Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:16:54 -0500
Reply-To: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
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From: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive
Maintenance and cost
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Jim,
I remember Wolfgang - his son is not near the mechanic he was. The place to
go now is Ashley's on Governors Dr.
Tom
www.kegkits.com
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 7:36 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive
Maintenance and cost
And to bring this back to German cars, we had in town until a few years back
(he died) a passionate, flamboyant, ill-tempered mechanic named Wolfgang Von
Fricke. His wife is still alive and runs his business, Southside Motors,
every day. Wolfgang was a factory-trained Mercedes mechanic who was brought
to Huntsville to maintain the small fleet of Mercedes cars that the German
rocket scientists drove, and specifically Von Braun's cars. So the great man
is gone, and so is him mechanic, and the mechanic's son, but the business
lives on, that's where you take your Ferrari or Porsche if you have one.
Jim
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
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