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Date:         Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:10:12 -0700
Reply-To:     wilden1@JUNO.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: weld-in roll cage?
Comments: To: BPAULTR3@AOL.COM
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I really like to see you send yourself a note of Praise with your own return address on it. Shape up ................ I'm a loudmouth but I'm not stupid. Continue this by yourself. Please post some pictures!

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:39:59 EDT Bob Paul <BPAULTR3@AOL.COM> writes: > In a message dated 7/6/2003 5:17:11 PM Mountain Daylight Time, > wilden1@JUNO.COM writes: > > << Best of all, it was engineered and built with a lot of > hard work and sweat by me and my friends. Bruce > > > Good for you Bruce. Don't let the bulls**t naysayers get to you. > You're > going to accomplish a dream, with a lot of hard work. Wilder's > mouth goes into > gear well before the 3 brain cells he has start working. He also > has lots of > experience being an A**hole, he may have a worlds record at being > that, > probably nothing else. Over the years we've seen them come and go, > most slip back > into the mire, never to be seen again. > > > ------------------ Clip ----------------------- > Just out of curiosity; What are you hoping to accomplish with a > $10,000.00 plus expenditure on a 87 GL that has a retail value when > its > running of about $800 / $2500.00 in Texas? > I have some experience with going fast in AA Fuel Funny cars, AA > Fuel > Dragsters and Setting a world record in B Fuel altered. > The benefits to this were that I got paid $2500.00 upward for > coming out > and making three high speed passes at the Drag Races. No need to > win > ........... just show up and make those three passes. It was always > nice > to win but it wasn't necessary to successfully campaign the car. > I grant you that you might get some OOH's and Ah's from the twenty > something crowd at the beach but even the $6000.00 Porsche that you > get > the engine from will leave you sitting in the dirt. > The Porsche engine is weight to HP engineered and I think you'll > just > build yourself a hot running, over worked vehicle. > Over the years we've seen some very nice Porsche into VW Bus, > Vanagon > conversions that have come to light from German machinist but they > just > seem to be short lived and soon evaporate into cyber space never to > be > seen again. > We'd all like to see what you've come up with .................. > please > post some pictures. > > Stan Wilder > >> > >

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