Subj : Re: 1970's
To   : Ryan Fantus
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Apr 23 2020 09:06:00

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

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

 RF> Hah! If only FTN supported photos, I'd send you one of my bookcase with
 RF> it sitting right there. Love the art in that thing.

I drove a '77 Rabbit Diesel for most of the 80s, and had the spiritual 
successor to the original. Same pen and ink drawings.

When compared to a grainy black and white photo from similar books, the pen- 
and-ink drawings were wonderful. It was so much easier to make sense of what 
was going on with the drawings.

 KW> Find a totalled Tesla for a powerplant transplant?

 RF> No, though I do dig some of those conversions. I built a new LS motor,
 RF> ordered a block from GM and took it from there. It's an LS6 383
 RF> stroker, forged bottom end, 102mm intake, cammed. Fun :) So it's quite
 RF> a bit lighter than the 400 and it's got ridiculous flowing heads. It
 RF> also sounds great.

Sounds amazing. I drove beater cars in high school, but I helped work on my 
friends' '72 Duster with a 340, a '68 Barracuda, an old Challenger, a '77 
Vette with an L-82 350...

(looking it up now, the L82 had 210 HP? My Camry with a V6 had 192! Man, 
the late '70s and early '80s were bad years...)



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