For many years TV crews used DS estate's at all the British horse racing tracks for their cameras to film from. There was no better car because of their ultra smooth level suspension over the undulating ground around the circuits.
The Citroen DS was the car of choice to modify because of it's self-levelling suspension. The modified body would ride at the correct height front and rear even if one hadn't got the weight distribution right. If the new body was heavier one could have the spheres pressures increased with additional nitrogen so that the suspension would not bottom out.
The vehicle at 2:20 is a custom car designed and fabricated by Gene Winfield here in the US. All the body panels were hand formed, NOT modified parts. The suspension and differential were from a DS. Until seeing this video I never realized that the front of the body does have lines simular to a DS.
En France il est impossible ou presque de faire ça. Ce pas pour des raisons techniques mais administratives... Faire accepter des modifs de ce type aux Mines est une gageure !
@ 1:07, it was a Henri Chapron carboy stylist and maker model, that was actually on the price list. Henri Chapron has made for years the official cars for French Presidents in the 60s and 70s
Love everything about the DS , can't believe so little mentioned about the most famous of this bunch. At 2:17 you see Gene Winfield's Reactor, a fully hand formed kustom built in '65 and riding on a '56 DS suspension. It spent quite a bit of time on tv in the 60's. In Bewitched it was called the Reactor II, in Star Trek the Jupiter 8, Mission Impossible it went unnamed and in Batman it was the Cat mobile.
I know im randomly asking but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an instagram account? I was dumb lost the account password. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
@Dayton Arjun Thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
The1200sportster i guess it depends what you are comparing it to. Its not like owning an old Aston or Ferrari and all the spares are readily available. I've owned a few French cars and had them serviced and repaired in France....fraction of the cost of the UK and there is a huge aftermarket for spares etc.
Brilliant. When the imagination runs wild and the backyard engineering provides. What a complement from the extrapolation of Citroën design cues. Vive le France!
OH MY WORD that green minivan green citroen looking like a humback whale what a beauty .in many classic cars you see the time and love that were invested in it .these day's it apears that cars are desinged with time and love but it's not every car that come's out since the90.s looks the same as any other car manufacturer .it's saddens me to see that funcionality has taken over to desing.you only see desing more important when they come out with 1 concept car when then produced has absolutely no features except for the well hidden features that nobody will ever see underneath the skin
Wow citroen has to be the world's best at making the ugliest cars ever truly ugly cars like these lemons must be hard to make to be honest so yeah big ups to the French for such a engineering marvel lol 😂.
Yeah prayers and 59 plate demonstration of a Prius fully electric 59 plate diesel partially electric demonstration of a Prius 59 plate partial electric
L imence camion camping-car, genre californien,le 9ème avant le camion blanc sigler Michelin, intéressant.la11eme bicolore pas mal . Après ds plateau je suis pas sur qu on puisse rouler avec aujourd'hui.
Wau hätte nicht gedacht das es so viele spezialausführungen von der Göttin gibt ein paar habe gekannt z.b der gelbe pickup Umbau habe ich in ebay gesehen sowie die eckige das war ein spezial. Herstellung für den französischen Präsident
