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A few weeks back a guy I knew from just after high school found me on Facebook. I accepted his friend request and we exchanged phone numbers. I chatted with him for 45 minutes. He knew my brother as well, and his dad was the guy that taught my brother to build VW engines and a lot about VW auto repair.
My brother said he was making $114 per week take home back then. The guy that taught him to build engines asked to borrow $100 which is like $700 today according to the inflation calculators, for some emergency. My brother said it is the one and only time he ever lent anyone money.
The guy vanished, and abandoned his wife and two kids. The money was gone with him. I can't call that a man, just a guy, the opposite of a man, just a sleazy dude.
That guys son is the man that contacted me. My brother, way back then helped him build a dune buggy and told him that as long as he did not sell it, my brother promised to help him rebuild the engine when it would need it. And he is still going to keep that promise 50 years later.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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