[tcb] Re: Friday Take on Dad
- From: Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:15 -0500
...And sorry to hear about your dad.
Eric Woodall wrote:
> Too cool Trey!
> I didn't know your roots were so deep.
> Cool!
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> Trey Jung wrote:
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>> My father passed away last Friday in Baton Rouge after a couple of
>> years with Alzheimer's. He got me into VW's, as my first car was a 69
>> bus. Man I had fun in that thing. (nothing like being 15 and driving
>> all over the place looking cool) . I played guitar in high school but
>> the only reason I got into any band was that I had the bus to haul
>> everything in. :) Then I became various band managers and of course
>> the sound guy.
>>
>> Dad sold VW's from 1963 to 1971... and was the #1 rep pretty much
>> wherever he worked. I remember seeing light blue bugs all over BR as
>> he sold them to the BR water department, It was soooo coool to a 10
>> year old to know that my dad sold them all.
>>
>> Over the weekend, my mom gave me a couple of his lapel pins from
>> VW she had in her top drawer. One has a diamond in it and the other
>> states that he was a member of the VW sales guild in 1968 (when he
>> sold over 500 cars in the year). What great mementos.
>>
>> My main car is 2006 Passat (it's my 3rd passat other were a 96 and a
>> 2000) , I had a 86 Jetta GTL, a 77 Rabbit, a 72 VW 411 (yes. I had one
>> of those dogs) plus my latest the 2001 Eurovan Camper and my 2nd 71
>> Westy (NewDee)......
>>
>> Just thinking about my "loyalty" for VWs new and old, and Dad was
>> the catalyst this Friday.
>>
>> Trey
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