412Jan. of 1973: Our ?rst ads appeared in magazines and we mailed our ?rst catalogs. (150 part numbers)Feb. 1973: We processed our ?rst order - $120 for a set of 4 wire wheel covers with spinners!1974: Moved out of our apartment into our ?rst "home".1975: Hired our ?rst part-time employee. (1200 part numbers).1976: Joan stopped working at UMASS.1977: Bought our ?rst printing press (2500 part numbers).1977: Hired Cathy (our ?rst full-time employee) and a few months later hired Sharon. Cal stopped teaching.1978: Started "Building #1" and moved in during March.1979: Added "Buildings #2, #3" (3500 part numbers).1981: Cal Sr. started working for us. 1983: Began producing exact reproduction upholstery and built "Buildings #4 & #5".1984: Built "Building #6" and Mark started working for us (4500 part numbers).1985: An article on us appeared in Newsweek and later that year "PM/Evening Magazine" did a 5 minute TV segment that went nationwide. 1985: Cal Sr. retired.1988: Started to computerize. (WOW!)1990: Added a fax machine and "Building #7" (7500 part numbers).1991: Became licensed with General Motors to use certain trademarks for restoration parts.1991: Printed our ?rst separate Used Parts catalog and purchased Otto Parts (8000 part numbers).1994: Built "Building #8", purchased Cotrofeld Automotive remaining "NOS" inventory and printed our ?rst separate "NOS" catalog.1995: Combined the "NOS", Otto Parts & Used Parts catalogs into the "Specialty Catalog" (10,000 part numbers).1996: Created a website.1997: Started accepting orders and email directly from the website.1998: We celebrated 25 years of supplying the largest variety of Corvair parts to the greatest, most sup portive customers we could hope for! (over 14,000 part numbers)2002: Interactive Online Catalog.2003: Our 30th Year!2003-2013: Hundreds of repros such as full ?n cylinders, 64 Trim, FC re?ectors & door sill trim, early rear axle bearings, wire wheels, brake lines & ?ttings, Clark oil ?lters, Clark engine bearings, American forged pistons, and many, many more.2012: Started photovoltaic system to supply all of our electricity. Started adding color photos of our parts to the website catalogs. Took order number 700,000 since the computer started counting in 1989.2013: Our 40th Year!2016: Wheeler Dealers Corvair Episode2018: Our 45th Year - Finished our ?rst all digital catalog (2019-2025). Cathy & Mark retired.Some personal remembrances from the "EARLY YEARS"o Getting an envelope (from an attorney in Buffalo) and wondering if we were doing something illegal! (He was our ?rst order).o Printing our ?rst 200 catalogs and assembling them in my grandparents kitchen.o Asking our Landlord what a "COD" was (while a customer waited on the phone).o Explaining to people why our bed was nearly 3 feet off the ?oor (better height to package parts on).o Taking packages to UPS terminal each morning on the way to work.o Wondering when UPS would ever ship to all 48 continental states.o Our cat hiding in boxes and surprising the help.o Joan falling asleep around midnight while writing a shipping label.o Not "seeing" our TV for over 4 years (was covered by car covers) and the surprise from people who'd worked for us for years and didn't think we owned a TV!o The mess when 20 carpets drying on the new hardtop driveway stuck to the tar!o Wondering "what have we gotten ourselves into"?!Quick history of Clark's Corvair Parts, Inc.