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 on: January 10, 2026, 07:15:49 am 
Started by Anders Dinsen - Last post by Anders Dinsen
Happy 2026!

It's time to share a little progress.

I have started the year doing glass fibre work. It's rather cold here now, so I can't really work in my garage, but I have a small electrical heater in my workshop and that's reasonably well insulated, so I can do work there.

I removed the left hand rear fender years ago and found it had at some time in its life been reglued with polyester, instead of the PU glue which they used on the factory and the workshop manual instructs. The polyester work was done well, though, so getting it off has involved quite a bit of cutting and sanding work. I'm now done and the panel is ready for the repairs it needs. While I have had the car, the panel has cracked behind and above the wheel arch - probably from a hit from another car while it was parked. It's a fairly easy repair which I will be doing with epoxy, adding a layer or two of fibre on the back and flushing out to fill the cracks on the front.

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 on: January 09, 2026, 09:03:35 pm 
Started by Grapes - Last post by Anders Dinsen
Oh how lovely that looks!!! Happy 2026 :D

 13 
 on: January 01, 2026, 04:20:36 pm 
Started by Grapes - Last post by Grapes
Happy 2026 with lots of French car adventures!

 14 
 on: December 31, 2025, 06:13:54 pm 
Started by Lennart Sorth - Last post by tog0035
I have received this email from a Willem Toose in Portugal. Normally I ask people to join the forum for this, but I think this is a special case.


My name is Willem Toose, I am 80 years old and live in Portugal.

A few years ago I bought a Matra Bagheera Series 1 with Portuguese registration papers and a Series 2 with Spanish papers: with the intention of restoring it.

Restoring old cars has been a hobby of mine for many years. After dismantling the fiberglass body parts, the chassis turned out to be in very bad condition. Since the body parts of the Series 1 had been modified in the past, I decided to restore the Series 2.

All parts were dismantled and are now restored. The chassis was sandblasted and after a lot of effort and time a good sheet metal worker was found who, with parts that I had bought and others that he made himself, started work on the rear, which has now been nicely finished.

Unfortunately, time has caught up with me and I am no longer able to complete the restoration. Both cars are now available for a new owner as well as the large amount of restored parts and also the engine which has also been refurbished. 

Photos are available.


I have asked him for photos, which I will add if they arrive.  If you are interested, please let me know, and I can get you in contact with eachother.

/Lennart

 15 
 on: December 21, 2025, 08:14:29 pm 
Started by Lennart Sorth - Last post by Dokkedal
More progress - I now have the new OS/Forum software running, and a fairly automated system to be able to do the last database upgrade and switch over between the current (old) Dell server, to the new(-er) HP server.    :-)

This post also serves to verify it gets picked up by my semiautomatic update script in my virtual environment...

/Lennart

Thank you, good job.

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 on: December 16, 2025, 06:06:07 pm 
Started by Lennart Sorth - Last post by Lennart Sorth
More progress - I now have the new OS/Forum software running, and a fairly automated system to be able to do the last database upgrade and switch over between the current (old) Dell server, to the new(-er) HP server.    :-)

This post also serves to verify it gets picked up by my semiautomatic update script in my virtual environment...

/Lennart

 17 
 on: December 06, 2025, 12:13:17 pm 
Started by matra530 - Last post by matra530
Tried do fix it, now it works on my right side, but not on the driver side.... Mad day.

 18 
 on: November 29, 2025, 08:10:31 pm 
Started by Spyros - Last post by Dokkedal
X107677 is chain number 7121, original color 3319 = yellow sun, gear box 7340902, engine number 3716284, out of the plant 05/04/1974, date of warrancy 10 april 1974 for the country 005 = Italy

X105373 is chain number 6659, original color 3319 = yellow sun, gear box 7337895, engine number 3713731 out of the plant 02/04/1974, date of warrancy 10 april 1974 for the country 034 = Denmark

At this day 1848 surviving Bagheera knowed including 781 out of France and 32 in Denmark

 19 
 on: November 28, 2025, 10:52:59 am 
Started by Lennart Sorth - Last post by Lennart Sorth
Progress still happening. I now have my virtual environment running the same version as this active one, and I am making this reply simply to see if my automated update procedure picks it up.

Next step is to verify I can update to 2.1.6 (done multiple times before so surely ... )

THEN we are nearing the time where I can do the big server replacement.

/L

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 on: November 25, 2025, 08:50:58 am 
Started by matra530 - Last post by Grapes
There's probably very few murena things Roy does not know 😅

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