Best of luck, Tom, this will be a long adventure but ought to be really (mostly!)fun. I hope you see fit to share each chapter, and it will not be TOO long before it is over.

One time I asked my dad how come he called his 1939 Studebaker Commander "Suzy"?

Not then knowing that Germans are typically regarded as humorless, I still remember what he said:

"Oh I don't know. I thought it was funny."




So - If the "spirit" of old Suzy still exists, and maybe it is there! I will seek her blessing in your having an easy, pleasant and not too long road to the resto, beginning with finding the elusive missing or replacement fender.

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1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

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