I won a VW Trends hat and T-Shirt. Grand prize was a 2.0l 16V engine. Now that's a raffle. Those were the days my friends, those were the days.
Mark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Velez" <[email protected]> To: "16V Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 5:48 PM Subject: RE: [a2-16v-list] Top Level Shops for VWs? > > Thanks for the history lesson Holland. Wow, it's been a while - I > remember when discussions of this list started on the VR6 list all those > years ago. > > More trivia, there used to be raffles that supported the costs of > running this list. Those were fun, we even had companies which donated > gear. > > Larry > 91 GTI 16V > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Holland J. > Phillips > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:08 PM > To: 16V Group > Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] Top Level Shops for VWs? > > On Nov 4, 2004, at 16:28, Greg Overman wrote: > > > Actually there are some out there. One that comes to mind is Futrell > > Autoworks: > > http://www.futrellautowerks.com/ > > Check out Futrell TV. > > Bit of trivia: > Dean Futrell of Futrell Autowerks is the guy who started this list way > back in 199something. > Dean's a very meticulous, knowledgeable, hands on kinda guy, who eats, > sleeps, and lives VW's. > A few years back, Dean and his wife came down to San Jose in his then > recently completed A2 GTI > VR6 conversion, for a Bugfest (I think that's what it was called) car > show and drag race at Sacramento Raceway. > The only thing he didn't have complete on the car was the > seats/interior. We caravanned up to Sacto, and when we got there, he > pulled the seats out of his car, swapped them with the Recaro's from my > car for the show, and swapped them back before we left Sacto! Now > that's dedication.... > > --Holland > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > a2-16v-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > For list archives, see listinfo link above. >
