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Features 10 From New Zealand Madison experiences a whole new world when she moved to the US from New Zealand.
10 Ears Pierced...Squeal!
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Contributors This Issue Becca 9, Concord, NC
Victoria, 13, Orlando, FL
Michael 10, Pace, FL
Alissa 13, Mount Dora, FL
Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL
Benjamin 13, Mount Dora, FL
Hannah 11, Mount Dora, FL
Erik 15, Mount Dora, FL
Maria 17, Eustis, FL
Madison 12, Sorrento, FL
Allison 16, Merrillville, IN
Jessica 17, Sorrento, FL
Julia 12, Louisville, KY
Michael 16, Cannon Falls, MN
Devyn 17, Mount Dora, FL
Maya 12, Falls Church, VA
Eddie 16, Orlando, FL
Margo 17, Mount Dora, FL
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What a summer! I have had some of the greatest couple of months ever.... I went to St. Olaf’s Summer Music Camp in Minnesota and had the time of my life. I met so many amazing people!
I auditioned and was placed in their 1st violin section which was pretty awesome. We played some great music from Beethoven to Bizet. Although we were all serious when we were rehearsing, I sometimes would make silly faces with some kids across the rehearsal room when the conductor wasn’t looking... just for fun. :) I’m pretty sure he caught us a couple of times, but he was a great conductor and was in on the fun. Haha!
My family also went to NYC for two weeks in August while my sister attended ABT’s Young Dancer Summer Workshop. It was a great couple of weeks and although I was a little bit sad to leave, I was glad to be home in our little town of Mount Dora, FL! We also have had our Bunk Roomies meetings throughout the summer which have been so much fun! If you or anyone you know wants to have practical writing experience and learn about publishing, this is your launch pad. We learn, we work, we laugh, we play! Email me at margo@thebunkroom.com to get in on the fun. Learn more about The Bunk Roomies on our website.
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And That is How I Lost My Accent By Madison 12, Sorrento, FL Hi! My name is Madison and I am twelve years old. My family and I moved here to Florida in October 2005.
When we first got here we didn’t have a house so we lived with my aunt and her family. She has two amazingly nice daughters who I shared a room with.
Madison now at 12.
At first it was kind of awkward because I had never met my cousins before but after the first couple of days it seemed like we had known each other forever. Their names are Kalee and Alyssa and they go to public school. I am homeschooled. I found it bewilderingly hard to wait all day for them to be done with school. I always rode with my aunt to go and pick them up. That is how I lost my New Zealand accent.
We are currently living at a camp for disabled people. My dad, who is the part time handy man loves his job and wishes he could be full time but that isn’t happening right now.
Madison at 5 when she first moved from New Zealand
Because he has another job working at a beach yard, he can only be at the camp two days a week. That is how my family and I got here.
Double Digits Means Pierced Ears By Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL I just got my ears pierced! The minute I woke up the day I got my ears pierced I was ecstatic. Then I remembered I still had to do school. It seemed like hours before I was done!
Finally, I was done and it was time to go! I went to pick up my friend, Abby. She was coming with me to get my ears pierced!
When we got to the mall I was so nervous. We finally got to Claire's and I chose my earrings and sat in the chair. The lady washed my ears and took a marker and put a dot on my ears (they marked my ears to know where the earrings should go) then she washed the ear gun.
Then she held the ear gun to my ear, I was so scared! She did them one at a time, it hurt for a minute and then I felt woozy and almost fainted. The lady gave me a lollipop and I felt better. We looked around Claire's and I got an earring holder. It was so much fun!
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Bacon.
Victoria, 13, Orlando, FL Toast with Nutella. :)
Waffles covered with maple syrup and a few slices of bacon.
Alissa 13, Mount Dora, FL
Allison 16, Merrillville, IN
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Panckaes.
Julia 12, Louisville, KY
Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL
Pancakes!
Devyn 17, Mount Dora, FL
Breakfast Burritos
Bacon.
