Mike,
What was the name of the Canadians you met?

At 05:41 PM 28/05/2000 -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
>Went to the VW drags races in Sacramento.  Met BenT, looked for Debby and
>her kids and for the guy from South Sacramento whose name escapes me [as
>does so much these days].
>
>Instead we saw some double cabs, one for Ben, one for me, and met a guy who
>had just bought a 88 Syncro.  He was resigned to problems but what the heck,
>he had his air cooled van for reliable transportation.  Then we met some
>Canadians who had come down to buy a van.  After carefully explaining to
>this pair, friends of David Marshal, that one must emulate the Canadian
>goose and go north in the summer, not to Sacramento we found out they indeed
>had bought a van and were going back North.  A good move.
>
>BenT had the excuse of going to the VW swap meet for being there.  I wanted
>to see what the god-emperor of San Francisco real estate looked like [I was
>impressed, almost bowed down] so I had an excuse.  The Canadians bought a
>van.  But what the heck were all those other people there for?  Hot, dusty,
>and all that was there were a bunch of VWs.
>
>Makes one wonder.
>
>Mike
>
>

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