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| Author: | Rhythm Thief [ July 17th, 2013, 9:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Reached the end of the A series road ... |
I've sold my last A series. I've finally realised that these things are now just a little too rare to run as I always used to run them, viz. driving it until it fell to bits, then getting another. While I am pretty good at the maintenance of the oily bits - those are the bits that interest me - I have no aptitude for, or interest in, maintaining the bodywork. Nor do I have the money to pay someone else to do this. Sooner or later, my cars fall to bits and get broken for spares: this was ok back in the 1990s whne 2cvs were ten a penny, but not any more. So, my Dyane has gone to SteveQ of this very forum. I'll be shopping for something with a bit of character but also something I can run into the ground and scrap when it gets old and tired. I'll miss the Dyane - in fact, I had second thoughts about selling it right up to the point it disappeared round the corner on an A frame - but I know how the story would have ended if I'd kept it. And that would have been a shame. |
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| Author: | haryg [ July 17th, 2013, 10:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
Sorry to see you go. Quite understandable given the increasing rarity and climbing prices. All the best |
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| Author: | Rhythm Thief [ July 17th, 2013, 10:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
I'll still be around here ... I'm planning a "how to rebuild your carb" thread and I still like little Citroens. But I honestly don't think I'll be owning another one, unless the prices drop and they start making them again! |
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| Author: | lpgo [ July 17th, 2013, 12:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
You can make an art of it buying cheap pieces and make a drivable 2cv out of it (this is what I am doing the last 25 years or so........ |
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| Author: | toomany2cvs [ July 17th, 2013, 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
lpgo wrote: You can make an art of it buying cheap pieces and make a drivable 2cv out of it (this is what I am doing the last 25 years or so........ Finding a cheap bodyshell and panels that don't need work is going to be the challenge, though. |
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| Author: | ChrisW [ July 17th, 2013, 6:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
Maybe the Visa on the other thread may be of interest - good price and nearly a 2cv |
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| Author: | Russell [ July 17th, 2013, 10:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
toomany2cvs wrote: lpgo wrote: You can make an art of it buying cheap pieces and make a drivable 2cv out of it (this is what I am doing the last 25 years or so........ Finding a cheap bodyshell and panels that don't need work is going to be the challenge, though. I agree with Lpgo. I can't remember the last time I ordered a 2cv panel. My £900 2cv is still going now, at least 100k and 7 years after I bought it, and it's cost me nothing except when it was written off and an insurance company picked up the tab for that. You just have to be in the right place at the right time to find cars and once you've got one you can keep it going by using secondhand shit picked up for next to nothing. It doesn't have to be expensive. Running a normal car, now that's expensive. I had to put two driveshafts on our 106 which cost £60, or, a fucking fortune in my book. If the 2cv needed the same I'd dig through the piles of shit in the shed and fit the first two I found, for free. 'Ooh, but that's not sustainable' everybody cries. Well when cheap scrappers stop presenting themselves and I run out of used shit I'll think about changing my ways, but as that doesn't show any sign of happening, I'll carry on running my car on a shoestring and not giving a toss. |
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| Author: | Rhythm Thief [ July 18th, 2013, 5:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
^^ That does work well, given a shed full of spares and a couple of scrappers on the drive. The problem is, I haven't got a shed full of spares, and I haven't got the room for a couple of breakers anywhere. And even if I did have, the supply of cheap scrappers dried up some time ago for me! You say modern cars are expensive ... I had a 1998 Saab 900 a while ago. I bought it for £300 and ran it for 18 months. Total expenditure was 75p on a sidelight bulb for its first MOT; when it failed its second MOT in my ownership, I sold it as "spares or repair" for £200. Compare that to what I spent on the shagged out 2cv which replaced it - three figures on service parts and piston rings alone - and suddenly 2cvs don't look like the cheap motoring they once were. The Dyane I've just sold will, sooner or later, need some money spending on the bodywork if it's not going to slide inexorably downhill. I haven't got that sort of money, and while I can weld, I wouldn't feel at all confident in replacing big chunks of visible bodywork. I wouldn't have felt easy about running the thing until it went past the point of no return, because they're not making Dyanes any more. So what else was left but to sell it and get something like a tired old GM Saab 900, which doesn't matter and will be no great loss when it dies? |
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| Author: | lpgo [ July 19th, 2013, 12:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
and where the next (world) meeting for Saabs?????? You can't express that in money... |
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| Author: | Rhythm Thief [ July 19th, 2013, 1:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reached the end of the A series road ... |
Well, maybe. I also feel I've "been there, done that" with the camping scene ... if I haven't got the money to run an A series, I certainly haven't got the money to drag one half way across Europe to go camping! I have other stuff to do with my weekends these days. My cars only really have to perform transport functions nowadays. |
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