Thread: Great failures.

The factory only ever had a couple of RDH conversions done, and they were from an outside company too. There was never a "factory built" Right hand drive SM as such. Sadly after the SM peugeot took over Citroen and they made boring crap cars from that day on ( After first killing off the SM, GS birotor etc...). The last "real" Citroen is the CX before they came slightly different rebadged poogoes.





This is the very last of them ... A Series II CX with plastic bumpers...My father imported this from the UK back in 1996 ... I've owned is for about 12years now. I'll never sell it

There is an SM in Ballarat, several in Melbourne, a spectacular low milage car out of museum in Castlemaine.

There's quite a few weird and wonderful cars out there that would now be great fun toys to put onto a club permit in Victoria (that were too much of an oddity/different to use as a daily car in there time unless you were very wealthy).

I'd love an old Studebaker, even a rear engine corvair ...

seeya,
Shane L.

[QUOTE=V8Ian;2378015][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="3"]There have been no shortage of very ordinary cars that became extraordinary successes, such as Morris Minor, Mini, Beetle and Corolla, but what about the converse.
Which cars were absolutely brilliant but total failures?



I'd say the Citroen 2CV was ordinary and successful, but what about the 2CV Sahara 4wd ??

In French but worth reading the subtitles


[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpodMNktmu0[/ame]

Here's a few in the rough stuff

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8WpuPYnCCI[/ame]

Jerry have you seen the special 2CV built for the French rural fire brigade? It was basically two fronts welded together that eliminated the necessity of turning around, just hop out and get in the other end and drive.

Haven't seen that one Ian, got any pics ??

My mate in the UK has turned a 2cv into a work ute , I'll see if I can find a pic of it

Originally Posted by jerryd

Haven't seen that one Ian, got any pics ??

My mate in the UK has turned a 2cv into a work ute , I'll see if I can find a pic of it

No pics, sorry mate; I saw it on TV before there was colour.

Those 2cv 4wds are extremelly low powered. The original ones have two standard engines, 2cylinder 375cc flat twos..... So actually have a engine/gearbox front and back. They are so light if you bog one, you just need 1/2 dozen locals to help you pick it up and carry it out of the bog hole.

Weirdly enough they were used as military vehicles too... You see they were so light, and have such incredibly supple suspension, they could drop them from helicopters and planes and without them destroying themselves on landing.



They wouldn't be fun to drive in a war zone. They would slow a bullet about as much as a sheet of aluminium foil would

The 2CV Pick-ups supplied to the Royal Navy

I would have thought you 4wd guys would be more interested in the Kegresse....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7sNh8zoJk[/ame]

Smart people back then in the early 1900's .... See how they get over the ramp over angle problem? Have a look at the big "drum" mounted to the front. It rolls on bearings, so if the kegresse needs to drive over an obstacle that it's front wheels can't breach, they'd drive straight into the obstacle, the big drum will lift the front of the car up and over, allow the tracks to then mount the obstacle (I imagine nothing would stop tracks).

seeya,
Shane L.

My friend Richard's 2CV Ute