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Citroën's 2CV is so basic and elemental, it's hard to imagine it could be deconstructed any further. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mehari does just that, being little more than a plastic dog dish on wheels, but will its price bowl you over? More »
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A 600 cc, two-cylinder 2CV kitted out with sheet steel panels bolted together and called the Baby-Brousse is less ridiculous than it sounds. Leaving behind their humble origins as French peasant cars, these little Citroëns rode in 1973 from Paris to Abidjan, on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, to shame all future Paris–Dakar wannabes. More »
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Super2CV is a wonderful photoblog not only about 2CV’s but all flavors of classic Citroën, with a healthy sprinkling of kustom rods and cute French chicks smoking cigarettes on top. Photo Credit: Etienne Musslin More »
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Pablo Picasso's known for his jarring, cubist aesthetic, but what if he designed a car? It would probably look like Andy Saunders' creation: Picasso's Citroen. Saunders thinks the artist would've preferred it to an actual Citroen Picasso, we agree. More »
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Have you noticed the distinct lack of new posts today? Yes, those lovable Server Hamsters have decided to prevent us from uploading images. What to do? Dig into the PCH Wrecking Yard for a recycled classic post! More »
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A Citroen 2CV is the kind of backup you can get away with if you're walking into a gunfight on a pair of legs like these. [HotVVheels] More »
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Before Tata introduced the poor to the travails of new car buying, there was the Citroën FAF. Before the FAF there was the Greek-built Pony, and today Nice Price or Crack Pipe wants to know what's a grecian urn? More »
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When you're stranded in the Moroccan desert with ten days of rations and a basket-case 2CV, do you give up? Hell no! You do what Emile Leray did! More »
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It takes inspired madness to imagine the perfect mate for a Ferrari F355 chassis is a Citroen 2CV Fourgonnette body. After thousands of hours of labor, this is the fastest French bread-van you'll ever see. More »
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When you're trying to unload a basket-case Peugeot 504 Familiale or a terrifyingly incomplete Renault Juvaquatre on eBay, what's your best approach? That's right, female flesh and plenty of it! More »
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Here we have one of the most weirdly choreographed car-crash scenes in cinematic history, taken from 1971 Jacques Tati film, Trafic.
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You want distance? Hang time? Non-fatal landing? You'll get all those things with Seppe's Amazing Flying Citroën 2CV! Thanks to Fast_Nel for the tip; original video may be seen here. More »
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What do you get when you cross Brad Pitt, a Citroen 2CV, Wes Anderson and a topless young woman? A Japanese advertisement. More »
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What do you get when a Brit combines French quirk with American attitude? In this case, it's a Citroen 2CV that's been converted into a rat rod-styled pickup truck. We say rat rod-styled because it doesn't have the prerequisite big American mill that you'd find in a traditional rod. Of course, we've seen a Chevy V8 dropped into a 2CV before, but even though this car truck vehicle makes do with a puny 602 CC two-cylinder engine, we still love it. We might even be tempted to bid on it if the Atlantic ocean wasn't in the way...and the US dollar wasn't at the bottom of it. More »
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To honor the Citröen 2CV’s 60th birthday, fashion house Hermès created this special edition for the Paris Motor Show. While we weren’t impressed by the gaudy crime-against-taste that was the Bugatti Veyron Fbg par Hermès, the more pedestrian (or equine, to be more correct) 2CV strikes a chord with us. The leather and cotton canvas added to it accentuate the timeless lines and paired-to-the-bone interior, two things most modern cars are missing. The full release follows the jump. More »
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I'd never heard of the 1965 film Le Corniaud when Franzouse pointed me to this sequence, but now I'm on a quest to get a copy. The disintegration of a Citroën 2CV in a slapstick wreck with a monstrous Bentley, leading to a crazed Naples-to-Bordeaux road trip with a '64 Eldorado packed with illegal goods? Yes! More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. We already know there's a Renault Caravelle still driving in Portland, Oregon, but there's plenty more French machinery to be found on the streets up there. Today we've got some photos from Craig, who works near a serious- yet garage-space-challenged- Citroën aficionado, and some more from Mike, who knows where to find a couple of Renault Fuegos in his neighborhood. You know the drill- make the jump… More »
