Wow. Tintin and the Jalopnik post.

The Traction Avant is cool on its own merits, but the name helps just that little bit extra. Imagine one of the Big 3 selling a car called the Front Wheel Drive.

Note to self:
Move to Oslo.

@Maymar: Or a truck-car called "the farmer" oh, wait never mind... (for the Spanish challenged, "el ranchero")

And they are all shooten around the essentially same block. You can see the red house where the Traction Avants parks in some of pics of the Ds, while you can see the cx from the traction avant. The street have some short of obsession about citroens and old Land Rovers. An 2CV AK400 is also used frequently to drive around flowers in the area.

Oslo will always have a special spot in my heart; it's the first place I ever purchased porn.

And send me a messega or a email if you find the temptation about high-res pics unresistable.

@PeteJayhawk: I think you mean: pörn

@warpig: This post warms my francophile heart and pushes me slightly closer to selling my Mazda and buying a 2CV (although I would take a Traction Avant if I could find one).

@dwegmull: Canyonero?

One would have to have balls of steel floating in LHM to daily-drive a Traction Avant. They're super badass cars, though.

For what it's worth, though, the four cylinder ones were officially called the 11CV, and the rarer six cylinder models 15CV.

@Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow:
Speaking of balls: A couple of kilometres from where this one parks a Ford model A (Or something similar) is also street-parked. The punching point is that also this appears to be regular driven.

Rust? What rust?

@Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow: Not really. I knew a couple of owners in L.A. who drove them regularly. Parts are available, and they aren't that much harder to drive than anything else of the era. The only things you have to be aware of is the transmission can be a bit on the weak side- you can't just bull your way through the gears, and the drive joints on the 15 can't take a 'hot' standing start. They're also not horribly expensive to buy- 10K will get you a fairly nice Normale or Legere of early '50s vintage.

The really early ones were known as a 7CV.

That first one looks as if it should have some French Resistance fighters hanging out of it with tommy guns ready to attack some Nazis who are occupying 1940s Paris.

@Triborough: Incorrect. The French Resistance at no time used tommy guns.

Instead, they favoured taunting.

@warpig: Nice. I take it Oslo, despite being awfully close to the Arctic, isn't salted all winter until the roads turn white, then?

@Hotrodelectric: Interesting. I was under the impression that parts availability was poor, thus making depending on a 60 year old French car more of a challenge than a sensible person should take on.

I occaisionally take a look at citroen-ca.com, and wish that I lived in a cooperative climate.

@boosted-lego-wagon: ...and farting in the general direction of German soldiers.

@boosted-lego-wagon: Haven't you guys seen The Great Escape? Zey hung ze belt-fed machine gun out ze window!

"Monsieur - telephone."
"Pour moi?"
"Oui - telephone"

This is my favourite Citroen site: [www.citroenet.org.uk] I especially like the Prototypes + Concept Cars section.

@PeteJayhawk: Same thing with me, Amsterdam and legal hashish.

@Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow: Well, they due. I suspect that some of the cars are winter-storred, and I don't think the old Ford gets driven trough the winter. Despite that I have seen it along the road in the winter, just never driven. While some actually do surive the winter on the street.

Warpig: Do

@warpig: Wow. Where I am, anything more than 20 years old is astonishingly rare, and I've never seen a Citroen of any sort in person.

@Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow: Its quite common here, but most of the cars aren't street-parked. Third generation Impala, mach 1 Mustang, Nsu Ro80, Saab 96, Porsche 924/944 (we have many of those), Alfa Romeo gtv and a old Renault Caravelle are just some of dayli driven cars where a live. But none of them happens to live on the street, but the Mustang, Impala and the saab at least lives under open sky.

@warpig: What is the name of this street? If it's not "Citroen Avenue" you need to start a petition.

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... Just to give you an impression on how it looks where I live. You can't see my house here. Not much street-parking in a neighborhood like this.

@Novaload:
Skovveien. Almost Citroen Avenue ... Erh?
@warpig:

That didn't seem to work.

@warpig: If someone there has a street-parked NSU Ro80 with the original Wankel rotary I'd be very impressed.

Much more so than Traction Avant, which, while awesome, is probably pretty rugged with basic mechanicals.

Wow. Just wow. Warpig, those are some great shots of some even greater cars. Nicely done!

I have to say that I totally respect whomever rocks the Traction. I once saw a scruffy '50s 11B Normale in Glasgow, which looked daily-driven and it was just beyond cool. It was black, with various scratches and dents and rolled on cream-painted steels minus the hubcaps. It came racing along the street, missed the entrance to a parking garage and literally skidded to a halt in the middle of the road. The driver then jammed it into reverse, backed up a bit and took off into the parking garage like a scalded cat. Ever since then, it's been the oldest car I'd consider as a daily driver.

There's also a daily-driven 2CV and AK400 around where I live and I know of a farm where's there's an H van, although I don't know if it's a runner or not.

Great for chasing Tintin into the drink.

@Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow:Well, I never said we were a sensible lot :) I've known Paul and Rudy at CCA for a long time- they're where I've had things like the accident damage to my GS repaired, and brakes for my Dyane done. They can get the various bits for a Traction, just takes time and a little planning. There are a number of European companies that deal with the 7-11-15, the biggest of them called Depanauto, located in central France. Western Hemispheres is another good source of parts-they're in the Bay Area- and Red Dellinger in PA is yet another source.

Warpig, I didn't say this before, I will now- excellent job. Any openings for slot machine techs in Oslo? Also, you mentioned another one of the machines that make me all warm and fuzzy- NSU RO80. Drop-dead gorgeous car.

@brandegee:
No, it isn't street-parked. Sadly, but true. It is hovewer daily driven, and by the sound of it I'm guessing it still have the orginal wankel.
@Hotrodelectric:

Slot-machines are in fact illegal here, or something like that. Don't know have it worked out, but at least some politicans had a idea to make it illegal. Or something somehow.

@Hotrodelectric: Good, I really needed to be talked further into tracking down an ancient Citroen.

Damn, I never saw anything this nice when I was down in Oslo last weekend. Although I didn't really leave the city centre that much, other than a trek out to Vigeland park to enjoy the sun. All I saw were four Texans, and the usual boring mix of Volvos, Saabs, and Pugs that you usually see around Norway.

Citroenporn, I like! Dang, Oslo must be heaven!