New car! 2CV Dolly.

[dollywobbler]

Aw come on Hirst. Need pix!! X-reg ones are a bit rare now.

[Guest]

I haven't seen it for a bit, I'm sure it's still about though. Might be PUX 513X actually, can't remember now.

[Polystratus]

Nice one! They really are fantastic cars. Post up some photos when it's done

Will do , also must join 2CVGB !

[Angrydicky]

I haven't seen it for a bit, I'm sure it's still about though. Might be PUX 513X actually, can't remember now.

An X reg one would have the square headlights I think....either way, I haven't seen one that old for a long time

[Milford Cubicle]

I find something reassuring about seeing a nicely worn-in 2CV, that's a right colour scheme on it too, reminds me of old sweets.

 

Rhubarb and custard?

 

It'd be cool if your PUX xxxX is a 'rectangle light' one, they are super rare

[Guest]

Fairly sure it is.

[forddeliveryboy]

Out of the closet, I love 2CVs - as long as they haven't been messed with by people who don't understand em, and that includes some 'specialists'! A battered old one with rust everywhere is often a far better drive than a rebuilt, painted up piece of crap on a shiny galv chassis which is as strong as a piece of melted cheese. Know a guy who bought such a machine for nearly ten grand oop North, it was an utter warthog. Eventually he found a good Cit mechanic who found the engine was fubar, rot everywhere under the filler and shiny paint, steering was k-nackered, full of cheapo nasty parts etc.

 

Ran a '69 car back in the late 90s with no rear windows, a 435cc engine and a soul as big as Jupiter. I used it for a regular 10 mile commute, the previous lad had driven every week to Brussels and back from Kent. Charm itself, felt as solid as a brick privy. 50mpg in heavy traffic and acceleration with short gears as fast as any big-engined 602cc 2cv, but flat out was officially 62mph. Best bit (apart from tax-exemption) was the trafficlutch, a centrifugal thing which allowed you to stop and start in gear without using the clutch.

[Rhythm Thief]

You do learn to scan the road a long way ahead before attempting to overtake a truck. If you fail to spot the hill, you'll find that just as you hit the bow-wave of air from the front of the truck, the car will slow down to exactly the same speed as the truck, while the people stacked up behind you develop murderous rage.

 

 

Driving a 2CV as my first car was actually pretty good training for a working life driving artics ...

[dollywobbler]

Have to dispute some of your findings about restored ones being crap. Depends very much on who does the work - and which chassis is used! Mine's on a really good Galvo chassis and handles an absolute treat. Well done on coming out of the closet though! There's a lot to be said for Tin Snails.

[boobydoo]

That does seem a good buy for £350 mate, as they do seem to go for top money these days.

 

It's getting harder now to snap up a bargain in classic car circles...even old biddies on their deathbed seem to have wised up as to how much their little one owner Fiesta is worth. You can't 'nick' nuffink no-more!

 

Pah!

[Jozza]

Well having been a 2CV Dolly owner for 6 months now I really am a massive fan. Having had old Land Rovers and Minis as daily drivers before I thought I knew what was meant by 'smiles per mile' but the Deux Chevaux is such fun to drive, and all I've done is drive it too and from work- I haven't done anything silly or taken it to any events etc. (yet).

 

Brilliant little cars and one I should have bought a lot sooner than I did .

 

Jack

[dollywobbler]

Cool! Another one! Hope to catch you at an event this year then. I'm missing the French National, which is a shame, as something like 3000 cars have already booked!

[scooters]

I'd absolutely love one - I really like citroens....

 

my all time cevron spunkfest would be an Ami 8 or an Ami 6 but a nice Dyane or 2CV would be just as nice - tough wee cars, take loads of abuse and cheap to run

In these tough times I'm all for frugal motoring and love post war innovative small cars - moggys, dafs, citroens ,renne4s fiats you name it

along with a DS it would feature on my fantasy 11 as a runabout

 

the missus wouldn't dismiss it as a runabout either but would only want a minter which is a bit out of my price range and with the todolist on the existing shit building up and the only vehcile suitable for daily use and working at the moment being the wonderful Torslanada buying a project isn't an option

 

well bought sir- I think you have got a bargain

[trigger]

Err... This thread is a year old guys, Dicky got rear ended in it in the later part of last year and it got written off...

[dollywobbler]

Yup. We are dredging up our past this week! I was only replying to the latest posts on this thread.

[michiel]

Here's some news for an old thread then... just a teaser!

 

I'm afraid I will be voted off the AS island now for swapping the Florian for a 2CV6... soz! More on this story later...

 

(Edit: teaser pic removed)

[dollywobbler]

As much as I liked the Florian, that's excellent! I demand a while thread of Moar!

[forddeliveryboy]

I don't see a 2cv as being in competition with whatever I happen to own, simply as something I weigh up the pros and cons about and then decide whether it's for me or not. On the occasions I've driven or been driven in a 2cv I've either been sick or got out feeling like I'm going to be. Therefore it's not for me. As for "hooning" it, I just don't drive like that, and "hooning" something with extreme roll angles, windows flapping with my feet getting pissed wet through and my passenger lurching into me is only marginally less attractive than bungee jumping.

 

2cvs have a huge following, nothing I say will affect your love of your car (and nor should it) but that doesn't debar me from having an opinion or expressing it on an open forum. Go ahead and enjoy your fun!

 

90% of those I've driven have been wrong - either wrong out of the factory, made wrong by local garage, on some dodgy shiny chassis sold as the cheapest available, wrong because the thing's loaded up with cheap new parts/crap tyres/profit by canny specialists, wrong because it's shagged out, etc. BUT... drive a good one which is maintained properly and they're awesome. I've driven most cars from Orions to 308s, Giuliettas to 900T16s, (ur-)Quattros to Alpines and not much comes close to a _good_ tin snail. Bit like a bumblebee, shouldn't work half so well as they can do. They're strong in a way no Land-Rover ever can be.

[Angrydicky]

As the subject on the News 24 thread has turned back to 2CV's, I thought it would be a good idea to put some of the latest pictures of my old 2CV on here!

 

As most of you know, I had a tatty £350 2CV last year that got rear ended in a traffic jam, it was really rusty to start with so the boot floor crumpled up, the chassis snapped off as it was so rusty - it was a wreck.

 

I'd grown very attached to the car so I was pleased when Graham, the owner of 2CV van kit specialists Ville Vans in Bury St Edmunds, expressed an interest in rebuilding it as a van. I decided this was its best chance of living again so Graham carted it away on his trailer. Several months later it looks like this! (the yellow one)

 

 

 

 

Not sure how much of the original car is left, but doesn't she look great!

[michiel]

Nice one - 2CVs never die...

[dollywobbler]

Excellent. Not a huge fan of these 'Vile' vans, but they seem very popular - and it let your 2CV live again, so it must be ok.