[tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening

  • From: Brad Tripp <bradtripp@xxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:10:14 -0600

Thanks Steve, I saw this earlier today. It's a shame.......Brad

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Steve Chamberlain <
steveraychamberlain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
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