they parked it on a bush?

Looks like a large, yellow suppository to me.

meh.

@nyoh-ohio: The hydraulics were busy holding up the car and couldn't be bothered to stop it.

@nyoh-ohio: If the engine dies, the brakes aren't even history, they're mythical.

There's only one thing more awesome than a 30+ year-old SM, and that's 30+ year-old SM daily driver. Who needs Truck Nutz? Rollin' in this pre-electronic technobarge takes serious yarbles.

OMG it's yellow, it's a an SM, it's a yellow SM. I would do almost anything just to look under the hood

The Blue Meanies are totally going to ambush that thing.

I like those things. So future-y. Mine would be turbine powered. And everything would be in fast forward outside the windows.

Duece Chevrons on the HOOD! I think the Jalop LeMonster Volvo needs those on the hood...what are the chances of finding that in the junkyard?

@Hart88: COTD...

This SM sighting suggests to me that the aliens under DIA are involved in some heinous experiment with all the high octane that they hoard under there. Who knows what the outcome of their devious machinations will be?

Down on the Street Bonus Denver SM-
DOTS BDSM.

This thing will put you in bondage, dominate you, and take some severe sado-masochism, but you're definitely going to get off.

A Yellow Lemmon. If you squeeze it and a green juice flows out, than the hydraulics are good. If the juice is black, than stay away.

Maybe it was an ex-URIC car....[www.apcom.fr]

no turning headlights and an automatic. meh. at least its still on the road.

Does it count as DOTS if it's unregistered?

@maxforrest32:

My experience with Pick 'n' Pull yards is that emblems are the first thing to go on any vehicle remotely interesting* or rare**.

*in this case, remotely interesting= anything that's not a mid-90's Cavalier, Neon, or Altima.

**and at junkyards, XJ40 Jags are (gasp) not at all rare.

@Hart88: I can't believe I didn't get that reference until I looked it up. Then again, I've never seen the movie.

Needs a new fuel pump, the owner says. He bought it off a lawyer a while ago. Drives it on the weekends for fun. Would've shown me the interior and engine if he'd had the keys on him (this was at his shop). I'll cruise by again one of these days and see if I can some engine shots for you, rognbrow.

The SM isn't pleasing to my eye in the way a 3rd gen RX-7 is, but the shape is so unique, so well fashioned, that I'm forced to appreciate and respect it, even if I don't think it's pretty.

/run-on sentence

It's Chat magnet yellow.

There's a reason this car was Motor Trend's Car Of The Year in 1972. I'm not sure what the reason is, but there is one.

@rognbrow:
That's PM Yellow SM
do want - but only when I can afford to have a team of live in mechanics.

The mother of a friend of mine in elementary school drove one of these. Ever since then I have had an unhealthy attraction towards covered rear wheels....

With Alfa returning to the US, Citroen should be just around the corner. Of course, the corner is at the year 2078, but it's there.

@Maymar: Err, Minet Magnet Yellow. It's been a few years since I've studied French.

Jaune d'aimant de chat?

I love that car. It represented the end of the era of great expectations--the way the Concorde did. After that everything was a Pinto or a Camry.

Whenever I look at the big Citroens, I can't help but feel that they were designing small spacecraft that at the last minute were regrettably converted into designs for automobiles.

@kleinlowe:

Check out the Fantomas se dechaine clip here: [www.enzods.com]

@rexplex: Not just a team of mechanics, but a Dakar-esque support vehicle to follow your around, as well.

SMs give me cargasms.

OH YEAH! So, I finally got hold of a selection of my dad's old toy cars (my grandma's house is a museum of the 1960s), and promptly left them at my parents' house. However, I got this picture:

Left to right: Unimog, MB W112 coupe, MB W110 Binz ambulance, three MB Pagoda SL's, a Citroen ID Break, and a Citroen SM

I showed this to a buddy of mine, and he asked, "what kind of little kid is in a toy store, and says, 'I want the Citroen!'?" It turns out, that would be my dad.

I had that ambulance. "Had"

Happy f'in Mother's Day.

@Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow: That is an amazing collection of eclectic Europeans!

Ring ring ring ring

BANANA PHONE!

I owned a '73 SM at one time. Working on one of these can cause insanity. Trust me on that one.

If I saw that Citroen tail end ahead of me, I'd be instantly hypnotized and would have to follow it where ever it led.

I want!!

@DannyBN: Yellow cat magnet. Pussy would be chatte (I think).

WOW!! That this is soo very cool. It looks like something Maxwell Smart would be driving.

Me wants!!

Comment on Oslo Traction-Avant... Or Denver SM Pussy-magnet is tough to translate, but "aimant à minette" can be translated as chick-magnet. That idiom is not established, anyway.

@staircar: Neon emblems aren't removable anyway; somewhat of a shame as there are jokes to be made.

Though, I do have the badge off a Ford Probe...

I really like this car. It's just... impractically weird.

Hey Kitt-
Is this the car over at Evans and Holly? I think I saw the same one like a week ago... I guess he always keeps it on the corner to market his shop.

While it's obviously not a daily driver due to the lack of number plates it is still nice even though it has such an unfortunate colour unless this is indeed the worlds best short bus.