Bill
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> 2cylinderhondas@yahoogroups.com [mailto:2cylinderhondas@yahoogroups.com] > On > Behalf Of > Kathleen > Sent:
> Friday, November 02, 2007 8:10
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> [2cylinderhondas] Re: Kefurt
> Mike (Miroslav) was my mechanic for several years beginning sometime > in > the mid-80's. First, Robertson Honda dumped me, then J.C. Imports > (right > across the street) dumped me and referred me to M.I.K. His > shop was on the > corner of Lankershim Blvd. and Strathern in N.
> Hollywood. The first thing I
> had to have done was an engine rebuild.
> Sadly, I didn't know enough then to
> choose a rebuild instead of an
> engine swap. The next person to work on my
> car told me the engine
> Mike gave me had water lines on it from sitting in
> water. Also, Mike
> liked to use a lot of gasket goop to put things together.
> There was
> usually a ring of red around his repairs. But he was the only one > I > could find, willing and able to do the work! I even asked the > parts > dept. at Robertson to tell me who was buying a lot of 600 parts.
> No
> one. (And that was when it was still pretty easy to get parts.)
> Eventually, Mike started pushing Bertone cars with the same fervor > he'd > had for Hondas. Not long after that, his shop closed. (I > think that was > before 1990.) > Happy ending: last May, I married Tim Mings, so now I > don't have to > worry about finding a mechanic anymore (unless he dumps me > for a > Model-T). Kathleen