Daddy,what did YOU do when you were a boy racer" 5129

saying :

S-reg 2cv.

Top half painted red (close to the original Rouge Geranium), lower half dark green. Badly. Sprayed in a dusty garage.

2" tube stainless bumpers.

Spotlights.

Bootlid covered in stickers.

Then I stuffed it the first time, and rechbuttised it with a Dyane chbuttis, so it gained front discs and lost the bumpers.

Then I stuffed it again, and it gained a bright yellow bonnet with two thick red stripes.

Then I bought an Ami Super with no bumpers, painted white with thick diagonal red and blue stripes up each rear door. The people that bought the 2cv painted it red with 4" white spots all over it. But the bonnet and boot were white with red spots.

I've moved on from there. The Ami Super is still mine, 15 years later, but now back to it's original pale metallic green.

I sold the beige Dyane that I repainted bright yellow with a big orange art-deco sunburst on the bonnet. That's now dark green.

I now drive a brush-painted blue Dyane van with a yellow roof and a yellow cartoon snail on each side (although it may just get repainted this summer. probably as violent an orange shade as Wickes do), and I'm working on getting the Mehari back on the road. It's dog-knob red with teeny silver speckles all over it (although I may use some of the panels from the kermit green one), and half the engine sticking out the front, because it's got twice as many cylinders as it should have... Oh, and GSA alloy wheels...