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Welcome to my mid-life crisis “steam horse”

Citroen 2CV6 Special 1982 X-Reg

I have wanted a 2CV for a long time, when I was young my father had a Dyane 6 which is similar, although 'uprated'.

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This one was purchased via ebay in Jan 2010. I went to Bournemouth to collect it and purchased it from a young lady who bought it before she had passed her test, and after 40 lessons she was loosing interest. It was her dream car, but lucky enough it was also my dream car, therefore I was a good person to take care of it.

I fell in love with the car on the journey back from Bournemouth and wanted to pat it like a faithful dog each time I stopped for a break. And closer to home I had to turn on the stubby wipers and it was like two little furiously waging tails.

This is the sixth car I have owned, the others were mostly modern sporty models. Most men buy a red sports car when they are 40, trust me to be different! 602cc is not a high performance manhood replacement!

This is a yellow and black charleston which it seems was a very rare colour and was only produced for a year. I have heard that there may only be 50 existing worldwide, and not all of those on the road.

I used to like to modify my cars but these days I have decided that my new modified is standard.

"Steam Horse" becase 2CV stands for: deux chevaux vapeur, literally "two steam horses", from the tax horsepower rating. Quoted from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/Citroen 2cv

Here is a toy of it I got from: virtualtoyshop.com

Links:

www.international2cvfriends.com
Frome 2CV Shop
www.ecas2cvparts.co.uk
The official website of the Deux Chevaux Club of Great Britain