Retired French cabinet-maker builds wooden Citroen 2CV
July 12, 2017 10:20 AM Subscribe
Michel Robillard is a retired Frenchman and a cabinet-maker by profession since the age of 14. He shares two passions, wood and cars and, it would seem, a true love of the 2CV.
Michel Robillard is a retired Frenchman
You can retire from being French?
posted by jonmc at 10:38 AM on July 12, 2017 [5 favorites]
You can retire from being French?
posted by jonmc at 10:38 AM on July 12, 2017 [5 favorites]
Eh. Call me when my books bring in more revenue than my day job.
worth a try, right? Man, I wish the real world was more like Metafilter.
and yes, I'm aware the genie-mode response to that wish would be to make me lose my day job.
posted by Naberius at 11:16 AM on July 12, 2017
worth a try, right? Man, I wish the real world was more like Metafilter.
and yes, I'm aware the genie-mode response to that wish would be to make me lose my day job.
posted by Naberius at 11:16 AM on July 12, 2017
I suspect the wooden version would be more rigid than the actual 2CV.
posted by stannate at 11:57 AM on July 12, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by stannate at 11:57 AM on July 12, 2017 [1 favorite]
Also both your links are the same.
Argh! Thanks, I have contacted the mods for hope.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 1:03 PM on July 12, 2017
Argh! Thanks, I have contacted the mods for hope.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 1:03 PM on July 12, 2017
Did you hear about the car with wooden wheels, a wooden engine, and wooden doors?
It wooden start.
posted by misteraitch at 1:25 PM on July 12, 2017 [4 favorites]
It wooden start.
posted by misteraitch at 1:25 PM on July 12, 2017 [4 favorites]
I got a lift in a 2CV once. The passenger seat was a lawn chair, I swear.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 7:36 PM on July 12, 2017
posted by TWinbrook8 at 7:36 PM on July 12, 2017
I also retired from being French at age 14. Ahh, living in the golden years!
posted by Saxon Kane at 7:54 PM on July 12, 2017
posted by Saxon Kane at 7:54 PM on July 12, 2017
I spent two years as a Frenchman, for tax purposes.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:06 PM on July 12, 2017
posted by blue_beetle at 9:06 PM on July 12, 2017
There must be something about the 2CV/Dyane and woodworkers, because there's also Friend Wood's Tryane II.
posted by scruss at 8:47 AM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by scruss at 8:47 AM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
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Also both your links are the same.
posted by ilama at 10:37 AM on July 12, 2017 [1 favorite]