I am also on the Vintage VW list, and from what I hear, some people receive
the things, and some don't.  I know their policy at the museum  is 20 DM
CASH..................that could be where a  lot of the trouble is in the
pilfering of said cash by the mail readers.........

My .02

Adam Puzerewski
81 westy
74 beetle
86 cabrio
Vanagon Partsmobiles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Golen" <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Birth Certificate Requests Received to Date

> Hi All,
>
> I just want to clarify a few things regarding the "birth certificates"
> which I offered to obtain in June 1999. I took a stack of requests to the
> Museum in Wolfsburg in June. I was told that, unlike previous years, the
> museum could not accept large numbers of requests all at once. They took
> about 20 or 30 of the requests, and told me to send the rest later in the
> summer.
>
> This was at the time the museum was preparing to open a second exhibit
area
> at what would become Autostadt, and the folks at the museum said they were
> very busy getting that project going. That was their reason for not taking
> all of the requests.
>
> When I went back to Germany later that summer I sent the rest of the
> requests and the rest of the money to the museum via Deutsche Post. I
> assumed that would be the last of it. In the early fall, judging from the
> email I received, some folks received their certificates and others did
not.
>
> I asked those who didn't receive their certificates to wait a bit longer.
> Later, after receiving a number of nasty emails and one or two threats I
> decided to not to respond to any further emails on the subject. Perhaps,
in
> retrospect, it wasn't a smart move on my part.
>
> As to what happened to the rest of the certificates, I really do not know.
> I did my best to do something for a group of VW owners. I had been able to
> obtain in  previous years certificates for over 100 owners.  If you think,
> as Bill does, I ran off with the money, nothing is further from the truth.
> All of the money went with the certificate requests to Wolfsburg.
>
> What happened to the last batch of requests that was mailed is anybody's
> guess. I'm sorry if you didn't receive your certificates, I don't know
what
> else to tell you, other than I apologize for any trouble or inconvenience
> that I may have caused.
>
>
> Ric
>
>
> Ric