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26 Jun 2010 at 7:59 am #68petitepoupeeParticipant
Anybody out there aware of any “issues” involved with registering in South Australia a 1989 Dolly which has been on full rego in Victoria for the last several years?
I haven’t as yet been game enough to approach the mini-Hitlers in Transport SA……:)27 Jun 2010 at 10:55 am #3662CVikingParticipantSA don’t care much, they will recognize any interstate registred car, so no worries there. Is it on club plates or full rego?
27 Jun 2010 at 11:08 am #367petitepoupeeParticipant@2CViking 117 wrote:
SA don’t care much, they will recognize any interstate registred car, so no worries there. Is it on club plates or full rego?
Hi: full rego (ie non club/historic) – in fact I suspect you may have encountered this vehicle during the 2008 Raid.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]583[/ATTACH]27 Jun 2010 at 11:44 am #3682CVikingParticipantSure did:D
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27 Jun 2010 at 1:21 pm #370petitepoupeeParticipantHere they are after overnighting at our place, prior to tackling the Nullabor.
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Peter looks amazingly alert considering he had been picked up the day before at Tullamarine after flying out from the UK (for this, read “jet lagged”) then driven in the Duck to Adelaide.
Mark and I each share a common interest – in the form of a couple of 1909 Sizaire et Naudin veteran cars. VERY French. Here’s mine, a 2 seater: Mark’s is a 4 seater. 1 cylinder 1600cc. No gearbox as such; rather, a 3 speed diff. Yes…diff for different.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]587[/ATTACH]21 Oct 2010 at 4:05 am #446petitepoupeeParticipantNot yet a saga, but…
the original compliance plate issued in Tasmania is not recognised in SA, so the Duck now has to undergo a roadworthy check.
Where might Australia be now were it not for Federation and the resultant parochialism exhibited by the states (each of ’em!).:mad:22 Oct 2010 at 11:23 pm #448JohnKeymaster@petitepoupée 109 wrote:
I haven’t as yet been game enough to approach the mini-Hitlers in Transport SA……:)
I hope the SA inspectors are not visiting this website too often, or you are going to have a hard time 🙂
2 Nov 2010 at 10:27 pm #452petitepoupeeParticipant@John 224 wrote:
I hope the SA inspectors are not visiting this website too often, or you are going to have a hard time 🙂
Well, I’m pleased & relieved to say that the Dolly got through the roadworthy check ok despite a minor quibble over the king pins’ condition, so we can now really get on with some fun motoring.
There must have been a bunch of Raid cars go through the check station some years ago, ’cause there were comments among the inspectors like “do you remember when…?” etc.
And it was quite entertaining to see them actually derive some amusement from the Duck, too.
They are so different – that’s why you just have to love ’em!:o14 Nov 2010 at 11:21 am #352John PParticipant@petitepoupée 231 wrote:
Well, I’m pleased & relieved to say that the Dolly got through the roadworthy check ok despite a minor quibble over the king pins’ condition, so we can now really get on with some fun motoring.:o
Geoff, I hope you meant that you have both obtained the roadworthy check and registered the car in SA. This is because last year I bought from a chap in Adelaide a 74 2cv which had originally been registered in Victoria but had been unregistered for some long time. He found the mountain of compliance issues laid on him by the authorities there (side intrusion bars, headrests etc etc) too high to climb to register in SA. Perhaps because your car had current Vic. registration you have been spared all that grief and are well into fun motoring.
14 Nov 2010 at 1:25 pm #458petitepoupeeParticipantYes – we’re now driving on SA plates and loving the experience. Our car is an ’89 and has headrests fitted (from new, I suspect). The mind boggles at side intrusion bars in a car as insubstantial as the Duck – I’m realistic enough to regard it as a potential death trap in any serious accident, and I can’t see that fitting intrusion bars would achieve much as there’s b-all to back the bars up, as it were…
Contrary to all I was anxious about, the guys that carried out the check ($221!) were in fact quite professional but, I must say, very thorough indeed.
There was a lot of attention paid to the seat belts (they got the “expert” out from his office to look at them – don’t know what it was all about..) and the king pins, particularly the RHS, are not “perfect”, but they were good enough to let the car pass.
The best thing going for the car at the inspection is that it doesn’t have any rust in the all-important chassis.
We sold our ’62 Valiant to make way for Dolly, and I have to say that I haven’t had so much fun driving a car for YEARS, and that includes choofing around in such weird things as a 1909 IHC High Wheeler and a 1909 Sizaire et Naudin! The Ducks have real character and personality.
Having said all that I could have even more fun if there was another gear in between 2nd and 3rd, but never mind – I can certainly live happily with what I’ve got!18 Nov 2010 at 12:00 pm #461JBNParticipant@John P 239 wrote:
Geoff, I hope you meant that you have both obtained the roadworthy check and registered the car in SA. This is because last year I bought from a chap in Adelaide a 74 2cv which had originally been registered in Victoria but had been unregistered for some long time. He found the mountain of compliance issues laid on him by the authorities there (side intrusion bars, headrests etc etc) too high to climb to register in SA. Perhaps because your car had current Vic. registration you have been spared all that grief and are well into fun motoring.
