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

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  1. tochatihu

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    Several reasons for "The Decline and Fall..." Among them, no more trees. Can't dream Rome past that.
     
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    A friend of mine had one of these, a DS and not one, but 2 Cords. He used to alternate between driving them all as daily drivers. This wasn't one of his cars, but this is what his Cords looked like.
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    The original pilot cut up and reworked.
     
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    Space Seed as inspired by Run Silent Run Deep.

    But we already have trek talk somewhere else.

    More Cords. Please oh please.
     
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    drop dead gorgeous.
     
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    But I can't stop :eek:

    "A piece of the action". Written by Gene Coon who was much more playful than Roddenberry.

    Very different Genes...
     
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    I've loved these ever since I had a red toy one as a kid.

    Your friend has excellent taste.
     
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    Had, he has since passed away.
    When he would bring one of the Cords over here, the neighbors would come over to look at it. A most beautiful car.
     
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    Maybe we should start a Cord thread. :D
     
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    Front-wheel drive was an early innovation by Citroen and Cord, that has become prosaic.
     
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    Yeah - Why is that? And how do you post instead? Type it out?
     
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    Difficult to do doughnuts, though.
     
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    That's for sure, I had a '66 Olds Toronado and a '73 Cadillac Eldorado and I could have put plows on the front of them and cleared snow.
     
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    My mum learned to drive when I was about 5 or 6, and her first car was an early 70s Ford Escort.

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    One winter, soon after she got the car, we went to the cinema to watch Herbie Goes Bananas. When we came out, there'd been a large (by our standards) snowfall, and our car was the only car in a car park covered with virgin snow. Dad got us all in the car and then did doughnuts in it. I was only six or seven, but I remember it like it was yesterday - it was great fun.

    Going back to topic, a few years later, Mum unfortunately bought a Citroen.
     
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    Not so. You just held it by the rear bumper/fender (not guitar) and swing it round and round! :ROFLMAO:
     
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    Nah - Just slap that baby in reverse... :whistle:
     
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