Citroens have caught my eye for some time,French Engineering and quite a history.
Anybody here driving one?

Sadly, no.. I really want a DS

Strelnik?

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Strelnik has several. I am trying to talk him out of one

I wish I could get one right now. The DS is one of those dream cars I have always wanted since I was a kid. The body lines, the engineering, etc are just beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYHh4yTRkN4

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Traction-avant, please.

see mr. strelnik.

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

I dove one once in the 70's to Mexico rode real nice.think it had hydro suspension

Is it possible to purchase a new one in the United States?

Wait let me check....


http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/import/elig092210.pdf

Nope.

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Now that's a hot looking car. I'm ashamed to admit that I've never even ridden in a Citroen. I would like to experience one someday, I've heard good things about them. In my youth, I was prejudiced on the matter - once when I asked my dad how they are to work on (his best friend had one and he helped him work on it) he said, 'oh not bad, if you don't mind taking off everything within a quarter block of the oil filter to get it out that is.' No doubt he was exaggerating.

I also had a bad attitude about them as the models of the day looked pretty wussy while at rest - I always thought the suspension on them was shot. Also, body rear looked like a retard in diapers.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

That is too bad. Looks like a nice car, I've heard good things about them.

'Trunes are nice cars but not without their faults. I have some experrience repairing them and to me, it seems the designers went out of their to be different-or perhaps French, not better.

When I was a kid, we owned both DS 19 and DS 21's and that is how I learned basic hydraulics - keeping the suspension systems working.

Work was were pretty strait forward as long as you have worked on a Puegot, and have a shop manual in ENGLISH! After we sold them I was qualified to work on any CAT or JCB in the neighborhood.

Try owning a frogmobile in the deep South in the late 1960's..."we don't work on furrin cars" so that is how I learned what metric tools and hydraulic suspension was all about.

They handled great and could really scoot!

Now the DC was another matter...nothing worse than a frogged out copy of a bug that wnats to be a Trebant.