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Subject:Re: weld-in roll cage?
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:10:12 -0700

I really like to see you send yourself a note of Praise with your own
return address on it.
Shape up ................ I'm a loudmouth but I'm not stupid.
Continue this by yourself.
Please post some pictures!

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:39:59 EDT Bob Paul <BPAULTR3@AOL.COM> writes:
> In a message dated 7/6/2003 5:17:11 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> wilden1@JUNO.COM writes:
>
> << Best of all, it was engineered and built with a lot of
>  hard work and sweat by me and my friends. Bruce
>
>
> Good for you Bruce.  Don't let the bulls**t naysayers get to you.
> You're
> going to accomplish a dream, with a lot of hard work.  Wilder's
> mouth goes into
> gear well before the 3 brain cells he has start working.  He also
> has lots of
> experience being an A**hole, he may have a worlds record at being
> that,
> probably nothing else.  Over the years we've seen them come and go,
> most slip back
> into the mire, never to be seen again.
>
>
>  ------------------ Clip -----------------------
>  Just out of curiosity; What are you hoping to accomplish with a
>  $10,000.00 plus expenditure on a 87 GL that has a retail value when
> its
>  running of about $800 / $2500.00 in Texas?
>  I have some experience with going fast in AA Fuel Funny cars, AA
> Fuel
>  Dragsters and Setting a world record in B Fuel altered.
>  The benefits to this were that I got paid $2500.00 upward for
> coming out
>  and making three high speed passes at the Drag Races. No need to
> win
>  ........... just show up and make those three passes. It was always
> nice
>  to win but it wasn't necessary to successfully campaign the car.
>  I grant you that you might get some OOH's and Ah's from the twenty
>  something crowd at the beach but even the $6000.00 Porsche that you
> get
>  the engine from will leave you sitting in the dirt.
>  The Porsche engine is weight to HP engineered and I think you'll
> just
>  build yourself a hot running, over worked vehicle.
>  Over the years we've seen some very nice Porsche into VW Bus,
> Vanagon
>  conversions that have come to light from German machinist but they
> just
>  seem to be short lived and soon evaporate into cyber space never to
> be
>  seen again.
>  We'd all like to see what you've come up with ..................
> please
>  post some pictures.
>
>  Stan Wilder
>   >>
>
>

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