i had a speach about this subject with bagheera specialist romop36....for him, it's impossible to identify a courrèges by the serial number

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" t'as bien de beaux outils...Ils doivent pas servir souvent."..

A traduire ... le seul moyen d'identifier la coucou avec le numero c'est d'avoir la carte de garantie d'origine de la voiture


noté le "C" après le numero de série.

A traduire
Les panneaux de porte on été refait, d'origine il sont "gold" , de meme que l'ensemble du tableau de bord.
Le skai se trouve chez HB , pour le skai blanc j'ai une piste également, pour la moquette aussi, j'ai trouvez la moquette d'origine, seul petit "soucis" elle n'es pas bouclé mais la couleur est la bonne.

Je pense que cette voiture doit etre sauver

To be translated
The door pannels have been remade. Orginaly, they are "gold" ( that's the name of the light brown skai that your have on some panels), as is the dashbord.
The gold skai is available by HB (the part dealer), for the white skai, I also have a place. I've also find the carpet. With a little glitch. The carpet I've find is of the correct colour but not having loops.

I realy thing that this car must be saved

Hi again,
Thanks all of you for all the information. It is really very nice to get in touch with such friendly people.
I will definately try to save the car.
The first thing I will do is to make an inventory list so that I can see what is missing.
I think I have all the mechanical parts as I have most pieces from another Bagheera (number 4) in stock.
The BIG challenge will be to recreate the interior. I will check if I can find a solvent to clean off the white paint as it would be nice to reuse some original parts.
When it is clear that it will be possible to fix the interior then I can strip off the shell and start working on the chassie.
I read about someone who had galvanized his chassie after repairing it.
This may actually be simpler than painting do you have any idea here.
As a conclusion I can say that it will be a lot of work and that I will rely on you for advice and help in getting materials.
Thanks again for all help.
Regards,

Stig

Hi Stig,
I did galvanized the chassis of one of my Bagheera and I'm not the only one.
It works perfectly but that's for the future.
In order to clean off the paint, 2 things
1) I believe that it must be in the July 1990 issue of Classic & Sportscar that I read a story of the restorer of a Honda s800 who had to clean the vinil seats of his car onto which a pot of paint was thrown in the past. He claimed to have successfully removed any traces of paint with Swarfega hand cleaner.
2) I also believe that the Courrège white skay is easely damaged. From the repair manual there is a note about that :

Some pictures Stig asked me to post
Quelques images que Stig me demande de poster

Purée qu'es ce qu'il utiise comme nettoyant ! ???

Acétone

Etonant que ca n'es pas bouffer le skai !

I will try to find something which is not so strong as Acetone but it is very effective. I tested with alchohol but it did not solve the paint.
The Acetone will probably leave a dull surface but it can be polished with a vinyl polish. It can of course not be used on skai which has a soft foam backing as it will destroy the foam.
A paint diluter such as Thinner should work but is probably even more aggresive to the skai.
Do you have any better ideas ?
Regards,

Stig

Hi Stig,
I come from germany Karlsruhe.
I make some pictures from my bagheera courrage 75. The serial number of my car is X3550 5X118911. very near form your number. the seats are not orginal but later i will change it.
Regards,
Lars

ohhh ..one upon a time, nobody never saw a courrèges ...now there is a new courrèges each week on the forum

welcome Lars, are you the known friend of baghbe and Kris ?

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" t'as bien de beaux outils...Ils doivent pas servir souvent."..

, oui c'est lui on avait discuter de sa coucou a Spa.

Wonderfull
The white elephant of Lars is coming out of the wood !
That's not only a Courrèges...
That's not only a Serie 1 Courrèges...
That's not only a 1290 cc Serie 1 Courrèges...
That's a German model of the model year 1975 Courrèges...
A specific detail can be seen on the pictures.

So now, Lars, you need to give us more details and speak about your other rares cats