French members, please speak up !!

Gunnerhavesome · 2nd February 2020, 14:21

Hopefully, now that the rain has stopped will be able to get the jet wash out and give the old girl a good wash after the trip down to here as looking a bit un loved at the moment. Maybe if up to it a wax and polish

COLVERT · 14th February 2020, 19:24

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Originally Posted by Gunnerhavesome

Hopefully, now that the rain has stopped will be able to get the jet wash out and give the old girl a good wash after the trip down to here as looking a bit un loved at the moment. Maybe if up to it a wax and polish

I've never waxed mine in 13 years.

Guess it would die of shock if I did.---

However it still comes out very shiny from the car wash.--

Gunnerhavesome · 14th February 2020, 20:17

Still haven't got a round to it as the rain came back but maybe this weekend put it through the intermarch car wash and see how I feel about a polish.

Dorchester2 · 5th March 2020, 08:27

My grandparents used to live 40 years in Chatelaillon just a few miles North, nor so far from Saint-Jean d'Angély.

Dorchester2 · 14th June 2020, 17:15

I've just been part of a rally in the Montagne Noire (Black Mountain) in the South of the Tarn departement but... with the 214 cabby far much at ease in those twisty & winding country roads than the stately V6.
BTW We won two prizes: one for the most distant equipage (no merit TBH) and another because we got the highest score in the quiz we were given with the road book... Don't ask me how we achieved that...

There were many jokes about that naughty 'social distancing': none of us has had any knowledge of somebody caught by the disease here. Only 5 casualties in my departement (Tarn & Garonne) and nearly no patient remaining in the hospitals. It's the end at least at the moment.

COLVERT · 16th June 2020, 20:05

Dorchester2.

I read yesterday that the number of covid casualties in my department ( 79 ) was zero.----

Gate Keeper · 25th June 2020, 13:56

Here they are, not altered or enhanced by myself. I have called them drawing 1 and drawing 2 to identify the files. If you would like me to darken the cartoon lines, do say

drawing 1

by Philip Gate Keeper, on Flickr

drawing 2

by Philip Gate Keeper, on Flickr

Gate Keeper · 25th June 2020, 14:43

A drawing I inherited was in colour and it is called "The Awakening of Galitea" a pre-Raphaelite and a nude. The artist was a Frenchman who changed his name as it meant 'pig fat'.

In the year 2000, after I posted it up on the internet doing research, I received a request from a Texan collector in the U.S. who wanted to buy it, but I refused. I inherited it from my Grandmother who had kept it hidden out of sight in the loft. The nudity she said was something one should never see. I never sold it.

Hopefully you will be able to find the artist and the story behind the drawings.

COLVERT · 24th July 2020, 17:11

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Originally Posted by colvert

it sounds very interesting.

any possibility of some pics ??

----bump----

COLVERT · 9th December 2020, 13:58

Bit quiet in here. Nothing posted since July.

Covid effect maybe ???

5th March 2020, 08:27	#4
Dorchester2 incurable Rover addict Rover 75 Saloon V6 2.5 1999 - Rover 25 1.4 2002 - Rover 214i cab 1994 - Rover P5b coupe 1968 Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Bioule. South West of France. Posts: 1,645 Thanks: 612 Thanked 385 Times in 223 Posts	My grandparents used to live 40 years in Chatelaillon just a few miles North, nor so far from Saint-Jean d'Angély. __________________ Rover 75 V6 2.5 Auto Connie born 1 July 1999, 24 kOhms resistor, 10 kOhms manual starter, full E85, modified airbox, full derestricted SS exhaust line, power & torque remap -> 202 bhp This vehicle was the 7,517th 75 to run off the production line, out of 112,381 This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214 This vehicle was the 2,032nd 75 in Atlantic Blue Pearlescent (code: JEY) to be made out of 2,572 Atlantic Blue Pearlescent 75s

