Rosbif

Most of us lost the plot years ago. so is there anything else new to say about Or not?

Of course regional accents exist everywhere. I can now spot a Breton one, Marseilles, and mountains (although Alps or Pyrenees ?). As for making fun of them I doubt if the French poke fun at a Corsican accent 😉

After I had been here for a while I went back to England on a visit and met up with some old friends, during a meal they all came to the conclusion that I had become French because of all the arm waving and shrugging I did as I spoke . .

Wait until it is nearly 30 and you are almost 70 years old . . . Sorry,what was the question? 😵

Here the common name for them is 'hérisson' (hedgehog). Surprised the politically correct mob aren't out to ban them . . .😵

Covid is one thing EES is completely different and is do do with visas/permits to enter and will remain in place when Covid is a long forgotten memory.

We have to protect ourselves from you non EU types. 😁 All because of B..... I have dual nationality, British( by birth) French (by choice) and to visit Britain I would now need to go and get a passport as ID cards aren't good enough for the UK. Mind you I have no need/intention of visiting the UK - the closest I get is Brittany 😁 It's all a shame really as it makes it a bit more complicated to travel 'c'est la vie' I guess.

It's back up, that's the important thing. won't kill us if we have to go without it for an hour or two. Might help us appreciate it all the more when it come back 😆

The 13/60 convertible is a great little car, nippy enough so as not to be embarrassed, enough style to get it noticed without looking like a poser. Easy to work on, plenty of room under the bonnet - more than a vitesse because of the 2 'missing' cylinders. Ok, so I'm not impartial!

Oh, no. Mind you my car is a RHD and I had the lights changed to be correct for use here in France, had to fit halogen, but to make up for it I don't switch them on . . .

So, should I get rid of my 54 year old Triumph and buy a Tesla then? 😁

I agree, tartan paint for a car is difficult, however if it was for the interior of your house . .

I have NGKs in my 13/60 no problems with them. I also have a known working set as spares, should I suspect the plugs I can swap them out for a set that do/did work. Same logic with coil and will be, when I get round to it, with the new distributor cap and rotor recently bought. Don't worry I'll check out the cap & rotor individually not both at the same time just in case...

I recently had a problem that sounds similar to yours. The drivers door would give the impression of being closed properly but would occasionally fly open on the first left hand bend. If, when I got in the car, I moved the inner door handle to the locked position it did seem to prevent the problem, but not a proper cure. I lubricated all the mechanism and removed the door car to clean and lubricate the whole of the operating mechanism. There was old dried up grease and dirt. Since doing that, only a couple of weeks ago, I haven't had the problem, need to go around a few more bends at speed to be totally sure 😁. Hope this is of some help to you.

I've got them in my bits trunk, I have wondered about using them as a 'design' feature in my office/ fumoir 🤔

That is what are fitted to my 13/60, 'Cristal' I think they are called. They were fitted as part of work done prior to being imported to France , LHD units in RHD car. No idea if they are any good, never driven the car in the dark 😎 The equivalent of the MOT inspector who had to check the car out so I could get French paperwork was surprised I had done it rather than use the deflectors or sticky tape modification . . .

I too have had a cooling fan disintegrate, what a bang! Then odd vibrations. . . I changed the brushes on the dynamo fitted to my 13/60 a couple of years ago and noticed the manufacture date was a couple of months before that of the car (July 1968). Obviously I have no idea how many times over the 50 years of the dynamo brushes, bearings or whatever have been changed. I don't run power consuming extras but do have a large capacity battery and the dynamo more than copes.

Yes, testing honey to check what it is made off and where it comes from isn't easy. There are problems here in France as well. some people try and pass off low quality as high quality, bio etc. The equivalent of the weights and measures dept. here can test honey to detect chemical composition and also the type of flowers the bees collect the nectar from. The fake stuff shows up easily when honey claimed to be French 'mille fleurs bio' shows it has come from flowers not found in France, or even Europe for that matter.

The restrictions here in France has been eased from today. Masks don't have to been worn inside nor do you have to produce a pass or test result in restaurants, cinemas etc.

Of my 4 local stations that I would choose from all 4 sell diesel (of course), 3 out of 4 sell E5/98, E5/95, E10/95. 3 even sell the E85. for the real weirdos, 2 sell GPLc (LPG in English). Plenty of choice when you all come over for the various Le Mans things

And leaded was at how much 😵 There almost certainly drivers around who never encountered leaded petrol, let alone the choice of 3*,4* or 5* . . . I'm feeling like a dinosaur today (again) . . .

Serious money back then. A gallon of petrol plus a pint of beer and enough change for crisps and pork scratchings

I know how you feel. I have to drink beer or red wine as I don't know the Spanish for water 😵

I did sort of the same before moving here. When I moved out to start an overtaking manoeuvre I would look at my wife's facial expression - if calm and distracted = ok to overtake, if look of panic = not a good time to overtake . .

I was given a good tip many years ago, before we moved here. when driving a RHD car in Europe when you pull in for petrol, food etc try and pull into a place on the right of the road, i.e. nearside. Then when you pull out you are less likely to forget and drive on the wrong side of the road if the road is clear at the time so no other vehicles act as a reminder. Worked for me. There was one occasion when I didn't follow the tip, we pulled into a restaurant on the opposite side of the road. when we set off again the road was empty and I started to drive on the wrong side. After a few hundred metres a lorry appeared coming in the opposite direction on my side of the road! I thought what the ... is he doing on the wrong side of the road - before realising it was me on the wrong side!