The 406 passed its annual inspection - Hooray, 12 months tax and insurance paid for! Only thing I knew it would fail on is a shabby tyre - got it replaced at $150 later...
Anyways - here's a nice shiney pic of it from the weekend. Sydney French Car Day 2008! It oughta look clean cause i washed it, clay bared it, polished it, waxed it and vacuumed it!
Congratulations! It's looking good too (wtf's clay bar anyway?)
Nice pics of the frogs, there's some mint looking DSs there (is that an English made ID?) - they all died of rust centuries ago in the UK, as did Caravelles - and how cool is that Traction Avant? I can't imagine how you could keep that SM going way down there, parts availability zero I'd expect. Just what is that ute? Looks very interesting.
I think the Blue ID was a "Australian Assembled" car - 1963 from memory? The ute was a 203 - there is a strong following of them down here as they won many reliability trials over the years and they were considered to be one tough car! Not a fan of the Caravelles...but that SM is gorgeous! The owner wants 28k for it, it's on historic rego and LHD so not a good proposition as a daily driver and it can only be driven to and from club meetings - looks awesome though! As for parts there is a bloke who specializes in them...it's an ex California car!
Oh and a clay bar is this - Gets rid of the crap off the paint work and makes it more shiney! I thought mine came up pretty good considerig its 11 years old and gets parked outside!
SO how many SMs are there in Oz? I thought there were only a handful left in the world
So, that Clay Bar's a rubbing/cutting compound, looks a bit pricey in that box! I use T-cut and an old rag, does the job but not a lot else. I couldn't find anything similar here so I had my dad smuggle some out to me, looks like I could have been looking for the wrong thing
steve_earwig wrote:SO how many SMs are there in Oz? I thought there were only a handful left in the world
So, that Clay Bar's a rubbing/cutting compound, looks a bit pricey in that box! I use T-cut and an old rag, does the job but not a lot else. I couldn't find anything similar here so I had my dad smuggle some out to me, looks like I could have been looking for the wrong thing
I reckon there would be around 20-40 SM's here in Australia - maybe 15 on the road? Maybe more - who knows?!?
Was down at the High St market and I was in my parents car (I was 15 at the time) and an awesome Gold one pulled up behind us in the parking lot! Got out and had a 30 min chat with the owner - he was so surprised that I knew so much about it! There is another one I have seen in Roseville - they are around...me thinks that there are a few owners not in the Citroen club and take their cars out on the odd day!
I wouldnt call the clay bar a cutting compound - it more cleans the impurities off the paint and smooths it out! It's not like a proper "cut" of the paintwork!
