#frenchclassics

This unfortunate #CitroënDyane sits forlorn on a #NewJersey lot a few miles from the Atlantic ocean, part of the remnants of a failed Citroën shop (really a series of shops) with, according to many sources, a reputation for not delivering cars or work after taking payment that has resulted in multiple legal actions and lots of messed up cars. #CaveatEmptor and if you’re looking for a Citroën in the northeast check with Dave Burnham CItroën first. That’s not the cars’ fault though, but it’s a shame that this #Dyane seems likely headed for oblivion. Sure, it’s quite incomplete, but a week’s worth of work and a fresh motor could easily have it on the road again - there’s nothing complex about the #2CV derived Dyane, but you won’t see them around in the U.S. because like many #Citroën products, they were never imported here - that’s why specialist shops crop up. The Dyane was introduced in 1967, right around the time the 2CV was pulled from the U.S. for not meeting safety regs. Intended as a replacement for the old car, the Dyane featured mildly updated 1960s styling a nicer interior, and a hatchback - it was aimed at the #RenaultR4, which had been siphoning off sales from the aging 2CV since it’s introduction in 1961. The styling and name were the result of Citroën’s primary staff being busy reworking the DS and Ami for 1967, so the job was given to Louis Bioner and the team at #Panhard. Keen #frenchcar observers will note that the name follows a Panhard convention (Dyna, Dynamic, Dyane), but Panhard was in the process of being phased out at the time, and Citroën’s #RobertOpron ended up reworking Bioner’s lines quite a bit in the end. Not that you can tell that much from this example, bereft of it’s front end (and who knows what else - piles of 2CV parts, including an entire chassis, were strewn around it). The Dyane may have been the more versatile of the two, but it outsold the 2CV only in 1968-69. Dyane production continued until 1984 though sales fell off considerably after 1980. A van, like the 2CV camionette, was also built - called the Acadiene, from 1977-87. #cars_abandoned #frenchclassics #citroenclassics #abandoned #partscar #citroenclub #1970s #france

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Bringing some Verve out to @sottisephx Wednesday 10 August. Come through for the food, drinks and bonhomie. I’ll be spinning the jazz-forward selections from 5-9pm. #sottisephx #allvinyl #jazzforward #frenchclassics #calvados #wine #oysters #octopus #olives #fromage #escargot #lecroque (at Sottise) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChFQWRorcn9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Streetspotting in Speyer - Solex 3800 von Motobécane aus dem Jahr 1981. Traumhafter Zustand 👍Mit zeittypischen @stiller_radsport Aufkleber. #solex #solex3800 #motobecane #motobécane #frenchclassics #bikespotting #speyer #pfalzliebe #zweirad (hier: Speyer, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/collage_gallery_speyer/p/ByRolrMILsO/?igshid=3p8lrc1zbv08

Old school. A typewriter I found in one of the apartments I stayed in while in college, a French classic novel and a splash of spring flowers. Oh, and my fountain pen that I've had for the past 12 years. I took my high school graduation exam and college entrance exam with it. It still works perfectly and it's red. I obviously adore it. 😁 #bookstagram #typewriter #books #instapic #madamebovary #gustaveflaubert #frenchclassics #artsy #springflowers #litera #bookishmonday

Do I regret not going to @retromobile_paris ? YEAH. But I also had too many things to do, and I’ll be there next year. In the meantime, here’s a pair of much less exotic #FrenchClassics seen closer to home. The 2CV is not a U.S. spec car but a later 1980s 2CV6 Special, while the #Peugeot in the background is, in fact, a 1980s U.S. spec car. It seems hard to believe that both of these vehicles were on offer at the same time, but the #2CV hung on basically forever - a niche product by the eighties, mostly a style car like the Mini eventually became - the last one rolled off the line in Portugal in 1990. By then, the 2CV had outlasted two of its intended “replacements” - the LN and the Visa - and its hatchback derivative, the Dyane. It had long departed the U.S. officially by then, however. The #DeuxCheveaux was poorly suited to U.S. highways - particularly in early 425-cc form, but was offered here from the mid-fifties until late 1967, when safety regs forced it off the market (along with a host of other oddball imports), and one was prominently featured in George Lucas’ “American Graffiti” - they weren’t popular when new but they did sell. Later on, long after the U.S.-market cars had been forgotten and #Citroën itself had departed the U.S., the 2CV got a second wind, no longer just an economy car but a stylish retro statement at a bargain-bin price. A variety of special editions that were cheap and fun revived interest in the car beyond its original mission, and they became very popular as grey-market cars here. Such a significant number of them arrived that they dwarfed the original U.S. sales of the car, and most stateside 2CVs are later imports - particularly the well-liked “Charleston” edition in burgundy or yellow. The 405, meanwhile, was the only modern fwd Peugeot product ever offered here (so far), but sales were slim thanks to a high price, a recession, bad exchange rates, and Peugeot’s tiny U.S. dealer network - #PSA withdrew Peugeot altogether in late 1991, just as the 605 was about to arrive. Too bad, because the 605 and 306 might really have changed Peugeot’s fortunes in the U.S. at the time.  #PSABrothers #PeugeotCitroën #Frenchcars