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Re: [T3] The DDB and The Great Canadian VW Show story.


On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:51, Toby Erkson wrote:
> Hey Volks,
> Back from Canada and their show.  Had a really good time and those 
> Canadians are down right nice volks!  Beautiful region and the weather 
> was toasty!
> 
> We left Oregon after 7:30am with Adam's Fasty (Z-CHEF), Bob's rat rod 
> Fasty, and the DDB shop car, The Bucket with Martin and I.  Brook didn't 
> have a VW and borrowed his mother's new Nissan.  Ken and Susan had to 
> use Susan's turbo Thunderbird because 3 CV bolts snapped on Ken's Fasty 
> and he felt it best to leave the car on jack stands at home.  At the 
> border in customs Martin and I got pulled over and were asked 20 
> questions and then some.  They finally let us through.  I was driving 
> The Bucket at this point so as we left I dropped the rear of the car at 
> the crowd of security officials staring at us.
> 
If you were a Mounty, and had 2 guys looking like you, driving a car
like "The Bucket" into your country without some questions?? Maybe they
thought you were dumping nuclear <sp> waste in Canada. Or thought you
were a memebers of the Red Green film crew.
Glad to hear you had such a good time, and that all the cars made it
under their own power eventually.
And at least now, I know what Anne looks like.
-- 
Russ Wolfe
'71 FB AT
'66 FB MT
'64 T34 (not running)
'65 T1 (not running)
'05 KIA Sorento SUV
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org

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