Great failures.

**DoubleChevron** · 7th July 2015, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by jerryd

Here's a few in the rough stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8WpuPYnCCI

that's hilarious ... I've never seen that before ... I saw the snatch strap come out and thought "here we go they'll tear the fragile thing into 2peices" ................ only for find they just line up half a dozen people to pull on the rope and out it comes

Those ones aren't a sahara twin engined factory 2cv. I know someone with one of them, there a conversion

Welcome to Louis Barbour Four Wheel Drive 2CV Site

Here'st he same car on top gear with a defender.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7SHkT3lqFI[/ame]

seeya,
shane L.

**cuppabillytea** · 10th July 2015, 10:00 PM

Hi DoubleChevron. Though you might like these pics of a Goddess my brother is trimming at the moment.

**cuppabillytea** · 10th July 2015, 10:05 PM

Sorry. Missed a couple.

**JDNSW** · 11th July 2015, 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Hi DoubleChevron. Though you might like these pics of a Goddess my brother is trimming at the moment.

Same colour as mine!

John

**DoubleChevron** · 16th July 2015, 03:52 PM

Nice. It's a shame the leather interior bits are so expensive. We have two here that could be retrimmed. To do it in leather would be > $5000

Those central heating ducts in the front undertray look very familiar. I wonder where I have seen that car before

seeya,
Shane L.

**V8Ian** · 16th July 2015, 08:18 PM

Ford Edsel is worthy of these pages.

**cuppabillytea** · 16th July 2015, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Same colour as mine!

John

I envy anyone who has one. That is a really nice colour. Funny that coincidence, he's currently doing a job for a bloke who owns a series 1.

**carlschmid2002** · 16th July 2015, 08:49 PM

I wouldn't say it was a failure but they did eventually go broke. These cars were amazing for their time. They had features like headlights that turned with the steering. The term "It's a Duesy" for anything that was great and inovative came from the Duesenberg.

**cuppabillytea** · 16th July 2015, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Nice. It's a shame the leather interior bits are so expensive. We have two here that could be retrimmed. To do it in leather would be > $5000

Those central heating ducts in the front undertray look very familiar. I wonder where I have seen that car before

seeya,
Shane L.

My brother is in Toowoomba. a fair way from you. He's way too docile for that savage a bite. I'll ask him what he reckons.

**JDNSW** · 17th July 2015, 06:06 AM

Then there was the Southern Cross car. Built in very small numbers in the early thirties, it was doomed when the head of the company (Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith) disappeared in the Bay of Bengal.

Of unitary construction, with the body made of moulded plywood. It was equipped with a horizontally opposed four cylinder engine.

No examples now exist, and I can find no pictures.

John

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