[tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
- From: Brad Tripp <bradtripp@xxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:14:48 -0600
this is the link Sammie
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Brad Tripp <bradtripp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> http://www2.tbo.com/news/pasco-news/2012/jan/14/panewso1-no-more-time-to-work-out-the-bugs-ar-347217/
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> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:24 PM, sammie smith <
> bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Steve: Thanks for the info. But, yeah, you do have to log in to
>> Facebook if you click on that link. In fact, it comes up with your e-mail
>> address and asks for your password to log in to Facebook to read the post.
>>
>> That said: Some one got screwed. At current scrap prices 200 tons of
>> scap is worth $48,000. I'm not surprised that the hauler agreed to haul it
>> off for free. I know; I have just hauled 4 VWs across the scrap scales in
>> the last few days and have a few more to go. A beetle with everything
>> there just as driven weighs out at about $200 in scrap value right now.
>> Just goes to show what happens when someone is in charge trying to work for
>> the betterment of mankind as they see it.
>>
>> One of the reasons that I have not been back for their VW show is that it
>> appeared to be rip off for the promotor which appeared to be the local
>> government.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Steve Chamberlain <steveraychamberlain@xxxxxxxxx>
>> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Sent:* Sun, January 15, 2012 5:45:34 PM
>> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
>>
>> If you follow the link 'no more time to work out the bugs' you would get
>> this:
>>
>> For a quarter of a century, Sunray Bugs was a destination for
>> Volkswagen aficionados from around the world.
>>
>> If you had a VW Bug from the summer of love and you needed a windshield
>> wiper, there was one man to call: Corky Yager. Rest assured, he'd jump in a
>> golf cart and scoot across his 10-acre VW graveyard until he found the
>> part. Then he'd restore it and ship it anywhere.
>>
>> "A lot of VW enthusiasts only want original German parts," office manager
>> Paul Zappulla said. "They're superior to the duplicates they make in China
>> now."
>>
>> But the VW graveyard, on U.S. 301 just north of Dade City, has been
>> scraped bare. Pasco County Code Enforcement spent five days in December
>> clearing the southern half of the property. Yager, 83, estimates the hauler
>> removed 200 tons of metal from the site.
>>
>> For county officials, the cleanup was a victorious end to a protracted
>> legal battle. They had successfully removed a longstanding eyesore at
>> virtually no cost — because the scrap hauler agreed to clear the site at no
>> charge. He earned his fee by keeping and selling all of the scrap metal.
>>
>> "It's the largest site I've ever dealt with, and I've been with the
>> county since 2000," Code Enforcement Supervisor Patrick Phillips said. "It
>> took five and half days. We were out there, it seemed like, the whole
>> holidays. Some nights we didn't get out of there until 10 or 11 o'clock at
>> night."
>>
>> Yager said he is devastated.
>>
>> "They stripped me of almost everything," he said. "They didn't just take
>> my cars. They took motor homes and trailers that were full of parts. They
>> crushed my forklifts and equipment.
>>
>> "It was my life."
>>
>> Sunray started as a hobby. Yager was 58 when he said he had a vision that
>> led to his own field of dreams. A lifelong Cadillac owner, Yager had
>> recently bought his first VW Beetle. He was at a veterans hospital in North
>> Miami and had just undergone surgery for kidney stones. As he emerged
>> groggily from the anesthesia, he began muttering something to the nurse.
>>
>> "They're everywhere, everywhere," he said. "Fields full of Volkswagens."
>>
>> So he started collecting every Beetle, Bus and Thing he could get his
>> hands on. After 25 years, he had a field so full of Volkswagens it could be
>> seen on Google Earth.
>>
>> "I would estimate there was anywhere from 800 to 1,000 vehicles,"
>> Phillips said. "It was a bona fide junkyard."
>>
>> One problem: He didn't have the proper zoning. Code enforcement wasn't
>> aware of the violation until someone filed a complaint in 2009, Phillips
>> said.
>>
>> Yager hired a lawyer and tried to keep the business. He took the county
>> to court but eventually acquiesced and agreed to clean up the property. He
>> crushed and sold 150 cars, but it barely made a dent in the horde, Phillips
>> said.
>>
>> "There was no way to count them all," Phillips said. "When he crushed
>> 150, you couldn't tell a difference."
>>
>> Tina Mazzarra, Yager's daughter, said her father tried his best to comply
>> with the court order. "Dad was in the hospital four times during all this,"
>> she said. "He had hired an attorney who he felt was looking out for his
>> best interest. I don't think anyone involved ever dreamed (the county)
>> would come in and seize half his business."
>>
>> The judge set a new deadline, Feb. 15, for Yager to clean up the rest of
>> the property. He and his staff have spent the last several weeks pulling
>> parts from the remaining vehicles and removing them from the site.
>>
>> Zappulla said the staff is trying to organize the inventory so Yager can
>> keep the parts and repair business going.
>>
>> "I think the real test for my dad will come once the adrenaline wears off
>> and he realizes everything he's worked for a huge part of it is gone,"
>> Mazzarra said. "He's got to recreate his business."
>>
>> Yager always had a steady stream of loyal customers, according to Carol
>> Jeffares Hedman, who organizes the annual Bug Jam. The event draws
>> thousands of Volkswagen hobbyists to Dade City every November.
>>
>> After the festival, one of the largest VW events in the nation, a few
>> collectors would always head over to Sunray Bugs, and there would be Corky
>> — with a flashlight — helping them find a door handle and side mirror or
>> factory-installed radio.
>>
>> "For those people, it's not a car — it's an obsession," said Hedman, a
>> Tribune correspondent.
>>
>> You don't have to do facebook to follow the link.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:58 PM, sammie smith <
>> bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Steve: Some of us do not do Facebook, and therefore can't determine
>>> what the problem is. Can you enlighten us? I have also been to the Pasco
>>> County Bug Jam (once), didn't like it and haven't been back. Though the
>>> Bulli Brigade was good.
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Steve Chamberlain <steveraychamberlain@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; jack stratton <jjflashfl2003@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> *Sent:* Sun, January 15, 2012 4:14:19 PM
>>> *Subject:* [tcb] Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
>>>
>>> I have attended the Pasco County Bug Jam (day after the Bulli Brigade)
>>> several times and was planning to go again in November. I would hope that
>>> some Florida residents would start a organized ban on Dade City and the Bug
>>> Jam. i will no longer support them.
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Bruce Ellis <notification+y2m4mmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:59 PM
>>> Subject: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
>>> To: Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters <
>>> 273828575961635@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>> **
>>> David Bruce Ellis posted in Arkansas
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>>> Jan 15
>>> sickening
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