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Hey Volks, I went to the Seattle are for the weekend to attend the shows. You know, it sucks having to carry everything with you to prep your car (I spent the weekend with a friend up there). But, I spent the last three nights of the week recovering my stock white and torn headliner with a Bright Orange Felt one! Looks pretty damn good if I say so myself :) and I think helped make the car look better. Now, about those stock carpets... Bremerton had a low turnout for entries so I won first in Custom Type III. The other entrant, a white automatic Fastback, won first for Stock Type III. Though her engine was still FI me and her father couldn't find the oil cooler for the life of us. The stock location had a bypass and the tin was welded closed. It did have a full flow oil filter and the oil lines passed into the rear air plenum so we think that the clown, er, mechanic that installed it put the oil cooler in there. Racing turnout was good and Gene Berg Enterprises was their with their racers and it was pretty good. I actually met up with Clyde Berg in Portland. Their caravan made their GB Memorial Cruise stop at a local VW shop. I gave him the documentation for the Type 3 five-speed tranny mount that my mechanic and I fabbed, so hopefully GBE will use it to make a tranny mount kit for the late model Type III should anyone else want one. Heck, I highly recommend it! :) I didn't place at SIR. There were five Type IIIs; one Notch, one Fast and three Squarebacks. I did talk to over ten people who asked me about my baby and gave them the URL to the VWTYPE3.ORG web site and told them about the emailing list. Only one person knew of the list. The others were amazed such a thing existed, so I hope to see some new people join. The racing at SIR was as good as the turnout of showcars. The swap meet area was full. I got a (basically) brand new 1972 Type III owners manual ($25) to replace my water-destroyed original (still keeping it, though!) and a full-length luggage rack for $70 -- WOO-HOO!!! I saw a pair of European tail lens for the late model T3 for $41 each and a pair of mud flaps for $90 -- crap, talk about greedy! My only regret is I didn't get to cruise the vast parking lot as I saw several nice VWs and some T3s in there. Well, next year! I will be at Portland International Raceway this Sunday, showing again, so I hope to see some other listees besides Peter & crew there (I might even drag her to get her some basic 1/4 mile stats). Toby Erkson air_cooled_nut@pobox.com <-- Please use this address for email '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/