Annika 11, Mount Dora, FL
Hannah 11, Mount Dora, FL
Michael 10, Pace, FL
Michael 16, Cannon Falls, MN
The best part about reading is: Everything!
Making a picture of it in your head.
Victoria, 13, Orlando, FL
Allison 16, Merrillville, IN
Being able to experience something that you normally wouldn't get to do.
Learning new stuff.
Alissa 13, Mount Dora, FL Devyn 17, Mount Dora, FL
Putting yourself in a different world and watching the character grow in personality.
Not doing it.
Hannah 11, Mount Dora, FL
Michael 16, Cannon Falls, MN
Learning new things.
Learning.
Julia 12, Louisville, KY
You get to use your imagination. :)
Learning about the characters and seeing how they grow through the story. Annika 11, Mount Dora, FL
Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL
Michael 10, Pace, FL
My favorite time of the year is: Because: Summer time, because I get to go on lots of cool trips with my family, go to camp, and have NO school!
Winter. I love the cold weather. It just feels amazing and makes me happy.
Fall, because it's not too cold and not too hot.
Devyn 17, Mount Dora, FL
Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL
Victoria 13, Orlando, FL
Summer because winters in Minnesota Fall, because we have Halloween and are not fun. Thanksgiving and soon after Christmas to look forward to. Michael 16, Cannon Falls, MN
Winter. :) Because it is cold. :D Alissa 13, Mount Dora, FL
Christmas because everything is happening.
Hannah 11, Mount Dora, FL
Michael 10, Pace, FL
Summer because I can hang out with friends and the pool is open!
Summer because it's warm.
Julia 12, Louisville, KY
Allison 16, Merrillville, IN
Winter because I love running in the cold. It makes you hot and cold at the same time. Annika 11, Mount Dora, FL
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By Eddie 16, Orlando, FL
........................ On any normal school year Monday, I would be going to school, then coming home to do my homework, and then off to a cello lesson. On my
What a regular day is like. summer Mondays, it consists with chilling with friends, and getting a ton of sleep.
One of the past Mondays, I woke up at 8:00, and then got my friends together to hang out. While I was waiting for Sam, Caitlin, and Michael to get to my house, I was inspired to paint my Toms shoes. I came up with a design, and bought some red fabric paint. They turned out really good, and I finished them at the end of the day. Once my friends got to my house, we watched I Am Legend. I had never seen the movie before then, and I was very impressed with the job they did on it. We then decided to go to the mall for a while. At the mall, we went to the Apple store, F.Y.E., and to the food court for a little dinner. Once we came home from the 3-hour mall trip, we watched Source Code, another movie I hadn't seen yet. It was just as good as I Am Legend.
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A Whole New Level of Potters over to the idea of someone else writing a high-quality, fulllength novel that wasn’t written by J.K Rowling. The series brought up questions from Harry Potter fans regarding the legality of Lippert writing a continuation to J.K. Rowling work.
“In a public announcement, Ms. Rowling said she supported fan fiction such as mine, as long as it was respectful and appropriate for kids, which mine was,” said Lippert.
Since Lippert has written James Potter and the Hall of Elder’s Crossing he has written two other JP books and some other books called Girl on the Dock, Flyover Country, The God of Lost Things, Harry’s First Christmas and The Riverhouse. The Riverhouse was rated number two on Amazon’s charts for its genre. By Erik 15, Mount Dora, FL Goblins, Ghosts, Dryads and even the great Merlin come together in George Norman Lippert’s series about the son of the famous Harry Potter, James Potter. Lippert, who lives in St. Louis, MO, takes J.K Rowling’s works to a whole new level with an American twist.
