No moves on the car lately, although behind the scenes we have been in contact with the Twinning teams at La Chapelle d'Armentieres and at Birchington, prior to our proposed mission to join in La Chapelle's 20th Anniversary of twinning Carnival in May 2009. We are proposing a new year pre-visit visit to case the joint and meet our contacts.

Meanwhile we are concerned that the Car is not quite satisfactorily finished, and still has that bad vibration in the engine/transmission at the top of Third and bottom of Fourth. Our tame 2CV fixer Llew suspects a drive shaft or CVJ is worn and out of kilter. We need to get him to the car or the car to him for a look see. It's just that we are all sooooo busy this side of Christmas.

There is also the ongoing electrics problem - the dynamo looked ok off the car, but has never yet donated a single amp to the battery. Dynamo itself? Cabling? Who knows

Also, there is talk by one of our crew that he might bale out. When we started this project with a £100 stake each, he says, his intention was always to stay in for the re-build, but that he's not so interested in the actual "ownership" of the Old Girl. He is therefore steering we remaining three into buying out his share of what is probably now a £2000 car. Well, OK JJ but probably not this side of Christmas!

 

 

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