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Can anyone tell me...
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...what make and model of car this is? Seems as if it's something not quite an antique, but close to it.


Update: Not sure I want to close the comments just yet, given some of the options for entertainment that you've presented over the last couple of days. In spite of having now solved the car ID question that got the ball rolling!

Dollars to donuts

Date: 2009-06-02 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesaucernews.livejournal.com
that is a Citroen 2CV. By the logo, it is, at the very least, and old Citroen.

Re: Dollars to donuts

Date: 2009-06-02 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
Looks about right to me. We don't see many of these around Ottawa, as far as I know.

Re: Dollars to donuts

Date: 2009-06-02 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jennawaterford.livejournal.com
My parents lived in France in the late 50s/early 60s and have always referred to the "Deux Cheveaux" which I now realize meant *this car.* It was never clear to me that they were referring to a type of Citroen. I honestly had no idea *what* they were talking about except that it was some kind of car.

Date: 2009-06-02 02:19 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
As someone else mentioned it's a Citroen 2CV - the 'work horse' of French automobiles - From the styling of the panels, lights etc. I'd say this one is from the early to mid-1980s. So maybe 20 to 25 years old.

Date: 2009-06-02 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jasonfranks.livejournal.com

Looks like a 50s model to me.

Date: 2009-06-02 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com
Yep...that's a Citroen 2CV or Deux-Chevaux. Fine car...almost as classic as the venerable Bug, and produced almost as long. I'd love to have one.

ah...nostalgia

Date: 2009-06-02 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollycole1.livejournal.com
It's a 2cv 6 and probably not as old as you think. I learnt to drive in a nice new shiny red one in 1987 in London. The roof peels back like a can and the back seat comes out to be used as a picnic bench. The stick shift is in the steering column and the brake is a pull out lever. It's a unique driving experience to say the least. You can still see them around rural France and trendy couples store them in garages in cities throughout the UK!

Re: ah...nostalgia

Date: 2009-06-02 11:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollycole1.livejournal.com
Oh and a quirky thing about the flap up widows-the catch usually goes so you have to resort to heath robinson measures to secure them!

Re: ah...nostalgia

Date: 2009-06-03 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollycole1.livejournal.com
He was an English cartoonist who drew complicated inventions/machines as satire -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/robinson_william_heath.shtml

Re: ah...nostalgia

Date: 2009-06-03 09:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
A contemporary and competitor in the realm of Rube Goldberg, then?

Date: 2009-06-02 11:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steve-roby.livejournal.com
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions had a song about that car. 2cv, on the album Rattlesnakes. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOmc8GnmVck)

Date: 2009-06-04 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orleans.livejournal.com
You get major cool points for mentioning Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. :) Excellent and tragically under-appreciated band.

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