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IwanaPinz wrote:And that they do not speak Swedish in Switzerland.

Four national languages (none of them Swedish ) for a 7-million-people country is quite peculiar... and not really practical!

Jan

While I appreciate your suggestion, s. 341.40(1)(b) requires that any vehicle owned by a Wisconsin citizen falls under Wisconsin registration requirements if it is operated in Wisconsin. s. 341.03(2)(a) sets the fine at less than $200. Perhaps you could make a small business (LLC) in another state,...

When I purchased my Pinz, the previous owner was kind enough to fill it up before letting me go with my new toy, and the same thing happened: he didn't pay attention to the gas level and when the gas nozzle finally clicked off, gas was pouring down the side of the tank... I think it went through the...

I was looking for ammo boxes the other day on the internet and noticed that www.omahas.com carries the same item (water can insulators), Ref. 'BAG477', $14.50 a piece.

Jan

Pinztx,

It might save you an e-mail or two : Expedition Imports don't have Repair Manuals in stock for the time being (info given by Dale at EI yesterday)...

Jan

The Swiss army works a bit like your National Guard (as far as my knowledge of the US military goes), or at least worked this way when the Pinzgauers were in use. People do 4 month of "recruit school" (= basic training) at 19 yrs old before being affected to a unit, and army units are bein...

Jerbearyukon wrote:not sure what they were for originally

If I remember well, they were used to store the antenna bases.

Being installed as cupholder finally makes these actually useful

Jan

Hi all, Out of curiosity, I went through the pictures of the vehicles that the Swiss army is going to sell on April 23 at the yearly sale in Thun: http://www.armeefahrzeugversteigerung.ch/Katalog_Fahrzeuge_01.htm ...and I couldn't help but notice these two odd ones: - a flat-bed 710M ( http://www.ar...

Many thanks to you all for the warm international welcome! Anthony, Milesdzyn, thanks for the german-speaking "Pinzforum" link. I don't thik I'll register yet because my german is apalling (especially after studying it for so long in school)... I can always make some focused searches on it...

Hi all, I just wanted to introduce myself as a new Pinzgauer owner from Geneva, Switzerland. Two weeks ago, I received my '72 Pinz 710M which I purchased from a car repair and dealership that used to maintain Swiss army vehicles until a few years ago. The owner had kept this one Pinz for himself but...