looks like a sectioned worked over 33 ford... but im sure it isnt... maybe a nash? dont know why im saying taht..
Its way out of porportion. The roof is swelled up--too big for the little car. Its got to be foreign made
Citroen, rare body, I think custom. 99% of traction avants were 4 doors. I found a junked and abandoned cabriolet once behind a farmhouse...in my memory it was just like that but a folder.
Citroen Cuope,not sure if it's a 11 or a light 15 and the body is a Citroen product not a custom. Coupes and roadsters are serious money cars. As usual they were decades ahead of any other manufacturers ,thats about a 1935 model and they were made right into the 50's . Simple ,fast, Front wheel drive ,terriffic handling with excellent brakes and great styling. why else would you channel a 34 if not to imitate the style?
A regular Citroën 7CV coupé from 1934: There was 2 sizes of body, the 7CV and the 11CV "light" had the same size. The "big one" 11CV and the 6cyl 15Cv were bigger. Here a photoshop of a "big one" made by my friend Olli Erkkila: But this coupé big one 11CV is really rare (2 or 3 cars left)... There was also a V8 22CV with the same big body, also in coupé: But that was just a prototype, none survived. This car is low, cause it's a front wheel drive without any frame. There is no channelling!! lol
True factoid, taken from a Special interest Autos story on the Traction Avant Citroens: Andre tried to negotiate with Henry for flathead V8's! The cars were to be available with 21 stud flatheads...but alas, Henry wasn't interested. The story of the cabriolet: I was in college, my father was the US Consul General in Stuttgart. Every summer I heisted his car and headed for the Pyrenees, where I could camp and cave and hang out for like a dollar per day on the Spanish side. I was under orders to send off a postcard daily reporting on my whereabouts, since communicating on rural French and Spanish phones had proven essentially impossible long distance. This became a game...I tried to report in from towns so small and obscure they could only be found on large scale maps owned by the Army and by the French Consulate... I found a town that was nothing more than a wide place in the road and about three farm houses, and mailed my card from there--after admiring the complete Citroen cabriolet languishing in the weeds. Lots of French farmers had older, 1930-ish, big Citroens that looked much like Fords of that period and had sedan bodies with a rear door like a sedan delivery, presumably for the farmer market. I also found a junkyard in which all of the guard dogs lived in old Renault bull-nose hoods, the ones like a Mack Bulldog truck, and in it found the remains of the impossibly scarce 1935-6 first version of the V8-60, the one with four mains and reversed port layout... I spoke no French, and it was really damn difficult to convince French junkyard owners that I was a harmless lunatic who liked to browse in junkyards...just no concept of that in Europe.
Very nice work - shows the potential in these cars. I'm off to Techno Classica in Essen in a couple of weeks. It's ten times the size of Retromobile and there is always something amazing there. Will post the good stuff.
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