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such a great informative series, thank you so much. I'm about to start a similar restoration on a green one too!

The best handling ever, the best trunk, great comfort and space, sporty car with the rust problem.

Alfasud and the 33 was boxer why the engineer was austrian, absburgic Herr Rudolf Hruska.

Body off I guess?

Great project! You are missing the first silencer, but Franzosische Klassiker make a reproduction in stainless steel. Lights on a Super aren't always the double "Bi-iode" ones. They were an optional extra I believe.

The Amisuper headlight are specific and have a special reflector inside the reflector for high beam.

I saw this on Car & Classic. Glad it's gone to a good home. Love the stripes - so cool

Are you restoration specialists in Stags? Am looking for one.

Just great very well done

smashing yes you could by new panels a new shell even but your saving money, and times your own to use as much of the original possible.

All's really coming on well, I like your approach to this cars restoration slow steady responding to each snag as it comes along.. Brilliant and Thank you

Excellent hints and tips plus what to watch for thank you

Always amazes me the lengths people go to to bodge a repair, when doing it properly would be easier and last longer to!

And so it begins

I've just stumbled on your film...I'm looking thinking of one last project. I've always liked these cars " Fun to drive easy'ish to work on loads of spares etc....Lookin forward to following your progress cheers

I like your projects. How is the Alfasud btw? I am working on a 89 Volkswagen Golf, made a small walkaround on my channel 👍

Nice video that lets us appreciate very well the 2CV's clever suspensions!!

A rusty 2CV‽ Must be worth something for the rarity value alone.

Don’t be tight Phil, order a new SLC chassis from Ken Hanna (galvanised and made in the UK)

Some of the later chassis’s were replaced under warranty within a year of been sold. That should possibly have been one of them!! Good to see you back on another ball-ache of a 2cv Phil.

No matter what you do you can't stop a 2CV rusting

Yup - that's rust. I'd know it anywhere.

Doesn't look too bad for a Bamboo! Is that number on the bulkhead '3838'? Hard to tell. If it is, it was built on Wednesday 13th May 1987. Can't wait to watch the progress (.*\=/*.)

Another Greenie, and worse than the last one. You're a glutton for punishment! I look forward to watching your progress with a new chassis. I like your optimism. Good luck!

That looks really good, no more working outside on your grass! Where do you keep your Lathe, is that kept separately? Chris B.

That looks really nice, very good you stayed with an original colour scheme, no doubt it sold very quickly. Chris B.

I have dug better 2CV wheels up in my field than that! I cant believe someone fitted a galvanised chassis to this, it must have been in an advanced state of decomposition so why would someone do that ? It looks like i has been in a salt marsh for 20 years, I have never seen rust like that. At least you have a VIN plate, with the chassis it would be worth buying a new body, that could go straight on the chassis, and you could spend your time working on the ancillaries . Good luck! Chris B.

Nice when you start to put some paint back on! It always seems to be sunny in your garden, a lovely outside workplace, good job it is that colour green, the overspray will not show up on the grass! I thought you were spraying this in your lovely new tent! Chris B.

You have made a really good job of cleaning up the rusty bits, but I find it is easier and much better in the end to take a pile of rusty bits along to the local sand blaster and get them turned back into new parts, most sand blasters also offer an etch prime service, so there is not so much urgency to get them painted up. Good luck! Chris B.

You have made really good progress! The tent is a really good idea, I have often thought of getting one of these so I can work outside in Summer, it goes up to 45 degs C here and you cannot pick up a spanner as it is too hot, but one of these tents would be ideal, thanks for the tip, and for spraying it would be ideal! Chris B.

One thing that would be a huge asset to you is a sand blaster, of course you would also need a 15 cfm compressor, but they are so useful on a job like this, especially when you remove a rusty panel and find rust under it, I use Phosphoric acid on any rust i am welding on top of, it neutralises the nasty red stuff. one handy tool you could make for spot weld removal is to get a 12" Power Hacksaw blade and grind the end to a chisel edge, it is so thin you can slip it up between the panels and it will shear off any remaining metal without distortion. Chris B.

You are really doing well on this rebuild, but I think this is not the first rebuild you have done! Most people doing this would have cut out the rusty bits and thrown them away, not you, you have them stored for future reference, so many times when restoring things you need to refer to the rotten bits you have thrown away, they are a very important part of the process. You could not have chosen a better working environment than you have here, it looks very relaxing and pleasant, it looks like you are down here in the South of France, What time period did you build this over, the continuity is perfect, it looks like you did the whole job without putting any thing away, I wondered when you were going to get a spot welder on the job, very handy tool to have. Well done! Chris B.

Do you do customer cars or are they for selling?

Phil . Great job on the 76 Alfasud ti. Lov the orange and the sound of that engine.She can move. Takes me back when i passed my test. .Had a ford Cortina Mk2.1600E.She went like the Wind

Phil . You did a cracking job. I had a 2cv back in the 1990. Great basic car to drive . and to work on.

Sadly soon all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.!!!

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Hi Phil recently bought a series 3 Alfasud 5 Door with the intention to restore unfortunately the pictures didn’t reveal the true existent of the rust in the inner wings there basically non existent. Is there any places or people within your contacts that I might be able to source some good ones? Cheers

Is it easy to get spare parts in the Sud?

A great restoration Phil. How much did all the new parts - wings, wheels, bumpers, engine parts etc etc - cost? Thanks p.s. have you considered setting up a new 2cv restoration business?

keep it

Looking sweet Phil. That red shell would have broke your heart and wallet.

What a brilliant job. I am slightly biased, but it looks absolutely lovely and the blueberries and cream job is superb. If I had a garage space, then this would fill it. Excellent!

Wow, you're really churning them out! Proper job. I hope we will see how the new chassis is built up over the next few months.

Looks awsome well done sir!