A few good men

[bgadow]

There was a little write-up on my collection back in the fall. I probably had a half-dozen calls from it; nothing exciting, but I'm still getting calls months later! It helps that this is a small town & people know where to find me. I have had some later model tv sets dropped off at my door; a fellow at church brought me a junker electrostatic set awhile back. One day last year I came home to find a small Philco Transitone on the step. I have yet to figure out where it came from.

A couple times I have sent letter or postcards out to local tv shops. The first time I did this was around 1992; one response came back in about 1998! He had retired, was cleaning the place out & found my card. That netted a truckload of free parts. Now, last year I sent some letters out but no response. Then Friday night the phone rings. Yep, one of the gentlemen is clearing out. I don't know what to expect.

Here at work word-of-mouth is very important. Going along with the "run-on sentence", I just scheduled repairs on a '70 Lemans; he also has a 96 Impala SS, & heard about me from a guy in an Impala club; that guy had heard about me from another member, who had heard about me from another member, who I had done work for. He heard about me from his father, a customer who had heard about me from a high school buddy, a customer who knew me from another friend, also a customer, who in turn had heard about me because one day while heading to the beach he stopped in to my competition on a whim, looking for someone to repair his 4-4-2 convertible. They referred him to me. All of the above folks live over 100 miles away. One of them trailered a 69 Valiant up from GA for me to work on. Its neat what one connection can lead to.