2CV Epic Yesterday

[dollywobbler]

Must be the week for stupid, twin-pot aircooled road marathons!

 

Just back from our hols in Switzerland. Overnighted in Becancon in France on the way back and the next day, just sort of kept on driving until we got home. 665 miles in a day, in a 2CV. I had to admit defeat and let my better half take the wheel for the last 50 miles, but took about 17 hours in all (one hour on a ferry, got lost in Luxumbourg!). Four fuel stops in four countries (France, Luxumbourg which is cheapest, Belgium and England) and a serious bit of neck ache today.

 

This in a car that had the engine in bits on the night before departure! Apart from a slight exhaust manifold leak (bodged in Normandy - we went there for a family do first) and a worrying moment when the points-assisted electronic ignition threw a wobbly, 2CV performed without fault in 2100 miles.

 

We did almost get wiped out on the M25/M11 interchange last night, by a German van, which was quite scary (not sure how we didn't hit either the van or the cones!) but now need the weekend to recover!

[scooters]

fantastic DW - have you got any holiday snaps?

 

having had the fun in the Daf yesterday I am really coming round to the charm and simplicity of the small engined simple cars for epic journeys!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey if you were at Besancon you were close to Franco Sbarros museum of mental megashite!!! Thats a bad omission (unless you went there of course)

[michiel]

Wow, epic trip. Pics! Preferably not of the almost-accident though, sounds scary. His fault I presume?

[dollywobbler]

Pics will follow. Sadly I failed to convince the missus that car museums were an essential part of the holiday.

 

German van just drifted into my lane. Very scary! No damage though.

[seth]

Great drive Dolly. Easier or more difficult than continental touring in the H Van? (I'm guessing the 2CV was easier...)

[dollywobbler]

Much MUCH easier than the H van. Best we managed in a day in that was 288 miles, and I was a broken man. 2CV is still noisy, but less ear-bashing than the H van, with taller gearing so it almost feels relaxed at 60mph.

 

The day before, we did about 300 miles, with a lot of twisty back-end-of-nowhere roads and hills/hairpins etc. That was actually more tiring - you do miss PAS when you encounter a bend seemingly every few hundred metres!

 

Anyway, this is all distracting me from pictures. Bear with me caller...

[dollywobbler]

I managed to get absolutely no photos of the mammoth one day drive, as I was busy, um, driving. However, as I sift through the photo mountain, here's one that is quite fetching.

 

Sadly it's slightly ruined by some hairy chap with Tippex-coloured legs. Sorry about that.

[VWPowered]

nice scenery mind, epic journeys

[michiel]

Were you stripping it of useful parts before you pushed it over the edge?