Monthly Archive: July 2015

2nd Prize in a beauty contest 1

2nd Prize in a beauty contest

My Light 15 was awarded 2nd prize in the pre-1956 Citroen category at the 2015 French Car Day.   I hadn’t planned to enter the car, but did since there were only a couple of Tractions there.    1st prize went to a nice Big 15.   Without a lot of effort I should be able to do better as I was obviously marked down...

W123 Radio Upgrade – bypassing the factory fader 0

W123 Radio Upgrade – bypassing the factory fader

The 280CE was back today to get a radio installed.   When I purchased the car, the previous owner had removed their radio, so there was a great big hole in the dash.   Luckily, my brother who purchased the car from me already had a Sony radio he had removed from his previous 280CE.  The W123 radio is a standard DIN fitting.  Unfortunately...

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