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J-dub
Aircooled Idiot
Joined: April 24th, 2010, 10:01 am Posts: 5733 Location: Location Location
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
you are indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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March 29th, 2011, 9:43 pm |
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toomany2cvs
Firing on two.
Joined: December 26th, 2008, 9:40 pm Posts: 3332 Location: Surrounded by 2cvs...
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
samfieldhouse wrote: Jameswallace wrote: would very much like your mehari sir!! She's a really lovely car, I'm very lucky That you are, Sir. You've got _three_ corkers.
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March 29th, 2011, 9:43 pm |
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twofifty AZU
Firing on two.
Joined: May 16th, 2010, 5:04 pm Posts: 835
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
samfieldhouse wrote: toomany2cvs wrote: Nice trailer, Sam... <grin> yeah... wanted to test it, just to make sure it's working ok If you put the car on forwards so the weight of the engine loads the trailer hitch you're much less likely to end up with wagging incidents than you are with weight right at the back of the trailer. Nice looking Mehari, I fancy one....
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March 29th, 2011, 10:05 pm |
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toomany2cvs
Firing on two.
Joined: December 26th, 2008, 9:40 pm Posts: 3332 Location: Surrounded by 2cvs...
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
twofifty AZU wrote: If you put the car on forwards so the weight of the engine loads the trailer hitch you're much less likely to end up with wagging incidents than you are with weight right at the back of the trailer. Like that worked so well last time... (Sorry, Russ!)
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March 29th, 2011, 10:10 pm |
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samfieldhouse
Firing on two.
Joined: February 11th, 2009, 12:32 am Posts: 3324 Location: Chichester, West Sussex
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
As I say, we thought about selling it but it seemed a shame after 26 years in the same family!
Cheers 250 I'll remember that for nxt time. That's why it snaked a bit around 50mph
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March 29th, 2011, 10:13 pm |
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Russell
Firing on two.
Joined: November 29th, 2008, 10:05 pm Posts: 9259 Location: West Sussex, U.K.
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
It was nothing to do with the trailer swaying about, I stacked it because I wasn't watching where I was going.
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March 29th, 2011, 10:33 pm |
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toomany2cvs
Firing on two.
Joined: December 26th, 2008, 9:40 pm Posts: 3332 Location: Surrounded by 2cvs...
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
Russell wrote: It was nothing to do with the trailer swaying about, I stacked it because I wasn't watching where I was going. I had a bloody close call with the 4x4 behind the Saab on the M42 - it got a wiggle going, which just tensed me up, and it got worse, and worse... I really thought it'd gone. By the time it sorted itself out (wish I could claim the credit!), I looked in the mirror - and there were two HGVs, side by side, 200yds+ back - with their hazards on!
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March 29th, 2011, 10:37 pm |
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Russell
Firing on two.
Joined: November 29th, 2008, 10:05 pm Posts: 9259 Location: West Sussex, U.K.
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
PS, no offense taken. I was a dickhead and deserve being mocked.
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March 29th, 2011, 10:40 pm |
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toomany2cvs
Firing on two.
Joined: December 26th, 2008, 9:40 pm Posts: 3332 Location: Surrounded by 2cvs...
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
Russell wrote: PS, no offense taken. I was a dickhead and deserve being mocked. We've all done it. Several times.
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March 29th, 2011, 10:47 pm |
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twofifty AZU
Firing on two.
Joined: May 16th, 2010, 5:04 pm Posts: 835
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari
toomany2cvs wrote: Russell wrote: PS, no offense taken. I was a dickhead and deserve being mocked. We've all done it. Several times. Oh yes; it is amazing just how fast it can happen. Years ago I met up with a friend of mine to recover a Charleston with an unwound gearbox. He towed the car away using an A frame, with his Mercedes E320. I had my car loaded full of bits and pieces that went with the car. Somehow we got the a frame on slightly wrong. I was following him so I had a grandstand view. At the first roundabout we came to the 2CV started bucking so violently it pulled the Mercedes sideways until it was almost sideways across the roundabout. It was scary watching it, I just hadn't expected a 2CV could pull damn near 2 tonnes of Mercedes sideways. Fortunately nothing was damaged or hit, but I've been wary of A frames ever since.
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March 30th, 2011, 12:55 am |
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