Recent content by 73T5Conv

Great! Thanks for the good explanation and the good supporting pictures! I like the results!

I tried around a bit this year with plastic repair. My aim was to try epoxy on my interior quarter panels on my 68 convertible, which are thouroughly broken on the edges and flanges but also on the flat surface over the years. So I bought 2-component-epoxy which you have to mix as described. For...

Hi Tim, thank you for your note - I immediately spent the whole morning to go through your thread - that's awesome! Absolutely fine what you do with a lot of passion and how professional you restore your car. You know each and every bolt on your car by first name, don't you?   ::thumb::  That...

Thank you for the note - good question. That's simply because she is not that much involved and wants me to do what's necessary to get her car back on the road asap. Another thing is that she doesn't have much technical understanding and not much experience with car clubs and forums. I am also...

David, thank you for the information. Seems you know the T5 registry - I got in contact with them, too, to get this T5 registered also. There's no door sticker anymore on our car unfortunately. Maybe I get a replica from Marti. When I see your Marti Report I'm pretty sure yours is coming from...

Hi Fabrice, welcome to digitalized EU! They just push a button to track somebody off the licence plate. Same happened to me in NL. Got a parking ticket there. Going to Oostkapelle next week with my 68 convertible!  :cool: Best, Markus

Thank you. You are absolutely right - my mistake - sorry! What I meant was changing subject from 1st to 3rd facelift within the 1st generation.

At the end, I hope we'll have it in Medium Aqua paint as export T5 again (as it left Dearborn).  ;)

Dear all, wow! - wanderlust comes up after those greetings from all over the states. Actually I lived in Charlotte, NC, for a year, visiting Pfeiffer University and working with Coca-Cola there. So special greetings to Mecklenburg County! ::thumb::  It has been such a great experience and a lot...

Dear all, this is just to introduce myself to this forum. I am about to help a friend building up her 73 T5 Convertible and I hope to get and share some insights with you here.  I just finished my 4-year-restoration of a 68 Mustang Convertible 289 (no - I didn't work on it all the time - long...