Sami Dakhlia writes: > > Yesterday was not a good day. First my 75 bus failed to pass the annual > inspection because of leaks in the exhaust. Fine. But then, a few highway > miles later, a hub cap (from the one wheel they took off to check the > brakes) fell off and with it one of those shiny aluminum beauty rings my > wife just offered me a couple of weeks ago. <sob!> Instead of replacing the beauty rings, why don't you consider painting your rims white? I did, and was very pleased with the result. Still use the hub caps, though. An added bonus is that the paint doesn't fall off! Well, maybe a little bit... Here is my contribution to the VW ascii collection, a representation of DA BOAT, which is a bubble top, in case you were wondering... :) (shamelessly stolen from Lee Griffiths and modified) _______ / \ /___________\ | | [] |_____________| [] \(_______________)/ | [] ||||||| [] | | (@) (@) | | | [=====[BUS]=====] || || -David ============================================================================= David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) SAIC Comsystems, San Diego '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) =============================================================================
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