weekend in Pouy de Touges and Escatalens (France)

[sebastienbuick]

 

Citroën Traction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ford Mustang " texas edition " 

 

 

 

Peugeot 504 

 

 

very beautiful 1972 Buick Riviera from a friend 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rare Mitsubishi Galant

 

 

 

Renault 8

 

 

 

[sebastienbuick]

Here is the rest of the photos and soon the last photos

 

Opel Manta

 

 

Alfa Romeo

 

 

Dodge Ram 1500 Hemi

 

 

 

Jaguar XJS

 

 

Peugeot 203

 

 

Vespa 400

 

 

Peugeot 306 16S

 

 

Citroën 2cv

 

 

firefighter peugeot 504

 

 

there were also tractors

 

 

Someca

 

 

 

David Brown

 

 

Vendeuvre

 

 

Massey Ferguson 165

 

 

Deutz

 

 

Amat Calvet

 

 

 

Ford 7000

 

[sebastienbuick]

and here are the last photos from this great weekend !  
At the end of the day, someone called me on the microphone to tell me that I had won a prize (trophy)!
I am very happy

 

 

 

 

friends asked me to buy them some decorations that I had seen in photos, and so I bought decorative plates for three people and the chest was full  

 

 

 

 

We had a very good day, and we were lucky with the weather because it was nice  .
Just to know, which car did you prefer at this exhibition ?  

[Walt G]

Thank you for yet another great number of photos really appreciate  you taking the time to post these and identify cars we never see on this side of the pond.

Edited June 7 by Walt G (see edit history)

[Reicholzheimer]

6 hours ago, sebastienbuick said:

and here are the last photos from this great weekend !  
At the end of the day, someone called me on the microphone to tell me that I had won a prize (trophy)!
I am very happy

 

 

 

 

friends asked me to buy them some decorations that I had seen in photos, and so I bought decorative plates for three people and the chest was full  

 

 

 

 

We had a very good day, and we were lucky with the weather because it was nice  .
Just to know, which car did you prefer at this exhibition ?  

I'm a Deutz Tractor Fan.  My in-laws in Germany farmed with them for years.  Great job on the photos.

[JV Puleo]

I like the traction avant Citroen's. Believe it or not, that was my first car (a 1951 if I remember correctly) although I was never able to drive it because the transmission case was split. I had it before I got my driving license having traded two antique muskets for it. My over confidence in my ability to fix just about anything got the better of me. That was long before the advent of the internet so  finding a replacement transmission in the US was beyond me. Oddly enough, the school mate I sold it to (for $150) did get a transmission. Another of our friends was traveling to France that summer to see her grandmother. He gave her $100 and asked her to find him a transmission. She, of course, knew absolutely nothing about cars so she gave the money to her uncle who found the transmission and shipped it to the US. I helped him and his brothers  put it in and he drove the car to North Carolina where he was going to college. The last I heard it was in the showroom of a Citroen dealer.

 

I used  the $150 to buy an ivory mounted set of bagpipes.

[sebastienbuick]

8 hours ago, Walt G said:

Thank you for yet another great number of photos really appreciate  you taking the time to post these ad identify cars we never see on this side of the pond.

 

Thank you, I'm happy to share the photos with the forum, and I'm glad you like it . 
It's a bit long to do because I have to select the photos one by one to upload them to the forum, and since I just posted around 480 photos, it was long, but it made me happy  

 

3 hours ago, Reicholzheimer said:

I'm a Deutz Tractor Fan.  My in-laws in Germany farmed with them for years.  Great job on the photos.

 

Okay, I've never seen them in the fields to work, I've just seen them in exhibitions and they are beautiful !

 

3 hours ago, JV Puleo said:

I like the traction avant Citroen's. Believe it or not, that was my first car (a 1951 if I remember correctly) although I was never able to drive it because the transmission case was split. I had it before I got my driving license having traded two antique muskets for it. My over confidence in my ability to fix just about anything got the better of me. That was long before the advent of the internet so  finding a replacement transmission in the US was beyond me. Oddly enough, the school mate I sold it to (for $150) did get a transmission. Another of our friends was traveling to France that summer to see her grandmother. He gave her $100 and asked her to find him a transmission. She, of course, knew absolutely nothing about cars so she gave the money to her uncle who found the transmission and shipped it to the US. I helped him and his brothers  put it in and he drove the car to North Carolina where he was going to college. The last I heard it was in the showroom of a Citroen dealer.

 

I used  the $150 to buy an ivory mounted set of bagpipes.

 

 woww great story! I'm glad someone in France at the time was able to help find a new transmission   .
I didn't know that certain Citroën Tractions were sold in America, were there a lot of Citroën Tractions or were they rare in America ?
It's true that now with the internet it's much easier to find parts.
And you got it for cheap! now even here in France the price of Citroën Tractions has gone up, they are more and more expensive.

