Sami Dakhlia writes:
> 
> Yesterday was not a good day. First my 75 bus failed to pass the annual
> inspection because of leaks in the exhaust. Fine. But then, a few highway
> miles later, a hub cap (from the one wheel they took off to check the
> brakes) fell off and with it one of those shiny aluminum beauty rings my
> wife just offered me a couple of weeks ago. <sob!>

Instead of replacing the beauty rings, why don't you consider painting 
your rims white?  I did, and was very pleased with the result.  Still use
the hub caps, though.  An added bonus is that the paint doesn't fall off!
Well, maybe a little bit...

Here is my contribution to the VW ascii collection, a representation of 
DA BOAT, which is a bubble top, in case you were wondering...  :)

(shamelessly stolen from Lee Griffiths and modified)

        _______
      /         \
     /___________\
    |             | 
 [] |_____________| []
  \(_______________)/
   | [] ||||||| [] |
   | (@)       (@) |
   |               |
   [=====[BUS]=====]
    ||           ||

-David

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David Schwarze			'73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat)
SAIC Comsystems, San Diego	'73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast)
schwarze@nosc.mil		'87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser?  Soon...)
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