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JPSmit said:
I wish, more like a Citrowannabe /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/driving.gif At the time I had the DS and my father had a '58 DKW. All in Belleville Ontario (pop 30k) Definately the 2 oddest cars in the same driveway. I was not at all unusual to find a german or french immigrant crying in our driveway "it vass ze best car I ever owned"

The DS died - my father moved took the DKW and later gave it away - just a few years before I wanted to restore it - sigh another one that got away.

Recently I saw an old Citroen Van in Montreal (corregated sides) - another sigh. Further reminder that any attempt to expand my hobby will result in or be the result of the death of DW or me /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/nonono.gif
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Citroen van? The Camione that's on eBay right now? I have had similar thoughts myself. One of those 2CV truckettes would be a blast to own.

That DKW was a nice car. My dad has always had a thing for those, and he was a mechanical engineer by profession. The mere fact that you owned a Citroen, understand what they are, and would still consider another, makes you a fellow Citroeniste in my book!
 
Thanks for the compliment. Actually the camione I saw was not this one - I may have actually seen this one the last time I was in Montreal. The previous one had a pic in front of the owners home - looked like France. It's just so darn ugly! I can't help but love it - though my wife constantly shakes her head.
 
That's the thing with these vehicles. The commercial vehicles are just that, designed to get stuff from point A to point B, and the body was designed around the intended load and the engine. Ugly, but functional.

The more sophisticated cars seem to be too complicated, but they are not. Once again, each feature is wonderful, the self-leveling suspension, years ahead of its time, reproduced under licence by Rolls Royce for use on their own vehicles, of all people. If that isn't a validation of the correctness of that design I don't know what is.

Until someone has driven one they don't know what they're missing!
 
Hehehe, a rolling horse-stall!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
hmm... A rolling horse something... but I wasn't thinkin' "stall" necessarily. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
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