Weeell.. Eeu-Tube let the title stand..
So anyway, THIS Citroën DS == Desirée Speciale is a few years later than my last/ '68 (and mine was the Pallas model aka fanciest one-would-say Lush interior model)
though its dash wasn't as über-sport looking as in the demo car.
Mainly this video demonstrates some of the equally-nonpareil construction techniques and materials ... many present in the '55 first models.
And as the guy avers: that "rotten orange" brake pedal, pressure-sensistive not down-ward distance controlled brake Non-pedal:
gave as near-to the delicate brake-control of motorcycle hand-controlled ditto ..as any auto-types I'm aware of. It's just throttling sys hyd. Px via a valve..
SImply, for several iterations of this artwork, The Car de Moi ..had Cuth.
And had not the Murican public so disdained the annual hydraulic reservoir's fluid change (and its its simple nylon filter wash in alcohol) .. the US franchise might have
stayed around indefinitely (they gave up in ~ '72, deeming the Muricans incorrigible in their sloppy maintenance habits.) No profit cleaning up after these sloths.
..I'd be driving one of these now. Oh well; I couldn't take it to one of the caves in 2030 or so (not to mention also not being around either :-)
Vroooom-in-luxus RIP {sigh}
PS: *THIS* was a Successful hydraulically shifted xmission--unlike the ongoing 2011+ FooordFiesta Fiasco's attempt at "splicing"/somehow:
two 3-speed boxes into a 6-speed.
(This is a really shitty car to drive. even when its regular failures of the multiple-clutch system DOESN'T leave you wondering if it will accelerate *NOW* to miss something or other..
So anyway, THIS Citroën DS == Desirée Speciale is a few years later than my last/ '68 (and mine was the Pallas model aka fanciest one-would-say Lush interior model)
though its dash wasn't as über-sport looking as in the demo car.
Mainly this video demonstrates some of the equally-nonpareil construction techniques and materials ... many present in the '55 first models.
And as the guy avers: that "rotten orange" brake pedal, pressure-sensistive not down-ward distance controlled brake Non-pedal:
gave as near-to the delicate brake-control of motorcycle hand-controlled ditto ..as any auto-types I'm aware of. It's just throttling sys hyd. Px via a valve..
SImply, for several iterations of this artwork, The Car de Moi ..had Cuth.
And had not the Murican public so disdained the annual hydraulic reservoir's fluid change (and its its simple nylon filter wash in alcohol) .. the US franchise might have
stayed around indefinitely (they gave up in ~ '72, deeming the Muricans incorrigible in their sloppy maintenance habits.) No profit cleaning up after these sloths.
..I'd be driving one of these now. Oh well; I couldn't take it to one of the caves in 2030 or so (not to mention also not being around either :-)
Vroooom-in-luxus RIP {sigh}
PS: *THIS* was a Successful hydraulically shifted xmission--unlike the ongoing 2011+ Fooord
two 3-speed boxes into a 6-speed.
(This is a really shitty car to drive. even when its regular failures of the multiple-clutch system DOESN'T leave you wondering if it will accelerate *NOW* to miss something or other..