RE: [T3] VW Parts Yard Going Out of Business

[James MacNaughton <JMac@uglyduckling.com>]

Yeah, I know, I own one; but that British actor didn't think Americans would
know.  I was more disappointed that he didn't care enough about it to even
change or even add any oil, before the thing seized on him in Trafalgar
Square or something like that. 

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> From: 	Bruce McCallum[SMTP:potbelly@direct.ca]
> Reply To: 	Bruce McCallum
> Sent: 	Saturday, October 31, 1998 7:13 PM
> To: 	James MacNaughton
> Subject: 	Re: [T3] VW Parts Yard Going Out of Business
> 
> A Variant is a squareback
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James MacNaughton <JMac@uglyduckling.com>
> To: 'type3@vwtype3.org' <type3@vwtype3.org>
> Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 7:04 AM
> Subject: RE: [T3] VW Parts Yard Going Out of Business
> 
> 
> >Yeah, it was disappointing, but the average person doesn't care about
> cars,
> >and his being famous doesn't make him good (read:  a T3-fan), just gives
> him
> >the money to buy a car.
> >
> >> ----------
> >> From: Jim Adney[SMTP:jadney@vwtype3.org]
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 1998 9:23 PM
> >> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> >> Subject: RE: [T3] VW Parts Yard Going Out of Business
> >>
> >> On 28 Oct 98, at 22:20, James MacNaughton wrote:
> >>
> >> > Neat-o torpedo.  Yeah, the guy gave me a little bracket and a
> quicknut,
> >> too.
> >> > Watching the Tonight Show, and one of the guests (some British actor
> >> with an
> >> > odd beard -- he looks familiar, but how should I know?) just said
> that
> >> his
> >> > first car was a Variant.  --"Does anybody in the audience know what a
> >> > Variant is?"
> >> >
> >> > So I laughed a lot.
> >>
> >> I happened to see him too.  It was Kenneth Brannaugh (sp?)  While I
> >> am a great admirer of his, I was then disappointed to learn that he
> >> really had no idea of anything about his car, and no particular
> >> fondness for it.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >> Jim
> >> -
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> >> Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
> >> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> >> *******************************
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