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Every weekday in 2008- except for Christmas Day- we saw another cool street-parked vehicle from the streets of Alameda, California. Now I'm going to share my personal favorite ten DOTS finds of the year. These are the cars and trucks that, for one reason or another, really made my day when I ran across them on the streets of Alameda. Some of them are on this list because they're rare and/or interesting (the "Whoa! What's that? " factor), while others made the cut simply because I yearn to own them. And, yes, the Fire Arrow falls into the latter category, because I'm sick like that. So here we go, my personal Alameda DOTS favorites for Ought-Eight: 1953 Citroën Traction-Avant Once I found the '75 Citroën GS 1220 , I figured there'd be no way in hell I'd ever find a cooler street-parked Citroën on the island. Then… this car! Not only is it a Traction-Avant, it's a really solid street-driven example with a custom vintage hood ornament. 1958 Mercedes...
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This clever "Joe The Plumber" ad placed by Citroën in De Telegraaf , the largest paper in The Netherlands, opposite the November 5th election results. Designed by advertising agency Euro RSCG, the ad for the Citroën Berlingo played off of the almost surreal emergence of "Joe The Plumber" as a figure in the 2008 Presidential Election. As Joe was meant to represent all small business owners and tradesman, pairing it with a vehicle designed for just this crowd was a smart choice. Next to a page of choices, the Berlingo is Joe's true choice. Utilizing the interest over the election and placing the ad where people will most likely get the joke was another brilliant choice. These kinds of ads, which take advantage of predictable events, are a good way to stretch advertising dollars. In fact, this wasn't even a full page ad but it surely has a large impact. [ Ads Of The World ]
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According to a French outlet, Citroen plans to build a limited number of production vehicles based on the stunning GTbyCITROEN concept, which stole the Paris Auto Show when revealed earlier this year. How many? galleryPost('gtbycitroenlive', 3, 'CItroentastic);galleryPost('GTbyCitroenInterior',3, 'What Lies Beneath'); The radical GTbyCITROEN or simply the "CItroen GT" concept was co-developed with the creators of the Gran Turismo video game series and meant to show off the company's sporty side. We'd heard the vehicle could see production, though no concrete details were given. Now a report from Caradisiac seems to indicate the company will make 20 production versions of the stunning concept for those of incredible means. No word on what will power the GT or when we could see a production version, but we're just happy to stare at it for a while. [ Caradisiac via Motor Authority ]
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The $67K '94 Supra Turbo we saw yesterday earned an 80% Crack Pipe rating from the readers; cool car, but the price was just too high . Today we're going to look at an even cooler car, in fact one of the coolest cars ever manufactured … but the price? £200,000, aka about $300,000. What do you say? [ Car And Classic , thanks to Justice Loverman for the tip] galleryPost('NPOCPCitroenPalmBeach', 13, '1966 Citroen DS21 Chapron For 200K Pounds'); 300 grand for a Citroen DS convertible? ( polls )
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The whole car-freak thing seems like an all-XY-chromosome deal sometimes, but it's just not so; here's an all-women car club that roars across the East Bay landscape in a fleet of temperamental spirited Italian, French, and German vintage cars (plus a couple of Detroit products), blasting a few stereotypes in the process. The Pedal Pushers had an Oakland-to-Port Costa rally a couple weeks back, and TheEastBayKid was there with his '76 BMW 2002 and camera to get some shots for us. Jump away for the rest of the gallery! galleryPost('PedalPushersRally', 6, 'Pedal Pushers Pullover Rally 2008');
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The best ads tell a story , and this one for the mid-90s Citroën XM Pallas certainly does that. In fact, it's more of an informercial than an regular car ad, with inspiring music right out of an Early Dot-Com Era shareholder's meeting. Best as we can tell, the Citroën driver here is bringing a box containing a critical mass of our favorite off-brand fissionable material, Uranium 233 (cast in a ring shape, of course, to avoid troublesome criticality events in the back seat) to the local warlord's headquarters in a Damnation Alley -esque post-disaster world.
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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! We all knew that the Nixonian Cadillac Fleetwood limo had no chance against a Citroën, and our most recent Choose Your Eternity poll confirmed our assumptions. Any Citroën is tough to beat in a Project Car Hell Challenge, due to the off-the-scale readings Citroëns always register on both the Hell-O-Meter and the Cool-O-Meter. And a Citroën SM? Forget it! Even with a fairly nice SM, you'd need some kind of weapons grade project to have any hope against the car made by the French and Italian governments, the pure Essence Of Hell Project centrifuged down from a large quantity of seriously cool machinery and then offered at a price that draws you in like a black hole dragging you past its event horizon. Well, guess what? Even if we'd found an ad for the actual Apollo 16 Lunar Rover , hauled back to Earth by a North Korean spaceship, burned up on reentry...
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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time we stepped into the Liquid Sodium Garage, 78% of you felt that the WRX-powered VW Beetle would be your eternal torment , leaving the poor Granada hearse unwanted and unfeared. But that was last week; today we're locked into Presidential Election Hell, and that means it's time to vote on projects similar to cars driven by two of the 20th century's most powerful presidents. Men who didn't hesitate to grind political enemies to dust (the way your project will grind you to dust)... men who bombed the living crap out of third-worlders who threatened their empires (the way your project will bomb the living crap out of your bank account): Richard Nixon and Charles de Gaulle! While Richard Milhous Nixon drove a man-of-the-people-esque '48 Mercury woodie wagon during his first senatorial campaign, once he got to be president, by God,...
