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    ID car on TV Show

    Hello All,

    Can anyone identify the car in the background of the screenshot that looks like an updated version of the 1970s Citroen where you could take one of the rear wheels off and the car could still be driven. The screen shot was taken off the show McDonald and Dodds Series 2 Episode 3 The War of the Rose at the 1:24:03 minute mark. The car did appear a couple of times earlier in the show. Accessed via Seven Plus which screened on Seven 2 on Thursday night..

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    Citroen SM, Lionel.
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    Undoubtedly an SM. As far as i know, the only six headlight car.
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    Hello Ian and John,

    Thank you for identifying the car. I did not realise that the SM also dated back to the 1970s. I thought it might have been one of those VW and Mini modernised versions of a classic car. Neither of which have the character of the cars they were originally modelled off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionelgee View Post
    Hello Ian and John,

    Thank you for identifying the car. I did not realise that the SM also dated back to the 1970s. I thought it might have been one of those VW and Mini modernised versions of a classic car. Neither of which have the character of the cars they were originally modelled off.

    Kind regards
    Lionel
    Look it up .... Citroen purchased maserati and had them build a quad cam, triple carby V6 ... that was fitted into the equivelant of a "DS" coupe. Sadly starting to be worth big $$$ so waaaaayyyyy out of my price range

    The maserati Khansim and merak have quite a bit of "citroen" in them as they were owned by citroen at the time.
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    At the time the SM was introduced I was a regular customer of New Deal Motors in Melbourne with my !D wagon, and discussed it with him. At one stage he had one in the workshop that I looked at.

    Unfortunately they were introduced just in time for the 1973 oil shock, and especially in France, their home market, high performance cars abruptly ceased to be seen as desirable. As I remember it, one of the issues with selling them in Australia was that the engine bay layout made RHD almost impossible. Hardly surprising when you shoehorn a V6 into an engine bay designed for a four.

    The result was that their production were very short lived.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    At the time the SM was introduced I was a regular customer of New Deal Motors in Melbourne with my !D wagon, and discussed it with him. At one stage he had one in the workshop that I looked at.

    Unfortunately they were introduced just in time for the 1973 oil shock, and especially in France, their home market, high performance cars abruptly ceased to be seen as desirable. As I remember it, one of the issues with selling them in Australia was that the engine bay layout made RHD almost impossible. Hardly surprising when you shoehorn a V6 into an engine bay designed for a four.

    The result was that their production were very short lived.
    For a quite a few years we had a specialised "Citroen SM" restoration company in australia. So there is a decent number of really nicely restored Citroen SMs in Australia. They did really high end restorations (most seemed to be american imports ... so didn't have the turning headlights and automatics).

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    they sure are spectacularly out of my price range.
    Proper cars--
    '92 Range Rover 3.8V8 ... 5spd manual
    '85 Series II CX2500 GTi Turbo I :burnrubber:
    '63 ID19 x 2 :wheelchair:
    '72 DS21 ie 5spd pallas
    Modern Junk:
    '07 Poogoe 407 HDi 6spd manual :zzz:
    '11 Poogoe RCZ HDI 6spd manual

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    A mate of mine did his apprenticeship at the Brisbane dealership, the owner also being the Australian distributor.
    The DS and SM did not comply with our ADRs.
    Part of my mate's job was to make them compliant. This involved changing the headlight bulbs and fitting anti-intrusion bars to the doors, amongst other things.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DoubleChevron View Post
    For a quite a few years we had a specialised "Citroen SM" restoration company in australia. So there is a decent number of really nicely restored Citroen SMs in Australia. They did really high end restorations (most seemed to be american imports ... so didn't have the turning headlights and automatics).

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    they sure are spectacularly out of my price range.
    1973 and still looks spectacular.
    Don

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don 130 View Post
    1973 and still looks spectacular.
    Don
    As did the futuristic ID, on its release.
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