Stamp of the Day: Citroen
I am continuing my little virtual stamp collection for a while, so here is a new stamp of the day. What do you think? Compared with the banal contemporary car designs (see PP's recent post), this is is something different. I think this looks like a car the King of Sweden could have driven in the 40s. There is a place south of Stockholm, called Kungens Kurva (the King's Curve), where Gustav V went off the road and into a ditch - I wonder what car he drove. Where there SAABs and Volvo's then? I don't think so, but I am not sure. I can just imagine him in one of these lowrider French things, speeding down to Lund in the south. Now, since I know very little about cars, the rest of you can pour out all your knowledge about the Citroen Avant Traction in the comments :)
/LS
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When the swedish king, or his chauffeur to be precise, drove his car into a ditch in 1946 at place now officially called "The Royal Bend", he had a 1939 Cadillac.
I don't think the SAABs and Volvos o the era were glamorous enough for his majesty.
What I know about the Citroen Avant Traction? Not much, but the bad guys in Beineix's movie "Diva" drove one. Have you seen that movie yet, LS?
No, haven't seen DIVA. But I have heard about it. Is it depressing? French, right? Then it is probably depressing ;)
The Cadillac doesn't look that different from the Citroen in fact!
Diva is not depressing, a bit odd, perhaps, but good. I once read that the Citroen was styled after some american car, but I don't know which, or if even true, OK?
LS: Except that you could probably park the Citroen inside the Cadillac. :)
You can park any French car inside an American car! Especially these days.
Well, mom's car might be an exception, it might fit around a small Neon.
Here's a french car worthy presidents and royalties, Citroen DS. Charles de Gaulle used them. The french embassy in Stockholm had a slightly elongated one so the tall president would fit in it...
If the B11/Avant traction was styled after an american car I don't know, but the first Citroen looks very much like a Ford Model-T.
Citroen DS is a CLASSIC!
DS is supposed to be pronounced "Déesse", meaning "Goddess" in french.
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