The Citroën 2CV was a French “people’s car” that provided simple mobility to the unwashed masses, with a staggering production that lasted from 1948 through 1990. However, that didn’t mean you couldn’t take an existing 2CV and cover it in spiffy bodywork and make it a three wheeled thing called the “Lomax”. Find this 1991 […]
This next car had me to a double take on the model year. 1987? Surely this must be a typo — it looks closer to 1957 or 1967…but the legendary Citroën Duex Chevaux was sold in a Beetlesque single generation from 1948 through 1990 with only some safety and regulatory changes to keep up with the times. To put this in perspective, imagine if you could buy a brand new 1978 Pontiac Sunbird at a dealer today — that is how old the 2CV was in the late 80s when this example rolled off the factory line. Find this 1987 Citroen 2CV offered for $12,500 in Henderson, TX via craigslist. Tip from Rock On!
Conventional wisdom would suggest that the middle of a global pandemic is a bad time to start a business…but that same wisdom would have told Bill Gates to get a job at Radio Shack or Howard Hughes to become a journeyman aircraft mechanic…so I’m going to throw convention into the wind like an empty toilet […]
The Citroen (Citroën) 2CV (en français — deux chevaux) was a front drive economy car that had prototype builds starting in 1939 with innovative features like a flat-twin aircooled engine and seats that could be removed from the car and used as picnic chairs. Find this 1968 Citroën 2CV offered for $4300 in Fort Plain, CA […]
If the original 2CV isn’t strange enough for your garage, you might want to consider a Hoffman 2CV…wow that sounded like a good idea when it was in my head, but now that I read it on paper..yikes. Anyway, back in the late 1980s a German bloke named Wolfgang Hoffman decided to sell a kit […]
The Citroen (Citroën) 2CV (en français — deux chevaux) was a front drive economy car that had prototype builds starting in 1939 with innovative features like a flat-twin aircooled engine and seats that could be removed from the car and used as picnic chairs. I think that enough time has passed that we can all […]
Let’s not mince words on this one. This next car is going to be a terrible automobile by any modern yardstick. It is slower than anything on the road, handles like skateboard riding on a whale carcass, is unreliable as gas station sushi, and is about as dangerous as driving around urban Detroit with your […]
The Citroen (Citroën) 2CV (en français — deux chevaux) was a front drive economy car that had prototype builds starting in 1939 with innovative features like a flat-twin aircooled engine and seats hung like hammocks from the roof with wife wires (really, this is true). Unfortunately a nasty global war broke out a few months […]
Anything fusion is hot these days, particularly with the foodies. Imagine you go to a trendy underground restaurant and order “the chef’s special” and this thing comes out on your plate. On the outside it looks like a crêpe, but it is sitting on a bed of seaweed and sticky rice, and it is filled […]
The bulk of this writer’s experience with European car culture has been in eastern France, where draconian laws dictate that classic cars must be original and modification is almost banned. It isn’t as bad as Shanghai, where customizing a car is punishable with hard time in a Uyghur prison camp, but compared to the USA, […]