Thought you guys may know what it was?

Couple of guesses, just as an excuse to go look for pictures:

Bristol 401

I have a feeling it was a Citreon - as I said, it looked quite reminiscent of the DS, and I thought I'd spotted a Citreon badge or emblem on the front.

Cit-ro-en.

Not bloody Citreon. Citroen (with ¨ over the e, which for some reason Thunderbird won't let me do).

I mean, once is fair enough, but twice, in response to someone spelling it correctly.

If it looked like a DS, it was probably a DS decapotable or replica, or less likely, a replica DS Chapron coupe. SMs look DS-era, but nothing like a DS unless you're blind, looking through a vaseline smeared windscreen and quite possibly drunk.

Richard

Or, might I suggest, under 30.....

Which I was until very recently :P

(Though I knew what a DS was when I was tiny, and an SM. Matchbox models++).

Richard

Apologies ;-)

I remember thinking it kinda looked wrong when I typed it - but let's be honest, the word always looks wrong :-)

Well I only saw it very briefly, and my memory isn't terribly great for remembering the details.

I can recall what DSs look like, but don't know the minutia of the other models. As it passed me (fairly quickly, going the opposite way) I thought it reminded me of a DS, but after seeing some pictures of an SM (I'd never heard of them previously), they look a bit more sleek than this thing did - it kinda looked a bit more chunky, like a DS. And I didn't mean (initially) _exactly_ like a DS, just reminded me a bit of one, with the styling details.

Is this a bit of a touchy subject, or something? :-)

Nope, but if you saw a Chapron - even a replica - you saw something very, very rare indeed.

The car I saw was just one colour - like a gunmetal metallic colour.

And it looked like pretty much like the link, as I recall. It was only a fleeting glance, but my first thoughts were DS, then noticed it only had two doors.

When I searched for pictured of SMs they looked lower and more sleek, so - accepting my hazy memory - I'm more inclined to think it's what you've suggested. Just a pity it wasn't stopped and I could have got a picture.

When it passed me going the opposite way, I initially thought DS - which for me are quite a rare site - then I noticed no rear doors, and thought "What a thing of beauty..." - but I guess that's quite subjective ;-)