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[Mattias Kessén]

In Sweden we have a guy who owned the stores that is no 1 in cheap autoparts here. He started in a basement in Linkoping and now there are Biltema stores all over Sweden and some in Norway at least. He did exactly the same but he bought Mercedes.
So I believe this is one the fun things you can do if you happen to be "terribly" rich. He also has an asphalt/rubber tennis court far out in the countryside on a hill with no roads, kind of hard/expensive getting the asphalt there but did he care?

/Mattias


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Från: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at loganrec.com>
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Skickat: den 11 mars 2004 05:33
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>     Farmer;
>     This reminds me of a story true told be one of the
> customers who used to come into my brother's garage when I
> worked there.
>     This was in the late sixties and this gentleman was a very
> successful farmer. He always drove Cadillac cars.
>     One day he had some livestock business to the south of
> Columbus, Ohio and on the way home he decided to stop in the
> Cadillac dealer in Columbus and trade for a new car. Of course
> he was wearing his farmers bibs and a denim jacket. he entered
> the showroom and was looking at the new cars while 3 salesmen
> sat at a table in the corner. After about a half hour of
> checking the new cars and not even as much as a glance from the
> salesmen, he walked out. About an hour later he came back to
> the Cadillac dealership in a New Lincoln Continental and parked
> in front of the door and started blowing the horn. One of the
> salesmen came out and wanted to know what all the commotion was
> about. He told them that he wanted to buy a new Cadillac, but
> no one was interested in helping him, so he went down the
> street and they were anxious to help him into a new Continental
> and he just wanted to show them the commission they had lost.
> 
>                     Gene
> 
> 
> 
> Even though I'm not as smart as Walt those that want
> to talk down to me and brush me aside rarely
> accomplish it.   :-)
> If I was a multi zillionaire I would probably dress
> more rag tag than I do now. I would feel obligated to
> just to annoy people...  ;-)   It would be fun to walk
> into snooty restaurants in raggy bibs and them knowing
> that I could buy them out in a blink.  :-)   OK, so I
> have evil dreams...   Actually I probably wouldn't
> bother with the snooty restaurants, I'd be too busy
> out buying up every old rusty tractor I could find.
> 
> 
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