I grew up in a small farming community in Minnesota, where the average person drove a Ford or Chevy. However, there was one affluent family in town that liked fancy european cars - for some years they had a Mercedes 230SL, and then that was replaced with a Citroen SM in about 1972 or 1973.
In comparison to the typical car (or pickup or John Deere tractor 
) you'd see parked on Main Street, that thing looked as though it came from another planet. I remember watching the mom coming to school to pick up her children, they'd have her cycle the suspension up and down to show it off to the other kids.
In reply to benzbaron:
I wish you wouldn't have posted that... 
benzbaron wrote:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/2234723102.html
Damn, I wish deals like that were closer to Ohio! But one here would be crusty or a fortune.
Those are cool, but I like my Citroen's a little more....seasoned.
They are very cool, if you can swing it why not?
Just to add more potential fun and excitement, they have inboard front brakes (and universal joints rather than cv joints). Also, the hydraulic system runs at a high enough pressure that a leak in the wrong place could kill someone working on it, and the LHM is also flamable, and at least from what I read has caused fires from hydraulic leaks.
914Driver wrote:
Decopatable = Decapitated?
Car is sooooo cool but I'm really getting a chubby over the Caddy behind it!
Roughly translated it means "the cap comes off". It's basically the same word in Spanish (Descapotable). It means Convertible.
Descapo for short!
