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These two have got back home to Cluny, S. Burgundy.

Is the service to Murmansk quite frequent? Don't go at this time of the year as it's minus anything up to 30.

He was posting pictures of his log pile at coffee break time this morning. He was on the thread about the Kent run.

You must have got a bit lost then if you came near us on the way to Fere-Champenoise from Oslo. We're about half way between Dijon and Lyon. Burgundy wines are the best, also the local 'champagne'.

You are very welcome to stay at our gîte in Southern Burgundy for a week or with us if it's just a day or two. www.cormatin.eu I don't know about the scrapyards though. Depends if you are coming straight down South or if you are veering off in a westerly direction to the Vendée which seems very...

We'd love to see a picture of this car when you get it. Does it have the plastic strips on the sides? I would think it would be a GTL if it belonged to M. le Maire. Or does it say Clan or Savanne?

I for one have really enjoyed this thread. It's been an fascinating journey. Much better than having scraps of this and that scattered over many threads. I don't think Lord Stanbury was being entirely serious, just amazed that your thread is interesting enough to continue so long.

But don't you need a traditional woven willow bottom first? Tell Lady Stanbury to be ready to bale out, in both senses I would think.

Well, I'm not too sure. The old style Carte Grise has details about the owner as well as the car. I still think you will have to get a new Carte Grise. I think it is only when you have the new SIV plates that you don't need to get a new CG. It's like what you do in the UK when you send off...

Wow! How many tubs of elbow grease did it take to get it like that?

Seeing you live in Dept 24 surely you have to reregister it anyway? You can't keep the number if you've bought the car in a different dept from your own.

Apparently there's no way you could keep the registration number. Even if you were able to apply for a Carte Grise in that department you would get a new number with a new CG. Only the department number would remain the same. As you are not likely to be able to do all this before April you'll...

Well I've plenty of thoughts but I will post the question on a French forum and see what they say. As I understand it every car has to have a Carte Grise and I don't think you can keep the number plate from a different dept if it is not your address. If you haven't got the old CG you have to...

You are nearly there, Brian. It would be 'Quelles voitures' as you have to make the basic 'quel' both feminine and plural. Learning French gets much easier as you go on, and don't worry about the feeling you are not getting anywhere as you will progress in sudden leaps and then plateau for a...

Brian, I couldn't see it on French eBay but there was a 1938 black one in super condition being sold by the Automusée du Forez. Starting price 8,400 euros. It's worth looking at the other old cars they have for sale if you like drooling over that sort of thing. www.automusee.fr

Apparently the registration numbers will start in April for each new Carte Grise. It was originally going to be January but the financial crisis put it back. Although the departmental number will not be part of the registration there will be a little space on the RHS of the number plate for...

And, to be serious (for a change) R4 people are already a bit thin on the ground. If you have a forum with too many sections which have out of date posts it's not very exciting and nobody is going to bother looking at it. Also I find with some of the French forums there are so many sections...

Oh no! More scope for Ian to post pictures. :shock: Surely we do most of this in Clementine's Café?

I wouldn't bother robbing the HSBC as it seems to have lost all its money. The esteemed members of the R4 forum did not bid on your artwork as you told us Pepper was bidding. As we were being honourable we knew not to bid against friends!

Malcolm, I heard that there was a new rule which said that now voitures de collection were liable for a CT every five years. It was in some information that stated that every time you got a CT the Carte Grise was stamped. When you ran out of room on the Carte Grise you had to apply for a new...