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2CV Club Australia › Forums › 2CV Babble › Welcome to our Norfolk Island 2CV-er(s)
Friends went to Norfolk Island a few weeks ago and brought this photo back:
Looks in good nick (ie relatively rust free), but if Norfolk is anything like Nauru, where we spent 3 years, the salt air will very soon take its toll.
I got a message from Richard from Norfolk Island:
Thanks John,
Yes, that’s our car – my wife took the photo for your friends and we had a chat in the carpark. As petitepoupee mentioned, rust is an ever present menace here but I saturated the car in fishoil before it came over and keep it in a garage so fingers crossed.
Its actually an excellent car for the island, gets around well and soaks up the bumps on our much patched roads!
Will attach a file of her coming ashore.
I bet the car was not sailed all the way from OZ in that little boat ???
Hope the fish oil works well … wonder what it smells like on a hot day, though!:o
On Nauru there were two ways of storing the cars (other than simply under carports, etc)
.. either in an airconditioned garage – government employees didn’t have to pay for electricity(!) or else in a similar closed-in garage with a bank of electric light globes under the car & left switched on to raise the temperature (and by so doing, lower the relative humidity…).
With today’s energy costs, I doubt either of these approaches is feasible. Keep at it and don’t spare the WD40 (or equivalent) and elbow grease! Bon chance!