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Since we had a DOTS Traction-Avant this morning, let's stay in a Citroën state of mind by checking out this ID19 I found in an East Bay self-service junkyard over the weekend. Belvedere Adrian ran across this 47-year-old French wagon while scavenging for parts for the race car and figured I'd be interested. Interested? I was on the Nimitz Freeway about 45 seconds later! galleryPost('DOTJID19', 6, '1961 Citroen ID19 Down On The Junkyard'); The ID19 was a less expensive version of the luxurious DS, developed as a replacement for the Traction-Avant. This one's been picked over pretty thoroughly (I suspect that Henry Hanzel , who can smell a Citroën from the next county, got here first), but the emblem was still on the tailgate. And now it's on my Civic! My poor Honda had all its emblems pried off (no doubt by roving bands of Honda hoodlums) while living in San Francisco, so it needed some new ones. I contemplated swapping the Citroën one-spoke steering wheel...
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Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We're due for another French car, so let's break out the heavy artillery today! Would you believe a showroom-condition '53 Citroën Traction-Avant parked on the street? Neither did I, but that's just what I found on the same block as the '66 Volvo Amazon and around the corner from the '57 Pontiac . I'd never seen this car in town before and I haven't seen it since, so it's either a one-time visitor to the island or an Alameda car that normally lives in a garage. This is one of the few vehicles that could actually fit in one of the typical basement "garages" dug under Alameda houses during the very early days of the automobile. Back in 1911, everyone knew that cars would always be tall and narrow, with vast ground clearance, and they built theses garage accordingly (those who built huge "entertainment...
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What do you get when a Brit combines French quirk with American attitude? In this case, it's a Citroen 2CV that's been converted into a rat rod-styled pickup truck. We say rat rod- styled because it doesn't have the prerequisite big American mill that you'd find in a traditional rod. Of course, we've seen a Chevy V8 dropped into a 2CV before, but even though this car truck vehicle makes do with a puny 602 CC two-cylinder engine, we still love it. We might even be tempted to bid on it if the Atlantic ocean wasn't in the way...and the US dollar wasn't at the bottom of it. galleryPost('rat2cv', 6, 'Le 2CV Ratamino'); [ ebay ]
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Having just read Mark Kurlansky's book about the Basques (after being dragged into Kurlansky-land by his excellent histories of cod and salt , the way marijuana leads to heroin), I thought it was pretty cool when LivingAbroad70 sent in these shots of an incredibly rare Citroën DS Palm Beach convertible found parked down on the Zarautz street. Make the jump to read LivingAbroad70's description. galleryPost('DOTSBECitroenPalmBeach', 6, 'Citroen Palm Beach Down On The Basque Street'); As an American living in the Spanish part of the Basque Country, I have a certain curiosity about classic European cars that locals don't usually share with me. Cars like the Renault 5, Seat/Fiat 600, etc. are not head turners over here, so they're not really appreciated, but when I came across this thing in a small city named Zarautz I knew I'd hit jackpot. This Citroën Palm Beach convertible was parked in front of a hotel and it had french plates, so its owner must be a French...
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To honor the Citröen 2CV ’s 60th birthday, fashion house Hermès created this special edition for the Paris Motor Show . While we weren’t impressed by the gaudy crime-against-taste that was the Bugatti Veyron Fbg par Hermès , the more pedestrian (or equine, to be more correct) 2CV strikes a chord with us. The leather and cotton canvas added to it accentuate the timeless lines and paired-to-the-bone interior, two things most modern cars are missing. The full release follows the jump. galleryPost('hermes2cv2', 6, 'Hermes Citroen 2CV'); 2CV HERMÈS, A TASTE OF LUXURY The 2CV celebrates its 60th birthday during the Paris Motor Show, on 7 October 2008. To celebrate the event, Hermes has designed a made-to-measure outfit that highlights the vehicle's ever-friendly and generous forms. The 1989 2CV 6 Spécial, repainted in brown, gains a natural leather trim on the door facings, interior rearview mirror, gear knob, steering wheel and driver's sun visor. For an even more elegant...
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition , where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot . Today we've got a couple of painfully cool old cars that ChrisLewis shot for us down on the streets of Brisbane, Queensland. We've got a pretty clean post-1969 Citroën DS and a mean-looking 1960 Holden FB wagon, plus ChrisLewis' Ford Fiesta XR4 in the background. Make the jump to see all the photos and read the description. galleryPost('DOTSBEBrisbaneHoldCit', 6, 'Holden And Citroen Down On The Brisbane Street'); Having recently moved north from my home town of Adelaide, South Australia to Brisbane, Queensland, I thought my days of seeing old beaters being used for daily transportation might've been over. Adelaide has a dry climate similar to Murilee's description of Alameda, and a lack of emissions testing or even regular roadworthies meant that I was able to drive around in almost anything I cared to...
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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, we had the chance to choose between two potential moonshine runners, with either of which one might keep bread on the table during the coming Financiapocalypse , and the Mercury Maruader beat the BMW 850i like Junior Johnson beat the North Carolina Highway Patrol's '53 Ford Mainlines back in the day. However, some of you- I'm not going to use the word "whiners," though it did occur to me- complained that those two cars didn't rate high enough readings on the Hell-O-Meter™. In other words, Hell isn't hot enough for you! We aim to please here, so let's flood the garage with chlorine triflouride , park some more challenging projects inside, and slam the door on you… for eternity! We all thought it was a pretty good score when Seatbelt123 picked up two Alfa Romeo Milanos for his 24 Hours Of LeMons team for just $299...
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