Citroen Dyane

[W124Bob]

I have a strange urge to revisit my motoring past, between 1981 to around '89 I owned several Citroen Dyanes including a lhd Accadiane which ws my favourite
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28630680@N06/2886384...
I still have the owners handbook for my first, a '73 model with rare centrifugal clutch. Am I mad to even consider going back to sample 2 cylinder motoring again.

[Yertis]

No – I followed one out of the city the other day. It was a complete heap with a lab jumping around in the back, and looked the very essence of carefree motoring.

I'd really like another 2CV for cheap, trouble free trundling around but my wife absolutely forbids it.

[TooMany2cvs]

W124Bob said:

Am I mad to even consider going back to sample 2 cylinder motoring again.

Now, I might be biased here, but... DO IT!

Dyanes are still good value, but starting to rise. 2cvs are now seriously expensive for a good 'un (and there's a lot of utterly bodged sheds).

[W124Bob]

I was browsing the German Mobile.de site and there are certainly some high price 2CV's out there, l always prefered the Dyane, proper tailgate, spare under the bonnet so a useful bit of extra space under the boot floor and in the '80's the Dyane was slightly less CND.

[POORCARDEALER]

They are plenty of money and parts prices are high for what used to be a very cheap car.

A genuine front wing is something like £400+ as an example

Good news is almost everything is available

[Balmoral]

I was out in my 2CV hooning with a friend in a Ferrari 360 on Sunday, we made an odd couple.

[Yertis]

POORCARDEALER said:

They are plenty of money and parts prices are high for what used to be a very cheap car.

A genuine front wing is something like £400+ as an example

Good news is almost everything is available

With prices like that I'm not surprised.

[TooMany2cvs]

Yertis said:

POORCARDEALER said:

They are plenty of money and parts prices are high for what used to be a very cheap car.

A genuine front wing is something like £400+ as an example

Good news is almost everything is available

With prices like that I'm not surprised.

You don't need to buy a brand spankin' wing. There's plenty of good used panels floating about for MUCH smaller prices. Everything attaches and removes in seconds flat, and 2cvs (/Dyanes/etc) look MUCH better slightly dog-eared, anyway.

[Blackpuddin]

Yertis said:

I'd really like another 2CV for cheap, trouble free trundling around but my wife absolutely forbids it.

My OH had the same view on it when I bought our last 2CV. She hated it. But not as much as she hated me when I sold it a couple of years later. By then she absolutely loved it and I imagine we will certainly get another at some point, if we can find a solid one at a decent price.

[Yertis]

Blackpuddin said:

My OH had the same view on it when I bought our last 2CV. She hated it. But not as much as she hated me when I sold it a couple of years later. By then she absolutely loved it and I imagine we will certainly get another at some point, if we can find a solid one at a decent price.

Found a solid one for £1500 the other day, but mention of buying it for the summer went down like a st sandwich.

As an side my principle memory of the day Princess Diana died is lying in a damp lockup, welding a new floor into my brother's 2CV, while listening to the news unfold. According to the internet that 2CV is still alive, amazingly, because it was old then.

I agree they look better when tatty.

[IroningMan]

We had a 2CV as our only car for a bit; I loved it, and somewhere I still have the single-spoke MOMO wheel that I fitted to it.

Scruffy but sound, the way they should be. If I ever get round to building somewhere to keep cars indoors then I'll get another.

[POORCARDEALER]

TooMany2cvs said:

Yertis said:

POORCARDEALER said:

They are plenty of money and parts prices are high for what used to be a very cheap car.

A genuine front wing is something like £400+ as an example

Good news is almost everything is available

With prices like that I'm not surprised.

You don't need to buy a brand spankin' wing. There's plenty of good used panels floating about for MUCH smaller prices. Everything attaches and removes in seconds flat, and 2cvs (/Dyanes/etc) look MUCH better slightly dog-eared, anyway.

Just bought a pair of good front doors, those were £150 each, talking to the chap who breaks them he said the breakers are very hard to find at "breaker" money now....good front wings not needing much prep were also £150 each.

I am having one rebuilt at the minute for myself, 30000 miles, perfect original chassis, had been stood for 20 years, needed floors etc.

[TooMany2cvs]

POORCARDEALER said:

Just bought a pair of good front doors, those were £150 each, talking to the chap who breaks them he said the breakers are very hard to find at "breaker" money now....good front wings not needing much prep were also £150 each.

At those prices, was it the Oxford Abattoir, by any chance...?

POORCARDEALER said:

I am having one rebuilt at the minute for myself, 30000 miles, perfect original chassis, had been stood for 20 years, needed floors etc.

There are very few people I'd trust to do the body welding properly. It's so thin that most welders just can't cope with it.

[POORCARDEALER]

TooMany2cvs said:

POORCARDEALER said:

Just bought a pair of good front doors, those were £150 each, talking to the chap who breaks them he said the breakers are very hard to find at "breaker" money now....good front wings not needing much prep were also £150 each.

At those prices, was it the Oxford Abattoir, by any chance...?

POORCARDEALER said:

I am having one rebuilt at the minute for myself, 30000 miles, perfect original chassis, had been stood for 20 years, needed floors etc.

There are very few people I'd trust to do the body welding properly. It's so thin that most welders just can't cope with it.

Yes it was.

My car in latter stages now, will be ready for fitting up next week

[TooMany2cvs]

POORCARDEALER said:

Yes it was.

Not a popular man.

[POORCARDEALER]

TooMany2cvs said:

POORCARDEALER said:

Yes it was.

Not a popular man.

oh dear, sounds interesting

[TooMany2cvs]

POORCARDEALER said:

TooMany2cvs said:

POORCARDEALER said:

Yes it was.

Not a popular man.

oh dear, sounds interesting

His stock is regularly... discussed... in certain places - to the point that "silver aerosol" has become a bit of a meme... Let's just say that it's not unusual for "refurbished" bin-fodder to get listed for higher prices than new.

He's also acquired perfectly good cars, which have then appeared in bits.

[W124Bob]

My "perfect" car would be an early 4light window model with chrome style grill and a 602 engine!

[cptsideways]

I owned one for a while, it ended up in a big ball of fire on the m25 Reigate junction one Friday afternoon. Was brilliant fun off road on knobblies.

[XOcette]

W124Bob said:

I was browsing the German Mobile.de site and there are certainly some high price 2CV's out there, l always prefered the Dyane, proper tailgate, spare under the bonnet so a useful bit of extra space under the boot floor and in the '80's the Dyane was slightly less CND.

They're faster too, and leak less ;-)