Anyone fancy a '74 Citroen DS?

[I like Skol]

Was looking at one in the flesh just a few days ago while on holiday in France. It wasn't as highly polished/restored as the one in the picture above but after walking around it several times while admiring its stylish lines I couldn't see a single bubble of rust in the pale blue metallic paintwork. It was just really, really classy without being ostentatious.
My younger brother insisted on having his picture taken with it

 

[screenman]

We had one back in about 1979/80 paid £50 for it, if I remember correctly.

We also run Citroens for about 20 years and only replaced one £25 cylinder in all that time. For us they were great value reliable cars to run.

 

[User6179]

My mother had a Citroen Ami in the early 70s , bought brand new and scrapped about 3 years later , The dog could hear it coming from about a mile away ,
When it wouldn't start you got the starter handle out the boot and cranked it manually at the engine

 

[Milkfloat]

I remember riding my BMX over a DS in the late 80s. It was on a friends farm and used to travel around on the farm as it had no MOT. To start it you used a rounders bat on the starter motor. We used to use the car as a ramp on our bikes.

 

[Glenn]

Plenty of DS' available around the country http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/list/15/citroen+ds/

 

[Brandane]

We had a GS estate when I was a boy. I remember going to pick it up at the factory somewhere outside Paris in July 1973, then having a touring holiday of Normandy before bringing the car back to the UK on the ferry from Cherbourg. The car was then taken to Jamaica (where we lived at the time) and the hydro-pneumatic suspension system earned it's keep on the roads which resembled those of 21st century Scotland.
I don't remember it being particularly ugly at the time, but fashions change!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

<little moment>

Me too ....

and Gregry makes three.

It still looks like something out of a sci fi film. We had one for a while, and then a CX when the monstrous ingrates were tiny.

 

[Goggs]

I always lusted after a CX Prestige because - wait for it - it had footrests in the back. Footrests!

 

[Crackle]

How much!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Citroën were the last of the innovative bonkers different and interesting affordable car makers. I had a BX and loved it until I got hit head on and it was written off.

The DS is a thing of proper beauty, I'm another that has just had a little moment over it.

 

[Mrs M]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131899903602

Want

Beautiful

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Beautiful, there was a convertible on there recently...............I often look at "Citroen" under classic cars on Ebay and as much as Iike & want a DS, it's an SM I really want. An early girlfriend's dad had a 1982 CX that she used to take me out in, with the silly tumbler speedo, a totally bonkers car, I wish cars today were like that instead flabby blobs.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8005/7634960030_e11889a5c0_o.jpg

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Citroen-S...7da8a1&pid=100005&rk=3&rkt=18&sd=131899903602

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131899903602

Want

Hydrogas suspension - same as on Challenger tanks.

 

[raleighnut]

Hydrogas suspension - same as on Challenger tanks.

Plus the Austin Allegro, OK the Citroen could be lowered/raised whilst driving along.

 

[Profpointy]

Plus the Austin Allegro, OK the Citroen could be lowered/raised whilst driving along.

and more importantly the DS wasn't total crap !