Cars You Never See Anymore

[dessiato]

Yep, about then.

What were you driving?

A blue Citroën C1 on a 71 plate. Driving very far into the left, to allow people who weren't trying to do 100mpg to pass.

 

[a_chap]

A neighbour here in France bought a Dyane about 20 years ago, in theory as a holiday run around…it has never moved. I can’t see the French being sentimental about cars like this. View attachment 303868

The car I owned that was most fun to drive EVER was a Citroen Dyane

 

[pseudonarcissus]

A blue Citroën C1 on a 71 plate. Driving very far into the left, to allow people who weren't trying to do 100mpg to pass.

A ‘71 plate makes me assume it’s a K reg…things that make you feel old…

 

[Sasaferrato]

A blue Citroën C1 on a 71 plate. Driving very far into the left, to allow people who weren't trying to do 100mpg to pass.

A friend had a 2CV in Germany, it was RHD. His party trick was to drive through the town with him standing with his head through the sun roof on the (in Germany) driver's side, whilst a colleague crouched low in the seat driving it.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I used to know someone who had a Citroen Renault 4 CV (had got the idea that like the 2 CV it was Citroen)

(not this one)

 

[Leafster]

I used to know someone who had a Citroen 4CV

(not this one)

Isn't that a Renault?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Isn't that a Renault?

oops

 

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A ‘71 plate makes me assume it’s a K reg…things that make you feel old…

Wasn't J a '71 plate with K being '72?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Wasn't J a '71 plate with K being '72?

By that time, the letter changed on 1 August each year, K was August 1971 to July 1972

source

 

[pseudonarcissus]

By that time, the letter changed on 1 August each year, K was August 1971 to July 1972

source

I did double check

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I used to know someone who had a Citroen Renault 4 CV (had got the idea that like the 2 CV it was Citroen)

(not this one)

The two chevaux was for the two cylinders. I’ve heard is claimed that the Citroen 2CV engine was pretty much an exact copy of a Pre-war Jowett engine.

 

[existentialist]

I have found the secret button.

the display can alternate between -

a bad estimate of how many miles' worth of fuel i have left (which is what i was used to)

a very bad estimate of MPG

a cumulative mileage (although no idea since what)

an MPH figure (presume an average over some unspecified amount of time)

the date (at least this is correct so i've stuck with that)

i suppose i ought to re-read the instruction book one of these days - there's still a few buttons that i don't really know what they do. i bought it in a bit of a hurry a few years back when previous car got stole and written off...

It's on the end of one of the steering column stalks, isn't it? I "discovered" that one accidentally on a C3 owned by someone I knew.

 

[surreybrowncap]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

It's on the end of one of the steering column stalks, isn't it? I "discovered" that one accidentally on a C3 owned by someone I knew.

yes. I must have touched it accidentally at first.

 

[existentialist]

yes. I must have touched it accidentally at first.

Took me bloody AGES to work out how to change it back! And yeah, the mileage-to-empty was pure fantasy.

Also interesting - switching the speedo display to km/h (and back).

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Also interesting - switching the speedo display to km/h (and back).

i'm not sure i have found out how to do that (and have a vague feeling it's not legal in the UK)

 

[existentialist]

i'm not sure i have found out how to do that (and have a vague feeling it's not legal in the UK)

It's off the menu button on the centre console - "Display settings", I think...the C3 is now in France and Not My Problem.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

It's off the menu button on the centre console - "Display settings", I think...

it's got too damn many buttons...

 

[Carvaged]

Not many Citroen Xantias have survived in running order. That crazy hydraulic suspension didn’t help. Prone to breaking and expensive to fix because it wasn’t easy to work on, or so I was told many years ago by a Xantia owner whose 5 year old car was already causing trouble.

I always did like the shape though. Like a French designer had pondered a wedge of cheese over lunch, then doodled a wedge shaped car which somehow got built.

This one is listed for a princely £800 asking price, available in Gävle, Sweden

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I always felt it was like a smoothed out and more basic looking version of the XM. I would have loved to own an XM:

 

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[Puddy_Tat]

i think the daimler is beyond redemption...

 

[hash tag]

For a purest, there are some good spares on that.

 

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Never seen before

 

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[High Voltage]

I meant to post these when I saw them in our local Morrisons

The blue panel van was concord(sic)

 

[Elpenor]

Saw a lovely Morris minor station wagon on Saturday but I was driving so no pics

 

[Chz]

Was talking about ugly cars last night and the infamous 1st gen Fiat Multipla - an ingeniously conceived environmental project, as you'd rather walk than be seen in one - and I realised I haven't seen one in years at this point. I miss their ugly little bullfrog faces!

 

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Saw a lovely Morris minor station wagon on Saturday but I was driving so no pics

station wagon? I don't believe Morris ever made one of those things?

 

[Dogsauce]

station wagon? I don't believe Morris ever made one of those things?

Morris traveller presumably. Often seen with moss growing on the timber window frames.

 

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Morris traveller presumably. Often seen with moss growing on the timber window frames.

Bastards to repair/replace I gather. The wooden bits are made up of 50,000 pieces.