Nice & unusual car - lots of funny stories to tell about that episode.
[link|http://members.lycos.nl/kiawallpaper/citroen7.html|http://members.lycos...per/citroen7.html] (an ID19)
Things happened with those cars that are outside the realm of the normal.
Must confess my real loves were the DS21 then the later Maserati Citroen
[link|http://www.citroen-sm-club.ch/|http://www.citroen-sm-club.ch/] (a sexy pic of the SM)
Doug M
- Where's the jack to jack up the car ?, what jack ? - you extend the undercart to full, place this metal prop here at the side of the car between the doors & lower the undercart (car lowers itself & rolls to one side with underside exposed & propped up side's wheels in the air.
- How do I change the rear tyre ? - here's a handle, now use it to remove the rear-side of the car, over the particular wheel, by undoing this bolt here, now use this part of the crank handle to undo the central wheel locking bolt (wheel falls off)
- Why are the front wheels wider apart that the rear wheels ? (never did find out why)
- Why is the gear box in front of the engine ? - because the drive axles emerge from it to drive the front wheels
- Where are the front wheel's disk brakes ? at the inside end of the wheel drive axles close to the gear box
- what happens when you accidentaly bang the bottom of a coke bottle against the edge of the front door window when door is open (there is no metal frame around the top half of the door, just the glass) - the window explodes into 1,000s of little square fragments
- What happens when you fail to secure the bonnet & drive off at speed ? - the bonnet wraps right over the car obscuring your view & reshaping itself
- What happens when a service mechanic fails to tighten the bolts holding one of the front axles to one of the front wheels ? - the bolts slowly fall out one at a time (there are 5 in total) until the last one snaps then the axle flails around ripping out the hydralic lines & collapsing the suspension
(there's more but this will do)
Doug M