Lovely Chapron DS for sale at Hexagon's
Discussion
http://www.hexagonclassics.com/car_sales/Citroen-D...
Fuel injected with electric roof and hardtop. Very nice.
mikey77 said:
I think the Decapotable is very pretty but this always strikes me as butt ugly. Maybe I'm the only one in the world...
I'm the complete opposite, usually Decapotable don't move me much, but with the added hard-top it looks great.Also how cool does it look sitting around London in the link at the bottom of Hexagon's page.
They look a lot better with the top off I must admit. There is just something in the rear quarter that doesn't sit right with my eye. Perhaps it is that it is missing so many of the classic DS touches like the fared in rear indicators and the exposed aluminium boot hinges.
I know it is just me though and I would have one happily enough, especially in that colour which I think is called 'Gris Palladium'.
I know it is just me though and I would have one happily enough, especially in that colour which I think is called 'Gris Palladium'.
Jeeeeeeeeeeezus H. Chrrrrrrist have a look at this:
http://www.hexagonclassics.com/car_sales/Shelby-Fo...
I need this more than I need oxygen.
Whadda ya reckon cost?
http://www.hexagonclassics.com/car_sales/Shelby-Fo...
I need this more than I need oxygen.
Whadda ya reckon cost?
My Citroen fellows wouldn't thank me for this, buuuuuutttt...
The SM is SO much nicer to look at and sit in than to drive. Being a Maserati engined motor you would also think it would have a bit of oomph. Well, sadly it doesn't, not by today's standards.
I have spoken to a number of owners/specialists and they suggest that the Mazzer engine loses horses faster than a drunk cowboy, and it only came with 170 to start off with. I'd make a fag packet guess that most SMs around today are running at somewhere between 100-120 - not nearly enough to haul it along the way you would want it to.
The interior is a work of art though, like Buck Rogers has got p*ssed up on Absinthe and designed the chairs and dash.
Also, that kind of cash isn't too silly (but is high I admit.)
Look at these boys advertising a standard DS for £75k, albeit one that isn't riddled with rust...
http://home.btconnect.com/centreville/html/sale.ht...
The SM is SO much nicer to look at and sit in than to drive. Being a Maserati engined motor you would also think it would have a bit of oomph. Well, sadly it doesn't, not by today's standards.
I have spoken to a number of owners/specialists and they suggest that the Mazzer engine loses horses faster than a drunk cowboy, and it only came with 170 to start off with. I'd make a fag packet guess that most SMs around today are running at somewhere between 100-120 - not nearly enough to haul it along the way you would want it to.
The interior is a work of art though, like Buck Rogers has got p*ssed up on Absinthe and designed the chairs and dash.
Also, that kind of cash isn't too silly (but is high I admit.)
Look at these boys advertising a standard DS for £75k, albeit one that isn't riddled with rust...
http://home.btconnect.com/centreville/html/sale.ht...
vixen1700 said:
After sitting in an SM at a Citroen dealership in '72 when I was a nipper, I'd put up with its performance let-downs. Just to have it in the garage to look at would be enough. 
Fair enough. I can't think of a single car that is as guaranteed to ensure a woman will have sex with you than an SM.Yertis said:
£40 grand for a TR3A??? That's silly.Have you guys read Alan Clark's Backfire which includes his very logical view of over restoration? If not, it's a very good read. He too owned a DS Decapotable, bought for his wife Jane in 1973. Apparently, Madame Chapron would not let Alan Clark drive the DS away as it was Jane's car so she had to collect it herself; a lovely tale. Also a great picture the Clark's two Rottweilers chilling out on top of his original C-Type.
Hexagon do tend to lard on the prices though. I mean, look at this one which I've been aware of for a while:-
http://www.hexagonclassics.com/car_sales/Lynx-D-Ty...
I know for a fact that it was reserved for someone I know while he thought it over at £150,000. And it isn't even very good, as he who built it told me. Just the prototype Lynx D - and fully carpeted at that! Amazing time-warp piece though with minimal mileage.
http://www.hexagonclassics.com/car_sales/Lynx-D-Ty...
I know for a fact that it was reserved for someone I know while he thought it over at £150,000. And it isn't even very good, as he who built it told me. Just the prototype Lynx D - and fully carpeted at that! Amazing time-warp piece though with minimal mileage.
Lordbretsinclair, Benjj, yes this is a cracking read and his diaries are also very good. Where we're forced to live with modern day political correctness and the brain dead muppets who extoll all things PC, Alan Clark's openness is/was very refeshing. He was clearly very articulate in expressing his views and life perceptions without the 'worry' of upsetting others. Although right of centre he was not racist. Sexist, yes; which was more old fashioned values rather than outright chauvinistic sexism. We are reaally missing these older-type values today; no wonder we have such social dilemnas. Apologies for going slightly off topic here.
If any of you are looking for other Christmas Stocking reads try, Shunt [James Hunt bio], Genesis of The Jet [Story of Sir Frank Whittle], All Arms & Elbows [Innes Ireland], The Hinge Factor "How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History" by Erik Durschmied, and, Tragically I Was An Only Twin [Peter Cook remembered].
If any of you are looking for other Christmas Stocking reads try, Shunt [James Hunt bio], Genesis of The Jet [Story of Sir Frank Whittle], All Arms & Elbows [Innes Ireland], The Hinge Factor "How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History" by Erik Durschmied, and, Tragically I Was An Only Twin [Peter Cook remembered].
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