Lotties Friends
Dear Lottie,
Many, many thanks to you and your family for a really entertaining and useful web site.
I am between 2CVs at the moment. I sold my last one a very long time ago when I got a company car. A friend bought it as a Christmas present for his daughter. It caught light in the Dartford tunnel on it's way back from Kent to Essex. A very sad event, particularly as it was still on my insurance policy! About a year later I got a phone call from someone who had bought it from the insurance company to renovate for his wife. I often wonder if
OMY 971C is still on the road.
That's about it really. I am retiring in a few weeks time and will be looking for a nice 2CV to buy as a hobby car. We are in Derbyshire on holiday next week. If I spot you I will wave!
Thanks again Lottie.
Kind regards,
Graham Saunders grahamsaunders@ntlworld.com
Hi Pete! Last June I spoiled the Lomax with a set of spoke wheels and I thought you might like to see the pictures. These where taken at the Oerol festival on the isle of Terschelling with the Teepee tent on the back (mind the bumps!)
When I decided to buy the wheels
I realised that I built the Lomax 10 years ago now and it looks better than any car of that age that
I ever owned before (with a minimum of maintenance!)
Bas
Klaui from The Netherlands.
Jukka Isomaki from Finland became Lottie's first friend. He contacted Lottie via her website on launch day (Friday 13th April 2007). Lucky for Lottie!
Jukka's Citroen 2CV is a special one-off. He said in his E-mail that the black and yellow Charleston was never available in Finland so he decided to build his own modified version. You can see a movie of Jukka's 2CV skiing on the snow.
Jukka also said in his E-mail "We normally use studded tyres and I changed mine last weekend into normal Michelin X as the snow seems to be gone (but you never know). We do not usually use chains, because you cannot do regular highway speeds with those and Finland is not really mountainous".
"This winter I used wide 155 x 15 NOKIA tyres. They were in fact made years ago by the same company which is today famous for their mobile phones. Nowadays the tyre business is separated".
Video of a 2CV pulling people along on ski's (1.9Mb video)
Thank you Jukka for allowing me to use your photo's on Lotties website.
Last updated: 30 September 2009