Citroen 2CV Sahara 4x4

G'Day Doug,

A mate's dad is right into Citroens and Pugs and used to have about 25 of the old things around there acerage property when I was a kid. My mate and his brother used to have all these different Citroen 1220 air cooled, hydraulic suspension (1977 model) cars and flog the bejesus out of them and his dad has raced some old 1960 model Citroen in the Targa Tasmania a few times.

Anyway I can still remember him showing me photos of his Citroen club crossing the Simpson back in the early 80's in a heap of different type Citroens. I don't remeber any being 4x4 versions but with the Hydraulic Suspension on the highest setting they would leave most Cruisers for dead in ground clearance stakes.....and it was perfectly flat underneath.....almost like it had a sheet of corrugated iron screwed to the underfloor. Amazing technology in these cars for their age. The little cheese cutter tyres would have been at about 5PSI I reckon. I remember changing the engine in a 1220 (cc of engine) once and the 2 of us lifted it out by hand so the cars had no weight in them.

I reckon my mates dad would laugh at us all saying how tough the Simpson is in out big Cruisers and Patrols.

If I didn't live 1200km from my mate I'd get some photos of this trip they did and post it up here.

yep, remember them when I lived in England. Fairly popular. The frogs used em in their N African colonies/Sahara.