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[Shawn T. W.]

And posted here 12 + years ago ... I do remember seeing part of it years ago, starting were the car headed up the hill and ending sliding back down, don't remember the crash in the field part ...

 

[Renze]

22 years, by the time stamp across the bottom.

We got internet when i was 16 and Youtube is 21 years old, so it would be between 20 and 25 years ago...

 

[goeduck]

That video i got sent by email, back in the days before Youtube... its 25 years old

Yes, very, very old, but it is still funny as hell. I've watched it dozens of times over the years and I still roll on the floor each time. Well, maybe I'm not rolling on the floor.

 

[Renze]

Yes, very, very old, but it is still funny as hell. I've watched it dozens of times over the years and I still roll on the floor each time. Well, maybe I'm not rolling on the floor.

My sisters first car was Renault 5 just like that

 

[kenmbz]

The 5 had enough problems probably just getting up the hill by itself.
My Uncle decided one holiday to rent a Citroen CV to tour around France.
He said that with 2 suitcases and the two of them (neither overweight) they would sometimes have to take running starts at hills to get over them.
Probably the only car I have ever been in where I think I could take it apart without tools

For those who have never seen one, not my pic:

 

[WinterDeere]

The first time I went to Europe for work, probably age 22, my boss told me, “prepare yourself for two weeks of driving cars with less horsepower than your lawnmower.”

The Trabi was still the dominant car in former East Germany at that point, mostly parents had given them to their college student kids to drive, when the wall came down and the parents were finally able to buy Western cars. Some of the kids had big stickers across the top of their windshield that translated to “26 blazing horsepower”.

 

[Renze]

My Uncle decided one holiday to rent a Citroen CV to tour around France.
He said that with 2 suitcases and the two of them (neither overweight) they would sometimes have to take running starts at hills to get over them.
Probably the only car I have ever been in where I think I could take it apart without tools

For those who have never seen one, not my pic:
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Built from 1949 until 1990. It became a cult car, and was sold in its last 30 years of production on sentimental grounds, not on rational... Which is why most Citroens get sold: Somehow people like the French quirkiness.

Benefiting to its cult status are stories like these:

Even Mythbusters spent an episode on it, because the story is so cool:

 

[LouNY]

I always like the adjustable suspension that they had.

 

[Renze]

I always like the adjustable suspension that they had.

Hyropneumatic suspension.. the 2CV didnt, but the DS made it famous from 1955 onwards.

It rode butter smooth, though it burst a lot of nitrogen bellows and needed constant maintenance. (Boom suspension on wheel loaders use piston accumulators for that reason: much more durable)

 

[masscity]

The 5 had enough problems probably just getting up the hill by itself.
My Uncle decided one holiday to rent a Citroen CV to tour around France.
He said that with 2 suitcases and the two of them (neither overweight) they would sometimes have to take running starts at hills to get over them.
Probably the only car I have ever been in where I think I could take it apart without tools

For those who have never seen one, not my pic:
View attachment 4618638

I rode in one, while I was USAF in Spain. Strange car.

 

[Renze]

Strange car.

That describes the brand Citroen in two words...

 

[kenmbz]

My brother dated a girl back in High School whose father collected Citroen DS, he had about 6 of them all in various states of decay. Was cool watching him do the one corner lift so the tire could be changed, no jack needed. Even the Dash was bizarre. Lots of futuristic touches, some even worked

The trabant had heat coming off the engine to warm it, must have been fun in the typical eastern European winter. I was only in one once, in California of all places. No need to do that again.
Some people added a gasoline heater to them, famous for getting a bit overheated (catching fire).
And the Gaz cars, which were the bigger ones the politicos and secret police used had I think either propane or natural gas heating. Those winters are cold.....

 

[masscity]

That describes the brand Citroen in two words...

I forgot, I also rode in the big ugly sedan.

 

[ptsg]

Hyropneumatic suspension.. the 2CV didnt, but the DS made it famous from 1955 onwards.

It rode butter smooth, though it burst a lot of nitrogen bellows and needed constant maintenance. (Boom suspension on wheel loaders use piston accumulators for that reason: much more durable)

I have a Citroen GS Pallas with the 1220cc air cooled boxer engine from my grandfather waiting patiently for a restoration. Needs mostly a new paint job and most of the rubber parts (tires, hoses, belts, etc) replaced from age.

It has the hydropneumatic suspension and I can say, that thing is smoooooth on even the roughest road. Like a couch on wheels. It has 3 positions for the suspension. One fully lowered, second ride height and third is max height, which with some creativity, allows the driver to change a wheel without a jack.

Similar to this but different color.

 

[KennyG]

I got a guided tour around Paris at night in a 2CV. It was a blast but I wouldn't want to own one. My MG Midget is crude enough

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Years ago I worked with a guy who loved Citroens. He had a 1969 like this and I went with him to repair a Subaru FF1 that was by the road. He started the Citroen and went back inside for something. It started moving and I quickly reached over and pushed brake pedal. He laughed, it was the hydraulic suspension lifting car up.
I was amazed how nice it road and said I thought I heard they were the world's safest car. He then steered it over into the gravel shoulder at 55 mph! Then went back on asphalt. I almost had heart failure!
He said Citroen had perfected FWD later cars had. Then he had a 4x4 2CV Citroen. I was amazed it had one motor in front and one in back. Each 2 cylinder air cooled I think. Good mpg and acceleration wasn't all that bad.
He had a few other odd cars, a Lotus and Abarth and raced SCCA sometimes.

 

[Renze]

I forgot, I also rode in the big ugly sedan.

The SM?

Citroën SM - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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[scootr]

Why do people not slow or stop when this is happening!?

 

[Jstpssng]

Why do people not slow or stop when this is happening!?

Driver inexperience would be my first guess.