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Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing

Remember the really, really low Volkswagen Transporter? When you get used to driving a bus that low, it just makes sense to add a Thing to your collection and make it even lower... and when you've dropped it down onto the pavement, then you convert it to right-hand drive. That's what this air-cooled Alameda madman has done here, and the result makes quite an impression.
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9:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Murilee Martin
4,878 views, 47 comments

Latest by slag: Fear & LowThing in Alameda? more »

autorama

V8 Citroen 2CV For Safari Hoons

Amidst the sea of high-dollar muscle cars and carnauba-soaked hot rods, the last car you'd expect to see on the main floor of Autorama is a small French car. Any sort of Citroën 2CV would be distinct, but when it's one sporting safari survival equipment, off-road suspension, and a small block V8 under the hood, it looks fantastically wacky. Drivetrain and suspension bits come from an old Suzuki Samurai, hence this car's name: "Le Sami." No House of Kolor pearl ghost flames here; Le Sami has been painted coated with a thick layer of spray-on bedliner— yes, the stuff for pickup truck beds. That coating not only makes the car scratch-resistant, but also adds a degree of rigidity to the weak Citroën structure. So while most of the other cars on the show floor will only be driven off of trailers and over mirrors, this 2CV will be driven not just on the road, but off the beaten path as well.

5:03 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Mark Arnold
3,618 views, 30 comments

Latest by Buzz Killington: Finally a non-douchemobile at a custom car show, and a down to earth owner! Sweet! more »

hydropneumatic fantastic

The Goddess of Tenth Street

Yesterday we took in a showing of Paris, je t'aime at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento. Despite the preponderance of trees in California's seat of government, Sackamenna is not exactly Gay Paree, nevertheless, our Francophile self was flabbergasted when we walked down 10th Street for a cup of tea and saw this battered old DS Safari — complete with specific yellow headlamps — parked among far less spectacular examples of workaday, humdrum Central-Valley-typical vehicles. Armed, as we were, only with our camera phone, the shots fall short of the Henri Cartier-Bresson mark, but nevertheless, there she is, hunkered down on her hydropneumatic suspension, DS/ID shop manual and a jug of Prestone in the back. "April in Paris" was playing in the café. When we walked back out, she was gone, a fleeting flash of tarnished sophistication in a flat, hot burg gone subdivision a la crackerbox. More »

5:45 PM on Mon Jul 9 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
903 views, 7 comments

Latest by brandegee: Wow, impressive. However, the coolest DS I saw was a ragged faded red one for sale on a remote road in Downeast Maine. It was used in that crappy Mel Gibson move "Man Without a Face." It was a French car more »

viva la french stuff

Craig's List Find: 1971 Citroen Safari Wagon

Courtesy of our beer und bike buddy Basem, this DS Break can be yours for the not so low (but maybe so) price of $15,000. First of all, it's the only non-Peugeot 405 French station wagon in America we can think of. Second, all the hydrolic spheres have been recently replaced. Thirdly, the rear seats are a trip. Remember on old Ford wagons how the way back seats faced each other? Same thing here, only they are off set for some legroom. Even so, the Safari still seats 8. And finally, it is a Goddess, with the radder than all get out hydropneumatic suspension and everything else that makes the DS one of the coolest cars of all time. Always remember, ugly is in the beholder's eye. – Jonny Lieberman More »

9:00 AM on Sun Jun 10 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
2,550 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: It appears that many of you have no idea what this vehicle is about. Citroen pioneered the hydraulic suspension. In 1955 it was considered 30 years ahead of all other manufacturersoa It is STILL years ahead of typical auto more »