British-built 1955 2CV road test, in Tasmania, Australia! 425cc! 

Precisely, and we all learn so much too.

That is why I love citroën - their cars.are quirky, but often innovative and brilliant.

That's why they are endearingly called "tin snails " By the way they are incredibly reliable, and the engine is tough as nails

@@titanus49 "tin snails" ? Did a Frenchman see it and declare "Es car go !" ?

@@millomweb No, Deuche or Deudeuche (Deux chevaux 2CV in a cuty way of saying), 2 pattes (two legs)

Fantastic little car and dare I say it's right about it being a bit sporty, 5:30 "This is an evolution of the original engine". So it's actually the 'evo' version with a full 50cc and 3hp more than the originals. How Hubnut is that?

My mom's old peugeot 205 gl has only 54 cv. It does 70 mph, given enough time. But up to 70 km/h she's fine.

I like these stories ☺

Very nice, i have to make my 61 belgian example ready, 12 hp too :-)

We`ve had some new highs recently with stupendously noisy wiper motors and now, surely one of motoring's most inferior lights? The anti glare shield must make all the difference to the pilot's night vision. Dare we imagine the nocturnal gloom of the Brummie Pifco headlights, or was there an option for an auxiliary tyre driven Miller cycle lighting dynamo kit?

One could imagine the toolkit - simply 3 different sized hammers.

12mm and 19mm for most stuff on these I think.

@@HubNut That's quite close to half-inch and 3/4" for the French. Found the front wheelnuts on a Case digger were

@@HubNut What about the spark plugs ?

@@millomweb Piece of cake.

I had a pickup truck when i was a student at Portsmouth c of a . They were built for the navy wish I had it now! Ivor lewis.

I rode in the back of one once (Mr teacher & his missus) & she said to him "you'll tip this over one day" as we went round a corner.

You too from the UK, you guys have had enough to deal with already without this on top of it.

CHEERS Graeme.

Blimey! Just shows what a hammering these things can take.

Carlisle to Edinburgh - up the A 74 (>A702) Mk1 Granada 3 litre into a headwind topped 60 mph ! Without the headwind, it'd do 110.

@@RussEdgar445y7tlfj When engines start using oil, people tend to use cheap oil - and that makes things much worse. I've had people comment "what have you done to the engine as it's not using any oil". It had had an oil change - with good quality oil going in it. Was it petrol ? Injected or carburetted ? I knew a guy took his Metro for MOT and after that, it wouldn't go faster than 50 mph due to lack of fuel. Needed the carb readjusted back to where it should have been. #emissions test

@@RussEdgar445y7tlfj Much is said about 'cold'. Once the oil warning light has gone out, pretty much everything is being lubricated - perhaps not fully but enough. Pistons will be small - that'll allow more oil up to the rings but they'll be doing their job as a gas seal. TBH I think the real sufferer of cold are drive belts - quite possibly more brittle than normal but a cold belt run for a few minutes will soon warm up via its own stiffness. I'd agree that hammering things cold is not a good idea but I'm not convinced it's as bad as people make out. I'm all in favour of a tendency of high gear, low revs but I also believe a good thrash from time to time will have some benefits - like possibly on the exhaust.

Just started watching these videos with headphones. It transforms them and gives another dimension. iPads and even laptops have crap sound.

Emergency stopping - only difference is that you're emergency slowing down the engine unnecessarily.

Thank you for that extra knowledge. Today is a good day at school!

Bertie, even the later 2CVs never had the sophistication of a 'low fuel' light so I very much doubt that a Slough-built version would have benefitted from such a device. Also, the dipstick you've mentioned was stored in the boot, not 'inside the tank'...

@@kenhanna6834 Hi Ken - There is a float and an equivalent of a 'sender' without a variable resistor in the tank which is just a switch that indicates low level - this lights up the dash light when fuel is low. Yes - can keep the dipstick in the boot but it sits nicely out of the way in the tank/filler too

I had two Fiat 126's back in the 80's. Both rusted terribly, so you did not lose out much. My 1976 one was in the scrapyard by 1986, and the 1979 one was in the scrapyard by 92.

Cable-operated manual starters are very reliable, the later solenoid versions are more prone to failure. It's all part of the design of the 2CV, less is more because what you don't have can't fail. As Ian shows in the video, even if the cable would break you can still start the car.

James Knight Absolutely, it’s a shame cars back in the 60s and 70s didn’t benefit from protection and build techniques manufacturers use today, gone are the days of rust buckets and bangers on the road.

To Ragnar. You like the purring of the engine? You can only say that because this engine is a proper 4-Stroke! Like the first Honda's, the 2 - cylinder rival to the Mini, etc. .Honda also had the sense to make all it's pizza delivery bikes 4 - stroke as well. FIFTY years ago now, my school took us on a week's trip to Berlin - when the Berlin wall was still up! The wall had stopped Berliners having contact with friends and family on the other side - and people had risked being shot, trying to get to the other side, to visit them! So regulations were relaxed and even us tourist were allowed to the other side FOR ONE DAY. I remember my eyes smarte d and watered the whole day in East Berlin. (I had hay fever, as it was). But the 2 - Stroke exhausts of East German cars made it much worse! Apparently, they had such engines in ALL Soviet countries, causing the same irritation. Apart from this problem, the 2 - Stroke engines sound uneven, like some kind of joke till they get to about 30 MPH. Citroen wisely never did have have a 2 - Stroke setup! Incidentally, I heard the present Fiat 500, the version with the 2 - Cylinder engine. Modern development improved the 2 - Cylinder engine so much, it sounded quiet, refined, and CHARACTERFUL! If I bought a new car, I would consider one myself!

The lights acting on the fuel gauge is typical French electrics: bad mass-connections. This is very pronounced in these early 6V cars, but my 12V 1986 2CV6 does this as well (makes you think you'll run out of fuel in the middle of the night while there's almost half a tank left). You even see this on more modern French cars, like a 2000 Renault Clio I had: lights on + brakes + blinking = christmas tree in the back and the fog light dashboard light faintly glowing. The problem is every warning light, gauge, outside light... has its own plus-feed, but the negatives are tied together and connected to parts that sometimes aren't even part of the main body (the negative wire of the front blinkers of a late 2CV is simply sandwiched between the wing and the valence panel) with a piece of thin wire, a flimsy eyelet, and paint between the eyelet and the bodypart.

"Opening rear windows" - silly boy - they just put front doors on the back - left front = right rear and right front = left rear. So if you ever come across a 2CV with the only externally lockable door on the rear, they've mixed the doors up when putting them back on.

@@millomweb Even a blind guy can see that's not true at all. The shape of the doors are very obviously different and the windows are different as well. With all parts of a 2CV readily available (except for a few things of the oldest models), don't you think you'd see more 2CVs with opening rear windows if the front ones would fit?

Beetle front guards ?

No, very different guards to a Beetle. Rear lights look Minor, but the lenses are unique to Citroen with the company logo on them! I'd never noticed the detail before this video.

My foot does not rest on the clutch! It often hovers above, but doesn't rest.

when we are able to move around a bit more your quite welcome to come to Rutland and try mine{86 2CV6}it is up fore sale but I dont see it going before the end of the summer.FOSSILIZEDMAN.