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I must confess till you posted I thought it was a small rowing boat's anchor .
Not really... There's a tiny museum not far from me that under French regs to be a registered charity opens its doors for free once a year for a weekend (Journees du Patrimoine) that has steam trains much older than the above.
Journées du Patrimoine 2025 - Programme national des animations
Journées du Patrimoine - programme détaillé des visites et animations, monuments, musées, et lieux remarquables, horaires, plan d'accès, conditions
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There's a operating live steam train in martel if you venture that far south, that you can take a trip in open carridges on that runs through mountain tunnels around cliffs etc, its pretty spectacular and there's a few campsites really close to make a weekend of it, I've done this one with the kids when they were smaller and got them all suitably sooty faces in the tunnels. You walk past the resto workshops that are viewable from the walkway to get the platform.
Le Train à vapeur de Martel | Chemin de fer Touristique du Haut-Quercy
Découvrez la Vallée de la Dordogne à bord du Train à vapeur de Martel. Locomotives vapeur ou diesel, Chemin de fer touristique Haut-Quercy Lot
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Also not to be missed if your nearby one on holiday, the 2cv autocross series. Picture dirt race prepped 2cv's 4 abreast engines screaming charging into the first corner with high banks wide enough for two. Then the marshalls running out and rolling the ones that ended up on their roof back onto their wheels before the pack comes back round. I thought it was a bit of a joke when I first saw it advertised, but its pretty serious and seems like a lot of fun. Ive probably still got pictures from the few meets I went local in a old quarry, but they've stopped doing it now as they turned the quarry into a solar panel park.
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Lots of interesting stuff to do here thats not poncy flower gardens, dusty castles, museums full of pretentious art and drinking wine on terraces and looking distant. Dunno about Paris though as I'm always looking forward to the second I get to leave when I'm there. Weird little villages and towns great, huge tourist traps, disney and urban areas bad.
Your photos are interesting.
I believe the 2CV was originally designed as a French agricultural vehicle to carry goods across plowed fields.
Damn it!Or ploughed fields
Yes,with a basket of eggs on the back seat,unbroken after the trip,very long suspension travel.
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I don't think it was designed as an agricultural vehicle, more as a car for their millions of small farmers that would do everything, including carrying an unbroken basket of eggs, across a ploughed field, and according to one story, with the driver wearing a top hat. I've never seen a French farmer wearing a top hat and have no idea if it's true, or why it's important! Funnily enough, the 2CV is regarded as the quintessential French car, yet the Renault 4 sold many more. Another simple and durable French car. I wish I could buy something similar now!
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who the hell would want to go across a ploughed field in a car with a basket of eggs and a sack of spuds
What if you had just stolen them and the farmer had blocked the only road out with his tractor?who the hell would want to go across a ploughed field in a car with a basket of eggs and a sack of spuds
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Early 50's Motobecane Z46C?
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Both are daily drivers for some around here!
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They were definitely covering all the bases!who the hell would want to go across a ploughed field in a car with a basket of eggs and a sack of spuds
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In Sri Lanka it's a tractor and trailer. Always made me smile seeing farmers on their way to church in Sunday best with the family on the (highly decorated) trailer!
Nice unrestored Motoconfort U54C I reckon.
The Motoconfort brand was the property of Motobécane, who eventually got mashed into MBK and still make mopeds now but now owned by yamaha. They ran both Motoconfort and Motobécane at the same time in parallel as a marketing thing after some early experiments with bigger stuff post war so Motobécane did all the mopeds and tiddlers, and Motoconfort concentrated on bigger bikes in case big bike sales bankrupted the profit making ped side.
