see what I mean?

just received this from Martin. What did I tell you...he is great at research!

Hi Peter,

I feel like im getting somewhere

I found out the open/close length, for a j type shock, and its 15” open and 10” closed.

This into metric is 254mm closed, and 381mm open.

Looking through the internet, I found that beetles, and early camper vans have shocks which are Very close to this size.

Have a couple of links which I found.

This one should translate, it did for me.

http://www.paruzzi.com/webstore/?full=1&zoeknl=1&zoektrefwoord=1301

http://www.vwheritage.com/vw_spares_Front-Shock-T2-Genuine-short-385mm-250mm_act_shop.product_pID_209686_lang_EN_country_GB.htm?crumbStartPage=2&crumbStartRow=14

http://www.vwheritage.com/vw_spares_KYB-GR2-shock-front-rear-low-each_act_shop.product_pID_100671_lang_EN_country_GB.htm

a couple of options,

what do you think?