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New V5 landed this morning.

Insurance cover now in place too. Added it to my multi-car policy for the price of an admin fee.

Have also fired off an email to Waaijenberg in Holland to see if they can enlighten me in any way about the car. If there's any specific differences between it and the Dutch market ones beyond the obvious. I have also asked if there's any manuals, handbooks etc. available; you never know.

Anyway, that's it for the time being. Off to pack.

That said, the Harbour Arm and old town in Folkestone are worth a mooch around. There’s been some significant regeneration of the old Harbour Station buildings and the fresh seafood near the old fishmarket is always good. 👍

When I was working in the Netherlands, my Dutch was good enough to follow my friends conversations most of the time, although my responses were often met with hilarity and some gentle correction. 🤣 I have only managed to get back to Amsterdam once since 1999 though, so it’s now very rusty indeed! 😃

I do like languages though, unlike a lot of native anglophones who can be really lazy with learning other ones. My wife and I watch a lot of European tv drama now that there’s such easy access with Netflix etc, and always in the original language with subtitles. My French is good; fluent after a few days of immersion, and I have a penchant for cheesy French pop music. 🤣 I’ve a lorry driver’s vocabulary in Spanish, Italian and German too. 🤣🤣

But, I do have to admit that I can order beer in way more languages than I can actually converse in; after all is said and done, beer at the end of the day is the most important thing. 😃👍

Ok.

So.

New drive and alternator belt ordered from a Dutch supplier. Got skinned a bit with the postage, but hey-ho.

Also ordered a new 3.5J-10 tubeless rim to replace 2.5” tube type current spare, and a single 145/80r10 Nankang proper car tyre. Will all, hopefully, be here by the time I get home and we can have a proper play.

The second link from misteralz has some useful pictures of secondhand bits, and has quite helpfully identified the master cylinder as a basic Girling one, so I should be able to sort something out with that for significantly less than they’re asking for them.

I’m happy enough to pay the prices that low volume production demands, but it’s clear that a lot of the proprietary bits can be found much cheaper elsewhere if you know what you’re looking for. €65 plus post for a secondhand Canta ignition switch/lock, vs £55 post free for a NOS genuine Peugeot one, or £17.50 for a new pattern part is a big difference. Door locks look like Pug 205/106 parts too…

There was a period in the nineties when ex-military surplus rebuilt engines were so cheap that they were often the most cost effective way to keep an older Land-Rover on the road; even if the original engine was still quite repairable. I suspect that is where it’s come from.

Thanks.

Sadly, I don't wear it all the time, but I suspect that if I actually manage to make it to a gathering I will have to wear the bloody thing all weekend!

That avatar picture goes way back to a daft thread on Vzi about headgear. I was a good deal younger when I took it!

Oh, back on the Canta subject, thanks to sebastiaan giving me the heads-up about a parts supplier in Holland that I wasn't aware of, and who are currenly listing the drive belts at 20% discount, I have just ordered one, and an alternator belt.

I obvously need to widen my search terms. "Canta spares" isn't enough it seems. A lot of suppliers reference "45km" or "45kmh" as they have bits for lots of different microcars. Any tips or clues for spares, particularly secondhand ones, will be greatfully received.  

Nicely done. 👍👍

You should be able to move it directly from one vehicle to the other. No need to put it on retention.