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Finding the Peugeot 403 brochure was nice, but we need a total overdose of vintage French car brochures! Fortunately, Mort555 came to the rescue, by sending us a tip about this Dutch site with dozens of beautifully scanned Citroën brochures from the 1950s through the 1980s. France, Spain, Finland, Germany, Italy- if you could buy Citroëns there, the brochure is probably in this site. [Citrobe.org] More »
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We might as well keep crisscrossing Canada, so we're doubling back to Ontario to take a look at this Citroën 2CV photographed by the aptly-named Citroen_SM. Jump away to read Citroen_SM's description. More »
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We've been getting some great Down On The Street Bonus Edition photos from our readers (so many, in fact, that it's getting tough to post them as fast as they come in- which is a good problem to have). However, when you find and photograph a daily-driven Citröen Traction-Avant on the streets of your city, you get jumped to the head of the line. Such is the case with Warpig, who has gone on an unprecedented DOTSBE binge in his hometown of Oslo, Norway. He's sent in literally hundreds of photos of interesting old cars found on Oslo's streets, and today we're going to look at some of the Citröens he's shot. Good work, Warpig, and we'll be showing more of your photos in the near future! More »
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Take a look at those wheels — the three lugs are a dead giveaway as to what lies beneath the slippery hand crafted exterior. That's right, the Tyrane II started life as a Citroen 2CV but its obviously much modified from the original. Builder Friend Wood, no we're not kidding, started work on the car by removing one side of the rear suspension and repositioning the other to the center of the car. A mahogany veneer body was then fashioned over a mold using the cold molding technique from boat building. More »
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Does an engine that powered ten million vehicles qualify for Engine of the Day honors? You bet it does! An air-cooled, boxer two-cylinder engine with displacement ranging from 375cc to 652cc (and power levels of 9- yes, nine- to 33 horses), the Type A powered millions of Citröen 2CVs, thus giving wheels to France in the grim years following World War II. There was no way in hell this engine could be made to run cleanly, so it was doomed by the emissions laws of the early 1990s after a 42-year run. For a good example of how lightweight and simple this engine is, check out this video of some guys firing it up on a workbench. Thanks to Franzouse for helping out with research! [French Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, 1949 Parts Catalog] More »
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We haven't run the numbers, but there is an assumption the Citroen 2CV makes a decent showing when scored by our official guidelines. We caught this one parked alongside the Eglise Russa (Russian Church) and couldn't help but snap away like it was freshly unveiled. The French horse was tucked in tight and of course passers by assumed we were either French or insane while standing in the road admiring its underpowered glory. More »
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These cars are so green they're covered in grass. Well, fake grass, anyhow. Some kind of Astroturf. We're not sure why these people are covering their cars in grass, but it is amusing. Our main questions is, How do they make the turf adhere to the car? It's not like automobiles are the greatest planters in the world. Some of the rides are easy to identify: VW Beetles (surprise, surpirse!), a Citroen 2CV, and a Honda Element. But what about the others? Here's an idea: How about the opposite of Winter Guessing Game for this one? How about Grass Car Guessing Game?
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Is an air-cooled Japanese cartruck both cooler and more hellish than an airbrushed Malaise Detroit Vantruck? According to almost two-thirds of you, it is! Today we're going to hit the mailbag again, adding yet another reader to the waiting list for the next run of PCH Tipster T-shirts, because McGyver managed to come up with a pair of totally irresistible choices. How about a Spanish-built French car with an air-cooled two-banger... versus a forward-control Jeepamino? The agony! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=350465&view=rss&microfeed=true After we all had the chance to mull over the proper beer to purchase on the way home from the Chevy dealership with your new '77 Camaro yesterday, it seems only right that we should watch this Chadian ad for Gala Beer. Gala, the beer delivered to you in a 2CV while you lounge in a lawn chair on a hot African afternoon. And the Gala theme song is way catchier than the "Tonight's The Night" Löwenbräu tune! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=328310&view=rss&microfeed=true Obviously, Friday’s Question inspired a lot of good chatter. Sadly, missing from the choices for best Bond car, is the 2CV from For Your Eyes Only (UPDATE: Beluga got it). Yeah, it is one of Moore’s better movies, but… Moore < Connery. Still, what a great chase. And what a hot mama. Enjoy! