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Article: Retirement of Fullerton, Calif., VW Mechanic Leaves Some Devotees Devastated.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 25, 2001
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By Eric Carpenter, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 25--FULLERTON, Calif.--He has been called the Mother Teresa of Volkswagens, quietly tending to ailing Beetles and finding ways to keep dying VW buses alive.
His name is Dieter Schnirch, but most people know him only as Dieter.
And at age 66, after fighting through two strokes, he has closed the hood on his career as a mechanic.
Customers traveled up to 100 miles for Dieter's work. He was known for lending his own car to customers in need of a ride. Used-car ads sometimes included the phrase "Worked on by Dieter" as a selling point.
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