Mark Hooper

"Michael A. Radtke" wrote:
>
> Kate,
>
> The other folks got this note about 4 hours ago.  Your mail provider was
> down.  Sorry, but you have only 44 hours to reply.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Hello friends,
>
> Well, only five of you requested the manual this time.  Eight did last time
> when I wasn't taking requests.  Only one of you is from that first group.
>  What that says, I'm not sure.
>
> So, I warned you that I wasn't going to be the judge.  While I have a
> favorite person and will act as tie breaker if I must, I'm going to let you
> vote on who gets the manual.
>
> Before I get into that, let me remind you that this is a tattered and torn
> manual.  It is not particularly dirty, but some pages are quite crumpled.
>  To the best of my knowledge it is all there though.  It will have to be
> put into a 3 ring binder.  It covers years 1980-1991.
>
> Here are the voting rules:
>
> 1) Below is a list of names with a very brief summary of what you said.
>    Further down, I have concatenated each of your original responses.
>    Please take the time to read through everybody's message.
>
> 2) Then, just reply to me with the list re-ordered with your name at the
>    top, the second most deserving person in your opinion second, etc..
>
> 3) If I don't hear from all of you within 48 hours, the missing person(s)
>    will be removed from the candidate list.
>
> 4) After 48 hours, or when I have heard from all five of you, I will tally
>    the results, break a tie if necessary, and offer the manual to the
>    winner.  You will all be copied on that offer and the winner has the
>    right of refusal.
>
> 5) If the winner accepts with 48 hours, it's over.  I'll let you and the
>    list know and then send the book.  If I don't hear from the winner, or
>    the winner refuses, I'll offer the book to the next in line.
>
> By copy of this note, you will all have each other's email addresses.  I
> have no problem with you discussing this amongst yourselves.
>
> So, here is the data.
>
> Good luck,
> Mike
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Candidates +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>    Bill Johnson:    Make selected page copies available to others.
>   Cesar Baptista:   Self taught mechanic would put book to good use.
>    Kate McLaughlin: Tough to be a woman mechanic.
> Malcolm Stebbins:   Tour the world with the book.
>    Mark Hooper:     No mechanics in his area and would help others.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Full reply text ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> From: Bill Johnson[SMTP:bjohns@dtx.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 10:51 AM
> To: Michael A. Radtke
> Subject: Free Bentley Manual - Chapter 2
>
> I would like to have the Bentley Manual for reference on my Westy's.  I
> would place the manual in a binder and make it available to others on the
> list.  I would also be willing to scan in selected pages and privately send
> them to others.  The binder format would make this viable.  Thanks
>
> Bill
> ........................................................................
>
> From:   Cesar Baptista[SMTP:cesarali@earthlink.net]
> Sent:   Monday, November 29, 1999 11:41 AM
> To:     Michael A. Radtke
> Subject:        Re: Free Bentley Manual - Chapter 2
>
> Dear Mike,
>     I would like to be considered for the Bentley manual. Especially if it
> contains a section on the diesel-powered vans.
>     I have owned a 78 diesel Rabbit and now have an 86 diesel Golf. My
> newest purchase has been an 82 diesel Westfalia with a cracked head. It is
> a
> project that I hope will be roadworthy by springtime. I have a spare engine
> that I was saving for when my Golf gives up its ghost, but it will likely
> go
> into the camper.
>     I am a self-taught mechanic from whole weeks lost gleefully getting my
> hands dirty and knuckles bloody. My Haynes and Chilton manuals are so dirty
> and smell of diesel so strongly that my wife won't let them in the house.
>     If you give me the Bentley manual, I will get a lot of use out of it.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Cesar Baptista
> cesarali@earthlink.net
> 86 diesel Golf
> 82 diesel Westy
> 83 Honda Magna 750
> 51 Chevy 1/2-ton Truck
> .....................................................................
>
> From:   Kate McLaughlin[SMTP:KateMacMac@worldnet.att.net]
> Reply To:       KateMacMac@worldnet.att.net
> Sent:   Monday, November 29, 1999 1:57 PM
> To:     Michael A. Radtke
> Subject:        Re: Free Bentley Manual - Chapter 2
>
> Dearest Mike,
>   I have already sent you a poetic verse as to why I would love to give
> the Bentley Manual a happy home.  Stella, my 86' Vanagon and I have been
> through a lot together.  I purchased her in Turkey when I was stationed
> there as a medic in the Air Force.  Now she is in New Jersey, at least
> until after Christmas when we move to Cleveland, OH, where I will be
> finishing up my degree for Biology and Education.
