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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2007, 08:35:14 AM »
Quote from: SportquattroS1 on April 11, 2007, 08:27:47 AM
  Lets just say that it is very hard for a young person not to see just how fast a car is.
DID PETE WORK THERE AT SOME POINT IN HIS LIFE?...*grin*
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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #16 on: April 11, 2007, 10:07:44 AM »
Quote from: S6Sputnik on April 11, 2007, 08:35:14 AM
Quote from: SportquattroS1 on April 11, 2007, 08:27:47 AM
  Lets just say that it is very hard for a young person not to see just how fast a car is.
DID PETE WORK THERE AT SOME POINT IN HIS LIFE?...*grin*
 

He, he.  I believe Castle did, too.  I know a LOT of ex-Lavery people around -- me included...
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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #17 on: April 11, 2007, 12:32:53 PM »
Castle did not work there, and I was there for a couple years having worked numerous postions.  Especially ones that involved the occasional test drive.  But only only on a purely professional basis.  Just dont ask me what my personal best MPH on Woodward is. 

I was there when several IDIOT porters were fired for taking Porsche 911's our for speed runs.  One MORON took a prestine 993 Turbo up to 100 mph on the back road behind the dealer!  Thankfully, the service manager saw it and he was canned on the spot. 

I used to train the porters there, and I wouldn't let a new guy near a Porsche unless he could keep the revs under 1000rpm when moving it. 
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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #18 on: April 11, 2007, 01:02:00 PM »
Well I was there almost 20 years ago and we had some really good people working there at the time and a few jerks. Biggest problem was with management -- far to clique-ish and childish at times, with little understanding of "lesser" but vitally important employees. Sigh :-\
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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2007, 03:08:39 PM »
Quote from: Ingostamus Maximus on April 11, 2007, 10:07:44 AM
He, he.  I believe Castle did, too.  I know a LOT of ex-Lavery people around -- me included...

Hey leave me out this...I worked down the street  ;D
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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2007, 10:53:10 PM »
^ Yeah, just ask Castle about his talking me out of that P.O.S. black E30 before I ended up getting the Taxi that magically ended up in his garage...
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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2007, 11:37:05 PM »
Quote from: Legato on April 12, 2007, 10:53:10 PM
^ Yeah, just ask Castle about his talking me out of that P.O.S. black E30 before I ended up getting the Taxi that magically ended up in his garage...

hahaha!!! I still remember that phone conversation to this day.  Pete in my defense the M3 would have cost you a lot more money in the long run than your A4.
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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #22 on: April 14, 2007, 08:52:57 PM »
I know, but that was still a pretty dirty trick.  ;)
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Re: Management Change At Fred Lavery Audi
« Reply #23 on: April 16, 2007, 06:03:34 PM »
dude I had no idea I was going to get that car.  Anyways your better off with the A4 cause that M3 never would have made it this long.
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