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My first car was a '71 DS wagon - unly the colour was different. About the same shape though - blew the engine after 6 mos. On the plus side, I bought it for $50 and sold it for $250. About the only car I made money on. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
I think the fact that it's a wagon makes it even cooler! If it werent so far away.....
 
The hydraulics can be a nightmare on those things.
They're so strange that they're cool.

- Doug
 
It's near me, though I've never been tempted by the DS. Now a 2CV...
 
Drew, I'm WATCHIN' you, boyO.
 
Wha'd I do? Wha'd I do? No French cars for me, I got enough trouble with the one British car... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
There's a good lad. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
I'd take a 2CV. those are one DURN goofy car. I like 'em.
I'd love to start a collection of bizzar cars....
2cv
Messershmidt
Amphacar
VW Thing
just to name a few
 
A gent who parks a couple of antiques in a condo parking garage near here had a 1973 Citroen with a Maserati engine in it! Yep, a factory-installed Maserati engine.

Can't imagine the repair headaches: French car, Italian engine. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hammer.gif

Too much for me. Cool car, though.
 
ewww... that'd be on my "no way" list.
Try and find parts for one of those!
I got a bad taste for Maserati engines from those Dodges that had 'em in the late 80s.
J-U-N-K!
 
There was one on ebay recently - an SM that is.
I'd have the DX, but that's about it in the Citroen line.
Now Fiats - there are a whole bunch of those I'd have...
 
It's not a matter of "finding" parts. Once you reach that level of exclusivity. You are expecting to have a backup vehicle available, while Guido in Italy is fabricating a new part.

Once had a SM customer, actually it was Don Callender, Marie Callender's husband, of the Marie Callender restaurant chain, come into our shop every couple of months where Franco, our Alfa factory engineer would give it a tuneup. Nice car, unique, had a good amount of grunt.
 
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