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Love the color of this bug!
Keep it up, soon you will be there...


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This looks very nice. Who did the upholstery?


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Herbie wrote: Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:32 am This looks very nice. Who did the upholstery?


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Hi Guys

So today was a busy day .Installed my adjustable beam
Front disc brakes.
My worst fear came true , wheels touched the brake caliper. Quick run down to the local spare shop and got some universal 5mm spacers and it cleared
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The red seats look good with the grey paint.
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See you came right with the wheel, great news.

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retrovan wrote: Wed Feb 16, 2022 9:11 pm See you came right with the wheel, great news.

Nice car

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Yes i did , wheels did knock up on the caliper but a 5mm universal spacer did the trick.

Thanks to Tony qho help me with a flat face brake drum and impressed me with his machine work on drilling and tapping it to 4x100 pcd
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