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INTERNATIONAL Citroën CAR CLUBS RALLY - ICCCR
12th International Citroën Car Club Rally
August 9-11, 2002
Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
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INTERNATIONAL Citroën CAR CLUBS RALLY - ICCCR
My pictures of the 13th International Citroën Car Clubs Rally which was held on 12th - 15th August 2004 in Interlaken, Switzerland. |
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INTERNATIONAL Citroën CAR CLUBS RALLY - ICCCR
My pictures
of the 15th International Citroën Car Club Rally
August 2022
Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK
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Citroëns made outside France
The company was one of the first motor manufacturers to build cars outside its domestic territory |
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Sport
Citroën's success in motor sport is the result of more than fifty years of involvement |
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Panhard et Levassor
One of the automotive pioneers was owned by Citroën |
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| Citroënët : for people who are interested in Citroën, past, present and future |
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In 1919, Citroën launched its first model - the Type A. Since then, the company has produced some of the most individualistic and interesting cars ever built.
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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 'Citroën'.
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.
For years, Blair hosted my
site on his own dedicated Apple server but eventually it became too
large and attracted such high volumes of traffic that he was unable to
continue with the arrangement.
In 1995, 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 it, 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.
Julian Marsh
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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 and shortly
after he had lost control of his company to tyre makers Michelin.
Prior
to the birth of the Traction, Citroën had 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.
Citroën is renowned for its use of advanced technology - high pressure hydraulics
- first shown to an astonished world in the mid 1950s - with the
fitting of self-levelling suspension which offers absolutely unrivalled
ride comfort and for the first reliable application of front wheel
drive in the mid 1930s. The hydropneumatic system is still in use on
the current C5 and C6 because over 50 years on, nothing can touch it.
The launch in 1949 of the 2CV
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 DS19.
In the 1960s, the company acquired automotive pioneers Panhard et Levassor and in 1968 acquired Italian manufacturer Maserati.
Citroën
was acquired by Peugeot in the mid 1970s and under their control, much
of what set Citroën apart from other motor manufacturers was discarded.
However, in the run up to its 90th birthday in 2009 the company seems
to have rediscovered itself and modern products are far more innovative
than they have been of late.
The marque has an incredible worldwide following with hundreds of clubs. Every four years the International Citroën Car Clubs Rally (ICCCR) meeting is attended by thousands of visitors (and their cars) from all over the world.
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Terminology - I have used the French designations where appropriate - thus a berline is a saloon car (UK) or sedan (US), a limousine is a six light berline, a break is an estate car (UK) or wagon (US), a camionette or fourgonnette is a light truck or delivery van, a cabriolet is a convertible or drophead coupé and a faux cabriolet is a hard top coupé.
The term CV
stands for cheval vapeur (literally 'horsepower') and is a fiscal
rating applied to cars sold in France and should not be confused with
bhp or brake horsepower. I have used metric measurements in the
main although where appropriate, for instance when quoting historic
documents, other measurements and units have been used.
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Spelling
- British English spelling is used throughout except where quoting
documents that originally used other variants of English. I have also
used British automotive terms such as bonnet (hood), boot (trunk), bulkhead (firewall), driveshaft (half shaft or axle shaft), dynamo (generator), gearbox (transmission), monocoque (unibody), propshaft (drive shaft), petrol (gasoline), quarterlight (vent window), rev counter (tachometer), scuttle (cowl), silencer (muffler), top gear (high gear), tyre (tire), windscreen (windshield) and wing (fender).
There is also quite a bit of French and Spanish...
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CitroExpert, the Dutch, independent all-Citroën-magazine, celebrates its fifteenth birthday in November.
After the demise of the French Citroën Revue, to which Wouter Jansen
was a regular contributor, he and publisher Fred Jansz started
CitroExpert in the autumn of 1996 making it the oldest surviving
all-Citroën magazine in Europe. The first issues, although full of
articles of great interest, were perhaps a bit lean and modest. But
that changed: fifteen years and 90 issues later reveals a mature
magazine with as many different Citroën-related articles as there are
Citroëns. To celebrate this birthday, a special issue on Citroën in the United States has been published. As it is nearly a century now since André Citroën crossed the Atlantic in the SS France
to visit New York thereby getting inspiration to become the most
important car manufacturer in Europe in the twenties and early thirties.
Just published, the special issue on Citroën in the USA reveals many
unknown facts and documents which are of interest to specialists as
well as the general public. How André Citroën set foot on American soil
in June 1913 for the first time; the negotiations with General Motors
to become a part of that conglomerate; the first official American
distributor in 1921 ...
