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The Citroen "Deux Cheveaux" - funny looking, but ahead of its time

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  1. El Dobro

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    All this Citroen talk reminded me that they also produced Wankel engine cars.
    Citroën M35 - Wikipedia
     
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    Gosh, I had no idea.

    That is not a pretty car.

    [​IMG]
     
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    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    The 'de esse' (French for goddess), aka Desiree Speciale, arrived from the future in 1954, and may yet look futuristic in 2054. It is at once quirky, cool, and sophisticated. Very few cars have had a similar influence.
     
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    Let's not forget the SM, a Citroen with a Maserati engine.
     
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    Can we get Bill the Engineer to put one on a Prius chassis? But keep the hydropneumatic suspension?

    -Chap
     
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    Oooh, yes. I came across an SM in Canberra a couple of years ago.

    Adding Italian build quality to French engineering reliability was a moment of perverse genius, up there with the Alfa Romeo Arna (80s Japanese design flair, Italian build quality), but it was a truly lovely thing. It looked like the kind of car Captain Kirk would have driven.

    [​IMG]
     
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    In my middle age, I volunteered as a Motor Racing Marshall and marshalled for many different classes of race cars. Surprisingly, one of the most exciting classes involved 2CVs!!! You were not allowed to modify the engine, gearbox or chassis/bodywork, so it was only the driver could make the result. It lead to extremely competitive racing with as many as four abreast rounding some of the faster turns. Turned out to be incredibly exciting spectator sport also. In UK it was pronounced by Jasper Carrot (Brummie comedian) as a vegetarians car because if it were ever to cope with a bunny rabbit the we a much better chance for the rest to survive.

    Can't find the exact track, but this is Jasper Carrot:
     
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    Turns out we do know something about Capn Kirk car:

    another verbose URL

    On a DS21 chassis. Keepin it real.
     
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    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    #26 doesn't have a link o_O
     
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    It's not supposed to - just pictures.
     
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    I think @Prodigyplace was talking about post 28 then. But it appears @tochatihu fixed the jalopnik link on his own.
     
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    I saw it and gasped in horror. It was so long that I had trouble gasping for that long.
     
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    I meant 28 :(
    I thought @Tideland Prius fixed the original run-on link
     
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    I'm quick but not that quick ;)
     
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    We have confidence in you :LOL:
     
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    "my favourite Star Trek TOS episode" @32. Wow. No accounting for taste then.

    "Balance of terror", Space seed", or in a pinch, "The menagerie"
     
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    It's the idea more than anything - thinking about what a modern Rome would be like.
     
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    The Menagerie was the "inspiration" (read: source material) for one of the early episodes of The Orville, too.
     
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