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Aug. 1st, 2005 11:09 amYesterday was pretty good. We went to the car boot sales as usual (but, the big one had been cancelled) but didn't find anything, and then debated whether to go see the massive invasion of Citroen 2CVs. We were told it was £7 each to get in, but if we came back in 40 minutes it would be free, so we went to the shop and garden center for a bit. Siani regretted not being able to rescue ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lucybond's 2CV a few years ago, especially since the damn things are just so very simple in construction, but we might get one, see how we get on with it, and perhaps it will replace the Scorpio.
I've owned a Dyane 6 before, so I already have opinions on them and would much rather have a GS/A or Ami 8, but Amis are rare, and GS' are generally thirsty, unreliable and complicated to fix.
Didn't see the Citroen Bijou Siani seems to have spotted going about, but saw many Meharis and variants, six wheeled 2cvs, 2cvs with Suzuki SJ chassis underneath, a wonderful 'Hybrid' 2CV with an electric motor/charging system which costs a mere 2,000 Euro to add (and left bootspace too, very impressive). Looked at expensive toy Citroens, and walked around a lot.
We came back to the toy Citroens, and a DS model I'd been looking at had gone. Siani was going to get it for me - they'd actually started packing some models up. so it wasn't sold! Yeay! It's quite a basic model in that only the doors open, no engine or anything is visible, but the proportions are perfect - so I'd had trouble deciding if it was worth the price. Siani bought it for me anyway so I was happy. Right scale for all my Deloreans and things.
Got home, and took it out of the box, and found out why it had no engine detail. It has a lever underneath, and whilst it had suspension (and properly soft suspension), it can be 'flattened' like a real DS! Slide the lever and the wheels retract or can be raised (I've just noticed that it had the wheels at full stretch, and underneath are marks indicating 'lowered, normal and raised' ride heights - set it to the middle and it stays there even if you push down on it)! Best Citroen model EVER!
TomTom apologised for leaving out the GPS unit. I shall have it tomorrow. The software... hmm. It's slow, I think. My iPaq is kinda laden down with crap (I gave up on the switching cards malarky as apps kept breaking, and copied my SD card and the TomTom card onto a 256SD card from my camera - the card TomTom give must be cheap as anything as it kept going offline, and took 30 minutes to copy 119Mb from in a USB 2.0 reader, compared to 7 minutes to copy it back onto my Kingston card - and that's not a special fast one, either). TomTom appears to screw with my network settings which it has to be said, pisses me off immensely, but in fairness I initially got annoyed with it because my router had (without my knowledge) fucked up royally, and the iPaq was trying to connect with my cellphone as a backup - this is actually GOOD behaviour, but since it appeared to be talking to the router, it was also inexplicable. I have to get a new router, the Belkin is reaching legendary levels of crapness with poor signal and response, and the lack of real antenna sockets.
For the purposes of testing the navigation, I am going to sacrifice one of Missy's vases (it's not like I can't just swap the flowers, after all, having pre-made vases might be easy but it's worryingly like Flower Arranging). I'm going to get a threaded insert (brass one) and some clear epoxy, and set the insert into epoxy, then cut out an arm from a bit of aluminium and screw it into the vase. I might put some cable clips on it too. Then I can clip the holder into the vase holder and not damage my car's vents, or have something unsightly stuck on the windscreen. If it works, I'm going to modify it to hold the iPod up there as it's bloody lethal on the centre console - if you try and look at what is playing, it's too distracting. Maybe I could make a holder which takes both. I think I'll get a thin dowel, and have the local engineering works mandrel-bend it into a shape which means it doesn't get in the way of the wheel and flatten the ends in a press for fixing things to.
lucybond's 2CV a few years ago, especially since the damn things are just so very simple in construction, but we might get one, see how we get on with it, and perhaps it will replace the Scorpio.I've owned a Dyane 6 before, so I already have opinions on them and would much rather have a GS/A or Ami 8, but Amis are rare, and GS' are generally thirsty, unreliable and complicated to fix.
Didn't see the Citroen Bijou Siani seems to have spotted going about, but saw many Meharis and variants, six wheeled 2cvs, 2cvs with Suzuki SJ chassis underneath, a wonderful 'Hybrid' 2CV with an electric motor/charging system which costs a mere 2,000 Euro to add (and left bootspace too, very impressive). Looked at expensive toy Citroens, and walked around a lot.
We came back to the toy Citroens, and a DS model I'd been looking at had gone. Siani was going to get it for me - they'd actually started packing some models up. so it wasn't sold! Yeay! It's quite a basic model in that only the doors open, no engine or anything is visible, but the proportions are perfect - so I'd had trouble deciding if it was worth the price. Siani bought it for me anyway so I was happy. Right scale for all my Deloreans and things.
Got home, and took it out of the box, and found out why it had no engine detail. It has a lever underneath, and whilst it had suspension (and properly soft suspension), it can be 'flattened' like a real DS! Slide the lever and the wheels retract or can be raised (I've just noticed that it had the wheels at full stretch, and underneath are marks indicating 'lowered, normal and raised' ride heights - set it to the middle and it stays there even if you push down on it)! Best Citroen model EVER!
TomTom apologised for leaving out the GPS unit. I shall have it tomorrow. The software... hmm. It's slow, I think. My iPaq is kinda laden down with crap (I gave up on the switching cards malarky as apps kept breaking, and copied my SD card and the TomTom card onto a 256SD card from my camera - the card TomTom give must be cheap as anything as it kept going offline, and took 30 minutes to copy 119Mb from in a USB 2.0 reader, compared to 7 minutes to copy it back onto my Kingston card - and that's not a special fast one, either). TomTom appears to screw with my network settings which it has to be said, pisses me off immensely, but in fairness I initially got annoyed with it because my router had (without my knowledge) fucked up royally, and the iPaq was trying to connect with my cellphone as a backup - this is actually GOOD behaviour, but since it appeared to be talking to the router, it was also inexplicable. I have to get a new router, the Belkin is reaching legendary levels of crapness with poor signal and response, and the lack of real antenna sockets.
For the purposes of testing the navigation, I am going to sacrifice one of Missy's vases (it's not like I can't just swap the flowers, after all, having pre-made vases might be easy but it's worryingly like Flower Arranging). I'm going to get a threaded insert (brass one) and some clear epoxy, and set the insert into epoxy, then cut out an arm from a bit of aluminium and screw it into the vase. I might put some cable clips on it too. Then I can clip the holder into the vase holder and not damage my car's vents, or have something unsightly stuck on the windscreen. If it works, I'm going to modify it to hold the iPod up there as it's bloody lethal on the centre console - if you try and look at what is playing, it's too distracting. Maybe I could make a holder which takes both. I think I'll get a thin dowel, and have the local engineering works mandrel-bend it into a shape which means it doesn't get in the way of the wheel and flatten the ends in a press for fixing things to.
