Re: 1924 Sport 136

Posted by Karl On 2024/1/10 11:55:44

Hi W. Peterson,
Thank you very much for your kind advice about the opportunity to save time. If I were still in the US I would certainly heed your advice. But on the one hand, it is part of my restoration philosophy to find all the solutions to missing parts myself, as far as possible. I just enjoy it. And this has been the case for over 45 years. On the other hand...please imagine you were restoring a 100-year-old German car and hardly had sufficient German language skills, especially not in the technical area. With these requirements you would then call here in Germany to try to order them from a dealer who offers parts online. But because he hardly understands anything you're saying, he simply hangs up because he doesn't want to waste a lot of time in such conversations. Or he says he doesn't ship outside Europe. Or the profit he could make is disproportionate to the effort he would have to make. This happened to me a few times when I started restoring my Packard. And there are still dealers in the USA today who do not supply customers in Europe. I was all the more grateful when I received help in solving such problems from Australia, of all places. And was that surprising to me after a few years in the USA? … not really …. But there is a lot of help from Australia. Incidentally, I already knew what Twin Sixx offers and wrote something about it in my introductory text. And I also contacted Bruce about another questions.
But thank you again for this kind note.

Karl