What the make/model is this car?

Just moved to Portland, OR (which btw has a really cool car culture) and while biking around found this guy:

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D1883360_016_661511904

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D1883360_016_661511374

What is it?

Parked beside it were these two also:

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D1883360_016_661511882

Pretty coooool.

Please let me know if these pictures don't show, I'm trying out a new photo manager.

photo fail

Can't see the pictures from my phone.

Booooooo, your link is bad and you should feel bad!

Apparently I can't "share" the picture properly, for right now if you click on the link it will take you to a place to download the photo, but you get to see a preview. I'll have to sort out how to get a direct link later.......

Citroen DS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_DS

As for the other two, the red one in back is some sort of 2CV work van, but I don't know what the silver one is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV

EDIT: sorry, forgot that wiki doesn't format correctly.
DS: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1955-1975-citroen-ds-19-20-21-23.htm

2CV: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/06/citroen-2cv.html

Welllll that was fast. I've never seen one of those before. Cool looking little guy.

Clicking the links worked fine for me..... Citroen.

PS welcome to PDX.

Indeed, welcome to town!

I'm guessing those pics were taken on inner SE Belmont?

I notice the DSs every time I go past there...

accordionfolder wrote: Welllll that was fast. I've never seen one of those before. Cool looking little guy.

Freaky complicated..factory hydraulic suspension. I guy I knew in college (early 1980s) had one that his parents had given him..he could put two wheels off the pavement and let go of the wheel--and it would still track straight! The brake pedal was a little button on the floor.

Girls loved it, though.

My college roomate had one. He used to park it next to my TR4. It was always a crap shoot as to which one would run, but at least you didn't need a bucket to pick up the parts that would fall off like you did with my 4. After a couple of days it would be sitting on the ground and it was slow to go back up. It had issues but was a seriously cool car.

Okay, I did some research. I think the silver (or blue) one is a Citroen GS.

The red one is a 2CV Truckette. I test drove one many years ago and still kick myself for not buying it. It's the only car i've ever driven where you shift gears by pulling a ball out from under the dash and twisting it. Very cool...and unreal smooth.

I knew a guy in college, that had one. He was a total tool. So we took it apart, and put it back together in his dorm room. It was hilarious.

Is it for sale? I'm just up the road and have always wanted one

HunterJP wrote: I knew a guy in college, that had one. He was a total tool. So we took it apart, and put it back together in his dorm room. It was hilarious.

Very nice.

racerdave600 wrote: The red one is a 2CV Truckette. I test drove one many years ago and still kick myself for not buying it. It's the only car i've ever driven where you shift gears by pulling a ball out from under the dash and twisting it. Very cool...and unreal smooth.

Yes, the red one is a 2CV Truckette.

Alexander Calder once lived near me and I believe that he owned one. His home and studio are still owned by family members and there is a gray Truckette parked in an open carport on the property to this day.

Here he is with a much better looking car:

Peter Egan once described the Truckette as "a sloth trying to escape from a Quonset hut". I believe the story was titled Au Revoir Vitesse.

I got married in 1980 in a castle outside of Paris. I was from Arizona. My wife French. The day after the wedding my Wife was driving her Dad's new red 2cv. We were driving through Paris on our way to the Pyrenees for our honeymoon. She took her eye off the road for a second, swerved and ran into the back of a parked car. The car folded in half just behind the seats. It was totaled. We spent the next couple of days in the hospital. Fortunately not with serious injuries. That car is so light that I could tilt it on it's side by myself. Ok, not now because I'm old. But, back then.......

ransom wrote:

HunterJP wrote: I knew a guy in college, that had one. He was a total tool. So we took it apart, and put it back together in his dorm room. It was hilarious.

Very nice.

And we know that's Hollywood because NO ONE who has disassembled a Citreon DS that far has EVER gotten back together.

Theres a fella that brings his to caffeine and octane all original, also another gent brings an a perfectly restored 2cv so if youre in atlanta on the first sunday of any month...

There is a similar Citron DS something sitting in a junkyard near Lansing Michigan. I had a chance to look it over and it appears to be hideously complicated. There was all sorts of "things" that I didn't immediately recognize.

Yup...there is a certified Citroen nut who has been living in inner SE for at least the past decade, and being inner Portland, he has a few projects parked on the street. But on the flip side, being inner SE, they haven't been towed, Pacific-NW moss growing from the cars, Star Fleet Academy bumper stickers, and all...

Wonder if the ratty DS is a driver...looks like it has fresh plates?

Awesome, if so.

fujioko wrote: There is a similar Citron DS something sitting in a junkyard near Lansing Michigan. I had a chance to look it over and it appears to be hideously complicated. There was all sorts of "things" that I didn't immediately recognize.

Yeah.