Date:         Wed, 3 Jul 1996 10:09:44 -0700
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From:         jim@atcweb.atc.1dc.com (Jim Ellis)
Subject:      Re: "Resto From Hell" pics (f)

Someone asked VanBondo if the "before" pic
on Mr. Heron's web site was really the starting point for the infamous
"Resto From Hell."

>Ellis fwds a note from Rusty:
Well Ron, in all of my years as a bigtime know-it-all VW guru I have
gathered the required experience and trained eye for picking just the right
bus for a restoration. Mrs. VanBondo and I looked high and low (mostly high)
until we found the bus shown in "Rusty.jpg" We were shooting for the pre-'68
Syncro westy action. The real tough part was grafting the poptop section
into the roof.
I know how you feel with that monkee thing, Ron. I get the strangest of
looks when they are screaming monkees. This is especially true in public or
in business meetings. I thought that I was suffering recently from cyatica
(what a pain in the butt) from sitting at the computer too much and not
enough exercise. I found that elimination of coffee and soda to get the
adreinals working better, more roughage in the diet, seeing a chiropractor,
taking up Hatha Yoga, a little more excercise, and the intermitant removal
of the monkees and spouse from my rectum helped tremendously. I had felt the
presence of both in that location on a regular basis for a long time. Phew!
what a relief!
More pix of the RFH are vaugely promised as VanBondo settles down and
cobbles together the official "VanBondo's Totally Non-PC Web Page." First
things first. I gotta keep grinding on that resto or I won't have anything
to grouse about. ;-)
-VanBondo

>If it's real, my hat is off, I'm at full salute, and I may or may not have
>monkies flying outa my butt.