Well said – not long ago, I found the logbooks that I kept of the SW stations that I had found. Good times.

Mmmmmm. 406 Coupe. That's one car that I regret not owning while I lived in NZ.

Wow, I knew that sealed beams were mandatory until the 80s, but didn't know that rectangular lights weren't allowed until so late. I love me some twin rounds on cars that suit it, but the effort to force them onto everything produced some true design abominations.

Agreed! The sealed-beam lights on the US models turn the front end of an otherwise-gorgeous car into something quite ugly. To be honest, I think that they could have stood to do a better job there...

Should do. I use a very similar arrangement at work (3 21' Cinema Displays on a Dell workstation running CentOS). The only downside is that you don't get any picture controls except backlight brightness, unless you're on a Mac.

Ha! I didn't know that. A for effort, at least!

Someone put one (well actually the Meteor land-based derivative) in a Rover SD1. Mental!

Agreed. Some pretty odd transmissions have come out of England and Europe, I guess as an attempt to make shifting 'easier' in lieu of an automatic. Citroen had a fiendishly clever system that took a mostly-conventional manual gearbox, and then actuated the selectors and clutch hydraulically from a 'wand' on the…

Yep. Quite a few upmarket British cars of the 1930s-1950s had them – Daimler swore by them before they were bought by Jaguar, as did Riley. Humber and Lagonda used them, too. My father tells the story of driving a friend's vintage Lagonda Rapier, and finding the preselector a neat idea, but really tricky to get used…

Heh, during the brief time that some friends of mine were in a band together, I regularly hauled all their gear (drum kit, 2 amps, 2 guitars and a small PA system) in my Xantia in a similar way. Good times.

Heh, my ride home from hospital was in my Dad's restored Jag XK150, but I still love a good beater. My wife and I currently have a VW Scirocco and a Mk3 Cabrio. The Scirocco is my baby/project and goes away every winter. The Cabrio is a total beater – torn roof, rust all over, and 220,000mi. It's great to get in that…

I had a 1993 Xantia SX and a 1988 BX 16v. My Xantia was a very early-production one without anti-sink, so it was even more Citroën-y than most! I did a lot of driving on gravel roads, and their road manners on bad surfaces were impeccable. I distinctly recall hustling my Xantia along a potholed forestry road, quite…

Yes! It looks like something out of Thunderbirds!

That cannot be unseen.

I think that's just the Citroën Owners' Club!

I had a BX 16v. Seriously, they're awesome. Incredibly practical, and very quick for its time. The kind of car that will put a stupid grin on your face driving to the shops, and then haul a load of shopping on the way back.

I've always liked the XM - it's a very handsome (if quirky) looking car, and in many ways, the last truly weird Citroën. I'm just waiting for them to get old enough so that I can import one to the US!

Yes! There should be some kind of Citroën-driver's manifesto.

As my avatar may possibly indicate, I'd have that in a heartbeat. They're magnificent cars, and beautifully engineered.

Correct. The later US models (1968+) got two exposed sealed beams, like this one. Everywhere else, the headlamps were faired in, with the high beams being smaller, like this one. Much better looking, in my opinion.