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Subject:Re: Ordered New SA Vanagon
From:Mark Mages
Date:Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:42:10 -0800

It is a Joke

A big fat sad joke

Note the end of a "Dream Sequence"
> >> I can see it
> >>...BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...oh,
> >> darn (yawn). 6:30am. Time to go work.

Also, we lifted the embargo on SA around 95-96 if I
remember correctly.  That's why there are SA grilles,
headlight conversions, inline 5cyl conversions..

We can get parts, just not the whole vehicle :(

--- "Horace K. Sawyer" <firestream@MINDSPRING.COM>
wrote:
> This guy must be joking right?  Clinton embargoed
> S.A. I thought, at least
> that's what Hillary told me last time we had lunch.
>
> But if he is buying one, then I want one too!
>
> HK
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> At 07:10 PM 3/1/00 -0600, John Rodgers wrote:
> >Good Grief, Man!!!
> >
> >C
> >We are ALL excited for you, but share the secret
> path through the red tape
> >to allow you to import, please. We are waiting with
> baited breath!!!!
> >
> >John Rodgers
> >"88GL Driver who is listening to a strange knock,
> knock,knock, knock, knock
> >in the right rear  when braking to a stop!! CV
> Gremlins?
> >
> >Lee Roesner wrote:
> >
> >> Well I did it. I found a way through the red tape
> and ordered a brand
> >> spank'n new green one from South Africa. Just
> like in the picture.
> >> Should be in in about 8-9 weeks. Picked it up for
> $18,500 and it has the
> >> steering on the left too, 16" alloys, 2.5L 170 hp
> engine and a full
> >> warranty to 100,000 miles. They said there was no
> problem since they
> >> made them here in the US before. I can see it
> ...BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...oh,
> >> darn (yawn). 6:30am. Time to go work.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Lee Roesner
> >> Paradigm Graphic Design & Web Development
> >> 710-B Landwehr Road
> >> Northbrook, IL 60062
> >>
> >> Phone 847-509-8704
> >> Fax 847-480-5701
> >> Portfolio: http://www.roesner.net
>

=====
Mark

87 Westfalia Gl
84 Scirocco 8v

http://members.tripod.com/~jehanno

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