July 21, 2007 was a sad day for every Harry Potter fan as the final Harry Potter book rolled out signaling the end of an era. But just as that era ended, a new one began as a young boy boarded a train to his first year at a school of magic. In 2007, Lippert felt like any Harry Potter fan when the series ended, sad but excited and curious. “The epilogue of the Deathly Hallows just peaked my curiosity to see what would happen with the Harry Potter kids when they went to school,” Lippert said. “So I just sat down the next day and started writing down an idea. I had no concept of writing a novel; I was just writing down an idea because I did not want the story to end.” As he wrote, his story evolved into something much greater than when he had began.
An old English proverb once said, “all good things must come to an end” and true to this adage, Lippert’s JP series has come to an end. “The James Potter series will be on hiatus for the time being and the future.” Lippert is currently working on getting his new original story, The Ruins of Camelot published, in addition to some of his older works. But Lippert isn’t closing the door on future James Potter stories yet. “If I am successful in publishing some of my original work, I plan to intersperse my ‘publishable’ works with more James Potter stories.”
On December 1, 2007 Lippert released his first of three James Potter books, James Potter and The Hall of Elders’ Crossing. When the book was put online Lippert said he began to get a lot of reviews. Not all of them were good reviews. “People all over the Harry Potter forums were saying, ‘who is this guy? Who does he think he is?’” Soon after the release, “reviews started getting really good.”
Lippert believed that many people were very reluctant to read his JP series at first because they needed to be won
To read Lippert’s James Potter series and other stories go to JamesPotterSeries.com.
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By Benjamin 13, Mount Dora, FL The first thing you think of when you walk into Progressive Growers Inc. is -WOW this is beautiful! The plants are all up on tables and in prefect rows which makes it look very majestic. Progressive Growers is an ornamental nursery run by Bryan Rice in Apopka, Florida. Apopka is considered the Indoor Foliage Capital of the World. More than likely, the plants you have in your house came from Apopka!
When you see planters around the mall, that's where
For 17 years, Rice has operated Progressive Growers, improving and expanding the business along the way. There are a lot of things that go into running a successful nursery. "Everyone can grow plants, but not everyone can sell them," said Rice. In the nursery business, for instance, Rice is now building a wood-fired, water-tubed water heater. This is an innovative system that will heat the roots of the plants during the winter.
Green Thumb Gone Wild! Progressive Growers provides the expertise. Most of Rice's customers are malls in the north that change their decorations for the seasons. "The pots you see in the malls get changed all the time," said Rice. For instance, he explained, in the summer they want flowers and in the fall they want plants with colored leaves and so on. Rice has been in the nursery business since he was a kid, working in his father's nurseries. Rice later built his own nursery business as did his siblings and also his cousins. So now, that makes them competitors in this small Central Florida town. To get along, they try not to specialize in the same plant types, and they also agree not to talk business at family gatherings.
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For the past five years, Rice only heated the air of their nursery just to keep the plants alive during the winter. Even in Florida, it gets cold enough to cause major damage to the plants. But now, the new boiler system will do even more. The new boiler system will heat the roots of the plants so that the plants will not only stay alive but also extend their growing season. "The plants will be tricked to thinking it's grow time," said Rice. "This way they will grow all year round." Here is how it works. First, there is a huge 10,000 gallon drum that heats the water that runs through pipes inside the drum. From there, the water travels through a pipe into a water reservoir. From there the water goes two ways. One way goes back through the main drum and the other goes inside the nursery. Once in the nursery, the water travels through pipes on the plant tables. This heats
The Boiler plan: Operation Keep those roots warm! Sketch by Benjamin 13, Mount Dora, FL
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Money Everywhere! By Maya 12, Falls Church, VA ................................................... Money money everywhere, In my hair, my underwear, Filling up my shoes and socks, Falling from my golden locks, It’s in my clothes, It’s up my nose, It’s even in between my toes, Where will it spread next? Who knows? Money money everywhere, Falling through the chilly air, Making people stop and stare, Then start to rip out all their hair, While falling down a flight of stairs, ‘cause God had answered all their prayers, And money’s falling everywhere!
