Tag: 2CV rebuild

As anyone who has tackled a rebuild project at home will verify, once you start taking parts off a car, you suddenly find yourself needing a garage that is about four times larger than you have, simply to store some of the parts in a manner to avoid damage. Sadly, very few people are in…

As the weekend continued, so progress on the car disassembly took leaps forwards, due in part to the simple construction and ease of accessibility of parts of a 2CV. As has been previously mentioned, all four doors have been stripped of glass, interior trim and lock mechanisms, some of which was a little fiddly and…

Well I was watching TV on a wet Sunday in 2012, and there was a program about Raymond Blanc, in which he was driving around in the lush sunny French countryside in a Citroen 2CV – by contrast our summer had been wet and dull. I came into work on the following Monday and told…

Now that 2CV ownership is entering its third year, Julian is taking steps to give the little car some well earned TLC. The main aim being to strip it down, removing the body, and repairing in particular the bulkhead where rust is starting to show. At the same time, following advice from Pete Sparrow at…