VANAGON archives -- January 2002, week 2 (#498)

Date:         Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:02:50 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: OT-VW bug Hum V kit
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>In about 1970 I met Bill Snow at his plastics plant in Fort Worth Texas.
>Bill's company produced the tooling and manufactured the plastic body for
>the Bricklin.

Ah, the great conman Malcolm Bricklin... he repeatedly set-up
businesses, often using government funds (in the case of the car, $20
million from the New Brunswick govt), which were not designed to
succeed. What new scams will he pull in the future?

--
Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
Friends don't let friends do Windows

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