Hi Sam.

I did find one of the correct pattern speedos on Leboncoin but NOT in MPH. Have a close look at the original in the cab photo; goes up in 10 MPH increments. Don't think I'll be finding one of those any time soon! As for the front indicators, I've got the originals. They're a bit rough but may be restorable. But thanks, I may get back to you if I need yours. It's wonderful to have such a lot of very knowledgable people out there only too willing to help.
I appreciate it.

Brooky.

Of course it would have had MPH! Blimey, you're right there can't be many of those around!

No worries, it's a lovely car

For special parts you can always contact the EEEC in Holland.

This is a 2cv club, specific for cars before 1970.. They have loads of parts for these cars..

www.eeec.nl

you need to be a member to order stuff, nut afaik Dave411 has a membership there and might be willing to help you if needed

I have only just caught up with this thread too.

I think the person you refer to as the 2CVGB member is me - your father contacted me as the Leicester area club representative back in 2003(?) and gave the car to me as a restoration project - I collected it with Nick Cordiner using a trailer. The car remained at Nick's workshop while we decided how &when to start; it did appear to be quite an unusual vehicle. As with a lot of projects, it was sidelined; I moved away, Nick &I lost touch and the next thing I see of it (albeit some years later) it is in the ebay thread on the forum Presumably, this was when Nick was closing / down-sizing the business
Your father was a lovely man; he was fitting a gearbox into an Austin 7 when we turned up - he must have been in his late 70s by then too, if not older - remarkable! He showed us around the rest of the fleet and made us tea in the parlour of the big house
I have moved house twice since then and although I have searched my all boxes of paperwork, I seem to no longer have any of the material that came with the car

Best Wishes
Mark

Thanks for getting in touch Mark and for your kind comments about my late father. It was just like him to give the car away. So which one of these fresh-faced youths is you then?;

and here's my old Dad. Last photo of him with the car.


Also, I still have the Austin 7 he was doing the gearbox on, and the Rolls Royce.
So do you have any idea where the headlamps and bar went, or the speedo?

Brooky.

I've got a photo of this car languishing outside Nick Cordiner's place circa 2003.

Hmm, looks like the right rear light corner was smashed in shortly after it left my fathers ownership then! I note that the headlamps are still there at that time, as is the plastic dashboard panel and presumably the unobtainable speedo. Is Nick Cordiner still contactable?

Brooky.

Oh My! That's me on the left of the picture (the other guy is David Plimmer with whom I shared the running of LCG at the time) I still have that shirt, though not the glasses and a little less hair! How fantastic to see both of those photographs
Nick is no longer at the workshop, but I believe the business is still being run, albeit around the corner from those premises in Burton-on-the-Wolds. If I remember rightly, a deilvery man hit the back of the car, prompting the positioning of the red &white bollard.
As for the lamps, etc, I've no idea, sorry; I had infrequent contact with Nick after I left Leicester and signed the car over to him after I'd settled in Birmingham.
Regards,

What's become of this - any progress?

There was one of those Belgian door cards in good condition in the pile of stuff 2CVGB brought down to sell from Ruskington at registers day. It might be worth tracking down as its probably rocking horse poo.