(not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes...) I'm Simon, born in London, grew up (as much as any 50ish bloke grows up) in Australia, and now living in France. I own a pair of Citroen Traction Avants. Both are black 11b normales. Our first was Célestine, a 1953 car discovered in a barn in the early noughties and restored by a garage owner. She is extremely well behaved, except for having an appetite for gearboxes. We did a couple in rapid sucession, both metal fatigue. One involved cracking the gearbox case from end to end, the other was shearing a bearing mount where the axles exit. Our second is Claudette, who had a complete engine rebuild in 2009, and brakes added in 2013 (when we collected her she had no brakes except for a nasty grab on the nearside wheel in the last mm of brake pedal travel. Fun in the rain...) During summer we do custom tours of Loire Valley Chateaux using the Tractions, and during winter I trawl Streetview trying to see if we have been spotted. Even though we do over 10,000 km a year in the Tractions, as far as I know we havent been seen. Trawling the interwebs I have been surprised at how many pre '75 cars there are in daily use, and I started making notes. This has turned into a way over-ambitious blog to record all of them worldwide. So far I have 1800, but I doubt if that is more than 5%
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03-05-2016, 10:59 AM
