Practically Classics Forum

seems to be a lack of bijous.. i will keep looking.. do you have a cunning plan?

No mate, nothing remotely cunning is going on, it's just that I know someone who's looking for an example of the massively overweight, immensely thick GRP-bodied Deuche alternative. I've offered to get them a Reliant but no, it has to be something front wheel drive and "Citroenesque" and a perfectly decent, stock 2CV won't do. Gawd knows why 'cos there's nothing wrong with those things the way the French made them, why anyone really has to have one that comes from Slough is anybody's guess.

there are some strange people about....







ive heard one chap wants to buy a plastic mini

I think that makes sense as they're only slightly heavier than a steel mini and won't drop to bits if driven occasionally on the beach.
The Bijou, on the other foot, is plain weird, though very nice to look at.

There was a Bijou at Ryhope Engines Museum last Sunday, I see that our man Mitsuru snapped a piccie of it, which is visible on his show thread, click the image below these words to see all of those piccies:


Pretty, but heavier than 12 steel 2CVs. Or should that be 1.2 steel ones?

OOF!...

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... So there I was, thinking that the interior shot was a mirror image, when I realised that the thing on the left of the floor was the parking brake pedal. Bloody evil things, those can be. I had a C class C220D as a courtesy car last time the daily, when that short-lived, suspension wrecking sack of crap was my daily, was at Merc for its service.
Please make sure & find me a two-pedal one says I to the lass on service reception when I was booking the work and sorting the courtesy car, so what do they do? They hand me the keys to the world's most cramped, hardest to get into car which has a bloody pedal at the left of the floor for applying the parking brake and a stupid little umbrella handle under the dash to release it, at which point the damned thing would take bark off my left shin! Nasty pile of pooh, that modern Benz, but that Jeep I could live with; stick it in park to hold it and prod the parking brake on with my fist once I'm out of the door. Simples!
The condition looks great and it's definitely so ugly that it's beautiful, in the manner of such things as the Citroen Ami saloon but not in the manner of the Ssang Yyong Rodius which is just plain ugly in a really bad way. Yeah, that Jeep ticks quite a few boxes.

Guess i'm just used to the parking brake pedal. My YJ has it, Freddie has it, all my previous SJ's had it, my Oldsmobile had it, even the (Father in Law's) RV's i drove had it. It's a US thing.


Apart from the crappy trailer lens rear lights, that thing perfect. It's the 'after' picture of what i want Freddie to look like.

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