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echo: memories
to: RYAN FANTUS
from: KURT WEISKE
date: 2020-04-22 09:56:00
subject: Re: 1970`s

-=> Ryan Fantus wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 RF> Last summer I restored a 1969 VW Beetle - basically everything other
 RF> than painting the car. It was a lot of fun, super easy to work on...the
 RF> motor was like 200lb and I was able to use a skateboard as an engine
 RF> stand.

I started out working on cars working on my sister's '71 beetle, lots of fun 
to work on. Did you ever see that old book "How to keep your Volkswagen 
Alive (A manual of step by step procedures for the compleat idiot)"?

I used that book for everything. Different cars, different time.

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4298299W/How_to_keep_your_Volkswagen_alive

 RF> Now I have a 1967 GTO but I'm going the opposite direction from what
 RF> you mention. I'm actually converting it to use a modern motor, trans,
 RF> etc., but to keep the same old "shell" of an old muscle car. It's fun
 RF> for its own reasons but man, what a money pit.

Find a totalled Tesla for a powerplant transplant?



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