It's looking more and more certain that I'll be buying an XK-120 roadster
soon.....have found the car, so far the strongest endorsement I've gotten
from my wife is "It's your money, do what you want." While that's probably
better than most wives' responses to the notion of buying a 43 year old car
with no air conditioning, Im still trying to get her to give me the
unqualified support that says the car won't be an issue when we begin making
choices about what improvements to make to the house, or what furniture to
buy.....Any advice on this front would be helpful....
My real question has to do with repair facilities in the Washington, DC
area. I asked a mechanic named Philip Middleton to look the car over, and
was favorably impressed with him. He owns a garage called British Classic
Cars in Chantilly, VA . I wonder if anyone in the DC area has had
experience with him and can comment.
I'm also interested in similar feedback regarding a shop called Classic
Coachworks in Haymarket, VA. Owner's name is Jim Finney. Haven't met him,
but he's been very helpful in phone conversations, sounds very knowledgeable
about the XK body, and has the approach that anything worth doing is worth
doing right--the first time.
I wouldn't be asking about either of these shops if I didn't already have a
strong favorable impression.
Thanks
Bob Mullins
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4000 Jones Bridge Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
mullinsr@hq.hhmi.org
301.215.8636
'61 Healey 3000, XK-120 (soon)
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