[Saloon-lovers] New 3.4 S owner

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Gentlemen,
let me introduce myself, my name is Petter Jensen, I live in Norway, and I
am now the proud owner of a 1964, black 3.4 S, auto which I purchased for
far too much money according to digest discussions in California last
month! Anyway thats another story!
I say I am the owner…but since the car is in transit across the
Atlantic, I have not taken possession of my trophy yet!
Thanks to Stein and Ragnar, I was made aware of these pages and have been
following the discussions for some time.
As a quick intro, just two things :

  1. The tyres Stein inquired about were Cooper tyres (US made) having the
    size 195 x 75 x15.
    Does anyone have any experience with the make or the size. I am in the same
    situation as Stein re. new tyres.
  2. When the 3.4S was driven to the docks for shipping, the driver
    encountered total brake failure! and had to use the handbrake to get to his
    destination. This is the following scenario.
    Before shipping car was checked over by Jag mechanic, all OK, brakes worked
    to begin with, but failed after 15 mins.No sighs of fluid leak, no drips,
    just a dead pedal (which if pumped like made made some attempt to brake,
    but… Next day mechanic comes and looks at car, brakes OK again!!!
    To me this could sound like either a caliper is stuck causing the fluid to
    overheat and therefore fail, or the master cylinder glitched! both scary
    I would welcome any input, feedback or other members experiences on this as
    I now have 4-5 weeks in which to try and source any parts I may need to
    rectify situation.
    Thanks and keep the digest going!
    Regards from Classic Porsche 912 man, now with family needing new class
    wheels 3.4S !

Petter----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Petter Jensen, Stavanger
Tel # + 47 51 52 09 86
Fax # + 47 51 52 72 31
Mobile # + 47 916 14001

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Petter Jensen wrote:

I say I am the owner…but since the car is in transit across the
Atlantic, I have not taken possession of my trophy yet!

Congratulations, Petter. As I’ve said earlier I’d be happy if I could arrange to
meet you when the car arrives in Drammen, near Oslo before you take it to
Stavanger. Too few S-types in Norway to miss any. Besides, Stein and I have
proclaimed ourselves the “S-type police” of Norway !. Anytime an S-type has been
advertised for sale, we hurry along to inspect it, of course always arriving in
either mine or Stein’s S-type. We are all over the cars peeking, poking,
comparing with our owns, and having a lot of fun. But there’s been only two cars
so far of which one was a true basket case and the other a very good example.

  1. When the 3.4S was driven to the docks for shipping, the driver
    encountered total brake failure! and had to use the handbrake to get to his
    destination.

Bah! Nothing that a handful of cubic dollars can’t fix. Me, I’m just about to
prepare my third �200+ order at Martin Robeys. I’ve grown tired of specifying
the exact details so I just say to myself ; “Front suspension problems, Ragnar ?
Let’s have page 13, thanks !”
… ( only partly joking, just trying to get you prepared :slight_smile:

Welcome on board, Petter !

Ragnar--------------------------------------------------
Ragnar Westad http://home.sn.no/~westad
System Teknologi AS http://www.systek.no