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    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    Look, I'd say this is worth two Hemi 'Cudas. Nice Price (shame it'll never actually come out of its trailer and/or heated garage).
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    I picked "nice price" but I think I really meant "nice car."


    You could really only drive this along the Riviera and you would have to be handsome and virile with Grace Kelly or Brigit Bardot or maybe Audrey Hepburn along with you, complete with big sunglasses and headscarf etc etc.


    All that is way out of my league. I don't deserve this car.

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    12/03/08

    @NovaloadMissesPolar: Perfectly put. No one deserves this car, but some rich guy will probably buy it and stick it in a garage, never to be driven again. Bastard!
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    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    The perfect car for cruising around my villa in Nice. It might be hard to come up with the scratch though, unless I can sweet talk Fanny Eubanks from Omaha.
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    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    It is a lot of money, but this Palm Beach is in pristine condition, there are maybe 40 or so left of these.... mmmh.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    It's a bargain if it means that all my supermodel girlfriends will be happy, as we roullez les boulevardes.
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    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    I lost my check book. I'll have to pay you in change.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    Rather have a small yacht. Nopey.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    Here is a list (with pics) of Chapron's DS creations. They are majestic.


    [karakullake.blogspot.com]

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    As unutterably awesome as the decapotable DS21 is, it isn't $300,000 worth of awesome.
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    Wasn't this car featured on DOTS:BE lately?
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    12/03/08

    @LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot: Not the same one: [jalopnik.com]
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    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    Crack Pipe by about $175,000. Maybe if it were a Chapron SM Mylord Cabriolet, or the more rare 4-door SM Opera:
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    12/03/08

    @graverobber- My Yugo Nova!: A four door SM? How am I still typing with my head blown up in thousands of pieces is a mystery...


    $300K for a DS is crack pipe, $150K would be more like smoking unfiltered Gitanes for a couple of decades... $100K would start to be reasonable.

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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    I said nice price. I don't know anything about Citroen except they got a funny suspension and they put one in Kent's room in Real Genius. But it's a "Palm Beach" and that brings the price on anything up at least 50%.


    Now to go find a Palm Beach GMC motor home.

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    Image of c0de c0de
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    imho, no french car should be sold at 300k, no matter how exclusive, i don't even care if charles de gaulle messed around in its back seat !

    how much is a gullwing merc anyways ? 300k ?! which would you rather ?
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    12/03/08

    @c0de: I bet this is worth a few $$$$,the one French car that is worth big money,it's a legend...[www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk]
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    12/03/08

    @layabout: DAMN ! that is rare. the T16 alone is almost impossible to buy, this is an EVO. I sure respect it, but why go that far for a RR Turbo hatch ?! just get an R5 Turbo :)

    I wonder how much those are now.
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    12/03/08

    @c0de: Worth every penny...[www.pistonheads.com]
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    12/03/08

    @c0de: You may not be familiar with the Figoni & Falaschi-bodied Talbot Lagos, but an acquaintance sold one of hers at Monterey this year for $4.4 million, in unrestored condition:

    [latimesblogs.latimes.com]


    She had previously donated another to the Nethercutt Collection in return for a full restoration of her VW Beetle. There's a funny story about that transaction, but I won't bore you with it.


    Needless to say, there are French cars that are worth a king's ransom out there, and much more desirable than the (admittedly very lust-worthy) gullwing benz.

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    12/03/08

    @c0de: No interest in Delahaye's then?
    [www.carclassic.com]
    [www.finecars.cc]
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/03/08

    @c0de: I would put Delage on the same list. Finest 1920s Grand Prix cars (next to the Type 35 Bugatti) and the swoopy D8-120 of the 1930s.


    But I see your point...there's far fewer six-figure French cars after WWII. Mostly just race and rally cars like Matra, Peugeot 905, and the WRC cars. The French just stopped making halo cars...Citroen didn't even want to make a drop-top DS. Chapron had to do it for them.

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    12/03/08

    @brandegee: Yep Delage. After WWII, only the Facel Vega, Delahaye..
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    12/03/08

    @c0de: Bugatti Royale, anyone? Yep, French. Really.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    This one sold for just over £100k...
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    12/03/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Perfect 1966 Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach For $300,000?
    Not quite as exotic,but this one is for sale at £84k...


    [www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk]

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