gtski

Hey Rich...

Weren't you involved with that guitar that looked like
a 'tailfin' from a chevy...???

Was that you... I forget...

I saw one for sale... billed as "very rare"....

....asking over $2 grand...

gtski

rich koerner

It all started the day Rich Excellente walked in my shop and said he
wanted to make a guitar like a car.

So, the sketch pad came out, and the pencils got busy.

We made up the templates to a correct scale for actual size, and went
from their.

I was the guy that worked with Rich to get the first ones made for the
NAMM show.

Yep, cut, shaped, fitted the castings, sanded, painted, and hand made
the pickguards.

Those guitars were painted the weekend before the show.

This is the very first one made. It had serial number one attached to
it.

http://timeelect.com/car-57.htm

Then, here is the group that was shown for the first time at NAMM.

http://timeelect.com/Book09.htm

From that point, I had helped out get the plant in north Jersey jump
started.

I then backed out of the situation as there suddenly appeared too many
new faces with big plans that got out of control.

Too many fingers in the pot, killed this project.

It's a shame what these people did!!!!!!

That was a nice piece of engineering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it weren't for me, there would have not been any patent on that
guitar.

When my name didn't appear on the patent, it was time to walk away from
this out of control mess.
<thinking>

BTW, somewhere, I even have a picture of the one made that was in the
1986 Christmas issue of Playboy Magazine.

I should find it, and put it up on my site too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, the summer of 1986 that whole thing started.

Regards,

Rich Koerner,
Time Electronics.
http://www.timeelect.com

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