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Matt Colie
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Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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If you are ready for a fun story, read on, otherwise there is little of real value here.
Ready for a great GMC story?
I had a client. If you don't know about clients, suffice it to say you kind of have to keep them happy because that is where your money comes from.
Said client would sometimes end up in my shop (only) when the situation required. He had little good to say about anything I own because it was all old. I did explain to him once that many of those old thing were tools and equipment that I purchased new, but I have take care of them and they be old but I can't buy better. When he first saw my coach, he remarked that he would not dare leave the neighbor hood with something that old. (That is about a quote.)
He had acquired an brand new motorhome the year before. I knew he was heading out on a longish excursion and was looking forward to his leaving me alone with his that and projects for others. But, in the late afternoon, the phone rang.....
It was said client asking (not something he normally did) if I could retrieve his two daughters, their two friends, his wife and him. It seems that their new (and oh so dependable) coach broke. It had been hauled to an RV dealer (in Chelsea MI if you care - 12m west of Ann Arbor) and they had determined that it needed a part. They ordered the part and it would take at least a month - maybe more. (How to torch a vacation!!)
At this time our coach was also my tool crib and other things as well. So, I unloaded the multiple tool boxes from the back bedroom, cleaned myself up and headed for Chelsea. When I got there, we loaded the four girls, lots and lots of luggage and about half the contents of their reefer (mine is smaller, but so is the coach).
Two girls sat in the back bedroom (I have added seatbelts there) with most of the luggage, two sat behind me and jabbered a storm. (Remember it is a GMC 23 with the dinette behind the driver. Robert (the client) sat at the dinette facing forward. Wife (I'm not sure I ever did know her name) was in the passenger seat.
We got back on I-94 headed east and wife said,"Wow, this is an nice ride. How old is this?" (That is a quote.) When I told her that she was 35 (2008) and we had just come back from an excursion along Rt-66 to the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque. She got quiet. Then, she asked what would I do if I needed a part for her. I told her that there were several good suppliers and one on the west coast could get anything I might need in two days - maybe less. I was in Ann Arbor traffic about then and all I could see was her looking back at him.
I never got the "old stuff" line from him again.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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