Lol, you buy a 20 yr old car and then moan about rust and worn brakes. You buy it knowing it has just 602cc, 29 bhp and takes over 30 seconds to get to 60, and then you moan about performance...

What were you expecting?

Never good when you buy a bad car as you clearly did... Never had much in the way of problems with the ones I had and have. Great cars.

You need to understand the principle of a 2CV, and remember that it is a basic car, which needs maintenance, but anyone with sense and a workshop guide can work on one, especially with guidance from the excellent owners club.

A properly maintained example with a galvanised chassis and worn parts replaced will last indefinitely and give great pleasure - to complain about faulty brakes and a rusty chassis on an old car shows your lack of any research before buying.

It was a shame you scrapped it - if you had any sense at all, you would have put it on eBay or www.carandclassic.co.uk or www.2cvtv.com and got a good price for it, and helped other better guided owners to acquire parts or to replace the chassis. I bet that was what the scrapyard did...

Before some old bat in a Micra wrote it off, my 1988 2CV did a trip UK-Geneva-Rome-Prague-Berlin-Amsterdam-UK in 15 days without any fault, driven flat out all day, and off-road over the Alps.

I just understood the car and prepared it well.

Shame you had such a pup, but don't tar all 2CV's with the same brush.