Tales from Dale P

Hi all,

I hope the winter was OK for you lot. The floor on my bus looks like it has been shot by a good ol' boy with a shotgun, hopefully that along with four new wheel arches will be done this weekend 3 M feb.

The floor was due to slamming the bus, cutting off the bumpstops, putting lo'profiles on cookie's, all sitting on wheel adapters, so the ride is now hard but the handling is too cool. The arches were down to me I'm afraid, when I first put the cookiecutter wheels on the tyres were just too wide so I flared the arches (panel beaten stile) only to discover the drivers front arch was in two parts. That's not the end of the farse, it all turns out that cookie cutters on the rear side of the wheel are thicker than most other Porsche wheels. So by grinding the adaptor nuts back to the actual adaptor, you get the wheels in under the arches more. Thus the new rear arches as well. Still it dose look more RAD now. So for any of you doing like the same or similar, DON'T do the second way, (check first).

I will also hopefully get round to bare-metaling and priming the shell (hopefully). So this season you lot will have to look for the dog-IC sprogs. That is not a pub but us. Unfortunately, 1 do not at this time have any photos but 1 am hoping that you kind soles out

there might, if you see nic, take a snap or two. Dez`s old interior now more or less sits right nice with plum corduroy coverings. The three quarter rock"n"roll bed is so nice compared to the nasty double box Devon stile bed, that used to break on us when ever we went away.

The front seats are out of an MG- Montego, but please don't hold that against me, as funding is as an' when, rather than hear "n"' now. The backs of the base had to be jacked up so that the front of the seat was not sticking up in the air too much, other wise you'd have to be 6'6" to drive the thing.

1 have sent off for a set of Kadrons from the states (all recond) for just under half the price of a new set in this country, the reason why so cheep. Simple motion lotion is so cheep state side, everyone uses bigger carbs, as soon as they have built a good engine they realise bigger is faster.

So boys "n" girls 1 hope this inspires you, because if it was not dark out 1 would be out there now tinkering.

LOVE ",n" FLOWERS ANIMAL