As promised, I drove by and took a look at Michael Tevis' <latebidder>
place of business right behind Auto Works on Hwy 32 in Chico.  Looks
real to me.
Found his website, too.  The place looks much like the photo on his
homepage
3 or 4 vanagons and a baby Benz were parked by Door #68
and another three nice-looking vanagons just across the alley.
No subarus.  The vanagon closest to the door was an early '70s vintage
whose name might have been 'Parts'.

His website:
http://www.tevisengineering.com/
(includes a different email address, snail mail address and phone
number)

So, it would seem his claims are all factual.  Then, perhaps he is like
a good croissant...
soft, warm and flaky? ;)

regards,
Felicia

On Feb 24, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:48:05 -0800
> From:    Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM>
> Subject: Re: Ripoff artists named (TheSamba)
>
> That guy is a member of the SubaruVanagon and SVX List. He posts at
> "latebidder" and claims to have a shop that does Subaru converlsions
> in Chico. If its the guy I'm thinking of, he's been around the Vanagon
> scene a while so its weird that he would just rip someone off. Anybody
> else dealt with the guy, good or bad?
>
> Jeff