuts using new solutions and not original parts. After some driving you discover that there could be a good reason for the old solution. So, listen to the older mechanics and restorers, avoiding shortcuts.

Nevertheless, you will discover after some trouble and tests during some time( 1 - 3 years?) that the car will improve and be a good runner, giving you a lot of excitement and pleasure thereafter.

Continue to ask here or by PMs and you will reach to a good working car in the end. But regular maintenance will have to be more careful that on a modern car.

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