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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Odd Sunny day, Yesterday morning I loaded a motor that I borrowed from Nick of Imperial Beach. I used this motor to drive a Fasty that I got from him that did not come with the motor. Yesterday was the day to give it back so when I crossed the USA/Mexico border , the US customs agents asked me to open the back of my Square. Opening it revealed an aircooled engine lying on some blankets, guards hudled around my car and they laughinly concluded that I was carrying a spare engine in case my car broke down. They were also asking curious questions about my car as if it were a novelty. Apart from the guard's comments, on the next border lane, just next to my lane, another square pulled up to the guardpost, then they moved their attention to it by exclaiming, there's another one ! Driving down the freeway to a gas station, I stopped to get some gas and opened the rear hatch to check my oil, a customer also commented, Cool car, spare engine for just in case!!! At work, during lunch, while making sure cargo was secure some co-workers watching, ask, hey you got a spare engine in case your engine konks out ? Hee, Hee, Hee ? I went to the beach for a long lunch and some surfer dudes and a couple of surfer babes surrounded my car with cool car comments, they wanted a look inside, so when I opened the rear hatch, they commented, cool, spare engine for when the old one frys out ! Hee ! Hee ! Hee ! I finally unloaded the engine around 9:00 pm . Finally, no spare engine chukles from friends and strangers. What is the deal with the spare engine jokes? Man, this cargo was a stigma. They made fun of my baby all day while thinking it was cool. >From there I abusingly drove my Square towards the border at 90 mph and launched my car at every light, kept the first gear in my auto til 40 mph, second till 60 mph, no SUV was able to touch me. Did not break my car in the process and no spare engine is needed but did notice I need tires balanced again. I do not know what got into me, maybe it was all those spare engine jokes, but I am feeling much better now. LEON MARTINEZ 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO 1967 FASTBACK JUNKER (TO BE DARKSIDED FOR MAX SPEED ) SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>