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[reptileis at comcast.net (Mike blain)]

The alaskan ferry is 3 blocks from my house----375 bucks to ship it to ya!


Marc Getty wrote:

>I wrote:
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>>Imagine buying my 2009 VW Scirocco at Volkswagen of Anchorage..... ;-)
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>Cathy responded:
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>>What imagine?? I've got the payroll savings set up and found
>>a dealer who will deliver to Whitehorse. The more I thought about
>>it, the more I liked the idea. So, we going or what?
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>>(Seriously, not sure if it'll be the new Rocc, but the next one
>>will be the beginning of a roader, a long one. And '09 is the
>>target year, for Klaus' 30th/ Bug's 10th) I figure I'd stop at
>>any Exit 53, and end up at Waterfest, something like that.
>>Starting to sound like a plan...plans are for the weak though :)
>>Cathy, yeah, I am that nuts...
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>Dave Winchell responded:
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>>Ok, I am down for the cruise back with a new  rocc from some
>>far away land. That would be a great convoy to be a part of.
>>(Starting to stash some fundage for this adventure.)
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>If I ever buy a new car it will definitely be part of an adventure like
>this. The only issue to keep in mind is that Americans need to buy their car
>in America and Canadians need to buy their car in Canada to keep the
>paperwork non-nightmarish.
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>There ain't much in Fairbanks, AK so Volkswagen of Anchorage (AKA Eero VW)
>sounds good to me! As much as I typically hate stickers placed on the back
>of cars by dealerships, I would be as proud to have a "Eero Volkswagen of
>Anchorage, AK" sticker on the boot driving around Philadelphia as I was to
>have "Mercedes-Benz Kundencenter Sindelfingen" on my RIP Benz.
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>Check out the Mercedes factory in Sindelfingen via Google Earth:
><http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Sindelfingen,+Germany&ie=UTF8&z=18&;
>ll=48.695656,8.998688&spn=0.002595,0.007381&t=h&om=1> or
><http://snipurl.com/y71q> holy hugeness Batman! That place is bigger then
>Canadia!
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>-Marc
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>'83 VW Scirocco California Edition
>'84 VW Rabbit GTI Pickup Truck
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