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also the fact that Citroën applied many modern techniques that were
invented by American companies, like Budd with the all-steel bodies and
Westinghouse who patented servo-brakes. However, the real popularity of
Citroën in the United States started just before World War II, when
California-based company Challenger Motors became distributor for the
West-Coast - to sell a unique car in a country that knows no
boundaries. A subsidiary was founded in 1957 and represented the brand
for fifteen years, selling a number of different models: 2cv, Ami6,
Méhari, H-van, DS and SM. Often adapted to special requirements, both
by users and by law, like special lights and even emissions (in an era
when little was known about greenhouse gasses). After closing
down the operation in 1972, some private companies tried to earn a
living by selling new Citroëns to American customers, like 2CV6
Charleston, CX, GS or XM. It must be said that this was not
hugely successful, some few hundreds were sold in total.
Nowadays, the only Citroën-like cars available overseas are rebadged
Mitsubishis (or was it the other way round?): C-Zero and C-Crosser
clones.
Apart from the very special pictures and other documents published in
this edition, Olivier Marin, the French cartoonist well-known for this
Citroën-related books, created a special cover in the spirit of comic
legend Hergé: a drawing with André Citroën near his hero Henry Ford,
driving an early Citroën car. In the background, the Hollywood Hills
can be recognized . although the famous nine letters have been replaced
by the word CITROEN.
CitroExpert
is for the time being only published in Dutch and widely distributed in
The Netherlands and Flemish-speaking Belgium although subscriptions can
be taken from anywhere. But who knows, an international edition might
one day see the light of day, as is hoped for by many foreign
enthusiasts.
Those who do not understand Dutch might care to look at Citroën in the USA here at Citroënët.
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Citroën Cars 1945 - 1964
By Malcolm Bobbitt
Published April 2011
ISBN 9 781908 34700 8
- The post war history of one of the most innovative marques in motoring history
- Exposes the story of the British-built Citroëns
- Contains an evocative collection of images and publicity material
- Discusses what made Citroën so daringly different
40
years of Citroën’s innovative car models between the 1930s and 1970s
cover the entire range from the unconventional front wheel drive
Traction Avant, the eccentric but economical 2CV to the 1955 luxury DS
which was to revolutionise car design.
price: £7.95
Crécy Publishing
Tel +44 161 499 0024
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Citroën 1919-1949 La belle époque
By Wouter Jansen
Published January 2010
ISBN 978-2-35250-124-4
EUR49.95
Histoire & Collections
5, avenue de la Republique
F-75541 Paris Cedex 11
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 21 18 20
Fax: +33 (0)1 47 00 51 11
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André Lefebvre and the cars he created for VOISIN and CITROËN
By Gijsbert-Paul Berk
Published June 2009 UK & USA
ISBN 978-1-845842-44-4
GBP19.99 [UK] USD39.95 [US]
VELOCE The Publisher of Fine Automotive Books
Veloce Publishing Ltd.,
33 Trinity Street,
Dorchester,
Dorset DT1 1TT,
England
Tel: +44 (0)1305 260068
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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 [US]
VELOCE The Publisher of Fine Automotive Books
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Do you suffer from Citroënitis?
You are at risk from this debilitating mental condition if:
a) first thing in the morning before going to the toilet or having a coffee, you open the curtains and look at your Citroën ;
b) you look at your Citroën while drinking your first cup of coffee;
c) you look at your Citroën while eating your breakfast;
d) you use your Citroën for journeys of less than 500 metres;
e) you gesticulate wildly every time you see another Citroën;
f) you keep a camera in your glovebox in order to photograph interesting Citroëns;
g) you are incapable of stringing together a sentence without using the C word;
h) you get upset when people call Citroëns quirky;
i) you turn round and look at your Citroën after you walk away from it;
j) you look at your car in the office car park more than once a day;
k) you try and park next to other Citroëns;
l) you buy motoring magazines if they have more than one paragraph devoted to Citroëns;
m) you watch programmes on TV only because they feature Citroëns;
n) your partner yawns every time you mention Citroën;
o) you check on your Citroën last thing at night;
p) you threaten birds with mutilation when they defecate on your Citroën;
q) you threaten cats with mutilation when they leave footprints on your Citroën;
r) you dream about Citroëns;
s) all your bookmarks/favorites are Citroën sites;
t) you check the official Citroën sites for news more than once a month;
u) you suffer nausea and disorientation when obliged to ride in another make of car;
v) your Will states that the hearse used in your funeral must be a Citroën;
w) you get excited by the sight of chevrons;
x) you wake up during the night to check on your Citroën;
y) you are incapable of writing an e-mail without using the C word; and
z) people send you e-mails suggesting you suffer from Citroënitis.
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