Blimey, even one of those little Eriba 'vans must be well over 85% of the snail's weight. Cracking video though.
Our own caravan adventure was to Pyrenees and then the Lande - an account follows. We transited back close to Le Mans last week and I thought Meharis seemed more numerous than usual - maybe this was the explanation.
Last year there was a similar gathering in NW Spain. We met a Finnish contingent en-route near Carcassonne. They'd got a ferry as far as Hamburg but rest under own steam.
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Really can't remember the last time I saw a 2CV in the UK. However, in France I must have seen a few every day. Also those MIni Moke type Citroens were here and there. You need a straw hat to drive those too.
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>> Really can't remember the last time I saw a 2CV in the UK. However, in
>> France I must have seen a few every day. Also those MIni Moke type Citroens
>> were here and there. You need a straw hat to drive those too.
It was the number of Renault 4 versions I noticed on this trip that seemed unusual. Also one R6 but no Pug 104 variants.
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Loads of Renault 5s still kicking about there as well. Pretty rare sight here now.
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>> Also one R6 but no Pug 104 variants.
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I was in Vianden, Luxembourg yesterday and saw a 104 cabrio in very good health parked up on a side street.
Don't see many Talbot Sambas even in France though, can't remember when I last heard the rattle of a Talbot engine.
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I always liked Renault Dauphines. Never driven one and probably never will but I always liked their looks for no explicable reason.
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Me biker/caravanning pal has a mint '85 Puddlejumper, a grey and red Dolly. I think he might have gone on this 2014 thrash with his caravan.
A bit optimistic to tow a 19ft Bessacarr Cameo though. He's left the 2CV at home and taken the Plumber's Bentley !
I'm without a car or caravan ATM. I took the old Elddis in last Monday and was due to collect the new one on Friday after they'd swapped the motor-mover over. The dealers rang and told me they'd found some damp in the door frame. Very apologetically they said they'd sort it out properly, with a 15 month warranty, but it might take up to 2 weeks.
They were relieved when I said I wasn't bothered as the Vitara had failed to start a couple of days earlier and was now at a diesel specialist somewhere in Stockport. Britannia Rescue got me to my indy and we diagnosed a fuel supply problem after making her start ok with Easy-Start.
When I emptied the old van last Sunday, the same day we got home from holiday, I reckon I removed nearly as much ' stuff ' as we have in the house. The workshop is full...as is the shed !..Bit of culling needed when the new van gets home !
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>> I always liked Renault Dauphines.
I've had a mortal dislike of the damn things since 1966, when one inexplicably did an emergency stop in front of me and I put a great big dent in the back of it with my motorbike. The driver didn't speak a word of English and ran off, only to re-appear with someone who could translate. Cost me a lot of money, but fortunately I knew someone in the local Renault dealer who got me trade price on a centre section, rear bumper.
My 'bike wasn't damaged, I reckon the Dauphine was made of tin foil!
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I can't imagine towing anything with my 2CV - crumbs it slows down enough just when the kids are on board!
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Don't knock the 2CV-mine was regularly held up in the RH lane of the M25.
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Saw an old British registered Nissan Micra towing a caravan in France last week. Makes you wonder at what point that seemed like a good idea.
What's the thing with caravans and fairy lights in awnings or up on flagpoles anyway? Some kind of shed tugger code? Fleece swopping available signal or something?
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Pat will know, it may be something like the fairy lights in lorry cabs, whether she chooses to enlighten us is a different matter. :)
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>>Pat will know<<
I'm more intrigued with how Humph has seen these. He didn't see them by following one on the motorway, which must mean he's been on a site.
Why would he go on a caravan park?
Could it be he's a secret shed tugger himself and too ashamed to admit it to us?
What he tells us are business trips are actually rallys with his comrades from the Caravan Club?
It's got legs!
The lights are a caravan club thing anyway, and why we do our own thing;)
Pat
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>> Don't knock the 2CV-mine was regularly held up in the RH lane of the M25.
On the back of a recovery truck was it?
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As an impoverished family we have had two Dyanes - the "civilised" version of the Deux Chevaux.
Our first was a brand new red one, whose number plate I can recall to this day - LLM444P. (I chopped a 2 liter Cortina GT, coke bottle shape, for it!)
Later, in Wales, we had another new one in Eau-de-Nil, bought sight unseen over the phone, from the Citroen dealer in Swansea -- my wife was so peed off when we collected it, as she was expecting it to be a Kermit green colour!
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>> >> mine was regularly held up in the RH lane of the M25.
>> On the back of a recovery truck was it?
Even my gutless, overweight 425cc Bijou could wind up to 90-odd down a decent slope. The 602cc Dyane was better though and could hold 80 for miles. 2CV variants will march along if driven in a sufficiently gung-ho manner.
But they do need to maintain momentum. Being baulked by some overtaking-lane mimser concerned about speed limits just before a steep hill is very annoying when you are driving one. You won't get that speed back until the incline goes the other way.
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>>>But they do need to maintain momentum. Being baulked by some overtaking-lane mimser concerned about speed limits just before a steep hill is very annoying when you are driving one. You won't get that speed back until the incline goes the other way. <<<
I had always assumed that the French predeliction for tailgating was a function of old style gutless diesels. It obviously goes back further in the DNA.
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The English are thick, and terrible drivers Sherlock.
When you are about to waft up a hill in the outside lane in your snorting monster at or below the speed limit, English driver style, and a 2CV comes storming up your jaxie, the polite intelligent thing to do is to get out of its damn way by accelerating hard or changing lanes.
Do people want to crawl up inclines in a queue behind low-powered cars or lorries which have been baulked, deprived of their momentum, forced to brake, by stupid mimsing law-abiding idiots?
I thought not.
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>> Do people want to crawl up inclines in a queue behind low-powered cars or
>> lorries which have been baulked, deprived of their momentum, forced to brake, by stupid mimsing
>> law-abiding idiots?
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There's a certain kind of driver of powerful cars who loves holding up a slower jalopy in a 30 limit, just for the pleasure of leaving it in a cloud of dust soon after the derestriction sign.
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>> There's a certain kind of driver of powerful cars who loves holding up a slower jalopy in a 30 limit, just for the pleasure of leaving it in a cloud of dust soon after the derestriction sign.
That's what I said CP: thick, and terrible drivers.
Not all of them of course. And I suppose some foreigners like to get in the way too. Toerags.
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I had 3 and liked the first, 425 cc., best. Next was the 602cc. version, then an Ami 6, also 602 cc. I didn't like the look of the Dyane.
There is often a mini-rally of three or four 2CV 3-wheel sports conversions in my area.
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Quelle horreur! 2CVs as towcars - Bromptonaut
