Re: Re: ’50 11BL back home

Hi Ian,

It’s good to be here and thanks for your kind words regarding our website. Yours tells me that you seem to have a pretty exciting time of it and I see that you have many more hills than here in the Loire, which makes cycling rather more of a challenge. We are however, still listed on http://www.freewheelingfrance.com and as the name suggests, cater for the softie, rather than ironman cycling types!

We got the HY from a Traction owner and it’s in restoration a little south of us, although progress has been painfully slow. Like you, we intend to use Nellie (she’s grey and wrinkly, like her namesake popularised by that song) as a marketing tool and for usefully collecting wine from one of the dozens of local vineyards. The good news is that I’ve now got all the spares needed to complete her and hope the restorer can be re-incentivised pretty soon.

I read the start of your rebuild story and love the bit about getting it back to your neighbour, who promptly asked you to take it to the dump, or keep it. Sounds as if he had a simple plan, which has turned out rather interesting for you. Well done and I look forward to reading the rest of the story.

Keep enjoying the rather lovely French lifestyle. It is very good for you. Looking forward to meeting you let us know if you should be making the trip past our way, with or even without an older car.

Bill 🙂