Now you are starting to understand why a guy that takes your money and
doesn't deliver the goods would choose such a location.
Mal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
To: "Roland Wilhelmy" <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Mal Bruce" <mbruce6@cogeco.ca>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: look at Healey in California
> Holy Isolation, Batman! That place is in the middle of NOWHERE. If I
> recall, there's
> a gas station there, maybe a store and a rest stop.
> That's a long all-day round trip from LA, 5-6 hours from Bakersfield. I
> checked, the
> closest airport is Lone Pine, about 21 miles up 395.
> If he wants to spend $300 or more for avgas and hourly rates, and if
> Heredia can get
> the car to Lone Pine I'll fly down there and check it out, but our plane
> is unavailable 'till
> mid-September.
>
>
> bs
>
>
> Roland Wilhelmy wrote:
>
>>For those not familiar with Olancha, here's a bit gleaned from a
>>Google search. Olancha is in Kern County at the jucntion of Highway
>>395 and 178, below the southern end of the Owens Valley. Gateway to
>>the Sierras and to Death Valley. Ridgecrest/Inyokern is probably the
>>nearest civilization. For someone in the northern parts of Los
>>Angeles County it would be a doable trip in a morning.
>>-Roland San Diego
>>maybe 240 miles S
>>
>>On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:24:28 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>::
>>::Hi All,
>>::This is a story about a Belgian Healey enthusiast who bought a car from
>>::Eugene Heredia in Olancha Ca. 2 years ago and never received the car for
>>which
>>::he paid in full( I've seen copies of all the paperwork). After two years
>>of
>>::the runaround Heredia now says he has the car and will ship. Mike
>>::lowagie.mike@tiscali.be needs someone to view the car and confirm that
>>it is
>>::what he paid for; VIN etc. Since Olancha is not exactly handy to 99.9%
>>of the
>>::state population some driving will be required for which Mike will be
>>happy to
>>::work out reimbursement. If you can help please email Mike at the above
>>::address, believe me he does need all the help he can get, thanks for
>>looking.
>>::
>>::Mal
>>::I'm 2400 miles N/E
>>
>>
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> '67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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