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Dave-M Registered User
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 377 Location: Yorkshire, England
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: Paul N |
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Anyone know what has happened to Paul Narramore, he has been absent from here for abaout 6 months.
Dave _________________ Ph.2 Ford 1500 GT
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TonyS Registered User
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Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 230 Location: Worcestershire
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:59 am Post subject: |
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To busy playing with his Citroen 2CV6 Restoration instead of his Olympic? _________________ Rochdale Olympic History Archive |
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Paul Narramore Registered User
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 181 Location: Aylesford, Kent.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, my 2CV6 has been finished and is now on the road. This is my fifth in forty years and I was prompted to buy another when I decided to end my one-man gardening 'business' in October last year, sell my Suzuki SuperCarry van and fully retire. Still another eighteen months before I get my state pension but I think I can manage - just. My daughter get's married in July - in our local brewery! - and wanted to be driven to the wedding in a 2CV6, so that's why I bought my £400 'bargain' off eBay.
I knew the chassis would need replacing - no problem there as replacement galvanised chassis are a mere £350. However the obstacle came when a friend's son lent me a MIG welder, a gasless one, to weld in floors, sills, bulkheads, etc. For those who haven't experiences these damned things, they are pretty crappy. Gas ones are the way to go. After three weeks struggling in the summer heat of July, I called in the mechanic who'd successfully welded my Suzuki van. After three days, I had to tell him to stop as he also was getting nowhere (and my pocket was £300 lighter). The bodyshell then went to a local 2CV specialist and the new panels were (properly) fitted - at a high (ie very high) cost. I've finished the car off - I'm better with nuts and bolts - and she's now on the road ('Amélie' is her name) and I've driven her in France twice in the last six weeks.
So that's where I've been, busy and spending money I can ill afford. |
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Dave-M Registered User
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 377 Location: Yorkshire, England
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:06 am Post subject: Paul N |
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Paul, glad you are back, Did you finish your garage? Will you be getting on with your Olympic now?
As you say, gassles Mig's are a nightmare, but from memory of the 2cv I once had the panels are so thin that even with a good Mig it will require a very high skill level to weld tidily.
Over the last half of 2009 I did very little to my Rochdales but I did aquire a Harrison M300 Lathe and a Bridgeport universal milling machine Which are now up and running. My plans for a few improvements to the Olympic and GT can now go ahead. The next thing to find is a good Industrial sewing machine to do the interior.
Will you post a few pictures of your 2cv, I would like to see it.
Regards
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Paul Narramore Registered User
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 181 Location: Aylesford, Kent.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Dave
My pleasure.
http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z312/Paul_Narramore/Citroen%202CV6%20Restoration/
Yes, I completed the workshop over a year ago. For those who may not know, I bought this large timber workshop on eBay for a fraction of the cost of a new one. It was in Lancashire so I rented a 7.5 tonne truck and left home at 4am arriving there at 9.30am. The workshop was still erect and my son and I worked like navvies until 5pm dismantling it, finally arriving home at 9pm.
To save on a further days rental, I need to get her back to the depot by 7.30am the next morning so my wife, son and I got up at 4 in the morning to offload the truck.....in the rain. I got the truck returned in time and saved myself over £100.
Three months later I began the job of building the 15ft x 15ft timber workshop digging deep foundations - we live on a hillside - and a heck of a lot of concrete. The bottoms of every panel were rotten so needed replacing but in the end I have a dream of workshop, lots of powerpoints and fluorescent lights, a radio, even a mini-fridge. Heaven. |
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Paul Narramore Registered User
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 181 Location: Aylesford, Kent.
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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As many of you may well know, with great reluctancy and a certain amount of relief, I finally parted company with my PhII a few days ago. She is going to a Manchester solicitor Nigel Hector who has 45 (really!) Gilberns and I hope he becomes a member of the ROC. I finally had to face the fact that not only had my enthusiasm for the Olympic faded, I wanted an easier challenge and so I've bought an uncompleted Lomax 223 three-wheeler.
Derek Bentley was here yesterday and I have donated all of my photographs, research material, tape recordings of Harry Smith, Frank Butterworth and others, to the club through him. There were two hefty boxes of material and I know that with Derek they will be in safe hands.
Thank you Rochdales for all the dreams but my enthusiasm has taken a different route. |
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Paul Gething Registered User
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Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 91 Location: Redditch Worcs UK
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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All the best Paul. There will be even fewer of us using the forum. |
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