French car picture

bonjour, comme je suis Français , je vais mettre quelques français voiture photos prises dans un spectacle de voiture pour ce ont jamais vu ou ils ne savent pas beaucoup .

Some nice cars there indeed. Wayne

thanks for sharing the pictures

It's good to see a Peugeot 403 pictured. These nicely styled cars were very popular imports in the '50's and early '60's in my area. For a variety of reasons they are virtually extinct in America now. What were some? First I guess, the tim worm. They weren't easy or inexpensive to work on either. Pictured was about all that could be salvaged out of mine after driving it to about 175 K miles over 12 or so years in the well salted down Washington D. C area.

They had a wet sleeve hemi head engine and the heads would crack between the spark plug hole and the valve seats causing water to get in the oil, maybe leaking cylinder seals contributed to this as well as the cracks. Anyway, good old Bars Leaks was the fix. To accommodate this flaw it had not just an oil pressure gauge, but a warning light as well that lit up if the oil viscosity became low, meaning to me that there had been leakage.

Quirky it was; a stick light switch arm just where the turn signal arm is on most cars, a doohickey in the clutch linkage that was over stressed and mine broke in downtown D. C., look ma, no clutch. It had aluminum pop rivets holding the headlight buckets in, whoops, shouldn't have stopped so suddenly (good old electrolysis, they really did loose headlights that way), a sun roof that went screeech when opened, and leaked when closed, and an oil pan trap door that only allowed access to 2 of the connecting rods. To do more you pulled the engine.

Well, was I nuts having such a chariot? I loved it despite it's character flaws. Parts cars were all over the place, I got one that actually ran for free. With rack and pinion steering it was about the best handling car I ever have owned, that sun roof, I never had one before or since and do miss it. It had seats that fully reclined and I slept in it numerous times at Hershey.

Has anyone else fallen for what in some respects can be considered an "Oddball", or am I the only one afflicted?

My uncle was the French car mechanic here for many years (learned to work on them while stationed in Portugal in his Army days) so the Renaults and Peugeots are familiar, and everyone can recognize a Citroen D or 2CV.

The Peugeot 304 convertible is something I've never seen, and wondering what the maroon and black car in 3rd post is? I'm guessing a 30s Citroen by the inverted chevrons?

That Renault 5 Turbo is a hairy-looking little beast.

rocketraider, I think that is a Citroen Traction Avant. Made several years !

thank you, it is with pleasure;).

yes the black car and brown is a Citroën Traction;).

and brown which is above is a Citroen DS.

I'll put the other pictures after the show and then this other exhibition done in years

here is for this exhibition, I would send other photos that come from further exposure.

excuse me for my French accent.

I do not know to speak English: /

Your English is much better than my French would be! Thanks for giving us a different perspective on car shows, because we don't see those cars here.

What is the red two-seater in top row of pictures in post 11?

I think it is a Matra Djet. Similar at least superficially to a Alpine Renault but as far as I know no real connection. Few and far between in North America.

Greg in Canada

Merci por le photos !! Ce bon !! bonnes voitures !

(Je ne pas parlais Francais)

in the year 1961, My Father bought new a Renault Dauphine. He liked that car and drove it many miles , Mille Bourne

And also when I was a child, a neighbor had a Peugeot (comme en le photo)

I like very much the Citroen 'D' !!! The color is perfect !!

I would like to have a Citroen 'D' or maybe a Citroen SM !!

That blue Citroen would look good next to a Blue Buick, no?

yes indeed it is a matra djet .

thank you .

yes as I know there's not a lot of French car at home, I send you pictures so you can see what he did there.

and the Citroën ds is a good car;) I have pictures of the sm and full of other car.

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I noticed that this car show doesn't seem to have any pre-war cars. Are there many pre WWII cars being collected in France? Perhaps not so many pre-WWII cars survived the war, and they are very rare?

yes there are old cars before the war and after the war.

the picture I put is that of a show I did last weekend.

I would take the pictures of the oldest car (any brand) that I saw in my area and I would send you this;)

I was close to 30 years old before I found out merci beaucoup wasn't a '39 Mercury coupe with a nailhead.

But then, look at my signature picture.

Bernie

Renault Alpine!!! Belle, merci! Quelle automobile pour vous?

thank you;)

I like a bit like the French model and another.

My father has a Renault Juvaquatre 1955 vintage car, if it has a Renault Traffic 1991 (for work, he has to exceed the 1 million kilometers and is the original engine;)) and Renault space for my mother.

my brother has it a 2004 Peugeot 307 (110 hp), I had a Peugeot 306 from 1996, but I sold it to buy a bmw 318 e90 d in 2006, and after I have my Buick electra .

my uncle has a Renault 5 Alpine 1981 vintage car.

in my area of old cars are regularly crossed this morning to go to work I saw two Citroën 2CV, a Peugeot 203 convertible and a Citroen Friend 6.

hello, here other pictures but this time if there is not that French cars.

I put pictures of older cars that I saw and other model years 1950/1960.

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Wow

Nice photos

Thanks for those !

with pleasure), and voila later.