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Made it!

Sounds like a fun trip home... Glad your back safe and sound. Now to 
recruit some more people to help me out in a week  :-)

-Raffi

BTW I have a message from Queen Amidala... She sez BITE ME!


At 11:41 AM 11/15/02 -0800, Eric S wrote:

>Well, the 83 Wolfie and I made it home about 4am my time this 
>morning.  Fairly uneventful except for not having heat (its stuck in A/C 
>mode, so every time I turned the fan on, the radiator fan would come on 
>and cool the car to such a point that the heat was totally weak).  Also, 
>one of the rear tires wasn't balanced right (mk1 rims with new tires), so 
>I had a fun shimmy at 75 or so...oh, and the low beams are aimed 
>badly.  All this added up to major fun as Wyoming and Northern Colorado 
>were a Ice Rink with blizzard conditions.  (THANK GOD I bought those new 
>tires guys....seriously.)
>
>Major thanks to Mark Hausler for a garage, tools, beer and a couch for the 
>night.  Tobias, for the car and organizing all the parts!  Tosha, for 
>coming in and doing some MAJOR wrenching!(When you showed up Tosha, you 
>really got us moving/motivated...thanks again!)  Jeff for wrenching and 
>some laughs :-).  Queen Amidala, ER, I mean Raffi *grin* for the laughs, 
>wrenchin and pickin up that H4 on the way in.  You guys really make this 
>list what it is, a group of *friends* willing to help each other 
>out.  Glad I got to meet Jeff and Raffi for the first time, you guys both 
>rock and fit right in here!  (Jeff, I hope your wife didn't kill 
>you...hehe...Tosha, Mark and I got done at about midnight...quite the 
>appropriate time for a tire chirping test drive, don't ya think?)
>
>--
>Eric
>Northglenn, CO
>
>81 Scirocco S (*TDI* swap and complete restoration in holding pattern)
>81 Rabbit Truck LX Diesel (Waiting for BAE Turbo Install)
>83 Scirocco Wolfsburg (ITS HOME!)
>87 Suzuki Samurai JX Hardtop (Soon to be VW Turbo Diesel Powered)
>91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)
>
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