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by mikeyb
Mon Oct 09, 2017 1:35 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance
Replies: 11
Views: 4570
Switzerland

Re: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance

I don't have a better recommendation that Andrew's. Do you know if the current owner is a JDCS member? You can PM me the name if you like and I can check. Someone may know the car. Bodywork is horrendously expensive in Switzerland due to the labour rates. Thank you Mark, I very much appreciate your...
by mikeyb
Sun Oct 08, 2017 9:18 am
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance
Replies: 11
Views: 4570
Switzerland

Re: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance

... I highly recommend Kaspar Hürlimann (http://www.zugersee-garage.ch/cms/) Given the location of the car (about 20 min away from his garage) he probably already knows it. I think he even speaks passable English (I'm fluent in German, so I don't really track it). You might have to pay him for an h...
by mikeyb
Sun Oct 08, 2017 8:43 am
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance
Replies: 11
Views: 4570
Switzerland

Re: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance

Mikey, when you say the sills are perfect, remember that what you are probably looking at are the sill covers - if the S3 is the same as the S1 and 2 (and I think it is) The sills are underneath, and more difficult to inspect. Quite an issue if they are bad. I'm not an expert by the way, but this i...
by mikeyb
Sun Oct 08, 2017 8:11 am
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance
Replies: 11
Views: 4570
Switzerland

Re: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance

Thank you gents for the kind offers of assistance! I’m in Seewen, Solothurn and - funnily enough - the car is just outside Seewen, Schwyz. The main issue with the car is some mild to mid-level rust on drivers-side floor... the metal still seems solid but it’s there and tough for me to quantify just ...
by mikeyb
Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:05 am
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello! Newbie needs some assistance
Replies: 11
Views: 4570
Switzerland

Hello! Newbie needs some assistance

Hi guys, it’s great to join you - what a wonderful resource and community you have here! :bigrin: I’m not yet an E-Type owner but hope to be shortly... actually looking at a Series 3 V12 2+2 here in Switzerland (I’m an expat from Edinburgh) and thinking to pull the trigger, but I don’t quite have th...