Funny thing is, next meeting your at half the people there will have a badge in the same place ......you can't win.....It ain't easy being a trend-setter ay !!!

OK...Where's that old RAC badge of mine?

Haha photoshop I wish, I did it in paint

Rouge Cinnabre is good

Great work with the two tone paint work... It is a nice contrast to the green colour. I think that on most other late cars, an AA badge would look abit out of place and tacky, but because you've made yours look older, it looks nice and not out of place.
From almost every angle it looks like a mid 60s car. IMO rear quarter lights would finish it off, even if they won't be wired in

Great stuff

I have some of those body lights somewhere, but I didn't fit them because I wasn't sure of the legality of them. Having them attached purely as 'dummy' items doesn't appeal to me, as although the car has been done to have a 'feel' of the 1960's, putting dummy side lights on a late car would be going a bit too far I reckon, I don't mind the odd period feature though which is why I bought the Quillery steering wheel. Retro - it's the future!

I'd have thought "Retro" was the past, after all, there's the MINI, VW Beetle & Fiat 500 Now Citroen have introduced "Anti-Retro", DS3.

With the badge mounted on the side of the car, the AA patrolman riding his motorbike and sidecar would not be able to see it and salute you, Sir.

I'm inventing my own movement - 'Neo-Retro'
I think that one of the great things about cars like the 2cv, or in fact especially the 2cv, is that they were from the outset designed to be all things to all men. From the farmer with the back seat removed for his bales of hay, to the Parisienne lady flitting up and down the boulevards between boutiques, the same car was adapted for all.

I have owned eight 2cv's now, and other owners will know what I mean when I say that each one had something distinct about it that made it different from the others, not something added, just something about the way it drove, sounded, or acted that was unique to that single example. I shy away from saying 'personality', inasmuch as a mass produced machine cannot display such traits...and yet they do.

To take that phenomenon one step further by then adding a little of the owners personality to it, we make each and every car of ours unique. Whether they are lowered, bedecked in stickers, rat-look or restored they all carry that little personal investment of the owner, which creates a stronger link between owner and vehicle. Perhaps that's why all 2cv's are different, because so are we as people.

i think you have pretty much summed it up in a nutshell mate. but sometimes it makes things harder i.e. to stop myself from doing things to my car haha! the car looks all there now, apart from interior? when is your target to get the wiring etc done and then mot'd? it would be nice to see it at the national!

I've only the roof to put on and there's the interior to retrim and it's done really, although I have to take the dash back off to put that painted speedo face in, and a few other fiddly bits like that which sometimes feels like I'm going backwards. Then there'll be a shakedown period of adjusting and fettling I suppose. I've been working on it this morning actually but I've just nipped in for a cuppa.

The tax is up on my modern car at the end of May, and I intend to sell that then and just have the 2cv as my full time daily driver, so it has to be finished and road ready in the next three weeks.