>   I won't give you a sob story about how hard it is to be a woman and
> what it is like dealing with mechanics.  Trust me it's interesting,
> especially when you tell the mechanics about the blue antifreeze, and
> they say, "No honey, antifreeze is green, and windshield washer fluid is
> blue."  I can admit I don't really know too much about the mechanics of
> the Volkswagen, but I really want to learn more.  I purchased the Haynes
> manual, which the list suggested I buy, but I have not yet purchased the
> Bentley.  After working on the thermostat this weekend and trying to fix
> the speedometer I really feel the Bentley Manual would help me a lot
> more than the Haynes.  Right now with an upcoming move and tuition due,
> not to mention the holidays, I really had to put purchasing the Bentley
> on the back burner. It was very kind of you to offer the manual to
> someone who needs it.  I would say that I do need it, and Stella would
> probably agree.
>   If now one thanked you for offering the manual to the person who
> needed most, I say thank you and I hope whoever gains the book uses it
> well.
>
> Peace, Love, and Granola
>
> Kate
> .....................................................................
> From:   Malcolm Stebbins[SMTP:Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.Ca]
> Reply To:       Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.Ca
> Sent:   Monday, November 29, 1999 12:01 PM
> To:     Michael A. Radtke
> Subject:        Bentley Manual - Chapter 2
>
> OK Michael, I'll ask for your Bentley manual.  I am a long time Vanagon
> owner, I started with a 1981 - bought new from the dealer, and I took that
> van
> to Saudi Arabia with me for a 3 year teaching stint.
>
> My next van, I purchases in Morocco, it was an 87 French Diesel Syncro
> Westy with locking front and rear differentials.  We traveled all through
> Morocco plus a 6 week tour of Western Europe during our 2 years there.  I
> wanted to bring that van back to Canada, but the import rules would not
> allow
> it.
>
> My current van is a 1991 Syncro Westy housed here in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
>
> Now I have a 2 year contract for teaching in Cairo, Egypt starting in Sept
> 2000.  I am in the process of trying to find a European Syncro Westy to buy
>
> and drive/use in Cairo and to use for a planned trip through Jordan, Syria,
>
> Israel, Turkey, Greece, Italy and back to Cairo in the summer of 2001.
>
> I am having some success in finding a very good van, but I may have to sell
>
> my van to get the money to purchase a 'new' European van.
>
> So, if I were to be chosen as the recipient of your Bentley manual, it will
>
> travel to the Pyramids and many other interesting archaeological sites like
>
> Petra in Jordan, the Parthenon in Athens, and the Coliseum in Rome.
>
> Why do I need/want your Bentley:  somewhere, sometime, the trusty
> vanagon will get "heat exhaustion" and require "hospitalization" and maybe
> even major "surgery".  I do hope that I will have your Bentley manual in
> that
> small village so that when I find that the mechanic and I do not speak the
> same language, and s/he has never seen a  vanagon before, I will be able to
>
> pull out your Bentley and s/he and I can scour the Bentley pictures in an
> effort to get the van up and running again.
>
> You will truly set your Bentley on, what Winnie the Poo would call an
> "Adventure".
>
> Also, you have my explicit permission to use the email as you see fit,
> without restrictions.
>
> Malcolm Stebbins, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
> ........................................................................
>
> From:   Hooper, Mark[SMTP:HOOPERM@ci.charleston.sc.us]
> Sent:   Monday, November 29, 1999 11:16 AM
> To:     'Michael A. Radtke'
> Subject:        RE: Free Bentley Manual - Chapter 2
>
> <<File: ATT00017.htm>>
> Mike,
> I would very much appreciate the manual for a couple of reasons:
> -       I just bought a 87 Westfalia that needs more work than I thought it
> would need this soon. I spent more than I felt     comfortable with, but I
> always have wanted one to camp in.
> -       There is no one in my area that wants to fool with a water-cooled
> engine, so I'm stuck doing the work myself. The listees have been most
> helpful thus far. But without a Bentley manual, I'm not sure how much
> further I'll be able to go with it. With you kind gift, I'll see this
> project through and I can then make the manual available to someone else in
> the same situation.
>
>         Thank you for the consideration
>         Mark Hooper
>         104 Corn Planters Street
>         Daniel Island, SC 29492