14th June 2020, 17:15	#5
Dorchester2 incurable Rover addict Rover 75 Saloon V6 2.5 1999 - Rover 25 1.4 2002 - Rover 214i cab 1994 - Rover P5b coupe 1968 Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Bioule. South West of France. Posts: 1,645 Thanks: 612 Thanked 385 Times in 223 Posts	I've just been part of a rally in the Montagne Noire (Black Mountain) in the South of the Tarn departement but... with the 214 cabby far much at ease in those twisty & winding country roads than the stately V6. BTW We won two prizes: one for the most distant equipage (no merit TBH) and another because we got the highest score in the quiz we were given with the road book... Don't ask me how we achieved that... There were many jokes about that naughty 'social distancing': none of us has had any knowledge of somebody caught by the disease here. Only 5 casualties in my departement (Tarn & Garonne) and nearly no patient remaining in the hospitals. It's the end at least at the moment. __________________ Rover 75 V6 2.5 Auto Connie born 1 July 1999, 24 kOhms resistor, 10 kOhms manual starter, full E85, modified airbox, full derestricted SS exhaust line, power & torque remap -> 202 bhp This vehicle was the 7,517th 75 to run off the production line, out of 112,381 This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214 This vehicle was the 2,032nd 75 in Atlantic Blue Pearlescent (code: JEY) to be made out of 2,572 Atlantic Blue Pearlescent 75s Last edited by Dorchester2; 14th June 2020 at 17:25..

2nd February 2020, 14:21	#1
Gunnerhavesome Avid contributor 2001 Rover 75 2.0 V6 Con SE, Range Rover P38 4.6 for my Russian winter home Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: France Feb to October/Sevastopol Crimea November to Jan Posts: 145 Thanks: 155 Thanked 43 Times in 35 Posts	Hopefully, now that the rain has stopped will be able to get the jet wash out and give the old girl a good wash after the trip down to here as looking a bit un loved at the moment. Maybe if up to it a wax and polish

14th February 2020, 20:17	#3
Gunnerhavesome Avid contributor 2001 Rover 75 2.0 V6 Con SE, Range Rover P38 4.6 for my Russian winter home Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: France Feb to October/Sevastopol Crimea November to Jan Posts: 145 Thanks: 155 Thanked 43 Times in 35 Posts	Still haven't got a round to it as the rain came back but maybe this weekend put it through the intermarch car wash and see how I feel about a polish.

16th June 2020, 20:05	#6
COLVERT This is my second home R75 Saloon. Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: France/or Devon. Posts: 14,003 Thanks: 3,851 Thanked 2,167 Times in 1,816 Posts	Dorchester2. I read yesterday that the number of covid casualties in my department ( 79 ) was zero.----

25th June 2020, 13:56	#7
Gate Keeper This is my second home 4X4 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Nairobi Posts: 20,105 Thanks: 8,286 Thanked 7,017 Times in 4,160 Posts	Here they are, not altered or enhanced by myself. I have called them drawing 1 and drawing 2 to identify the files. If you would like me to darken the cartoon lines, do say drawing 1 by Philip Gate Keeper, on Flickr drawing 2 by Philip Gate Keeper, on Flickr

25th June 2020, 14:43	#8
Gate Keeper This is my second home 4X4 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Nairobi Posts: 20,105 Thanks: 8,286 Thanked 7,017 Times in 4,160 Posts	A drawing I inherited was in colour and it is called "The Awakening of Galitea" a pre-Raphaelite and a nude. The artist was a Frenchman who changed his name as it meant 'pig fat'. In the year 2000, after I posted it up on the internet doing research, I received a request from a Texan collector in the U.S. who wanted to buy it, but I refused. I inherited it from my Grandmother who had kept it hidden out of sight in the loft. The nudity she said was something one should never see. I never sold it. Hopefully you will be able to find the artist and the story behind the drawings.

9th December 2020, 13:58	#10
COLVERT This is my second home R75 Saloon. Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: France/or Devon. Posts: 14,003 Thanks: 3,851 Thanked 2,167 Times in 1,816 Posts	Bit quiet in here. Nothing posted since July. Covid effect maybe ???