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Subject:Re: Bad Guys and VW's was Bus sighting
From:Tony Collins
Date:Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:33:47 -0500

I new there was a reson why I liked you guys....... Funny thing is I have
being buying from you guy a little bit at a time since before I had thee
present vanagon.....I have a number of parts in the scirocco from you guys.

Tony

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:24 PM, The Bus Depot <vanagon@busdepot.com> wrote:

> > Speaking of bad guys and VW's...  I watched a History
> > channel documentary about the Nazis.  During a portion
> > where they were showing a get together of modern American
> > Nazi's, I caught a glimpse of a nice Vanagon Westy
> > in the background as they panned around the gathering.
>
>
> Who knows, it could have belonged to an almost-employee of mine.  Some
> years
> ago, after I posted a help wanted ad to the Vanagon list, a list member I'd
> never heard from applied for the job. He lived down south but said he
> wanted
> to relocate to Pennsylvania .  I did my due diligence, interviewed him by
> phone, spoke to all of his references, and then offered him the job on a
> trial basis.
>
> The next week he showed up for his first day of work... and turned out to
> be
> a racist skinhead with a "white power" sticker on the back of his Vanagon!
> (Funny, none of his former employers had mentioned that little tidbit;.
> maybe they were like minded, or just afraid to say anything.)  Imagine his
> surprise when he walked into my shop to discover that he had just driven
> 400
> miles to work along side an African American, a Hispanic, a Jew, a lesbian,
> and various long-haired freaks..  :-)   He high-tailed it out of there
> (much
> to our relief), showed up on the Vanagon list a week later with a post that
> said "Bus Depot is run by Jews!  Heil Hitler!", was instantly thrown off
> the
> list, and crawled back under the rock he came from.
>
> - Ron Salmon
>  The Bus Depot, Inc.
>  www.busdepot.com
>  (215)  234-VWVW
>
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