I'm old enough to prefer a proper 2CV. Roll off the roof, take the
seats out for a picnic, big coil spring bounce, any colour so long as
it's grey. My first ride in one, the driver saw someone he wanted in
a field and simply drove off across the furrows. He didn't need the
4WD version with the second engine in the back.
I mean, you had to polish a Dyane! Tsk.
AndrewF
On 02/04/2006, at 3:57 AM, iwert wrote:
>
> Indeed, but what I miss most nowadays is the sound:
> the typical high VRRRRN VRRRRN, I would know my mother was approaching
> the house about 5 minutes before she arrived! (and the same goes for
> the peugeot indenor diesel in my fathers old sierra). In these days
> you'ld know what was coming around from the corner. I surely miss the
> different characters on the car market.
>
> and another anecdote: when my parents were building their house, there
> were trenches for the foundations of the garden wall. One day my
> mother
> drove backwards in one of them. Nobody around, and she had to go
> somewhere.
> So she lifted the dyane out of the trench by herself! Made her my
> women
> of 10.000.000! (I was about 8 years at that time, and it was our first
> dyane, multi-coloured beige from the anti rust treatment :).
> (remember
> dinitrol?).
>
> iwert.
>
> Op 1-apr-06 om 19:27 heeft Chris Barker het volgende geschreven:
>
>>
>> Perhaps we should be grateful, eh, Iwert ... ;-) They were a pain to
>> work on: even the ignition was hidden behind something big (the fan).
>>
>> Chris
>> ~~ >-)-
>>
>> On 1 Apr 2006, at 13:23, iwert wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, the Dyane, that's the car I learned to drive in, brings up
>>> memories.
>>> Good for a dry french climate, but in our wet climate, after 15
>>> years
>>> (!) the bottom plate was more like an emmenthaler cheese. When it
>>> rained, you'ld better have rubber boots on!
>>>
>>> I don't think there are cars made like these anymore :)
>>>
>>> Iwert.
>
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