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Ah...let me bring this down to earth...here's my Citroen Traction Normale I used to run as my everyday car a few years ago. It was always good for a wave thru the Douane and few free glasses of Pernod whenever we visited France :-)

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An old one, the photo and the car!

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Ah...let me bring this down to earth...here's my Citroen Traction Normale I used to run as my everyday car a few years ago. It was always good for a wave thru the Douane and few free glasses of Pernod whenever we visited France :-)

cheers:

Sam

 

Love those Michelin X tyres; I bought Mrs T a 2CV years ago, because I thought she deserved it (her car at the time was a FIAT Abarth 130TC); she did not appreciate the joke and I drove the snail for a year, sometimes on the road, sometimes in the ditch..

 

Did you have the Cotal gearbox with teaspoon gear lever? Great Maigret car. :)

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Love those Michelin X tyres; I bought Mrs T a 2CV years ago, because I thought she deserved it (her car at the time was a FIAT Abarth 130TC); she did not appreciate the joke and I drove the snail for a year, sometimes on the road, sometimes in the ditch..

 

Did you have the Cotal gearbox with teaspoon gear lever? Great Maigret car. :)

 

Yes, this had the original 3-speed gearbox with the gear lever on the dashboard - it previously belonged to a Parisian woman. Extraordinary roadholding, due to the wide track, long wheelbase, low pressure Michelin tires designed specifically for the car, and an excellent weight distribution...on the right kind of slippery, twisting road, I could beat my friend's BMW 3-series...after all, these Citroens used to regularly win the Monte Carlo till the Minis came along (the French regarded the Minis as cheating owing to their superior headlights...but then they would say that, wouldn't they?). A few years later, I had a DS Pallas, but that was a pig to work on, and hardly anyone in the UK understood them.

Mrs W had a Deuche for a while, too...it was rather like sailing a small Spanish galleon.

 

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Sam

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A wonderfully restored '59 250 California Roadster at the grand re-opening of the Ferrari store on Park Avenue in Manhattan.

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2 epochs. I throw with V-lux1.

 

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