1987 Citroen 2CV6 Bamboo

[briandamaged]

Bit cheeky this, seeing as I don't actually get custody of it until Saturday....

Basically what happened was I bought a red 1988 2CV6 Special off of Louise Bastock in North Wales back at the end of January, intending to slam the living bejesus out of it and rip round in it for the summer, before selling it on and buying an Ami. Meanwhile my compadre and fellow COCK/I2F member Spanners bought this slammed 1987 2CV6 Special 'Bamboo' edition off Russ Higgs down in Kent.

After a few weeks though, Spanners, who also owns a tasty 2CV6 road-legal racecar, decided that one slammed 2CV was enough and hankered after a nice standard one. Meanwhile I was happy with my purchase, but reticent to start chopping it about as it's a really nice car.

So, a plan was formed......which will come to fruition on Saturday.


Russ had the graffiti done on some spare doors......the stock green ones will be going back on it as I'm 45, and not a fan....Spanners has enough of the correct 'Atomic Snot' green to blow the wings in so that it'll be all back to one colour. I've got another roof to go on it, the jury's out wether it gets left green long-term, or rollered satin black/lead oxide. I'm actually leaning towards masking off some flames or scallops on the front end first, which will stay green.

The car itself is one of the most well-known dropped Snails in the UK. It's been properly lowered with the correct camber-corrected front suspension arms, and has custom powder-coated engine tinware:

It's erm....low. The chassis bears many scars as testimony to how low....... ;D

And it has the best windscreen washers ever.


I can't freakin' wait to get my paws on it, at which stage I'll do some suitable photography.

[rysz]

Looks sweet Bri! Can Grunty knock you up some SLAMBOO stickers for the replacement doors? ;D

Rysz.

[briandamaged]

Mar 4, 2010 20:01:44 GMT 1 rysz said:

Looks sweet Bri! Can Grunty knock you up some SLAMBOO stickers for the replacement doors? ;D

Rysz.

There's already one on the back......I'll probably remove the rest for now, haven't decided yet...it depends what colour it ends up.

I'm conscious of the fact that it's probably not a long-termer. I'm still dead set on buying myself an Ami either at the end of this year or early next....so it may well be for sale at the end of the summer. As a consequence, I won't be throwing a great deal of money at it if it can be avoided!!!!

[jackcarlton]

paint and masking tape are cheap bri! get some satin black scallops on there pronto, pale blue pinstripes will set them off lovely . satin black the rims up and get some proper shiny hubcaps and rings and then, well, just leave it be cos itll be badass.

[speedman]

Nice, I even like the graffiti

[briandamaged]

It's home.

THIS IS NOT A PHOTOSHOP.......

Full story later, we've had one hilarious afternoon.
;D

[briandamaged]

;DCompare and contrast:


It's erm....low. So low in fact that at several points on the trip home from Spanners Speed Shop to mine were marked by BANG! BANG! BANG! as we were tearing chunks out of the tarmac with the front towing eyes. This caused consternation amongst passers-by (sorry to the dog we scared sh*tless), and downright hilarity in the car. Sample quote from me (through tears of laughter) as we skipped merrily from bump to bump: "I haven't got a clue why I'm laughing so much. I've just f**king bought it"

It's also back to being green again. I got busy with a couple of rattle-cans while JC swapped the doors. It's also got the near-new 135 Toyos on it off the red one, and a nice 2nd-hand red roof which I whizzed up to Tim Flavell's gaff in Derby last Sunday to fetch. I was going to swap the ratty but solid one off the red one, but now it's on I actually like the red roof. So there. It's fucking staying.

You can almost hear the purists rotating in their graves. I love it. From the front it almost looks as if it's licking the tarmac. And I love the way the front wheels are tucked up into the arches, if you tried that with a Beetle you'd have to spend a fortune getting the front beam narrowed.


In reality it may have to come up by 3/4" at the front, unless I want to be attracting the attentions of the local Plod. Meantime I just plan to enjoy it for the summer and maybe move it on in the Autumn to finance the satiation of my Ami fetish. I've a feeling that I'm going to fall for this one, though......

[Mike]

That, Brian, is ferking CLASS. I love it. The red roof actually works quite well, and the ride height is corking. Sod reality and don't be raising it.

[hairnet]

and when you collect yer curry

slambhuna ;D

can i leave a trail for the snail for the future....??

[briandamaged]

Mar 7, 2010 0:22:05 GMT 1 hairnet said:

and when you collect yer curry

slambhuna ;D

can i leave a trail for the snail for the future....??

You can, but you'll have to join the queue! ;D

[briandamaged]

Been out for a hoon in it tonight, it pulls like a train. It's DEFINITELY got to come up a bit on the front though....19 stone in the front seat means a trail of sparks up my road. Hardcore maybe, but not if you're 46 in 6 months. ;D

[Jonny69]

The story is much better on here. Stop complaining about getting old Brian. At least you're not going bald like I bloody well am

[JohnnySomersett]

Raising it would be criminal. Stop being a fucking pussy and live with it.


In fact, bollocks - lower it more

[briandamaged]

I wish.....that's the trouble with cut/welded bottom arms, I still have full suspension travel (which is about 10" on a 2CV), but I've only got 2" of ground clearance. Hence it's hammering the exhaust box and the front wheels are actually clobbering the inside of the wings at the top, and loosening them. Which is actually quite funny, when it's idling on choke you can see all the outer panels shaking in different directions. ;D

You couldn't actually lower it any further without either some sort of bags (which would be almost impossible on a stock 2CV setup because of the central horizontal spring arrangement) or by channeling the body over the frame.

It's coming up by about 1" on the front.

[JohnnySomersett]

Hmmm, joking aside, maybe you're doing the right thing.

Im also suffering from the same problem - Full suspension travel onto 1 1/4" clearance :S