[JV Puleo]

I  don't think they were sold here. If so there can't have been many since I think I've only seen one other. Remember, this was close to 50 years ago so perhaps that $100 or $150 my friend paid for the transmission left our school friends uncle with a tidy profit even after he shipped it. I got the car from an antique dealer I did business with and I think he may have told me it came back with a returning serviceman.

[wayne sheldon]

For whatever it is worth?

Citroen Tractions were not what I would call common, but I have seen a couple dozen of them over the years. Used to be a few I saw repeatedly. Maybe it was a California thing? I don't know if they were commercially imported or not? Might have just been a bunch of individual after-market imports.

 

I always enjoy seeing the photos you post of both the American cars in Europe, and the European cars, most of which we rarely ever see here!

Again, thank you.

[sebastienbuick]

3 hours ago, JV Puleo said:

I  don't think they were sold here. If so there can't have been many since I think I've only seen one other. Remember, this was close to 50 years ago so perhaps that $100 or $150 my friend paid for the transmission left our school friends uncle with a tidy profit even after he shipped it. I got the car from an antique dealer I did business with and I think he may have told me it came back with a returning serviceman.

 

You were lucky to have it at this price, today the prices have increased, here for example are advertisements for the sale of Citroen Traction on a well-known website in France.

 

https://www.leboncoin.fr/recherche?category=2&text=citroen traction&regdate=min-1965

Did your Citroen then return to France ?

 

32 minutes ago, wayne sheldon said:

For whatever it is worth?

Citroen Tractions were not what I would call common, but I have seen a couple dozen of them over the years. Used to be a few I saw repeatedly. Maybe it was a California thing? I don't know if they were commercially imported or not? Might have just been a bunch of individual after-market imports.

 

I always enjoy seeing the photos you post of both the American cars in Europe, and the European cars, most of which we rarely ever see here!

Again, thank you.

 

Yes you may be right, the Citroën Traction that you saw were perhaps individual imports which were made by people.
It's interesting to know that there were Citroën Traction cars in California . 

THANKS ! I'm happy to share the photos with the forum . 
Last weekend I went to an American car show near my house, I went there with my 1978 Dodge police and my parents came with their 1941 Buick, and my parents won a trophy !
I'll see, maybe I'll do a topic on this exhibition that I'm going to   .

[Rod P]

What a huge diversity of vehicles there at one event Sebastien.

 

Very impressive. Thank you again.

[sebastienbuick]

33 minutes ago, Rod P said:

What a huge diversity of vehicles there at one event Sebastien.

 

Very impressive. Thank you again.

 

thank you for your reply ! , it is with great pleasure that I share the photos . 
THANKS !  

[8E45E]

3 hours ago, wayne sheldon said:

For whatever it is worth?

Citroen Tractions were not what I would call common, but I have seen a couple dozen of them over the years. Used to be a few I saw repeatedly. Maybe it was a California thing? I don't know if they were commercially imported or not?

I do know Citroens were imported to Canada before the DS series, which was popular as for as imports. The Traction models would have been as costly as an Oldsmobile or a Buick at the time.  

 

French imports to Canada go back to the 1900's with the Darraq, Rochet-Schnider, Lorraine-Dietrich, as well as other French cars.

 

The Calgary Daily Herald - Google News Archive Search

 

Craig

 

[sebastienbuick]

6 hours ago, 8E45E said:

I do know Citroens were imported to Canada before the DS series, which was popular as for as imports. The Traction models would have been as costly as an Oldsmobile or a Buick at the time.  

 

French imports to Canada go back to the 1900's with the Darraq, Rochet-Schnider, Lorraine-Dietrich, as well as other French cars.

 

The Calgary Daily Herald - Google News Archive Search

 

Craig

 

 

Thank you very much for the information ! , I didn't know that  

[EmTee]

Wow - what a show!  thanks for taking us along and congratulations on the award for your Dodge! 

[wayne sheldon]

On 6/4/2024 at 1:29 PM, sebastienbuick said:

 

 

 

 

On one of your recent other car show trips that you shared with us, I spotted (and pointed out) a pair of model T Ford headlamps in what we would call the "swap meet" or "flea market" stuff for sale.

This time, if you look closely below the rear corner of the yellow toy bus (greyhound?)? You can see a similar era model T Ford oil burning sidelamp! Fun to see early American car parts over there!

 

Again, thank you for sharing your collector car journeys there for us to see here.

Edited June 9 by wayne sheldon
I hate leaving typos! (see edit history)

[sebastienbuick]

20 hours ago, EmTee said:

Wow - what a show!  thanks for taking us along and congratulations on the award for your Dodge! 

 

Thank you very much and thank you for my Dodge !
I'm glad you like it  

 

19 hours ago, wayne sheldon said:

 

 

 

On one of you recent other car show trips that you shared with us, I spotted (and pointed out) a pair of model T Ford headlamps in what we would call the "swap meet" or "flea market" stuff for sale.

This time, if you look closely below the rear corner of the yellow toy bus (greyhound?)? You can see a similar era model T Ford oil burning sidelamp! Fun to see early American car parts over there!

