Replica 2cv Prototype

[truemouse]

FIRST POST IN TOO LONG!

 

Looking for the firm that can make 2cv prototype replicas from production 2cv's.

 

I've heard there's one in England, just looking for info.

 

http://www.citroen.com/NR/rdonlyres/82E7E36D-EDA3-4F3D-AC29-8E605F8DC435/37758/3_480.jpg

[wozza]

That is fugly. Even worse than the normal 2cv.

[Rich_Eason]

Its amazing what you can do with a bit of corougated roof sheet, cereal boxes, dustbin lids, spare bit of tent canvas and a cranking handle from a garden lawn mower...probably goes like one as well!

 

Who will be first to put an order in?

[truemouse]

Had a conversation with one of my clients as to what makes for a 'real car'.

 

They brought up 'Zonda this' and 'Honda that' as they drooled over a supercar calender. I pointed out that anything with a side-exiting exhaust pulling up alongside could probably melt them.

 

I suggested a Plymouth Barracuda or a 2cv. They asked what the difference was. I admitted there was around 400 horses difference, but they both were real cars.

 

Real cars do not need to be taken to an IT specialist for a service. (IT = Information Technology for those REAL mechanics out there)

 

Real cars do not have to be hooked up to the internet for a tune-up.

 

Real cars do not cost £770 to replace a clutch because of all the gubbins they have to remove first to get AT the clutch.

 

Real cars do not take a week to replace said clutch because some dumb sonuvabitch let 'moisture into the engine bay and fried the ECU' when they start it up.

 

The most high-tech electronic component of a real car should be the stereo.

 

Real cars are made from metal and have steel bumpers.

 

This makes the 2cv one of the realest cars out there.

 

What does this make a C4? :rolleyes: (which incidentally is named after a grade of plastic explosive) :ph34r:

[Rich_Eason]

So what about the BMC Mini then?

 

Meets all your criteria and more. It has the added (and quite handy) ability of being able to go around corners maintaining a sensible speed and not having to worry about it leaning over so far your ear rubs the tarmac :D

 

I'm mean you'd never see a CV doing this would you? It would be in the nearset verge....

 

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2900/981bbx4.jpg

 

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8670/e81bmd1.jpg

 

The C4 is a completly different car though, you cant compare them as they are designed and built for two completly different markets, of completly different technologies.....

 

Just because press reviews rave about cars also doesnt make them good cars...

[truemouse]

Mini don't have a chassis, but it is pretty real.*

 

http://www.2cvracing.org.uk/images/gall-picture-029-500.jpg

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbI8yWb4eLU

 

 

Yes, the C4 is for a completly different market. A market of folks who'll settle for plastic toy cars.

 

 

*(BMW mini doesn't count.)

[wozza]

I'll take plastic car over weird hippy car any day :-P

 

The C4 was also around before the 2CV :-P

 

http://www.classic2.dds.nl/foto%20France/Citroen/Citro28.jpg

[Rich_Eason]

I knew a picture of a CV race would crop up after the pics of the Minis! :D

 

In all seriousness what do they do to them to make them race prepared? :D I take it a lot of strengthing work goes into it?

 

BMW MINI (note gramatical differences - believe it or not there is a difference)...I dont talk about them :D

[truemouse]

There's a race-cage to protect the driver against a worst case scenario (Like that bloody mindless midget Hammond pushing it out behind a 747*.) but to be honest, just tune up the engine.

 

Look into the construction of them. They're pretty damned solid to start with (Not to mention one of the lowest centres of gravity until now) please note the real chassis I was talking about earlier. This makes for one hella strong backbone, something modern cars lack.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA5a3un2wLs

 

If you ever rode in one you might notice the way the body panels have been finished around the edges. They rolled the ends of the sheet steel over making a roll-cage almost by accident. Most other cars of the time would just fold and tack the edges. Many cars today still fold and tack.

 

Probably because of this the yellow 2cv used in the Bond movie 'For Your Eyes Only' still drives around today by Nigel Wild in England, despite being rolled over (real hard stunt, ducks don't roll easy) several times, driven down a mountainside the hard way, jumped over some ugly-pugs and generally taking the kind of beating that'd kill 'solid' stunt cars. (To be fair, Bond's little yellow duck also had a race-cage, but again, that was to protect the driver and fore-mentioned 'solid' stunt cars also would have had the same treatment)

 

 

 

 

(*Weren't no 747's around in 1936 when they were being designed)