[tcb] Re: Brian, Brian, Brian

From: Will <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:19:17 -0500
Price is relative.

Your relatives are always expensive.


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 6:09 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Brian, Brian, Brian

I like Derrick and I don't mind his prices.
I just think its cool that he's willing to deal. 
When Dan Martin and I drove up there a few years ago, he had everything 
I needed and I feel like I got a pretty good price.
Not a terrific price, but I didn't feel like hunting and pecking any more.

Denis Dodson wrote:
> $8500 is the owner's price. He charged you $25 for an original off an 
> actual bus. He charges whatever he charges. Maybe he liked your friend 
> more than you. Mid-America probably sold you a Chinese or a Brazilian 
> repro knockoff. I think that you should think about what you say 
> before you say it. Derrick may or may not charge too much, but you 
> certainly have no right to judge him, and you shouldn't insult him in 
> print.
>
> I believe that I have heard some knock on every business or person 
> that has ever sold a VW part. From Steve at Wolfgang to Izzy's safari 
> windows, Jack at Black Gold to V-Dub Folks in Grand Prairie. Somebody 
> will say that the stuff was too expensive or crap.
>
> If you don't like dealing with original salvage of stuff that is 
> getting incredibly rarer as we speak, that fits and has held up for 40 
> years, buy all your stuff from Mid-America, the people who told me, 
> insisted, that the rubber mat on the floor around the pedals in the 
> Splitty comes in three pieces. I would put up Derrick's stuff against 
> their cheap crap any day.
>
> Let me qualify that statement by saying that Mid-America re-sells 
> products from outside suppliers, some of them quality. Like Sew-fine 
> and Wolfsburg West.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Denning" 
> <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:03 PM
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Brian, Brian, Brian
>
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>
> is $8500 derricks price? cause he charged me $25 for a tailight that 
> cost 10 in mid america...the same tailight i was recommended to buy 
> from derrick from someone else who only was charged $15 so yea if that 
> is derricks price divide that by 2
>
> guess what i found an idiot in-law...actually a cousin in northern 
> arkansas that might be interested and i thought i would really test 
> the waters out there and see what all is out there. i have yet to look 
> at the bus but through a friend i have heard that it does run and 
> stop. so that is a plus. i don't really want some ultra-rare never 
> before seen bus with a bunch of time and money spent on it i want a 
> project i won't have to unload all my money into the motor and never 
> have time or money left for body work. i am still focusing all my 
> energy to hershey right now and am fixing ot start sanding down his 
> body panels and get him ready for 3 more areas of welding and then 
> paint. i have an artist lined out to paint the bus with a similar 
> style graffiti as you would see on a freight train...no hippy crap for 
> me. and when i am done with the body i might not want a splittie 
> anymore but for now i am just tired of messing with it. i love driving 
> it and have recently been driving the holy hell out of it including 
> the almost 600 mile tract this weekend plus the 300 miles i put on it 
> last week and the already 40 miles i have put on it today.
>
> my bus has a flawless engine and that is one thing i will miss, is my 
> professional built super runner 1600dp with the true full flow system.
>
> will, you might ask how do i know it is true full flow, well here is 
> the answer: the oil galley on the left hand side of the case where all 
> the oil flows from the pump into has been tapped in two different 
> spots for external lines and a plug has been put in the galley so all 
> oil has to go through the filter before it hits the engine. and soon, 
> possibly this weekend there will be a cooler there as well.
>
> ________________________________> From: coocoo@xxxxxxx> To: 
> tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tcb] Brian, Brian, Brian> Date: Mon, 17 
> Sep 2007 11:35:08 -0500>> I don't want to knock Bay busses, my best 
> friends are Bay bus people, but you are not going to find anyone to 
> trade a Split for a Bay. Splits are getting extremely rare really 
> quickly. The only way to get one for anything like a realistic price 
> is to find a complete piece of s*** and restore it. Or have an idiot 
> for a brother in law.> Somebody, last week or so, left a '64 
> walkthrough panel at Wayout. It has small body metal spots and the 
> floorboard under the driver and passenger is rusted through like Swiss 
> cheese. The edge of the cargo door floor is rusted out, but that is 
> about it for the body. It starts and stops and drives. It has head and 
> tail lights, new glass all around. The owner wants $8500. That is too 
> much for me, but I can see that it is probably not a bad price for a 
> running bus.> Good luck.
>
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