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Slight drift, sticking with the topic of choosing a mechanic.  In my town (Thousand Oaks, CA) I found a small shop run by a mechanic who appears to maintain a devoted clientele.  The name of his shop is Spot44 and it is independently owned.  The head mechanic is the owner.  I like that.  He services VWs but doesn’t specialize in them, he actually services a wide range of vehicles - Porsches, exotics, American muscle, vintage, you name it.  I visited his shop once as I dropped off my wife’s Beetle for some service and had a quick chat.  There was a 356 replica in his queue, and I learned he owns several cars including a VW Kombi and an SP2 that were parked in his shop.  Both were very sweet looking.  He also owned a Porsche 356 Coupe Super 90 that I believe he has since sold.  So he seems to know his way around VW cars as well as genuine 356s.  I’m encouraged.

Just tonight I was looking through his Facebook page and ran across a few interesting photos that I apologetically lift to repost here:

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I’m not necessarily looking for advice (yet) on how to vet this shop.  I don’t even have my car yet so I should have some time before I’ll have the need.  

But I am wondering if the owner of the red wide body (with ‘motec fuel injection’) is an SOC member or if anyone recognizes his/her car, or if anyone has any direct experience with Spot44 either in the current location (Thousand Oaks) or his previous location which I think was in or near Van Nuys (?).  (For the pixel peepers, I believe that is a 3 wheeled Morgan in the center of the third photo if you can’t see enough to figure it out).

Cheers,

Jon

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