[Joeaksa]

Dennis,

The Europeans (especially the Germans) are extremely difficult about letting any car in the country if its going to be registered to their system if there are any parts that are not first factory Porsche, and second on the master list provided by Porsche showing that "this part is allowed" on that model car.

For instance you have different wheels on the yellow car. Without a TUV approval for that car to use those exact wheels it would not be allowed. Same with the ducktail. Any non-factory parts would have to have been approved by the maker to TUV for use on that model car. For instance if its a non-factory ducktail then the maker where-ever you got it would have had to apply to TUV in Germany for approval on a 1975 911S.

Not sure if Holland is as difficult as Germany but my contact would know. cooper997 AT hotmail.com (replace the AT with @ He is a big Mini fan as well!) His name is Arnoud and just tell him that Joe A from the Jaguar list gave you his contact info. His English is perfect but if you speak Dutch...

He has been doing a lot of really complicated stuff like "lumping" a 1980's Jaguar with a 2000 Jag engine, computer systems and all, so is a good tech person.

Also, not sure about Holland but several years ago I was looking at moving to Denmark. They have a law in place that if you are moving there you are allowed to import ONE car without taxation. As their tax was 100% on imported cars, this is a big savings. If Holland has this limitation, make sure that you import your nicest car first and pay the duty on the lower value cars. Like I said, not sure if Holland does this but its worth checking.

I have an old friend living in the Hague area. Let me see if I can get ahold of him and see if he has any info. He works at the US Embassy so has diplo clearance on his company car but not sure about the rest. This is a nice area of Europe. I used to live 100 klicks East just over the German border and really enjoyed my time here.

Joe

EDIT, would totally agree with getting a Polo or the like as you will need something like that for the city. Would also suggest a diesel version. My dentist in Berlin has one and drives up and down the autobahns at 120-140 klicks getting 45 mpg in his. For Europe its just a really neat car and affordable.

Regarding driving the S model over there until you get the other car finished, you could take it over there on Canadian plates (or US) and drive it there until you are finished but the expense of taking it back and forth might not be worth it. A lot would depend on how easy it would be to register there as if its a problem then it might be difficult to sell for what its worth.