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lpgo
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 Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV can't believe it... Your putting together a 2cv and are making a topic of it (including pics)... almost magic...
looks prommising.... It is almost unique to make a standard 2cv...
Keep up the good work... I like it..
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Russell wrote: Hi Geo,
you've been one of the sites biggest attractions in recent years.
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Russell
Firing on two.
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV This car is not standard, in fact it's not really one car, the registration, speedo, headlights and one wing are original as is some of the body, the rest is all made of other 2cvs, it's a right mash up!
I'm sorry about the gash photos, I'll take better ones as I go.
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Russell
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV Oh, thanks James. I've found some old ones for the moment.
I repainted the chassis as it looked wank. Also, rear axle is stripped and ready to be painted tomorrow, ill do the rear arms tomorrow too. Half the arm bearings are fucked, turns out doing no maintenance and leaving bits of it laying in the rain doesn't do it any good. Oh well.
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lpgo
Firing on 1-2 Spark
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV Russell wrote: This car is not standard, in fact it's not really one car, the registration, speedo, headlights and one wing are original as is some of the body, the rest is all made of other 2cvs, it's a right mash up!
I'm sorry about the gash photos, I'll take better ones as I go. Typical standard for me.... and foto's are great... channeling/tuning/hot rodding is not standard... in my eyes..
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Russell wrote: Hi Geo,
you've been one of the sites biggest attractions in recent years.
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Russell
Firing on two.
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV I know what you mean!
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Sean
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV Russell wrote: Hopefully my daughter and I can while away the afternoon assembling the rack and bolting it to the chassis.
........ I'm heavily against all the nonsense toys and crap marketed at girls her age (over sexualised dolls, make up and so on giving girls no self worth except through vanity and body image) so it's really rewarding to see her excited at having assembled something mechanical or see how something has been made and why. even if the car fails spectacularly, rolls in to a ditch and bursts into flames on its maiden voyage the above makes it all worthwhile. If you bring her to a WM in her car that she built youv'e probably set her up for life. Keeks has a wonderfully border free view of the world now - when the teacher asked the class what they wanted to do her reply was "Oh Im going to live in Paris in one of those funny roof rooms, during the day ill write books and ill dance the night away in The Moulin Rouge - ive seen it you know when we went there in a 2cv" priceless
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lpgo
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV Great speech...
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Russell wrote: Hi Geo,
you've been one of the sites biggest attractions in recent years.
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Smiffy
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV Russell wrote: Hopefully my daughter and I can while away the afternoon assembling the rack and bolting it to the chassis.
........ I'm heavily against all the nonsense toys and crap marketed at girls her age (over sexualised dolls, make up and so on giving girls no self worth except through vanity and body image) so it's really rewarding to see her excited at having assembled something mechanical or see how something has been made and why. I read this to my missus. She nodded enthusiastically and smiled. She's a carpenter.
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Russell
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV Today I took the pinion out of the rack along with sll the other innards, basically I made a sloppy job of it first time and got swarf from drilling the grease nipple holes. Now it's been cleaned out again a bit more thoroughly. I repainted it with s better paint product along with the rear axle, shocker mount plates, tank saddle and steering tie rods. Looks better, I wish I'd done the chassis in it too actually. I need three arm bearings, but five are absolutely fine. The inner bearings came off really easy by using a bread knife hammered into them to open the gap and then pull them off. It's a bit annoying doing everything twice but I'd sooner have it working better than when I took it to bits.
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Russell
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Re: 1979 Jaune Mimosa 2CV A few pictures.
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