New member with a 1952 Paris built Normale

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  • 6th September 2015 at 2:04 pm #4423
    Anonymous

      Hi, my name is Baz. I live in Essex and have just bought a 1952 Normale. I collect it this Friday coming and am getting help with that from Paul. The car is in ok condition but as I expect to be playing with it many things will change over the winter.

      6th September 2015 at 4:03 pm #6553
      Anonymous

        Welcome to the wonderful world of the Traction Avant 😀

        6th September 2015 at 4:44 pm #6554
        Anonymous

          I love the intro…. it is like somebody confessing to an addiction 😆

          “My name is Baz, I live in Essex and I am a Traction Owner……. “

          Welcome Baz, they are quite good fun once the engine turns over….. it took me a year to hear mine run for the first time.

          Ian

          6th September 2015 at 6:08 pm #6555
          Anonymous

            The medical term is citroenitis… chevron shaped markings eventually appear on the forehead!

            6th September 2015 at 6:09 pm #6556
            Anonymous

              ….or does Chevronitis sound more appealing….

              6th September 2015 at 7:51 pm #6557
              Anonymous

                I have had the addiction since seeing these cars in the old Spitalfields market in London back in the early 80’s. I always intended buying one when I retired but life decided to throw a wobbly and I had a stroke a couple of months ago. I have made a great recovery and have realised life is not a book to turn the pages by and have gone ahead and jumped in. I am picking the car up this Friday coming and to say I am excited would be a understatement.

                6th September 2015 at 8:09 pm #6558
                Anonymous

                  They were John Gillard’s cars that you saw.

                  11th September 2015 at 9:56 pm #6559
                  Anonymous

                    I now have pictures and the car is home. It is pretty much rust free apart from the doors so it is mostly cosmetic work. Engine and gearbox are fine and suspension seems ok. Brakes need looking at but for a 63 year old car I am surprised how good it is. A big thanks to Paul De Felice who came with me to go over the car and help me get it home. Well it seems I cannot upload pictures!!!!!!!!!

                    11th September 2015 at 11:11 pm #6560
                    Anonymous

                      Baz,
                      Try again, there is nothing restricting you from uploading pictures to the forum.
                      Be sure to select “upload attachment”
                      Then select “choose file” followed by “Add the file”
                      Then select “place inline” followed by “SUbmit”

                      11th September 2015 at 11:12 pm #6561
                      Anonymous

                        and “hey presto, it works”!

                        12th September 2015 at 6:33 am #6562
                        Anonymous

                          I did that and it said download limit reached. Any ideas why?

                          12th September 2015 at 9:15 am #6563
                          Anonymous

                            just checked the Control Panel settings and the individual file size limit is 512kb. You may need to resize your images. .png tend to be large formats, .jpg only need to be ‘medium’ quality to display fine on screen.

                            Use an online image resizer to make them 800 px wide and they should be ok

                            Here is a free online image resize tool: http://www.picresize.com/ there are lots of others if you Google for them or if you have MS office you could use the inbuilt Image Manager

                            12th September 2015 at 9:27 am #6564
                            Anonymous

                              Still having this issue I think

                              “Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.”

                              12th September 2015 at 12:27 pm #6565
                              Anonymous

                                Ian can you please try again, I have upped the overall board limit as a test measure (was 50mib now 70mib – something to check Mick?)

                                12th September 2015 at 1:00 pm #6566
                                Anonymous

                                  @OSL282 wrote:

                                  Ian can you please try again, I have upped the overall board limit as a test measure (was 50mib now 70mib – something to check Mick?)

                                  That is better, thanks

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