It's a disaster. The Official 2CVGB website has fallen over about 5 weeks ago, and lying dead in the rubble for now are my first 140-odd posts of the restoration by our club, of our project 2CV. The "club" is the Kent local group ("Kentish Hoppers") of the National 2CVGB organisation (links etc shortly, but at present little point in giving you the web site address, as it's parked as a default page).

The car is a 2CV from the late 50's and early 60's (bit of a dog's breakfast mixture) originally donated by the French town of La Chapelle d'Armentieres, to the Kent town of Birchington as part of their twinning link in the 80's. Since then the car has been housed at Dover Transport Museum, but in October last year they offered it to the "Hoppers" to do a full restoration on.

This we started in November 2007, and my blog on 2CVGB (were you able to see it) contains almost daily postings with lovely photo's of our progress. You'd know more about bodywork welding, seat upholstery, interior trim, batteurs and frotteurs, chassis's and dynamos than it is probably healthy for anyone to know.

It's been a blast. I was intending to download all this to my PC, print it in Word, laminate the pages and keep it as a nice diary of the events to go with the finished car to shows, and had downloaded the first 50 pages when it all crashed and burned.

Now I am a frustrated blogger, and the 2CV is all being done in secrecy, although you do get occasional references on our other blog, that done (allegedly) by our westie pup Deefer on

http://deefer-dawg.blogspot.com

But enough of this for now. I need to find out to include pics in this blog.

 

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