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, […]
The 2CV, known colloquially as the deux chevaux (two horses), was a Toute Petite Voiture (compact) designed in the ’30s by the French automaker Citroën. In 1938 there was this war, with Nazis, tanks, occupation, all kinds of horrible stuff, and post-war France regressed into what they called the Grey Years as most of the […]