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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:31 pm    Post subject: Alaska Airlines Single Cab Reply with quote

http://www.adn.com/2012/07/03/2529952/alaska-air-recovers-restores-old.html
Two years ago, Todd Hess spotted a 1960 Volkswagen Transporter truck with a faded vintage Alaska Airlines logo parked on a beach while he was vacationing in Tampa, Fla.

Hess, an Alaska Airlines line maintenance supervisor, took a photo and approached its owner, but didn't get a phone number, according to the airline.

Back in Seattle, Hess showed the picture to Kevin James, a maintenance supervisor who restores cars in his spare time. James tracked down the truck using a Volkswagen fan website and then asked airline's Marketing Department if they'd be interested in using the truck if he bought it.

Instead, they sent James to Florida to buy it for the airline, picking up the $8,500 purchase price and setting a $4,000 budget for restoration.

Records show that Alaska's truck traveled from Germany to Delaware in 1960 and ended up as one of Alaska's five company trucks in Fairbanks. After seeing a picture of the truck on the airline's Facebook page, a former owner who lives in Battle Ground, Wash., confirmed much of the car's history, adding that he had pulled out a generator that was once used to recharge planes on the tarmac.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/boeing/article/1...z1zy08zZG4
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's another thread with the exact same name.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=453902&highlight=alaska
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, there are a bunch of threads about this Bus, please use the one above.
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