Wow, that reminds me a lot of Mark I VW in Walkersville, MD, right down to all the matchbox cars ,and such.

On Jan 23, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently found myself in Roanoke Virginia, where two nice women drove up
> alongside my van and handed me a slip of paper with the name of a repair
> shop, saying "if you have any trouble with your van while you're here, come
> visit us, we work on all kinds of VW vans."
>
> Well, Matilda was having some slight incontinence problems (otherwise known
> as dripping fluids), and I figured maybe I should have this looked at while
> I was in town.  So I took her over to Salem Imports, Mark Dearing's repair
> place in Salem, VA (next town over from Roanoke), and he replaced my water
> pump.
>
> But what struck me was the wonderful character of his shop!  Especially as
> I'd had a dream, the night before going there, that it was clean and pretty,
> with red-and-white checked curtains and a cleaning staff scrubbing the
> bathrooms (plural).  Not!
>
> I thought it would be fun to seek out the vanagon repair place with the best
> character - Mark's is definitely a contender!  So do have a look at some
> pix, and see if you can top this:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/hecht.joy/VanagonRepairShopsSalemImportsSalemVA#
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> Joy