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Date:         Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:29:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Coby Smolens <cobys@WELL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Coby Smolens <cobys@WELL.COM>
Subject:      Coby's Short Sabbatical: Some Political Action (non-VW),
              Eurospec Conversion
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Hi, people!

There are several of you whom I have not responded to yet and I wanted to let you know that I will, but I am going to be hard-pressed for the next few days for two reasons:

1. I am going to be putting a bunch of time and energy into the Campout at KPFA Radio in Berkeley (I hope to be able to park Okie, our 83.5 Westy, in the street in front of the station the next few days), in support of the station. KPFA is in the throes of a crisis involving the national board of the Pacifica Foundation. For those of you who don't know, KPFA, one of the last bastions of real community supported radio, was forcibly shut down, its staff locked out, one of it's newscasters dragged forcibly from the building by armed thugs during his live broadcast for daring to report on the activities of the governing board. The station is currently boarded up, chained and padlocked. There is an ongoing demonstration occupying Martin Luther King Jr. Way in front of the station. Big benefit concert Monday night 7/19. Check out http://savepacifica.net/index.htm and http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica/index.html for more info.

2. Starting on Tuesday, or at the latest on Wednesday (I hope) we will be doing our first Eurospec engine conversion installation. We're putting the 115 HP 2.0 tallblock in a customer's '90 Carat. We'll be documenting the procedure, so it'll probably take twice as long as it will during later installations. Hopefully I'll have pix of the whole project up on wagonworks.com in a week or two. I intend to do the work myself to sort of lay the groundwork and establish the protocols for future conversions.

So don't feel neglected if my response time is a bit sluggish, I'll get there eventually.

Coby

Valley Wagonworks "Intimately acquainted with VW Vans since 1959" Volkswagen Bus, Vanagon, Westfalia and Eurovan Repair and Service Specialists

1535 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo, CA 94933 Voice:(415) 457-5628 Fax: (415) 457-0967 http://wagonworks.com mailto:contact@wagonworks.com


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