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By Annika 15, Mount Dora, FL Practice, practice, practice. Months of practicing before my orchestra audition. I play violin. I usually practice for an hour a day. My pieces are hard; I practiced my scales, excerpt and solo. My teacher, Julia Gessinger is a wonderful teacher. We work on my pieces for many lessons before the audition. By the time I finish my audition, I was so tired. So tired, that I slept all the way home.
What kind of audition did you prepare for? An audition for my play, Oklahoma. Victoria 13, Orlando, FL Speaking event and singing event. Michael 10, Pace, FL Northwest Indiana Youth Symphony Orchestra. Allison 16, Merrillville, IN I prepared for a Camp Rock audition. Hannah 11, Mount Dora, FL
The week of my audition, I practice even more. I play over two hours a day plus full time homework. The day of my audition I had a full day of ballet rehearsals right before my audition, so I was pretty tired.
When I got to the audition location, I was very, very nervous. I took deep breaths. A lot of them. I warmed up. I played everything over and over. I was the second to the last person in the whole orchestra to audition. There were over 200 kids auditioning for 160 positions. The judges were tired too, I’m sure! I went into the judging room very nervous. I gave the four judges a copy of my solo piece.
I prepared for a Camp Rock audition. Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL
Auditions: How did you prepare? How often and how long did you practice?
I rehearsed the lines for the character for which I was auditioning, and practiced the group song, all for about 2 weeks before the audition. Victoria 13, Orlando, FL
They asked me to play the solo first. I felt like I played it very well, but I still had some mess-ups. They asked me to play the excerpt next. I think I did well on that too. Lastly, they asked me to play an F Major scale. I messed up on the arpeggio but over all I think I did well.
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After the audition, I ran to the warm-up room, set down my violin, and did cartwheels! I said to Mommy and Daddy that it was so much fun I wanted to do it again! Wow! I am so excited to get my scores in the coming weeks. I believe I am great violinist and I hope to get in!
I practiced singing the song and looking over the lines that I had to read. I practiced for about 15 minutes twice a day for about a week.
Michael 10, Pace, FL I played all my audition material for at least an hour everyday. Allison 16, Merrillville, IN
Hannah 11, Mount Dora, FL I practiced my song and warmed up my voice. I practiced 15 or 20 minutes every day for a week. Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL
Editor’s Note: Annika DID make it into the Prelude orchestra of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra in Orlando.
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I was scared before it, but once I got started, it wasn't so bad‌ the waiting beforehand was the worst part! Victoria 13, Orlando, FL
Acting is my passion. It is something I have always wanted to do and I hope I always will. In theater you can be anything you want to be. You can travel to other worlds and experience things you never could otherwise.
For the speaking event, my knees were shaking but I don't think anyone knew. For the singing, I was a bit nervous but it was fun. Michael 10, Pace, FL
So when I found out that a drama group for homeschoolers was forming, I was one of the first to sign up. We're putting on the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. There are sixteen homeschoolers in the play, and we rehearse at Mid-Lakes Christian Church in Tavares. Our teacher, Mr. Herbst is the Music Director there. He is very nice, but is a bit of a practical jokester!
I was nervous, but I think I did very well. By the end of it I really loved how everything went. Allison 16, Merrillville, IN I wasn't nervous and I felt like I did a good job. Hannah 11, Mount Dora, FL I sort of felt like I did well. Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL
The Stress! What were the results and how did you feel about them?
Although I love acting, I've always been a bit shy and soft spoken. So when I first went onstage to audition, I was pretty nervous. One of the parts I tried out for was Aslan. As I got into the character I was portraying I began to relax and have fun with it. Even so I didn't think I did very well.
