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Circuit de Lurcy-Lévis (03) (près de Nevers)
Citroracing 2007
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Back in the early days of the Internet (1995 to be precise) I went on line for the first time and being a Citroën fanatic opened up my browser and ran a search on Citroen. The search engine came up with a grand total of seventeen sites, one of which was the Citroën Connection in Canada. I somewhat hesitantly sent an e-mail to Blair Anderson, the Webmaster - little did I realise that this would be the beginning of but one of many enduring friendships. Some of the sites were, it must be said, rather uninteresting - a picture of somebody's car and some text saying "This is a picture of my car" Blair's site wasn't like that and over the years, he has proved to be an inspirational mentor. Later that year, I volunteered to help design the Citroën Car Club site and with Adrian Chapman, we put together the original site. (Adrian has subsequently redesigned the site.) The raison d'être of the Citroën Car Club site was recruitment but while working on the site, I realised that I had such a wealth of material, that I might just as well create my own site. Thus Citroënët was born. Originally it covered only one topic - a reprint of an article originally published in the Citroënian about the fabled D Sport. Over the years, it has grown and expanded to well over a thousand pages devoted to all aspects of the marque including details of Citroën's production cars, prototypes, concept and show vehicles, commercial cars, resources for the Citroën fan such as book lists, calendars, e-mail lists, memorabilia, screensavers, articles, etc. I currently drive a C5 HDi Exclusive, the latest in a long line of Citroëns.
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The company was founded in 1919 by André Citroën and the first cars went on sale that year. He employed mass production techniques for the first time in the European automotive industry and was also the first to set up a service agent network. If early models were not particularly unusual in terms of technology and styling, all this would change with the release in 1934 of the Traction Avant which set the pattern, some 50 years ahead of its time, for the modern motor car. No chassis, front wheel drive, aerodynamic coachwork, excellent handling and roadholding, attention paid to safety, etc. Unfortunately, André Citroën died shortly after this car was launched. Prior to the birth of the Traction, Citroën mastered the art of publicity with advertising campaigns the like of which had never been seen before - the Eiffel Tower illuminated with his name and the company logo, trans-continental journeys, the setting of endurance records, etc. The launch in 1949 of the 2 CV confounded the critics - here was a car which was so different from its contemporaries that it was doomed to fail. Slow and ugly, it was the antithesis of the post war offerings of other manufacturers - and yet it was to have a production run that spanned five decades and generated enthusiasm bordering on the fanatical. The single most important event in automotive history (after the invention of the wheel and had it been thought necessary and possible to reinvent that, then that too would have been part of the design) occurred in 1955 - the DS 19. The company continued to build innovative cars throughout the sixties and seventies and indeed still does so today.
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The Traction Avant Webring
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The Essential Buyer's Guide Citroën DS & ID
By Rudy A Heilig
Published February 2008 UK & USA
ISBN 978-1-84584-138-6 UPC 6-36847-04138-0
GBP 9.99 UK USD 19.95
VELOCE The Publisher of Fine Automotive Books
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Montlhéry
The Story of the Paris Autodrome
By William 'Bill' Boddy, MBE
Published January 2007 UK & USA
ISBN 978-1-84584-052-5 1 UPC 636847-04052-9
GBP 17.99 UK USD 35.95 USA
Bill Boddy on Montlhéry
The Editor of MotorSport magazine for most of the magazine's existence, Bill Boddy is a hugely respected journalist
- The only English language record of this important French motor racing circuit where Citroën established many world records
- Races and record bids described for the famous banked track and the road circuit
- Covers five French Grand Prix from 1925 to 1937, and top racing drivers and their cars
- Photographs (action and static) of racing drivers, men and women, and special track cars.
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DESCRIPTION
This completely remade edition is updated from the original Montagu Motor Books edition, long since out of print. "Montlhéry" is an extremely historic motor racing track, used for innumerable record bids and important track and road races. Foreword by racing driver and record-breaker the late George Eyston, OBE, MC
THE AUTHOR
Editor of MotorSport magazine from 1934 for some 50 years, 'Bill' Boddy, or W.B., is a name familiar to generations of motorsport enthusiasts. William Boddy first went to the Brooklands Track in 1927 and was with Brooklands Track & Air for two and half years from 1931. He also wrote for aviation magazines and was employed by MAP at Farnborough for the duration of World War 11 working on Air Publications. William has three daughters and has lived alone since the death of his wife, Winifred. He is still a regular contributor to MotorSport magazine.
SPECIFICATION
Cloth hardback with jacket. 232 pages. 140mm tall x 213mm. 47 illustrations.
RETAIL SALES
Veloce books are stocked by or can be ordered from bookshops and specialist mail order companies.
In case of difficulty Veloce can supply direct (credit cards accepted).
VELOCE The Publisher of Fine Automotive Books
Veloce Publishing Ltd.,
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Crossing the Sands
By Ariane Audouin-Debreuil
Translated by Ingrid MacGill
The Sahara Desert Track to Timbuktu by Citroën Half Track
On December 17, 1922, André Citroën sent an expedition of Citroën half‑tracks or autochenilles to follow the camel tracks across the Sahara desert from Algeria to Timbuktu on the banks of the River Niger. This was the first motorized crossing of the Sahara and took twenty‑one days. It permitted the establishment of a land connection between North Africa and the Sudan, at that time extremely isolated, and opened the way for the exploration of the heart of Africa.
As well as the desire to write, Ariane Audouin‑Dubreuil also inherited her father's passion for travel. Her father was one of the pioneers of the exploration of the Sahara during those years. For the last fifteen years, she has given lectures on the three Citroën expeditions of her father, and has written two other books: La Croisière jaune, about the expedition to Asia, which received the 2003 Grand Prix Jules Veme, and La Croisière noire, on the expedition to Africa and Madagascar. She is also a psychologist and the Assistant Mayor of Boulogne‑Billancourt in Paris.
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ISBN-13 978-1-85443-222-3
Publication Date : January 2007
Page Size : 33Omm x 250mm 194 pages, case bound with dust jacket
Illustrations : 200 black and white period photographs, 20 colour images, 12 maps
Published by : Dalton Watson Fine Books
Price : USD65/GBP35
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