Indeed! I sold my first DS19, along with my ‘72 SM, to a couple of guys from Belgium. They were buying Californian Euro cars—mostly older rust-free Mercedes and Porsche’s to resell back in Europe. Apparently Their old classics rust away too.

For a decent DS to be yours, you’d have to bring a surprising amount of money nowadays.

I can add another unnecessary fact:

unnecessary fact of the day... in the netherlands the ds is more commonly known as the citroen snoek (pike) for its face and shape

A pastel patina-covered Citroën DS, hiding in the shade.

It’s an English model with right hand drive. I drive it daily around london and I’ve done trips up and down the length of the country in it. A proper Europe trip is next on the list of 2cv adventures, and all the cliché Parisian photos have to be done!

I live in Belgium I see these quite regularly, no need to tell me. And when I said no license or at most a moped license I was thinking of more than just France. Holland they’re plated as class b mopeds for example, thus require a license. But ye, France and Belgium it’s for idiots who can’t manage to pass for their…

Shit really? People don’t forget that I don’t think, I reckon people just don’t know.

There was a quote about one of these in Richard Porter’s book about bad cars that went something like, “Show it the same corner three times at the exact same speed, and it will do three different things.”

those things are the scourge of the bike paths where i live..(if you think regular drivers are bad... wait till you meet these guys)

Hey now, my parents paid in cas—

“Hello, yes, I work for Jello Picnic”

Clearly, you are nothing. You will always be nothing.

When you’re in charge, it’s pronounced “management.”

I enjoyed this article. It was informative without being pedantic, and short enough to read on the can and not have the wife shout down “are you playing with yourself in there or what?!”

Crud. I forgot all about these:

Naw man you need them triple turbo kits