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Jimmysan81
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:45 pm    Post subject: Any Help Is Much Appreciated....Thanks In Advance Reply with quote

My brother, my best friend, built his beautiful 56 oval from the ground up. and did everything himself. Top to Bottom. He is well involved in our local VW community, and he is in need of some dire help. about a month ago, he got in a head on collision in the 56. As I'm sure all of you know, we don't get the luxury of new safety features in these old school chariots that we are all so passionate about. So this wreck has left him in a wheel chair for a quite a few months to come, as well as unable to work, and also totaled that beauty he put so much sweat and love into. That being the case, medical bills and personal bills are starting to stack up. So, we've come together locally to put a https://www.gofundme.com/56vwbug page together, and we wanted to put it out to the Awesome VW community that we know and love on the samba. Anything helps, from a penny to a dollar to whatever you can to help. Even just a kind encouraging word for my brother with a long recovery road ahead, on this post reply. Thank You all So Much for just taking the time to look at this and read it. Keep those air cooled in the wind! One Love.

https://www.gofundme.com/56vwbug
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 2:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Any Help Is Much Appreciated....Thanks In Advance Reply with quote

So sorry to hear about your brothers misfortune!

I don't want to come across as negative but a lot of these gofundme posts pass through here.
Many have left a sour taste in some members. We've had requests for basically I'm too lazy to work and save money, I misspent the money I had, so please buy me a car, fund fixing my car, and even a scam fixing up an old Ghia to auction off to aid disabled Vets.

If you were to provide some verifiable documentation, maybe a newspaper article about the crash, photos of the car now, etc you would probably get a better and more enthusiastic response.

Sadly, Gofund me has become virtual panhandling.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 8:26 pm    Post subject: Re: Any Help Is Much Appreciated....Thanks In Advance Reply with quote

X2 ^^^
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 11:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Any Help Is Much Appreciated....Thanks In Advance Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:46 am    Post subject: Re: Any Help Is Much Appreciated....Thanks In Advance Reply with quote

@ djkeev, that was a much nicer response than I (if not most of us) would have given, bravo!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Any Help Is Much Appreciated....Thanks In Advance Reply with quote

X4
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