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Jon Site Admin
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Posts: 2421 Location: Bishop GA
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject: Remember when NOPI sold aircooled stuff? |
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Were any of ya'll in Athens when NOPI sold aircooled VW parts and a guy named Ivan worked at the Athens NOPI?
They used to be at Beechwood and Ivan knew his stuff about aircooled VWs. Then NOPI went to watercooled VWs and then worse yet they went to selling to tuners. _________________ 73 Typ481
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Mountain Power House
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 879 Location: Aircooled Heaven USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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Yep... Around 1988-92 or around then. I used to bother the hell out of my dad to drive me to Athens to buy parts so I didn't have to deal with ordering them from JC Whitney!!
By the time I got out of the USMC in '98 they were almost completely out of aircooled parts. _________________ Jake Raby
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kabriolett
Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 260 Location: Panama City Beach, FL
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Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:55 am Post subject: |
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There was a NOPI store in Augusta when I moved there from NJ back in '89. A guy named Skip used to manage it, and if they didn't have something he could get it for you.
Remember the show they used to have at Lakewood Fairgrounds? I used to go until it was overrun by Hondas _________________ 63 Beetle |
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Clyde
Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 855 Location: Athens
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Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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I remember the THUMP THUMP music at the lakewood show. Drove me nuts. _________________ '69 Bug, 1776, dual kadrons, Web 111 cam
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Sapp67
Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 331 Location: Athens, GA
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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I used to go the the one in Augusta on Wrightsboro Road near North Legg. Conyers had one too when I lived there in the 90's. They still had several vw parts like baja kits and chromed empi crap. I would go in there from time to time just to look around...I was vwless during the 90's unless you count my ex-wife's Fox and Jetta
The last NOPI show at Lakewood that I went to around 92-93 had 3 vw's and 1 vw vendor. It was all about mini trucks and tuners that for some reason did not like the looks of wiring, so they covered it up neon colored flexy loom tubing...nice _________________ Steve
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