Thread: Double Chevron - this is for you - french car content

Originally Posted by Rextheute

RE: Citroen DS Safari: Spotted - Page 1 - General Gassing - PistonHeads

As you are having a bit of a Poo Week - here is something to hopefully make you cheerier .

Its like a Spaceship , Soooooo Foreign and Awesome .

Hope the day improves .

Off topic, but gotta love the later model safari that looks like a hearse at the back!!!

RHD too.... That's a seriously nice car.... it also has the hydraulic gearchange (very rare, 20+ years ago, you avoided it ... Now its a HUGE selling point). I'm driving a 1963 Citroen "D" today. Its bloody amazing, they fixed all the corrugations, pot holes and bumps down the fire trails to work. Last week it was rough as buggery driving through there in the Rangie ..... Today in the old Citroen .... it's bloody dead smooth

I think boss women will be most unimpressed when she see's all the dirt from the gravels roads down the side of the old DS

i think I'm going to need more cars ..... 1/2 dozen kangoroos nearly took the old Citroen out driving it to work this morning .... I couldn't bloody believe it when they appeared out of the trees infront of me ( I'm going to run out of cars that drive if this **** keeps up ). I'll need to check the tyres when I get home. I probably damaged them locking up everything so aggressively in gravel. Old Michelin X's have very soft, fragile sidewalls.

Why is everything trying to hurt my precious ****boxes lately



seeya,
Shane L.

I drove one of these for years (poverty pack ID though, but Australian assembled). One point about the article - the Traction Avant was introduced in 1934, not 1938.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I drove one of these for years (poverty pack ID though, but Australian assembled). One point about the article - the Traction Avant was introduced in 1934, not 1938.

Yes, thats the one. Its a poverty pack ID19 built down in Heidleburg in melbourne. I figured no-one would know what it is though .... So I called it a DS. I also have an "ugly pink" 1963 ID19 .... aussie built ... mostly wearing the original paint it left the factory with (its very ugly). I've converted it to use LHM and fitted a power steering rack so boss women can drive it if she ever needs too.

I have a DS21 "Injection Electronique" .... ( aka: fuel injected ) as well. Oneday I will restore and re-assemble that. I'll pencil that in for when I'm retired (and hopefully finally have some funds to spend on cars).

seeya,
Shane L.

My brother bought the ID Safari in 1966, it was a 1961 model. Originally dark grey, he repainted it white and fitted power steering. I took it over when he went overseas in 1971, and replaced it with a DSpeciale sedan in 1979, passing the ID onto my sister, as hers was getting very battered. The DSpeciale I sold last year, or the year before, I can't remember without looking it up.

As i am meant to be working ......this just popped up !


On The Perpetual Oddness Of French Automobiles • Petrolicious

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

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That poor H van