I found out from an email to the whole group. I was excited, because I got the part that I wanted! Victoria 13, Orlando, FL
I won 1st place twice and came in 2nd overall at the grand tournament. Happy for 1st, but mad when I came in 2nd. I do not like 2nd place. And I made the chorus group. Michael 10, Pace, FL I was sent an email and it said I got 5th chair!!! I was REALLLLLY happy because I knew the competition this year made it very difficult. Allison 16, Merrillville, IN I got the part I wanted and I found out when the results were posted on a website. I was so happy I wanted to burst. Hannah 11, Mount Dora, FL I was happy with my part, I found out the results when they were posted on a website. Grace 10, Mount Dora, FL
There was another girl, Cathleen who tried out for Aslan as well, and when I saw her perform I knew that she would get it the part.
Finally casting week came. It was decided that there would be two casts so everyone could have have a speaking role. One by one the parts were given out until I was one of the only two kids who had not gotten a role. I was sure that Mr. Herbst had forgotten me. Then he scratched his head and asked "Which part haven't I given out yet?" "Aslan!� one of the kids replied. Then he pointed at us and said "Ok, you Aslan cast A , and you Aslan cast B!" I realized that Cathleen had been the other girl on the stage! I went over to congratulate her. I told her what a great job she had done, and how I had known that she would get the part. I was surprised when she told me the same thing!
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Long Trip! 3 weeks! 3200 miles By Becca 9, Concord, NC Five minutes down the road from our home in North Carolina, I reached for a book. We were going on a big trip, and traveling was easier as we read, watched movies and played the alphabet game.
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Our first destination was at the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, MD. We saw water and dragon shaped paddle boats that looked like they were from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Then on to the Baltimore Aquarium, where I learned about jellyfish and other sea creatures, watched dolphins, and saw a penguin movie. The show was interactive and no one expected it. When water splashed on the screen, water squirted out at the audience! One of the most startling parts was when a shark leaped into the air to grab a seal and at that exact moment, something sharp poked the backs of everyone in the audience. We were shocked and then laughed! Next, we headed to Cape Cod for a family reunion. All 42 of us piled into four houses, and in the middle of the yard were gigantic rocks that my cousins and I climbed on every day. For seven days, we played, biked and kayaked and went on exciting day trips. One day I went whale watching and looked at a book with pictures of some whales and their markings. During the trip, we spotted over twenty whales open-mouth feeding and the most famous whale named Salt! I also went deep-sea fishing for the first time. The mate showed me how to jig, where you jerk the pole up and down to dangle bait at the top of the water. After awhile, I got a fish on my line and had to reel that stubborn fish in. When it finally flopped onto the deck, it was a twenty-nine inch Sea Bass! Another time I walked the Brewster flats at low tide. I had to be careful not to step on small crabs when walking through seaweed patches, but it was a lot of fun walking where there is normally more than ten feet of water! Several days later we headed southwest to Pennsylvania. We stayed in the mountains, went hiking and discovered a cool swimming area in a nearby creek. We had one accident while hiking when my big brother broke his ankle, but after getting him in a cast, we were soon on our way to Michigan. Arriving at our campground, I was surprised to meet so many relatives from my mom’s side of the family that I had never seen before! I loved playing in the sand by beautiful Lake Michigan, riding bikes around the campground, and eating s’mores by the fire at night.
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After three busy days and nights, we headed home to our own beds and air conditioning! In just under three weeks and 3,200 miles, we traveled to the northeast, through the mountains, to Lake Michigan, and back south to my hometown near Charlotte, NC. It was a long road trip, but filled with wonderful memories!
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Junkyard Museum By Jessica 16, Sorrento, FL
I was visiting my Grandparents in the popular tourist town of Lake Lure, North Carolina. Visiting them has been common Spring Break tradition since before I can remember. But this year, the traditional exploring of Grandma’s farm and working at my Uncle’s Coffee Shop was interrupted. Grandma suggested going to a Farming Museum in the nearby town of Rutherfordton, and I can’t say I was entirely excited.
