Open-Top motoring....

[myglaren]

Same daughter that had the SAAB (s) also had one of those. Lots of problems with it though.
Hers was dark blue.

[MattBLancs]

Spotted this distinctive 2CV again today, and I do believe it is a 4-door, with a peel back roof to give 4 passengers the full open toppage experience as per Mick's find.

Neil

Been down the scrappy and picked up a lovely set of wings

[ChrisRobin]

@ Myglaren, I had the 1.9DCi in a pearlescent silver Meg CC, 2004 Privilege, it was ok really never leaked apart from the usual runs down the rear quarter lights, it did have a reoccurring problem with the passenger rear window reg breaking cables, after the 3rd time I just bolted it in place so it never opened for Oooo 6 years, restringing them was a nightmare, then one cropped up on Ebay for £20 I think so I bought it fitted it and it worked fine for the next year or so until I sold it, Hand brake jammed on it once, and it had to have a new EGR valve that was about it really on and a hydraulic roof locking pipe, other than that it never missed a beat, sold at 160K for £600, she was tired by then you could see by looking at her, changed her for a nice white Mk3 CC 1.9DCi, I really wanted the 2.0DCi GT CC 16V diesel to give the wife's 308cc a run but road tax killed that dream off, but I don't think the Webasto roof is half as good as the old Mercedes Karmen roof.

[myglaren]

Hers was mainly the roof wouldn't open as the window modules were faulty. One place was supposed to get a set of window modules and were never heard from again. Expensive items and hard to source apparently.
There were many other niggles with it though so she binned it and now has a Kia Picanto that has never been the slightest bother.
She does prefer larger, wafty cars though.

[ChrisRobin]

Ah yes the little black box on top of the window motor bain of the MK2 CC owner, the rears because of how the window motor was position you were practically guaranteed to wet it at some point, there use to be a gut on Ebay who pulled them apart and repaired them, he did my passenger front and driver rear, passenger rear was eventually bolted in place through the glass sliders nut, bolt, couple of big washers, push window to the top tighten bolts under the glass so it can't drop, I took the window cables out of it and just left the motor and the Temic I think they called them plugged in, so the car "thought" it was lowering the window when in fact it just sat there up, roof worked fine completely fooled.
That passenger rear always baffled me, it had 3 maybe even 4 used window regs (new ones were mega money) and every time it would cross cables on the motor pully wheel even though they were slotted to guide the cable it unreels one cable whilst pulling in the other to open and works the other way to close, you would then an almighty bang, cable broken!
From what I could see it was overlapping the cables as it was winding with the unwinding cable and trapping it, yet the last rear reg that went in it (Pass rear) again 2nd hand, again eBay worked a treat and was still working 12 months after it was installed and still working silently when it was sold, odd indeed!

[NewcastleFalcon]

The nicest of the SAAB convertible incarnations in my opinion, up for sale at WB and Sons at their September Auction, and a very decent example.



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

I have a lot of time for the Nissan Micra K12, the Bargain Basement Motoring thread is testament to that. Slightly odd looking in its Cabriolet Coupe form, but wouldn't say no and its a nice colour!

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Open Mouth Motoring

WB and Sons September Sale

https://auctions.wbandsons.com/auction/ ... 6&pn=1&g=1#

Neil

[ChrisRobin]

Wow Neil, A sprite a Frog eye Sprite I believe, my great uncle had and manky quite flat red one when I was around 6 yrs old, I went in it once and he scared me to death going to the chip shop, he drove it like a maniac, I never saw it with its hood on, he must of been 70 of day, these days you would say drove it like he stole it.

My mum stopped me from going in it, I thought it was great fun riding by the skin of my pants around the country lanes were we use to live, then one day we had lots of crying people in our house when I got home from School, seems Uncle Harvey had come to a sticky end with a van.

My mum once told he he use to fly Hurricanes in WW2 and was shot down a few times, it made him a bit loopy, true or not I have no idea but he fitted the image always quite dapper in bright waist coats and cravats, loud gregarious chap.

No doubt driving like his hair was on fire tooting his horn and laughing his head off, which is how I remember him, he had a comb over so at speed his hair would all stick up with the wind, the more I laughed at it the more he did, you don't seems to get people like that anymore but in the same breath I don't think there is as much enjoyment to driving anymore either.

But nice Sprite indeed.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nice extras there Chris, your description conjured up a picture or two as I read along!

Neil

[ChrisRobin]

Oh I had a few nutty uncles when I was young, uncle Jack who use to push me out of his Austin Maxi shouting ROLL BOY, ROLL as he was ex paratrooper turns out he wasn't so the scuffed arms and bruised shoulders were for nothing, I had Uncle Ray who was a dessert Rat, now that was for sure as he had pictures all over his house even one of Monty giving him a medal, camels and desert tribes and loads of war stories I loved going there until he went a bit radio ga ga my last visit we drank whiskey (I didn't know it was that) and went out side and shot at dinner plates with his shotgun, the recoil would knock me over, I thought it was great, arriving home slurring and with a badly bruised shoulder (I was 7) my mum went bananas, my dad had a word with him a few days later and I was banned for seeing him, not longer after he ended up in a hospital for old soldiers my mum said.
I was in awe of all 3 of them there was just something about them, even uncle Jack who said he was a Para but wasn't, they had a presence.
By far the best was Uncle Harvey who use to regale me with stories of driving through France and Swiss Apls in what I though looked rather smart convertibles looking the old black n white images he use to show me.
I often wonder what ever happened to those little black n white photos, binned I guess.

[CitroJim]

Love a Frogeye, especially in yellow Great story Chris and what a character your Great Uncle was! I guess he drove like a maniac so the fish and chips would not be cold by the time you got back home...

Keep these back-stories coming; I enjoy them hugely

[ChrisRobin]

Yes Jim you could say I had rather a colourful child hood if wasn't for odd Uncles it was my mums rather "different" friends that use to turn up. You don't seem to get much of that these days everyone seems well "normal"
Must be all the additives and colours we have now removed, maybe that had something to do with it.

[mickthemaverick]

A nice car that doesn't work in white for me!!

BFTW

Details here

[MattBLancs]

Saab: Agree, don't think the white does much for it (or most cars really, E-type, MGA, and handful of others are about only ones look good in white to my eyes!)

Strangely it looks rather tall somehow!

Very "busy" alloys with very plain centre caps.


K12 Micra CC - I've seen quite a few about but never, ever with the roof down