Listees,

In June of 1999, I  visited the VW factory in Wolfsburg during a month's Westy
journey in Europe. As a result of posting by Richard Golen, who advised that he
would obtain certificates while he was in Germany for Listees who sent him the
appropriate fee for the certificates, I marked my calendar to order directly,
in-person from VW, while I was in Germany.  I meant to obtain a certificate for
my  vehicle and one as gift for my friend whose Westy I was using.

At the Visitors Center, I ordered, and paid for, two Westfalia birth
certificates for which I have the receipt.  A harried, and as an aside,
startlingly beautiful receptionist, at about 15 minutes from "quitting time,"
was Teutonic in her manner, efficient, precise, unsmiling and curt, but I drew
from her seemingly attentive demeanor that the certificates would be in the
mail, as she said, " in a few days."  More than a year later, I have yet to
receive a packet, or a letter of inability to perform, or a refund via Der
Bundespost from Volkswagen AG.

I conjecture that RG was in the same line, obviously, at an earlier date, and
that he is still waiting for delivery.  He does owe the orderers an
explanation, though, and, maybe, this thread will prompt him to report  to the
List. He is a Good Scout, and I suspect that he just forgot, as I did, until
this line of Birth Certificate commentary appeared on the List and reminded me,
too.

Tom Hanlon
Palm Springs, CA
84 Westfalia

Scott Walker wrote:

> Michael,
>     Yes that is the correct name...I was trying to read what I could from a
> digitally repro'd check.  Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A. Radtke <m.radtke@elm.az05.bull.com>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>;
> 's_walker@mindspring.com' <s_walker@mindspring.com>
> Cc: 'rgolen@umassd.edu' <rgolen@umassd.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:00 AM
> Subject: RE: Richard Cole
>
> >Scott,
> >
> >I think that you mean 'Richard Golen' (rgolen@umassd.edu).
> >
> >It's been more than a year since I ordered mine through him.  I don't know
> >if Richard is a bad guy, or just got caught in the middle, but a lot of us
> >are out the money.
> >
> >Phoey!
> >Mike - Phoenix AZ
> >
> >----------
> >From: Scott Walker[SMTP:s_walker@mindspring.com]
> >Reply To: s_walker@mindspring.com
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 5:54 PM
> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >Subject: Richard Cole
> >
> >Is Richard Cole still on the list?  I ordered VW Birthcertificates through
> >him and then never heard from him.  Thanks.
> >
> >Scott
> >