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samfieldhouse
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Joined: February 11th, 2009, 12:32 am
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Location: Chichester, West Sussex
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 Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari   'nuff said.
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| November 25th, 2012, 5:37 pm |
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smyth602
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Joined: September 13th, 2012, 7:38 pm
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Location: Denny, Scotland
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari There's time i wish this place had a 'like' button...
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| November 25th, 2012, 7:16 pm |
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Russell
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Location: West Sussex, U.K.
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari How's the D*lly looking?
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evilben
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Joined: October 28th, 2011, 5:40 pm
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari I checked out the new Mehari body shell at the NEC last weekend are they really that thin and wobbly? or do they normally have an inner frame..
I kept coming back to the 2CV GB stand and checking out the Ami 6 and the early Dyane ( loved it ) and the black Pallas near by...
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samfieldhouse
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari Meharis have a subframe that bolts to the chassis. The bodywork is actually pretty solid. No comment on the one at the NEC 
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| November 25th, 2012, 9:31 pm |
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toomany2cvs
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Joined: December 26th, 2008, 9:40 pm
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari evilben wrote: I checked out the new Mehari body shell at the NEC last weekend are they really that thin and wobbly? The tupperware is, yep. Quote: or do they normally have an inner frame.. "Mostly" is probably the right answer there. Or maybe "originally".
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Rjsmart
Joined: October 8th, 2012, 11:13 pm
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari The Cassis Mehari body is produced from the original moulds and when the plastic is moulded the panel design with ridges etc add strength and when pop riveted to the tube framework the structure is pretty solid but can flex.
The design is clever using material properties to great effect. I replaced my dashboard section with a new section which had split and the finished result is as the original
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Richard
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Jonathan
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari Rjsmart wrote: I replaced my dashboard section with a new section which had split and the finished result is as the original Split? 
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ken
Agony Aunt - You have a car problem? Speak to Ken
Joined: March 6th, 2009, 1:40 am
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari Umm, the original panels were ABS, which is quite tough stuff. The *replacement panels from Cassis* are fibreglass, but as it's only the same thickness as the ABS originals, it certainly isn't tough. I fitted a Cassis bonnet with spare wheel well onto a Mehari heading for Raid Iceland this year and had to add a steel bar across the engine bay so that it could actually support the spare wheel. The disc which covers the centre of the spare wheel was so flimsy that the owner had to remove it when travelling at a reasonable speed on the open road...  ken edit/ *Those I've seen are fibreglass, perhaps they use the correct material for others? * toomany2cvs wrote:
The tupperware is, yep.
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deuchebleu
Joined: January 20th, 2011, 11:46 pm
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Re: Our family's 1985 Mehari They appear to do two, ABS/ASA and ABS/PPMA, both using the original moulds but the former, they say, is original quality ABS and is quite a bit more expensive.
John
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