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Will2cv
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Joined: December 8th, 2008, 4:30 pm
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 Re: Salbris 2011 knightley wrote:
Of course, as some of you may know, our major problem was a buggered gearbox. We travelled about 200 miles in third to try and save the box. We booked it into the 'garage' on Wednesday supposedly at 2pm. By about 4 the French crew, after a little chivying from us, had a quick listen and thought the gearbox had been 'unwound.'
The exact same thing happened with my Dyane on the way to the Swedish WM. Nursed the car there in third. Found an eye-wateringly expensive replacement box on the flea market. Rounded up some voulunteers and the next day we had the box changed and car back together over a few beers and banter. It actually turned into a really fun day, with a real sense of comraderie and team effort. In fact probably the best day of the meeting for me. It's what 2cv'ing is all about.
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Little Louis
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Joined: February 8th, 2009, 12:07 am
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Re: Salbris 2011 Joolz wrote: Max wrote: When racing Joolz turns into an anime character. Look at his eye. Hey, racing is serious business. It's all in the eyes!  ps. Good pics.  Nah, its all about the aerodynamics. Basically hiding behind the wheel
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ben
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Joined: November 28th, 2009, 9:48 pm
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Re: Salbris 2011 We're just back last night, a 1700 mile tour with no trouble. Had a good craic in the queue by getting inebriated (what else is there to do in a 9 hour queue) and light sabre fighting with 6 year old nephew who was travelling with us in a following vw bay camper with his parents and sister, they had never been to a 2cv event and enjoyed it despite the debacle when we got into town . No room on site so back to town, 3 times sent back to site by gendarmes despite telling them there was no room. Bumped into Kim (Wiltzes daughter?) who kindly said we might be able to squeeze in near them but on the third attempt in the dark we gave up and set up camp at 1am down the road on a building site where we stayed for 3 nights like pikeys  This austrian car was nice, and his bird was as fit as f*#k too i have to say (the one caressing the headlamp ,with her back to us unfortunately) 
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jesper2cv
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Joined: May 27th, 2009, 11:38 am
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Location: Amsterdam, NL
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Re: Salbris 2011 Here are some of my pictures of our visit at Salbris: http://www.glimeend.nl/auto/albums/WM2011/
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Sean
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Joined: April 22nd, 2009, 11:06 pm
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Re: Salbris 2011 Who takes a shorty surfboard all the way to the geographical centre of France.....almost as far as you can possibly get from the surf!
should have put my old telemark skis on the roof.
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ben
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Re: Salbris 2011 Perhaps he was expecting floods
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| August 9th, 2011, 8:44 am |
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Sean
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Joined: April 22nd, 2009, 11:06 pm
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Location: Ecosse
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Re: Salbris 2011 Gonna slam it and take a wooden sledge to Spain
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| August 9th, 2011, 8:49 am |
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Little Louis
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Joined: February 8th, 2009, 12:07 am
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Re: Salbris 2011 Reckon it'll be sandy in spain? we could all take snowboards..
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ben
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Joined: November 28th, 2009, 9:48 pm
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Re: Salbris 2011 Last time i went to Spain was last year in June , Gijon in the north to the Lambretta equivalent of the WM and i am not kidding it HOOFED it down for a whole week ,there were floods ,roads coming up the lot. Not ideal when you're on a Lambretta and camping 
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| August 10th, 2011, 5:23 pm |
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Jonathan
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Joined: January 1st, 2009, 7:37 pm
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Location: Disunited Kingdom
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Re: Salbris 2011 A road trip across Europe on a Lambretta sounds fab. 
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| August 10th, 2011, 5:56 pm |
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