post some pictures of A-series you owned over the years, how you came by them & what became of the them...

I'll kick things off:

Here's my first 2cv & first car his name was 'Harry' named by the previous female owner - i bought it with money i'd saved from paper rounds & stacking shelves in Gateway on Sundays. I actually bought it when i was 16, paid IIRC about £400 for it - it had been blown over, though whoever did it managed to mask up the decals pretty well. I clocked up over 20k in the first year, mostly flat out and loaded with mates! I sold it about 18 months later through the club mag due to dropping the gearbox oil, going indoors to have some lunch, then going out moving the thing off the driveway without first refilling the 'box...

Sold it to a guy in Exeter, he ran it for a few more years & i'm guessing it's now razor blades... This picture i found on flickr purely by chance - this was after i'd flogged it.



Next one was an Orange Tenere, Belgian built NML 522 R 2cv6, one previous owner & only 39k on the clock. I bought it from a chap called Mark Green in Somerset - mint original floors/chassis, brown targa upholstery. Found it through the CCC magazine, although i believe it was advertised in the 2cvgb mag at the same time. I paid £800 for it & i think that's the most i've paid for any car. Ever. It was gorgeous to drive & look at. I managed to score a garage to keep it in from an old dear up the road - £2.50 a week and i was happy! Her daughter used to own a Dyane Caban WAC 24S i think. I got T-boned on the 3rd June 1996 by a Lada Riva! Hit on the drivers side, the Lada was doing at least 40 mph or so the cops reckoned - it was enough to crack 3 ribs, fracture my pelvis & pubic bone!

Had nearly a year off driving, then came back with another 2cv, think it was around May '97 that i picked it up this time a 1981 Club in cuivre indien, this came once again from Mark Green & I paid £450 for it - lovely original car, loads of bills & history, i took it to Pete Sparrow in early '98 and he lowered it for me, ran it like that for a bit, but as i watched him do it i knew just how easy it was to do - so a few months later i wound it down several more inches! That would prove to be it's undoing - i caught the spring can mount on a stand pipe cover in the road & ripped it clean away from the chassis this was a few weeks after the 1998 Worcester international - i couldn't afford to do anything with it at the time so i wanged it in the £2.50 a week garage in late summer 1998 & that's where it stayed until 2002 when the old dear passed on & i had to vacate the lock up - i then let Graham Wilson re-chassis it, new quater floors, 2nd hand rack, converted to discs etc all in for 1k!! I then used it daily & took it to the London international @ Isleworth in 2003. Not long after i sold it to Graham for 1k, i believe he sold it to an enthuisiat in Barnstaple, North Devon. It's currently on SORN, i hope its still in rude health... still regret letting it go, it was one of those 2cvs that you just know would go on & on.



and this from Worcester 98





i'll write a bit more about some of my other A series if anyones interested...?

Go for it, I'm digging out some old school pics at the mo blad...

yeah i'm interested

Im interested. You got any more picies of your Orange Tenere?

Get some of your purple thing up Max.

What happened?

Good thread Neil.

Here's my first car - WDA623T. I bought it in when I was 17, in March 1997, with my first pay cheque from my first job. It was about a month after I'd passed my driving test, and for that first month I'd been driving around in my Dad's 2cv Bamboo, so it was a coincidence that I ended up with a bamboo green Dyane.



I bought it from a rather tasty model who lived in Matlock. I guess her career had gone a bit wrong, as her previous car had been a Porsche, then she'd downgraded to this tatty Dyane, which she was now selling for £70. It had failed its MOT, but we got it through with a bit of filler in the floors and a general tidy up. It looked well ratty when I got it, and the roof was shagged etc, but the car cleaned up very well, and I got a good s/h roof from a guy who'd murdered a Dyane to make a Lomax (still, at least I got a roof cheap...).

I ran it around for that first happy year of driving, and had a couple of bits of welding done on the boot floor and the bit under the windscreen - this bit was the worst I've seen on any Dyane!

I would have kept it, and gradually had it properly sorted out, but then I got offered my current Myosotis Blue Dyane in March 1998, just as my green one's MOT was due. The green one was ready for a fair bit of work and the blue one was clearly a much better car, so I decided to buy/keep the blue one and flog the green one. It went to a 2cv friend called Tim, from Nottingham, and he had planned to get it done up. Sadly, it looks like he never did as it's not been on the road since, and I lost contact with him long ago.

Right, In no particular order:

My yellow '79 2cv, bought in March 2006 out of the adverts in the 2cvgb magazine for £900 the previous owner had restored it around the turn of the century, but had taken to smashing it (and his other cars) into things, so the front wings have always been a bit shoddy. I used it for a couple of years and it went from being equipped with hideous bumpers and a manky yellow (white) roof to having standard bumpers and a black hood, then it was lowered with a spoiler and GS hubcaps and a new yellow hood again for a while, when I got fed up with it breaking down due to the oil cooler exploding and the coil being duff, and I left it in the drive for a few months. Then I bought an ECAs supercoil and had some 60s wheels powdered black for it and used it a bit last year, but it ran out of moT and i couldnt be bothered with it. Now it sits at in a garage a standard hieght while I paint a load of bits bright pink so I can offload it on the missus.









Then there's my Ami6 break, which I found on anciennes.net one evening and bought it the week after. I did a bit of tarting up and welding, but it was, and i assume, still is pretty solid. played with it a bit but to be honest, its foul to drive, even with a decent engine in, so it sits in my workshop about to run out of MoT having done about 1000 miles since the last one! I keep thinking about sorting it out and turning it into a van which is the plan, but finding time to do it is tricky at the moment, so it can sit in the workshop a bit longer....







I bought this Dyane to do the French national 2007 with, it wasn't a star buy but it did what I needed it to, and was a lot of fun.





KEV was swapped for some welding work, had a lot of fun with it, chassis broke and engine dropped out though, never mind.





A dyane and a Charleston I had some years back:



Owned this a few times, toured France and Italy with it, great car, understeered like a bitch, but had a lot of fun with it, was awaiting a new engine last I heard, or something like that, I might own it again soon, you never know.



The ex-spanners sidewinder that most of 2cvgb has owned for about a week at a time, I wanted one before they got too hard to build, found this, had it a while, had fun, got rid.






Here are some more, a few pics I scanned ages back:



Hope yo'all like.

Here's my 2nd car, which I had alongside the green one for a bit.

This one was bloody awful.