Date:         Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:31:32 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive
              Maintenance and cost
Comments: To: frankgrun <frankgrun@aol.com>
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Where did you run into Von Braun? My dad worked for him. Everybody
here knew him, we all went to the NASA picnics, tours of NASA, say him
at sears buying a lawnmower and stuff like that around town.

He gave me a "Ticket to Mars in Your Lifetime" once. I left it at my
grandparents' house and never saw it again. Wish I still had it!

Jim

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, frankgrun <frankgrun@aol.com> wrote:
> Neat! Knew the man well, never the daughter!
>
> Frank Grunthaner
>
> On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:14:57 PM, "Alistair Bell" <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>
> From:  "Alistair Bell" <albell@SHAW.CA>
> Subject:    Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive
> Maintenance and cost
> Date:   April 16, 2010 4:14:57 PM PDT
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Ah ha, looks like the Triumph was just giving you the old "up yours"
> on account of your passenger's father.
>
> :)
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 16-Apr-10, at 2:45 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>  Maybe it was the TR4 distributor that flew apart in the middle of a
> Georgia forest with
> Dr. Werner Von Braun's daughter in the passenger seat in the middle of
> the night on the way to Atlanta.
>