Hello Mark,
I went over to my friend Bill's house the other day to pick up his Monark stuff that needs to be worked on. After I loaded up, I swung by his office to talk about the projects. He looked in the back my the truck, saw all the Monark parts, and said. "There's another one there, still in a crate". I said you must be kidding, that's what that crate is ?. He replied " yeah, I bought it a few years ago - I'm not sure what's in there, but it's another Monark"

I was all excited to tear into it. I said, "alright I'll go get it - take it back to my place, and see what we have". As I'm speeding away, Bill mentions one last thing - something to do with a fire. But that does'nt exactly register, I hardly heard half of what he said anyway - I'm only concentrating on unwrapping the "Mystery Monark".

I have to say, the thoughts that ran through my head while driving that wooden box back to my shop was really quite exciting. What if it's a GS Pro? - what if it's a MX in super good condition? - my imagination was certainly focusing on the optimistic side.

As soon as I got back to my shop, I tore into the crate mostly to discover what that last thing that Bill said, meant. Now with the top off of the crate, I stood in amazment -dumbfounded and glaring into the Mystery Monark's coffin. It was at that moment, his words came to me, clear as a bell. His words were "Oh, it may have been it a fire".

Thanks for everything Mark. I'll soon send you the frame numbers of 4 Monarks.

Bob Wardlow
Grand Rapids, MI,