Motorworks bought out

..................It looks like Lauren called this one right.

MAD is phone dispatched from somewhere in southern Indiana or Illinois, right? Sounds to me like they might have bought RMMW just to put them out of business. I'd suspect a quick progression to oblivioun for RMMW.

More power to John at

Less competition is rarely good.

Max

I had several battles with Chris Nowak regarding his disregard for what made Volkswagen great ( clue: quality for the sake of quality). He had it coming. . . Colin

I had a few go arounds with him also. So, I quit doing biz with them years ago.

Randy

True, but RMMW was never competion for John. Their prices were generally higher, they had almost zero expertise, and rarely had what someone wanted. Their mantra was "Let me find a technician... never mind we are backordered on that."

I will miss the show RMMW put on each August up in Woodland park, CO. Held the same weekend as the Bug-in up at Bandimere raceway. RMMW saturday, Bug-in on sunday. Kind of like a mini Classic for Colorado.

I still don't like the fact that there is now one less player in the market. But I suppose it's inevitable in this shrinking hobby. As the number of consumers dwindles, the parts sources will dry up.

Pretty soon we will be where the Model-A guys have been for years. Except that instead of a benevolent Ford supporting us we will have ... VWOA.

Max

Can anyone send me some crow?

.............Don't worry about it. If you post here long enough, a few mistakes will happen. Me thinking that I knew who was posting as adolph comes to mind in my case.

just passing through as i occassionally do.

The Colorado VW Bus Club, is currently look> I will miss the show RMMW put on each August up in Woodland park, CO. Held

As one who purchased parts from RMMW for quite a few years, I have no complaints with their business. And possibly the acquisition will allow Real Source to expand their ACVW inventory.

RMMW was hit by competition, a sluggish economy, and the sale of a local (Woodland Park, CO) bank to Bank of America. With BofA immediatly putting more pressure on the loans RMMW had with the formerly local bank. Which in turn generated unfavorable press and made customers cautious of making their parts purchases with RMMW.

And personally, I for one am going to miss this business.

I don't think this is the first lot of aircooled parts TRS has bought out... so far as I know they have been buying out parts for years...

correct... the actual company is ma direct of which TRS is one of their divisions. Dont remember who but they bought out another midwest supplier about 2 years ago.

jimt