I had six or eight Volkswagens and two 356
given to me by customers. For a couple of years I was partners with a really good mechanic in a foreign car repair shop. I was going to college at the time and he
hated Volkswagens and Porsche 356s, so I did the VW work and what little 356 work came in and he did everything else. Our customers were primarily students at the local, very expensive, liberal arts college where students were on campus six months and then went off to Timbuktu for six months of work experience. They would often leave their cars with me to be fixed and stored while they were gone. Sometimes they never came back, sometimes they came back in another car, sometimes when they saw the repair and storage charge they just signed it over to me. Two of the cars were a '63 Porsches, all the rest were bugs and convertibles.
Lot's of good times running that shop.
