Tragic news, he was a great guy.
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Tragic news, he was a great guy.
Thanks for the photos Josh
Condolences to all his friends. I never met the guy, but it seems everyone has good things to say.
Thank you for sharing your photos with us.
Wow.... one of my best stateside customers. Never met Cliff but always a pleasure to do business with. Seems a feeble epitaph compared to others further up this thread but as a vendor, you really get to like dealing with certain customers! RIP Cliff.
More info from Adam Schmucker.
After the 11am Saturday funeral service a reception will be held in the basement of the church.
Donations can be made to the National Skydiving Museum in memory of Cliff. Flowers also accepted.
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Originally Posted by DeloreanJoshQ
Cliff was a great guy. He was always helping others. Since 2006 he and his wife have opened up their home for the 4th of July Parade after party. And usually the day before and after the parade there would be day & night long tech sessions at his shop. I wish I lived closer to the Cinci gang to work every week during the winter tech sessions.
Cliff had a sort of dry, minimalistic verbal sense of humor. You would see some smirks from his face as he listened to the typical fun banter back and forth amongst the owners present and then he would drop only a few words that would have everyone in stitches :-)
One time he decided to taunt / challenge me. At one of the all day tech sessions I had removed and adjusted the snap ring on my rear passenger shock 2 times and 1 time on my driver side trying to get a level stance after years of driving and a bit of shock settling. It was getting late and I was tired from this work and helping others. He gets this little "I'm not too sure about this" look in his face and said with a smirk "if it was my car…" while walking to either side with a tape measure and discovering that my passenger side was still just a quarter of an inch higher than my driver side.
I was dead tired and basically giving up. He thew out a counter offer/challenge to my prior request that day of him giving me a ride in his newly acquired Lotus Elise. He said if I could remove, adjust the pin & get it all back together in 20 min. he would let me drive the Elise! Needless to say, 2 seconds after that I changed back into my work clothes and had it done in 18 min! We ended up making a midnight run in the Elise to Ken's warehouse to hunt down a hydraulic tube for Larry DePasquelle's car. During the drive back I think Cliff was having as much fun as I was driving. Encouraging me to get it up to 5K RPM and dropping it into 3rd on the freeway entrance ramp.
Images from that day here.
Too many great memories to count but that one sticks out in my head right now.
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Thank you Cliff for friendship, help, generosity and giving 110% in all you did!
Oh my goodness Shannon, I have never seen this picture before. Thank you for posting it. I started laughing and tearing up at the same time when I saw it.
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(For those curious, Cliff was R-12 EPA certified and was the A/C master. What's in my hand is his R-12 sniffer for finding leaks.)
Here is a great video interview I did with Cliff back in 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKIXLBpbwBc
Thank you for the video Bob, I was wondering what he sounded like never having met him. I feel bad for all you who knew him and had the privilege to call him a friend. Those of us new to the Delorean world never had the honour of meeting Cliff, and that is a shame. It seemed like his knowledge and love for the car was endless. One thing I have learned is that there are very special people we encounter in our lives, and when we do, we should take a step back and acknowledge and really enjoy the friendship. My condolences to the family and friends.