[T3] RMMW

[Aaron Clow <volswaggen@yahoo.com>]

For what it's worth... You've probably heard about
VWoA backtracking on its treatment of aircooled
sites/fans already... This additional info/rumor was
posted to the Type4 list. Thought it might be
interesting to some here...
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Some guy named Jim wrote:

>>>January 21, 2003 - Rocky Mountain Motorworks, the
world's leading supplier of parts and accessories for
Volkswagens resolved their long time trademark dispute
with Volkswagen of America.<<
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And this is only a part of the story going on right
now.  Very reliable word (please don't ask how I know)
is that RMMW is "scheduled" to be out of Chapter 11 by
next Wednesday (Jan 29th) and are in semi-serious
talks with Mid-America Direct (Real Source) about
being bought out, closed and whatever inventory is
left (there's some, but not much) is moved to their
place in Effingham, Indiana.  Potential sticking point
may be the RMMW building in Woodland Park, which is
for sale at an asking price of $3.8 mil and
Mid-America won't want the property.  So the deal may
or may not go. If it goes, the Bus crowd can forget
about this source for parts.

In a separate discussion with those in the know a
couple of months back indicate that Mid-America has NO
desire or interest in branching into Buses/Vanagons
within their product line.  MA added K Ghia stuff to
their line-up about year and a half ago with
lackluster results, not surprising, considering their
pricing is a bit higher than RMMW, CIP, WCM, etc., so
they're not enthusiastic about expanding to another
model (never know, that could change). 


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