 

Again, thank you for sharing your collector car journeys there for us to see here.

 

Thank you very much for your response , I hadn't seen this Ford T part! There are so many car parts for sale that sometimes we don't pay attention to the car parts that are "hidden". 
Thank you  

 

 

 

Last weekend (June 2) me and my brother with my Dodge, and my parents with their 1941 Buick we went to an American car show. I will soon do a topic on this exhibition . 
And this weekend (June 7, 8 and 9) there was a large American car exhibition in the town of Lavaur, this exhibition is very well known. And yesterday (Saturday) at the end of the afternoon a tragic accident happened, a large branch from a tree fell on 5 people and one person died . It's really very sad for his family and for his loved ones   . 
The exhibition is therefore stopped and has been canceled for today Sunday, I had to go there with my Dodge, my parents with their Buick and my neighbor with his Dodge Challenger.

 

[wayne sheldon]

2 hours ago, sebastienbuick said:

And yesterday (Saturday) at the end of the afternoon a tragic accident happened, a large branch from a tree fell on 5 people and one person died . It's really very sad for his family and for his loved ones   . 

 

That is so very tragic. Any sort of an accident at public events really puts a damper on what was intended to be good times. 

I live in what are considered the "upper foothills" of the Sierra Mountains in California USA. We are at an elevation of about 2000 feet (over half a kilometer!).  It is a true forest area with fairly low population density. My little acre of land has about a hundred trees on it, ranging from 15 feet (about five meters) up to about 150 feet (about 45 meters!) tall! The Western slopes of the Sierra Mountains are heavily forested for a few hundred miles. Trees and large parts of trees falling happens a lot around here. People being killed by falling trees doesn't happen often, but every few years, someone local to us will be killed by one. It is a risk we choose to take to live in such a nice mostly natural area. Two years ago in one of the heaviest snow storms in fifty years, we had five different trees snap off their tops and hit our house! Fortunately, the damage was not serious.

 

My sincerest condolences to the close friends and families of those injured, and especially to those of the one killed. So very sad.

[8E45E]

The same thing happened to the head AACA Librarian a couple of years back.

 

So sad, and my condolences to those involved.

 

Craig

[sebastienbuick]

13 hours ago, wayne sheldon said:

 

That is so very tragic. Any sort of an accident at public events really puts a damper on what was intended to be good times. 

I live in what are considered the "upper foothills" of the Sierra Mountains in California USA. We are at an elevation of about 2000 feet (over half a kilometer!).  It is a true forest area with fairly low population density. My little acre of land has about a hundred trees on it, ranging from 15 feet (about five meters) up to about 150 feet (about 45 meters!) tall! The Western slopes of the Sierra Mountains are heavily forested for a few hundred miles. Trees and large parts of trees falling happens a lot around here. People being killed by falling trees doesn't happen often, but every few years, someone local to us will be killed by one. It is a risk we choose to take to live in such a nice mostly natural area. Two years ago in one of the heaviest snow storms in fifty years, we had five different trees snap off their tops and hit our house! Fortunately, the damage was not serious.

 

My sincerest condolences to the close friends and families of those injured, and especially to those of the one killed. So very sad.

 

It seems to be really pretty where you lived, and you have a nice big tree ! . 
Yes you have to be careful with the trees, you were lucky that the trees didn't hurt you when they fell.

 

8 hours ago, 8E45E said:

The same thing happened to the head AACA Librarian a couple of years back.

 

So sad, and my condolences to those involved.

 

Craig

he was also unlucky, my sincere condolences to his family  

 

 

A friend made a video of Saturday in Lavaur just before the accident, at the end of the video you can hear the firefighter and see the tree.
He made this video in tribute to the injured and the person who died  

 

 

 

[Leif in Calif]

On 6/4/2024 at 4:56 AM, 8E45E said:

Thanks for the info!   Magazines, including AutoRetro, Retro Viseur and Classic American often profile vintage cars that were sold new in Continental Europe and England.  It makes for interesting reading.

 

I would like to see some photos of your '69's instrument cluster.  I was not aware your '69 Buick was sold new in France.   

 

Craig

I always try to pick up a copy of Retro Viseur if I'm in Europe. Print is still alive there! 

[8E45E]

3 hours ago, Leif in Calif said:

I always try to pick up a copy of Retro Viseur if I'm in Europe. Print is still alive there! 

I wonder if a well-stocked newsagent near you sells them.  There is one here locally that sells both AuroRetro and Retro Viseur.

 

Craig

[sebastienbuick]

4 hours ago, Leif in Calif said:

I always try to pick up a copy of Retro Viseur if I'm in Europe. Print is still alive there! 

 

1 hour ago, 8E45E said:

I wonder if a well-stocked newsagent near you sells them.  There is one here locally that sells both AuroRetro and Retro Viseur.

 

Craig

 

When I came on vacation to America in 2022 I went to a store to buy an American magazine about American cars and I saw and bought a very good magazine, it was "hemmings classic car"