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Date:         Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:16:02 -0800 (PST)
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From:         "Thom Fitzpatrick" <thom@tim.com>
Subject:      '56 kombi update: shox, dmv

Howdy y'all!

I can now, with a straight face, say my bus is roadworthy.

This past weeked I put on a new steering dampner, and front shocks, and I prettied up the front wheel wells. I also installed mud flaps - and impulse purchase that I couldn't resist! BTW - I welded the brackets for the mud flaps on, and once I've got everything together, I'll rivet the flaps to the bracket.

(BTW _ I put on KYB GR-2 shocks on the front. I put the cheap stock-type ones on the back. I'll prolly wanna get the GR-2's in the back someday soon.

Saturday I got a set of used Michelin MVX's/MVX whatevers, 185/65's, which are a little meatier than the 5.15's I had on the fron of it before. Strangely enough, those old bias ply tires have a lot of good tread on them! (I kept the old tires to avoid the $5/tire "disposal fee" which really means put them on the shelf and sell them to someone else.

Last Friday I made another attempt at getting it registered, and it looks like I was sucessful. I now have a nice red number "3" on my back window.

I even Rain-Ex's the windsheilds!

Now you know you're a fanatic, when you drive your 911 in the rain rather than get your new undercoating on the bus wet!

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