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Brooky · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: Is a screen visor cool?

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).
Wink

Brooky.

Kustombart · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject:

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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Malte · Lowered Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 534 Location: Germany

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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TONY ENGLAND · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject:

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

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Etienne · Hoodrider Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 2829

This 2cv has a cool one :

I'll post more pics of it later.
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Kustombart · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

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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Brooky · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:14 am Post subject:

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.

Brooky.

Punky · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:55 am Post subject:

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

JuanNavarro · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject:

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.

Malte · Lowered Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 534 Location: Germany

Olli · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

Olli · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject:

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Brooky · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject:

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!

Brooky.

Laughing

Lionel · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: