What did you do with your A Series today?
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2cy
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 Re: What did you do with your A Series today? . Why Thank you ! . It's a long time since I was trained as a design draftsman.. but then was working on computer for the last 20 years of my career, and that was 5 years ago. Now the ol' peepers aren't so sharp to see what I'm measuring or supposed to drawing. 
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| December 29th, 2016, 12:36 am |
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Jonathan
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today? Just returned from my usual little afternoon drive down to the ferry terminal and back. On the way there the gritter lorry passed going the other way, and a short distance further south the local sheep had made their way onto the road to lick the salt off the surface. 
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| December 31st, 2016, 5:38 pm |
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Terry
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today?
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| January 1st, 2017, 12:54 am |
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AZL57
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today? I did nothing but a drunken belgian ran into the back of my 57 and left his damaged ford here and did a runner. Because my 2cv was shifted forward the damage is reduced to a bent bumper..  The other car was damaged on more places so i think he had some accident already before last night...
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| January 1st, 2017, 1:46 pm |
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AZL57
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today? surprise the belgian did turn up again and paid the damage to my car...
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| January 2nd, 2017, 9:38 am |
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Ianredspecial
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today? Aaaaaw really? That's awesome.
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| January 2nd, 2017, 12:42 pm |
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AZL57
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today? Yes i think too, the ford is still here, he couldn't get the damaged wheel off.
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| January 2nd, 2017, 8:19 pm |
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Geert
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today? AZL57 wrote: surprise the belgian did turn up again and paid the damage to my car... Great ! Hope you'll find a decent replacement - bumper .
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| January 2nd, 2017, 8:35 pm |
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AZL57
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today? I first will try to save the old one. New ones are available at several sites.
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| January 2nd, 2017, 11:12 pm |
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2cy
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Re: What did you do with your A Series today? .Got the AmiS back to the UK on 23rd Dec and now need to get her registered asap, because the insurance co say that they only insure for 30 days on the VIN number. They want a registration number.
Confusion over the NOVA (Notification Of Vehicle Arrivals) happened because I registered (23rd Dec) with the gov.uk 'gateway' (to fill in the forms on-line) but they never sent me a verification. I phoned their office (28th) and had them send me a pack. That arrived yesterday (10th Jan). In the meantime I got the on-line NOVA to work. but haven't yet received notification from them. I've also requested a new vehicle registration pack from the DVLA.., which I am awaiting.
I have also asked the 2cvGB registrar for a dating certificate. Not for me for the car.  The reg. document I have show the car was produced in 1974 but seemingly not first registered until the 27-July-76. but I don't know the actual 'date of manufacture' and I suspect the DVLA will not just want to accept the year.
As some might have spotted (during the holidays) I pulled out the car's steering pinion, did a sketch of that, and posted it on this and several other Citroen websites. I also sent the sketch to various specialists and suppliers - in the hope of identifying whether this pinion was unique to the Ami-super or was used on another model, and then if anyone had one ? It appears to be unique (at least as far as Citroen cars are concerned) and a few people have complete racks which they are offering to sell, at a variety of prices, but no-one wants to take the pinion out.. ie. they'd like me to chance buying something that may be equally as knackered as my own.
I have no choice but to go that route, or else pull the rack out of my car and rebuild it with the guts of the twin cylinder Ami-8 (and subsequently live with heavier steering).
In the meantime, I've drained the fuel tank down because it's drain tap is leaking. and I've removed the fuel filler & vent pipes which need replacing. The old filler pipe cracked and the straight rubber fuel hose (I had access to at that time) kinked around the corners. I'm sure the MOT man will frown upon those kinks, so I've ordered a new one from ECAS whose price was £42+ compared to 39euros (£34) from Der Franzose, but the cost of postage from each meant ECAS was £3 cheaper overall. Hopefully I'll have the new pipe before the week's end.
I've also made & fitted a couple of body clamp brackets, which were missing to the rear chassis outriggers. And while doing so I've locally hand painted those areas under where the brackets fit, up the rear valance and around the boot shut. In time, I'll probably hand paint the whole of the underside of the car as I believe this thicker (than sprayed on) brushed-in coat is an important barrier to long term weather protection.
The car has me in a dilemma insomuch as just I wanted a cheap car.., which would have been ok scruffy (but mechanically and structurally in first class order). Unfortunately as things have worked out the car now is so expensive that I'll have to sell it to add something back into my depleted coffers. So., to realise the value I've already poured into it - I need the car to look pretty too. That of course is going to cost me dearly which just leaves me more and more out of pocket. In short I'm on a hiding to nothing here. 
Aside from that, I've replaced the fuel feed pipe to the carb. which was again iffy (enough to get the car running in Slovenia).
That's about it for today, and now I need to get on with lowering the fuel tank (which the body tub is hard against) and then move on to other minor jobs in preparation for an MOT.
It seems that I cannot register the car in this country without an MOT. (SORN is not acceptable) ..and as the insurance company will cancel the insurance if it is not registered - I'm against a deadline. This in turn will mean that some of the jobs (like taking the wings off to paint under them) will have to wait until the car is on the road.
I will also have to borrow a set of wheels and tyres for the MOT (..so as to delay the rather large bill for a new set of tyres all around until spring time).
hey hum ! 
Last edited by 2cy on January 28th, 2017, 11:43 am, edited 1 time in total.
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