I have had the same problem here in NSW. Car had been registered until 2000. Then became unregistered. The engineer wanted side intrusion bars. Realised that they are a complete waste in the rear doors as the only thing that supports them is the sliding hinge. Then he suggests removing the frame in the rear for the upper mount of lap/sash seat belts, removing seatbelts and rear seats and plugging all holes and then have the car re classified as a “coupe”, still insisting on side intrusion bars on the front. He also suggested the front side intrusion bars could be mounted over the door card, so that after rego, they could be removed!
Thankfully the 2CV is a French car and French are lateral thinkers and so am I. Fortunately NSW started off as a convict colony and it appears some have survived.
A 2CV in an accident has one very important thing going for it. It is light and it knows it. It doesn’t stand and fight and hold its ground. It is quite happy to be brushed aside. Try this at home. Get an empty cardboard box and kick it. Observe what happens. Now fill the same box with some books at repeat the experiment. See, you can speak French when you have to.
John
20 Nov 2010 at 2:09 am #462John PParticipantGreat stuff! Hope to be enjoying the same fun by this time next year. I’m champing at the bit to start the 2CV but need to finish the safari first, hopefully by the end of the year. I’m not sure how secure I’m going to feel bowling down a freeway beside a b-double – even side intrusion bars wouldn’t make much difference. I suppose the thinking will be take the byways not the highways and enjoy the journey.
20 Nov 2010 at 3:43 am #463petitepoupeeParticipant@JBN 244 wrote:
A 2CV in an accident has one very important thing going for it. It is light and it knows it. It doesn’t stand and fight and hold its ground. It is quite happy to be brushed aside. John
I presume we have all seen this somewhat painful-to-watch footage?
20 Nov 2010 at 5:22 am #465JBNParticipant@petitepoupée 246 wrote:
I presume we have all seen this somewhat painful-to-watch footage?
There you go, you should have bought a Mondeo. Too bad you saw the video AFTER you bought the car.
John
20 Nov 2010 at 5:55 am #466JBNParticipant@John P 245 wrote:
Great stuff! Hope to be enjoying the same fun by this time next year. I’m champing at the bit to start the 2CV but need to finish the safari first, hopefully by the end of the year. I’m not sure how secure I’m going to feel bowling down a freeway beside a b-double – even side intrusion bars wouldn’t make much difference. I suppose the thinking will be take the byways not the highways and enjoy the journey.
It takes a bit of time before you can drive a 2CV. These are the steps:
- Get used to driving it, particularly the way it goes around corners. On a motorbike, the rider and the bike lean into the corner. In a 2CV the car leans out and the driver leans in. Takes a bit of getting used to. Also practice increasing the revs in a slow 2nd gear corner by using the left foot accelerator (ie clutch). Unconventional, irreverant but so is the 2CV.
- Once you have some confidence, start to drive beyond 80kph up to the maximum speed. With some practice and confidence, most travel thereafter will be foot flat down regardless of the gear.
- NEVER TOUCH THE BRAKE (unless its a real emergency). Use the momentum of the car coupled with a chess players appreciation of all the vehicles on the road plus use of the steering wheel to make forward progress. It is amazing how the car can move through traffic (remember: the other drivers are trying to stay awake, whilst you are very much alive operating a deuche).
- Once confidence levels are high, start to increase your cars touring ability by learning to slip stream other larger vehicles. This can increase your cars speed by up to 15kph during head wind conditions. Pick on caravans, vans and trucks first up.
- Graduate to slip streaming articulated trucks. Remember, you can outbrake them regardless of what happens. Whatever they hit will be demolished enough so the bits won’t hurt you as you hit them.
- The final stage is slip streaming B Doubles with the Road Train the ultimate. Both of these vehicles travel fast, and hitching a lift is the hard bit. Best to get them as they are picking up speed and then stick with them. Hard to hitch a lift on a road train when it overtakes as you don’t know how many dogs (trailers) it has (2,3,4,5?). The way to do it is to be turning right as the second last dog passes you at the same time the last dog is moving left across your front. If lucky, you’ll pick up the lift. Hardly any acceleration is required, even going up hills. It is hard to keep the concentration levels up beyond an hour, but you are guaranteed never to fall asleep at the wheel.
It is a philosophical question whether one is mad prior to owning a 2CV or whether the madness is a consequence of owning a 2CV. The point is that a state of madness is neccessary to enjoy a 2CV. Don’t worry about accidents. When most other drivers see you wobbling around the road, they stay away from you. Everyone notices a 2CV so you never get hit because they didn’t see you. If you are involved in a bad accident, at least your death will be quick and clean.
We all die in the end. Only the chosen few go by a deaux chevaux chariot to the heavens.
John
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