I imagined being stuck in a large stale white building looking at rusted tools for an hour, and it wasn’t the greatest vision in the world. After driving in circles for half an hour, we finally found a rusted metal warehouse on a lonely back road. Pulling into one of the three parking spaces, I caught a glance at the rotten wood door that was cracked open. A sign was posted on it, with a hand-painted message. $2 Entry Fee. My common sense told me that a museum that only costs $2 must be a waste of time.
I followed Grandma into the first room and was instantly astonished by what I saw. Four fully intact antique tractors stood there. They were all different models by different companies, and they were in beautiful condition. I noticed that the other side of the room was set up like a full kitchen. Plates were set at a wood table, pots and pans were hung on the wall and several early appliances were up against the wall. Everything was displayed like you were tossed back into the 1900’s by a weird time machine; perhaps disguised as a cylindrical heater?
Grandma, my Brother, and I slowly approached the worn building, not sure if we were willing to walk in. When I entered, I started to resent that I did. It looked like an indoor junkyard. Shelves were lined with things and trinkets
The next room contained everything needed to make fabric and clothing. A cotton gin, a loom, farming utensils, even an antique industrial mechanical spindle were all somehow placed in the ownership of the toothless man. Despite my earlier bitterness, I was now eager to see what the next room contained. This one was a bedroom, also set up realistically. The rooms to follow were a music room, and then a second kitchen. I was breathless at the amount of things this one guy had stocked up in his little museum; and everything was in a nearly perfect condition.
to the left, and an old carriage lay amongst other assorted, unidentifiable items to the right.
The elderly man greeted, giving a weak, no-toothed grin. Grandma started to hand him the money, but he silently declined it with a dismissive wave. He gestured towards three seats across from his old, broken desk. I took the ugly 70’s office chair, Grandma claimed the metal foldout, and my brother was left with the barber’s chair.
The man looked to be in his early nineties or late eighties. He either chose not to or forgot to state his name, because he jumped right in to telling us about his early life. He had grown up in a farm not too far from there with his parents and brothers. He enlisted in the military after high school, and after that, opened the museum. He started describing what was in the museum’s different rooms. He had an odd cylindrical heater in front of him. A magazine was on top of it and a shoebox on top of that. All I could focus on was the fact that he kept restlessly shifting the box back and forth, inch by inch. I was itching to get out of that seat, quickly look at the displays, and leave. The man finally ended his speech and set us free to roam his museum.
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I will never forget this museum. Unlike the several other museums I’ve encountered, things weren’t displayed from behind worn velvet ropes or smudged glass cases. This little, country museum contained more items than all the museums I have visited combined. With a second look at that tiny museum, I learned that the indoor junkyard ended up being one of the most unforgettable learning experiences I’ve had in a long time. This one man spent over half of his life collecting these things, and turning them into a surprisingly organized display, designed to teach you an important lesson. Don’t judge a museum by its entry fee.
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By Benjamin 13, Mount Dora, FL
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Habilis means “handyman” and dates back to the classification of early man, known as Homo habilis. That’s when man started using tools and becoming pretty handy around the house. We have our own resident Habilis man, in boy size: Benjamin.
Excerpt from Habilis Boy Blog. Restoring a ’77 VW Beetle. Day 8, July 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Today I got some work done on the bug. I put a small canopy over the car so I wouldn't get too hot and I got all of the fenders off but one, because there was a bolt that I couldn't get off. It was really frustrating trying to get the fenders off because they just wouldn’t come off! I got really mad and started to bang on the bolts to knock them through. Finally they popped off. I also installed the clean carburetor. I took out the driver’s seat and I also removed the gas tank and drained all of the rotted gas. That’s about all I got done today. Day 9, July 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Today I got my saws-all and I cut the bolt on my right front fender and off it came. It came off real quickly! Big relief! I also started ripping out the dash board to prep the car for paint. I plan on getting new tires because the tires that are on it are really rotted. And I can’t even fill them up long enough to get the car off of the trailer!
I also found a good VW bug parts supplier online......
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