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=300116&view=rss&microfeed=true Oh man, if we're ever lucky enough to convince a woman to marry us, we could do worse than have the ceremony be a 2CV-oriented affair. Then again, the bride would most likely recoil in horror as to what she'd just committed herself to and take off in one of the slowpoke French econoboxes. That's okay, as Lemmy once sung, "The chase is better than the catch." – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268297&view=rss&microfeed=true Less-rounded than a 2CV or even a Mehari; more minimialist than the sparest, most spartan FAF, this Citroën-based buggy is simply complete lightweight, peasant-grade awesome. We we'd find some sort of eternal field and drive across it forever in this blatting yellow sweetheart. We would indeed. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268290&view=rss&microfeed=true Back when we thought Generra Hypercolor shirts were a good idea, a bunch of Frankish nutters in 2CVs and 2CV-based machines got together in Orleans, France for a motorized hoedown. Somehow, it does not surprise us that any of these vehicles exist, but when we think that somebody actually took the time to build them, our minds boggle a bit. It seems more like they should've sprung fully formed from the head of André Citroën's younger brother, Jim, during one of his more profligate peyote benders. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=262192&view=rss&microfeed=true If, for some reason, you find fault with this video, other than the cheeseball credit scroll at the end, you are inhuman and no friend of tha Jalop. That is all. We now command that you watch or vow never to return to our fair site. Thank you. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Some might say that Blackjack's Zero 3-wheeled kit car, with its front-mounted air-cooled VW motor setup, is where it's at in the 3-wheeled British kit car world. However, the real swingin' cats and kittens know you must have 2CV power if you're going air-cooled in your 3-wheeler, and that's where Blackjack's earlier kit, the Avion, comes in. The 3-lug Citroen wheels make a nice statement on a 3-wheeled vehicle, and those deux chevaux cylinders look mean sticking out of the car's snout. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=246993&view=rss&microfeed=true We posted the brilliant precision-driving-in-a-parking garage/death of an Austin clip from Clarkson's Heaven and Hell video a while back, but just fast forward to 5:24 if you've already seen it. According to Clarkson, the 2CV "Was built from used Algerians in an asbestos factory, and its weedy, useless little engine ran on um...rat poison and acid." And then, well, just you watch. We're still traumatized. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=231978&view=rss&microfeed=true Driving a compact and economical French automobile is all fine and good, until you stray onto an airport runway and into the full thrust of a 747 jet engine. Hammond commentary and Citroen 2CV disintegration hilarity ensue. To be fair to the 2CV, not even Steve McGarrett's best Five-O hair style could stand up to this kind of jet age punishment. – Mike Bumbeck More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=230856&view=rss&microfeed=true Since before lunch, the Loverman has been promising more evidence that the DAF is superior to the FAF. So far, we've yet to see any, and it's almost time for dinner. If DAF superiority is indeed the case, why does one of the most beautiful women in the history of the world, Carole Bouquet, choose the 2CV, the foundation upon which the FAF's greatness is built? More »
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Not so fast, Loverman. I will concede that the DAF Swim Car is a rather impressive piece of machinery. In theory. Everyone knows that amphibious cars barely work. How many Sherman Duplex Drives ended up at the bottom of the English Channel before they reached Normandy? But a 2CV on the other hand — a 2CV can be turned into a speedboat, as Dear Leader Spinelli pointed out long ago. And it's a short jump from a 2CV to a FAF, not unlike the minor leap from great ape to DAF defendant. Music! – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Yes, Mister Loverman, I see your DAFamino and raise you a FAFamino. The only thing better than a Dutch two-cylinder ElCo with a beefed-up moped transmission is a French two-cylinder ElCo from the nation that gave us the Mobylette in the first place. Plus, open-topped goodness! Take that! – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Okay, so the Loverman's DAF fixation is righteously awesome (although some of us are secretly wondering if dude fell in love with a Dutch prostitute/coke mule). Regardless, the rest of us shall not front. But all DAFs aside for the moment, often overlooked in the scheme of wacky shit Citro n has pulled over the years is the FAF, which stands for Facile Fabriquer and Facile Finance. Which means it should probably have been called the FAF et FAF. Do not ask us, as we are only slightly French, and Alsatian French at that, so we might be German. Europe was a messy place in the 19th century. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=220808&view=rss&microfeed=true If necessity is the big, fat momma of invention, these Gypsy refugees from Kosovo are its scruffy patriarchs. Like modern day, beyond-the-pale Tom Joads, these guys get along by turning classic Citro n 2CV and Dyane models into functional rat rods that double as farm implements. This clip is from the documentary "Pretty Dyana: A Gypsy recycling saga," by Boris Mitic, a Serbian filmmaker; it chronicles the group's survival skills and mechanical acumen. Someone get these folks to San Bernardino, stat. – Mike Spinelli More »
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