As you can tell, I have a fondness for junk vehicles, and the Citron 2CV is right up there with my favorites. Love your photo, and let’s hope this 2CV gets a reprieve. It isn’t a likely candidate for restoration. Donnie is right, a greenhouse would work fine.
Daniel, the web duck, explained it already – one interesting thing is that Citroen took over the expression and modeled their advertising in Germany after the duck theme. There has been a “Sausss Ente” and a “Charleston Ente” ….
It certainly does have character, that’s why it is one of my favorite cars. It was designed to navigate unpaved roads at fairly slow speeds. Citron designed it to be as light as possible. The seats were no more substantial than lawn chairs, just tubes with cloth stretched between them. The original VW Beetles were powerful by comparison.
Unfortunately you don’t see that many Ducks on our streets any more. When I was 18 (the age Germans usually get their driving license) ducks were all the hype. Cheap cars for students with no money. I recall a model for 9999 DM. I at least knew two Ducks, two Beetles and one R4 personally. Okay, I had friends who owned them. The alternative was using your parent’s car. Or no car at all.
The Ducks are getting old these days. Perhaps people will start collecting them for nostalgia. When you say you had an R4, I assume you are referring to a Renault R4, and not an Audi R4 (which is an excellent car these days). My first car when I was 19 was a Ford Falcon which was a great little car. The 6 cylinder motor could eventually reach highway speed. I paid $1950. dollars for it to a dealer who was a close family friend. Put over 100,000 miles on it without any major breakdown, but the body did rust quite badly in a decade.
“By American standards of the 1960s, the Falcon was a small car, but elsewhere it would be considered a mid-size car. It was powered by a small, lightweight 90 hp (67 kW), 144 CID (2.4 L) straight-6 with a single-barrel carburetor. ” says wikipedia.
And all of a sudden, time went on and on and on …
… gras was growing … saplings were sprouting …
… soon you will be a fully fledged greenhouse
… air-conditioned …
As you can tell, I have a fondness for junk vehicles, and the Citron 2CV is right up there with my favorites. Love your photo, and let’s hope this 2CV gets a reprieve. It isn’t a likely candidate for restoration. Donnie is right, a greenhouse would work fine.
Yes, restoration not feasible – I’ll put a second photo on the scrap press, ha, a new series: vehicles for TFG …
Btw – 2CV’s are called “ducks” in German …
I did not know that. Why “ducks?”
Daniel, the web duck, explained it already – one interesting thing is that Citroen took over the expression and modeled their advertising in Germany after the duck theme. There has been a “Sausss Ente” and a “Charleston Ente” ….
Oooh…a duck! :-) My kind of car!
@Taken For Granted: German Wikipedia says because Dutch journalists had baptized this car as “de lelijke eend” in English “the Ugly Duckling”.
Thank you. That makes perfect sense. Although an ugly little car, it served its purpose well.
Uglyness is in the eye of the beholder … nowadays with all cars looking the same, even if it might be called ugly at least it has character :-)
It certainly does have character, that’s why it is one of my favorite cars. It was designed to navigate unpaved roads at fairly slow speeds. Citron designed it to be as light as possible. The seats were no more substantial than lawn chairs, just tubes with cloth stretched between them. The original VW Beetles were powerful by comparison.
Unfortunately you don’t see that many Ducks on our streets any more. When I was 18 (the age Germans usually get their driving license) ducks were all the hype. Cheap cars for students with no money. I recall a model for 9999 DM. I at least knew two Ducks, two Beetles and one R4 personally. Okay, I had friends who owned them. The alternative was using your parent’s car. Or no car at all.
The Ducks are getting old these days. Perhaps people will start collecting them for nostalgia. When you say you had an R4, I assume you are referring to a Renault R4, and not an Audi R4 (which is an excellent car these days). My first car when I was 19 was a Ford Falcon which was a great little car. The 6 cylinder motor could eventually reach highway speed. I paid $1950. dollars for it to a dealer who was a close family friend. Put over 100,000 miles on it without any major breakdown, but the body did rust quite badly in a decade.
Yes, the Renault 4.
“By American standards of the 1960s, the Falcon was a small car, but elsewhere it would be considered a mid-size car. It was powered by a small, lightweight 90 hp (67 kW), 144 CID (2.4 L) straight-6 with a single-barrel carburetor. ” says wikipedia.
I don’t think the model was ever sold in Europe?