after getting a lot of hassle from macks, i thought i'd best stick a thread up of at least one of my A-series...
i bought a nice(ish) 1971 AKS400 from Limoges last March, not long after getting it back i stuck it on eBay with a 99p start bid. Needed the cash at the time, but have kicked myself several times a day since.
Just before christmas this van appeared on eBay; it was being flogged en France by an ex.pat & seemed to be fairly tidy - i emailed the seller to see if he knew of any 400s in his area (Limousin), he didn't but did say that the Acad was pretty solid & that he was looking for a RHD 2cv to take back with him when he next came over to the UK. At the time i hadn't thought about selling the beachcomber, but after an exchange of emails & photographs we decided to strike a deal... Early December the Acad turned up outside my council rented lock-up being towed by a Merc Sprinter.
a quick look over it & it was off the trailer, drove the beachcomber on, exchanged documents & that was it - a real flying visit!
first impressions were that it was filthy - it was covered in road salt despite being washed at one of those eastern european petrol station car wash jobs the night before. seemed to pretty free from the dreaded tin worm - Acads seem to rust like fook when compared to most other A-series, must be the inferior metal used by the Spanish - reckon they must've been built using recycled Lancia Betas!
I have the front bumper, i took it off to clean it & to straighten out the kinks in it...