03-24-2015, 04:00 PM
Hi Guys!
I've been tracking Mehari's after I heard about them in the USA and in Hawai'i for the first time 4 years ago.
I grew up in France, my first car was a 2CV.
A customer who had a 1953 Traction Avant from Colorado with low compressions sitting in his garage told me about the Mehari's, but he liked so much red french wine that I wondered what was true in his story while he was sipping out of his glass while I was working, all day.
A Honolulu rental company had to get rid of them because of a couple accidents where people fell off the car (no seat belts, half ass doors….)
I dream about founding them sometimes, this is becoming an obsession.
2 weeks ago I talk to a friend of a friend while camping on the beach, we talk about 2 Cv's, there is one nice mint Charleston in Hawai'i Ka'i, a red one at Volcano Park (the guy probably works there, it's often parked there) and a rag doll on the Ala Wai harbor.
The guy has also heard about that rental company who used to rent Mehari's, but doesn't know the name either.
It sparked my interest again and I decided to search the hell out of it, here is what I found… [8D]
Shelly Motors at 544 Queen St in Honolulu was the dealer in 1970.
A few have been sold to Budget-Rent-a-car inc. in Honolulu.
One has been featured ,probably from that fleet in the Brian Keith show.
Now, after I pulled a couple strings, I finally found where they ended up and where they sleep, rotting in a field for 40 years…. I gotta have that somebody pin point the exact location on a map since I couldn't access the private properties where they are.
I haven't seen them yet, but they are in total wreck stage….[xx(]
I'd like to at least picture them, and if possible get them all out of there and build a decent one out of the parts. I'll probably have to order a chassis from France, no way that **** resisted rust cancer until now.
Aloha!
Alika
I've been tracking Mehari's after I heard about them in the USA and in Hawai'i for the first time 4 years ago.
I grew up in France, my first car was a 2CV.
A customer who had a 1953 Traction Avant from Colorado with low compressions sitting in his garage told me about the Mehari's, but he liked so much red french wine that I wondered what was true in his story while he was sipping out of his glass while I was working, all day.
A Honolulu rental company had to get rid of them because of a couple accidents where people fell off the car (no seat belts, half ass doors….)
I dream about founding them sometimes, this is becoming an obsession.
2 weeks ago I talk to a friend of a friend while camping on the beach, we talk about 2 Cv's, there is one nice mint Charleston in Hawai'i Ka'i, a red one at Volcano Park (the guy probably works there, it's often parked there) and a rag doll on the Ala Wai harbor.
The guy has also heard about that rental company who used to rent Mehari's, but doesn't know the name either.
It sparked my interest again and I decided to search the hell out of it, here is what I found… [8D]
Shelly Motors at 544 Queen St in Honolulu was the dealer in 1970.
A few have been sold to Budget-Rent-a-car inc. in Honolulu.
One has been featured ,probably from that fleet in the Brian Keith show.
Now, after I pulled a couple strings, I finally found where they ended up and where they sleep, rotting in a field for 40 years…. I gotta have that somebody pin point the exact location on a map since I couldn't access the private properties where they are.
I haven't seen them yet, but they are in total wreck stage….[xx(]
I'd like to at least picture them, and if possible get them all out of there and build a decent one out of the parts. I'll probably have to order a chassis from France, no way that **** resisted rust cancer until now.
Aloha!
Alika