[T2] Oldvolkshome - Jim Thompson

[Andy McKinley]

Karl! He once gave me a hard time because I used pan head screws instead of
hex heads to hold my front bumper to the brackets. What a guy!
Andy McKinley
airhedz at gmail.com

Love your country, but never trust its government.
-- Robert A. Heinlein.


On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:04 PM Al Brase <alribee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I read countless postings from Jim on Type2.com and Vanagon.com. He was a
> prince of a guy.
> In 2005, I went to Jerome Jamboree.  Spent some time talking to Jim
> Thompson. Also, Jerry Jess, Rob Laffoon from Omaha (Who also happened to be
> my brother's mailman, if I remember correctly.)
> and then, my all time favorite grumpy VW expert, Karl Von Salzen.
> If there's a VW Bus heaven, these guys are in it!
>
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 6:24 PM Jim Arnott <jrasite at eoni.com> wrote:
>
> > For a few years (like maybe ten?) there have been well hidden sites on
> > WetWesties.org. Last night, one of our resident website experts (BG)
> > resurrected another lost site.
> >
> > As many of you know, Jim Thompson had a website, oldvolkshome.com with a
> > fairly unique gathering of information. When Jim passed away last year,
> his
> > site stayed up for a while but as often happens, eventually the fees
> aren’t
> > paid and our community loses another resource.
> >
> > As of yesterday evening, oldvolkshome lives again. Some of the links were
> > broken and they have been modified to point to the waybackmachine
> archive.
> >
> > So, on your Sunday afternoon, raise a glass to Jim Thompson to thank him
> > for gathering this stuff for us. His site lives again!
> >
> > https://oldvolkshome.wetwesties.org
> >
> > and Joe Clark’s Tents page still lives as well.
> >
> > https://tents.wetwesties.org
> >
> > Jim Arnott
> > WetWesties
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