The Off Topic forum is undoubtedly the perfect opportunity to explore 2CVs in the HAMB style. Share vintage or current photos of your favorites or your own. Let's avoid roadsters, tuning, FWD/off-road vehicles, and other such fantasies (which can be fun too, but that's not the point) and focus on what brings together the largest number of enthusiasts on HAMB. To get things started, what better than a few photos of Dagonet (a small selection of 2CVs modified by Jean Dagonet for racing in the 1950s)? This photo shows the bodywork done to transform a standard 2CV into a racing car.
More recently, the most Hamb-spirited 2CV is probably the incredible one made by the Finn Ollie Erkkila.
Before I continue posting photos, I must tell you that the reason I started this thread today is because, after 5 years in my workshop, I drove it for the first time this afternoon. So exciting!
There are a few bugs to fix, but that's normal at this stage. So, more images to come, but later, once these issues are resolved!
Back to the 50s with de 2CV speciale by Barbot, which reached 9 international speed records at the Montlhéry speedway in 1951. My friend Jean Vinatier was its young driver.
Wasn't there a thread on the Hamb of someone building a Hotrod from a 2CV? Can't remember the details but it was a while ago.
The Burton is probably the best looking kit body for the 2CV as far as i know. Quite a few here. Oddball is the factory Citroen Bijou on 2CV floorpan. There are at least two in the Netherlands i know of. ( pics from google )
At least 10 years ago. Looked like something from outer-space. @j hansen will probably find a pic before you can say 2CV
As a matter of interest a mate of mine drove his little 2CV van from here to Peking China with his son in 2012. Total 16200 KM in 14 countries. They had strengthed everything possible in the ch***is but it was still bent from the beating it took. Photo of a Chinees Cop who claimed his radar clocked them at 120KPH . Little van was lucky to hit 95 KPH . Thats when the bargaining began for the fine which was eventually $50.
2CV Charbonneaux. I'd be all over this if someone made a gl*** copy of this body. and Allemano and the slightly less pretty UMAP
The Seidlitz was built in 1956 and raced in 1957 and 1958. This race car is powered by a Citroën 2CV engine mounted in a tubular frame covered with a handmade aluminum body. It was driven by Carl Seidlitz and Pete Woods. The car raced in California at Pomona Speedway and Riverside Speedway. Car have been sold in France some years ago and, if I'am correct, is currently being restored.
I love 2CVs, for all the usual reasons but also because they represent a radical alternative automotive paradigm, which might have left us in overall a better place if the automobile had gone that way rather than the way it did go. The end of 2CV production in 1990 is to me one of a cluster of events in rapid succession which mark the extinction of the automobile. After that, it seems that nothing is possible any longer, at least in the realm of new car OEM production. I refer a lot to the brilliance of the 2CV's suspension system here: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/interconnected-suspension.1325027/ Here is a Photoshop exercise, an idea I come back to from time to time:
@Dubonet Garage Thanks for this wonderful look at the great 2CV modified history! Being on the west coast, I have seen a couple but they were a very rare spotting. It was much more likely to see English imports. They just didn't translate well to wide open spaces with smooth roads. Your own project looks like a blast, please share more with us.
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