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Brooky
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:44 pm    Post subject: Is a screen visor cool? Reply with quote

I'm thinking of fitting a windscreen visor to my deuche. I've found something I can modify to do the job. The length of the peak is about 15cm so it's pretty radical. Has anybody got a pic of a 2cv with one fitted?

Also, I'm wanting to get rid of the light bar and fit the original headlamps on their brackets, directly onto the wings. I would also mount them lower but still have the top half of each headlamp above the top line of the front grille and they would be closer to the centre line of the car as well.

I wish I had photoshop so I could check out mods as I think of them (hint, hint).
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mounting the lights to the fenders is not a good idea, unless you make some kind of support structure, they will shake like Little Richard.

For a sunvisor: Check the Customs& Classics PIckup, featured in Deuche & Mehari magazine (or www.customs-classics.nl). It looks good and is home made.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the visor is a really good idea.
i really like that.

defranzose.de sells one for a lot of money.

i also wanted to make my own one day...but i didn't find the time so far.

last year i took some detail pics to copy it..


and this one:



some things to say:

- no plexi-glass stuff
- it must be one piece!
- it must be a little smaller and more beautiful

so please don't copy this ugly one :)
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I fitted one on the RED BARON about two years ago and regret it. It channels air under the roof at the front and makes the hood vibrate at speed, just asif someone is knocking on the roof trying to get in. Crying or Very sad
Before the Desert Paint job, the visor is coming off and will be smashed into a thousand pieces so i dont get any ideas about re-fitting it in the future Evil or Very Mad Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This 2cv has a cool one :

I'll post more pics of it later.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This was made from a flat piece of steel, bent and beaten over a piece of wood. Screwed to the a-pillar, it looks good.


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

O.K. Thanks everybody. The idea I have in mind is to fit one that sits flat against the header rail so it can't channel air under the leading edge of the hood. Also, I don't like the ones in the photos posted so far. I'm proposing one that has a top face that's horizontal, not tipped downwards like most seem to be. The only worry I have is the additional drag this will create at speed. When I say speed I'm talking relatively of course!

As far as moving the headlamps is concerned, I'm going to print a couple of photos of the front of the car and do some experiments with different headlamp positions. Kustombart, the wings seem very strong at the point I'm proposing to mount them. I can't see them vibrating too badly.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This year I had a plan to make one too. I have some pictures and buildtricks from a dutch beetle forum.

http://www.keversite.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=19207

At Citromobile there was one for sale, but they asked 80 euro's and the steel construction was rusted en the plexiglass had many little cracks.

When the damage on my deuch is fixed I see if I can make one from metal of alumium. Maybe one whit holes or something. Like the hotrods. Or a Australian one. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me a external visor defintely rocks, its my idea to mount this with the tilable (safary) windscreen and upper mounted wipers (eliminating the vent flap) some day.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JuanNavarro wrote:
For me a external visor defintely rocks, its my idea to mount this with the tilable (safary) windscreen and upper mounted wipers (eliminating the vent flap) some day.


don't remove the flap! the front looks crap without out !
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Etienne wrote:
This 2cv has a cool one :
I'll post more pics of it later.

Maybe the visor is good, but placing of it makes it look odd to me. (its too low)


Here is best I have seen, its just simple piece of (about 3mm) alloy.



Here is my version which is inspired about it:



Those VW ones has problems whit 2cv, cause VW has round body shape
and 2cv square.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Malte wrote:
JuanNavarro wrote:
For me a external visor defintely rocks, its my idea to mount this with the tilable (safary) windscreen and upper mounted wipers (eliminating the vent flap) some day.


don't remove the flap! the front looks crap without out !


Yes, if you dont chop the roof as much as flap is taking the place.
And no, no higher windscreen Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Olli wrote:
Malte wrote:
JuanNavarro wrote:
For me a external visor defintely rocks, its my idea to mount this with the tilable (safary) windscreen and upper mounted wipers (eliminating the vent flap) some day.


don't remove the flap! the front looks crap without out !


Yes, if you dont chop the roof as much as flap is taking the place.
And no, no higher windscreen Wink


indeed!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Juan.
When you say you want to fit an opening screen (with hinge at the top) and then fit top mounted wipers, you will surely have no room on the header rail to fit wiper spindles. Is this why you want to get rid of the vent flap, so that you can lower the windscreen and give yourself a deeper header rail?
This is the only way I can see this idea working but it sounds like a lot of work.

@Olli,
Those screen visors still don't look right to me. The one I'm proposing comes out HORIZONTALLY from the header rail about 15-20 cm. which I think will look much 'tougher' than a visor that's angled downwards like all the ones so far. I quite like the look of the one with holes but it's bugger-all use as a visor!

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Etienne wrote:
This 2cv has a cool one :


I agree, this one too:


Sorry, I couldn't prevent myself Laughing Laughing
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