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Smile Shocks advice for my clunker

I've finally got my 72S-nose/73.5T-ass car back from the bench. Yes, it's the rare 72 + 3/4 model !

Buying a chop-job car (long distance, using a blind friend to do the inspection and a crook to do the PPI) was the bad surprise of 2005 for me, but after lots of thinking and evals from a celette bench and a couple of local mechanics, we decided.... what the hell... it was straight and true enough to make a go at it, so we put in a new steering rack, redid the brakes, airbox and various classic tidbits, so it drives pretty good now and sounds like a goddamn airplane....

I even got a new oil level sender installed successfully (a miracle of contorsion with my 2 left hands) and an oil change to pennzoil 20-50 nearly doubled my oil pressure readings so I am pretty happy with the car now...

Only hitch is after all this, it still rides on D-E-A-D shocks (and seats), mismatched F/R to boot, and my mechanic says those are pricey... So given my particular situation (the nose is 72 S, the ass is 73.5 T with S options), what shock inserts should I install on this mongrel of a (fun) car ? I want to make sur eI buythe right stuff, and the car will be a commuter, not a racer (obviously ;-)

Thanks in advance for the advice ! Greg.
Old 01-02-2006, 01:52 PM
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