Help identify this 2cv!!!!

[Rori2202]

Extremely interested in saving this 2 cv. The plate is D769 ALF and I really need to track down info and wthe owner as it's rotting away. Any info would be so helpful

[richardmorris]

Extremely interested in saving this 2 cv. The plate is D769 ALF and I really need to track down info and wthe owner as it's rotting away. Any info would be so helpful

Step this way. I’m the Citroen car club 2cv columnist. Who, what, where and why etc?

[richardmorris]

Ok. Mot expired 8years ago.

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk

 

37k or possibly once round the clock. ( mine is).

[Felly Magic]

Still on a SORN, but after 8 years doing nowt, what are the odds that it's remains will fit in a couple of bin liners?

[Pillock]

Have you found the car and want to find the owner? Or you want to find both car and owner?

 

GDPR will scupper most chances.... The DVLA will no longer give you a history of a car unless you're a clamping firm paying them thousands of pounds a month. Best bet is to spam any 2CV sites, and use people like Richard and Dollywobbler and hope the owner is an enthusiast.

[sierraman]

Does anyone remember a 2CV specialist that was based in a Nissen hut at the back of a cafe in the north Lincolnshire area. Always used to pass it when we went to Mablethorpe as a kid.

[lesapandre]

I think that was Howard Hughes?

[sierraman]

Fairly certain it’s not there now. There were loads of old 2CV and Dyanes round the back.

[Rori2202]

Have you found the car and want to find the owner? Or you want to find both car and owner?

 

GDPR will scupper most chances.... The DVLA will no longer give you a history of a car unless you're a clamping firm paying them thousands of pounds a month. Best bet is to spam any 2CV sites, and use people like Richard and Dollywobbler and hope the owner is an enthusiast.

[Rori2202]

I'm just trying to find out as much as possible and find the owner, the cars been sitting for ages now and I need to reserect it

[Rori2202]

Have you found the car and want to find the owner? Or you want to find both car and owner?

 

GDPR will scupper most chances.... The DVLA will no longer give you a history of a car unless you're a clamping firm paying them thousands of pounds a month. Best bet is to spam any 2CV sites, and use people like Richard and Dollywobbler and hope the owner is an enthusiast.

It's the owner I'm looking for, found the car. Extra info it's a 1986 blue and cream dolly

[dollywobbler]

I'd try knocking on the door as a first step, though the chances are high you'll get someone who is 'going to restore it one day.'

[jollysmart]

Does anyone remember a 2CV specialist that was based in a Nissen hut at the back of a cafe in the north Lincolnshire area. Always used to pass it when we went to Mablethorpe as a kid.

Pete Abbott, Deux Chevaux Lincs is who you are thinking of. Still on the same site but in a different and bigger unit, cafe still there. Address is Ludford, Louth, on the way to Mabo.

[D Spares & Tyres]

You won't get that cheap, the plate is worth £1,000,000 m8

[Dan_ZTT]

If it's parked on a driveway I'd just knock the door, sometimes the old ways are the best... if it's been sat untouched for that long then making a reasonable offer would probably tempt them

[Timewaster]

If you do go and door knock, actually make an offer.

 

A sensible amount which you have readily available in cash and somewhere near your top offer.

 

Otherwise you will be like the idiots who knock my bloody door, insist that I sell a car to them that isn't for sale and then either make a totally insulting offer or repeatedly ask how much I want for a car which isn't for sale.

 

They get asked politely to leave the first time, told to fro from that moment on.

[Rori2202]

That's the plan, knocking the door. I posted a letter of interest a few days ago

[Six-cylinder]

That's the plan, knocking the door. I posted a letter of interest a few days ago

 

Some years ago I did that for a Triumph Herald, it took weeks for a response but I did buy the car for not much more that I thought it was worth. When I went to collect it the lady said I have had a second note, my heart sank, but no this one was offered bonnet, boot and doors which were moth eaten on the car I was buying.

 

She passed the note to me and I phoned, indeed they had a solid set of panels at a very fair price but in the wrong colour, no problem he said my mate will fit and spray them for you. I handed my new Herald over and soon had a call to say the rear wings were badly faded and he could not get a match, did I want the whole car sprayed for not much more?

 

So from a slightly over priced tatty car, I now had a smart usable Herald owing me a far less than it should. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

That's the plan, knocking the door. I posted a letter of interest a few days ago

Good luck with that.

 

Some people hang onto a car for sentimental reasons, e.g because it belonged to a now-dead relative, even though it's no longer driven and is rotting into the ground. No amount of offers / cajoling / threats will work in those circumstances.

[richardmorris]

It’s sorned so someone cares.

Anyway, I’ve posted on the Facebook 2cv friends ( dolly wobbly one), international 2cvfriends forum and 2cvgb forum. If no response I’ll put it in the Citroen mag next month.

[richardmorris]

Ok, ive a name ( not sure yet if the owner or local club guy who knows the car) email address and mobile number.

 

Just confirming details and I’ll pm you.

 

Oh, and the 2cv is called ALF.

[Junkman]

Those four exclamation marks in the thread title are a bit annoying.