The Ford Barn

tmiller6 · 11-08-2014, 08:58 AM

I got my new Stipe shocks yesterday and I invited my kid to my house for dinner so I could give him my old set of shocks and let him drool over the new ones. The used ones he's getting are 30+ year old reproductions that are oil filled and pre-date the M&S non-refillable ones.

This is the second set of Stipe shocks I've purchased. The first ones had Plymouth, WI hidden on the back and I slobbed a little extra paint over the "Plymouth" before I mounted them to the frame of my '31.

I notice these new ones say Auburn, KY on the back. While I think that it's really cool that Mr. Stipe opts to build stuff for our hobby in cities named after cars, I really think it would have been better if he had picked Ford, KY outside of Lexington as his next site so I don't have to spend time obscuring another car name from the back of a flawless product!

Thank you Mr. Stipe for tooling up a second run of a much needed quality product.

11-08-2014, 08:58 AM	#1
tmiller6 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Livonia, MI Posts: 197	I got my Stipe shocks yesterday I got my new Stipe shocks yesterday and I invited my kid to my house for dinner so I could give him my old set of shocks and let him drool over the new ones. The used ones he's getting are 30+ year old reproductions that are oil filled and pre-date the M&S non-refillable ones. This is the second set of Stipe shocks I've purchased. The first ones had Plymouth, WI hidden on the back and I slobbed a little extra paint over the "Plymouth" before I mounted them to the frame of my '31. I notice these new ones say Auburn, KY on the back. While I think that it's really cool that Mr. Stipe opts to build stuff for our hobby in cities named after cars, I really think it would have been better if he had picked Ford, KY outside of Lexington as his next site so I don't have to spend time obscuring another car name from the back of a flawless product! Thank you Mr. Stipe for tooling up a second run of a much needed quality product.