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Couldn't you roll start it, or was it an automatic?

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Evidently you never saw the movie "Going Places." A DS is plenty dangerous after you've sawed three-quarters of the way through the front axle!

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But we were talking 2CV. With 17 hp, you couldn't really go fast enough to hurt yourself. With 50 hp, it would be a deathtrap; with 17, it was only a boo-boo trap.

Pat

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The car achieved instant fame in the US when world famous detective Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellars) managed to drive one into a swimming pool in one of the Pink Panther movies. He also had a customized 2CV called "The Silver Hornet" that regularly fell apart.

They more resemble a motorized garden shed to me. And, coincidently, my lawn mower has the same 17 hp. There is one under going repair at a friends shop. It's up on a lift so the furbelows are all visable and it doesn't look like any other car.

Ahhhh, now I remember. I am just old enough to have seen those movies when they came out.

Thanks!

Pat

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So go rent a couple and refresh your memory, you'll be glad you did, they're still among the funniest movies of all time...

I just might do that, it beats senselessly arguing with Chas anyway...... ;-)

Pat

If I could park on a slope, I'd roll it, but at work the lot was flat so I'd crank.

Barry

Mine was actually a 2CV-6, with a 600 cc engine that produced 33 hp, I think. Top speed was about 65.

Barry

One morning I was leaving my apartment in Paris, and a delivery van couldn't make the turn onto my street because a 2CV was parked with its back end too far from the curb. The driver asked if I could give him a hand, and the two of us were easily able to scoot the back of the car over about a foot so he could get by.

Barry

Oh man, I can still remember the last time I saw a 2CV in the wild. It was 8 AM and I was approaching the interchange where 43 meets 794 in Milwaukee. I saw an old man wearing a brown fur cap with earflaps and he had a white knuckle grip on the wheel as he merged ONTO the freeway. I simply couldn't believe I was watching it--the traffic around him was moving at a pretty good clip.

Yes, the 20 hp did not make it any safer, even in the wide open US. On the more densely populated European highways, it required a certain finesse. Especially if there were lots of bridges with short, terminal merge strips. There was often simply no way that after you had picked up a few miles per hour, you could let go of them; merge or die. You quickly learned that even the most aggressive European drivers would yield their undisputed right-of-way if you were determined to violate it. :)

Leon

Are you telling us you learned to drive in a 2CV? Hmm, that 'splains a lot... :-)

I once took a 7-hour journey in a CV as a passenger with a very-soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend; it was perfect, actually, because the car was so loud (motorway nearly all the way) that we wouldn't have been able to talk even if we'd had anything to say to one another. The noise is pretty much all I remember about the car so it couldn't have been all that bad...

Eric

Who told you I learned to drive?? I did have lessons, but they were, IIRC, in an "Opel". I remember a horrible econobox with a hood that was too high. I thought the 2CV a big improvement. And the roof came down.

Leon :)