Thanks for the story. I find these to be informative. if not also entertaining.
The story about the Audi reminded me of a story a cousin told. Forty-plus years ago, he was a young doctor in Wichita and with his wife were coming though northern Arizona on the I-40 route -- on their way to Las Vegas and then Southern California -- when their foreign sports car developed a problem. A mechanic (at Flagstaff or KIngman) said he couldn't fix it -- had never even seen one -- but might be able to get it back on the road. And told my cousin to find a dealer or mechanic in Las Vegas that could really fix it. And that was the case.
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