What the make/model is this car?

Well, this particular Truckette is full of want....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU3MFNxOHI

The Citreon 2CV is a great racer. Although the engine is tiny you can strip it down to nothing and get great power-weight ratio. Cornering is a riot!

http://www.2cvracing.org.uk/

I have a friend who makes a very nice living restoring/repairing Citroens. He was a mechanic for a local dealer and when Citroen left the country he set up shop.

In reply to friedgreencorrado:

I had a red GSA in the late '80s, when I was stationed in Germany. Air-cooled flat four with the fun hydro-pneumatic suspension. Top speed with a tailwind was barely 100mph.

Typically french weirdness:

The wheels each had only three lug nuts.

No jack. Changing a flat was interesting. Instead, using the hydro-pneumatic suspension, you raised the car and put either the metal post thingy that looked like a non-adjustable jack or a block under the chassis at the wheel, then lower the suspension. The rest of the body would settle and the flat would come off the ground.

Single-post steering wheel and pod-mounted controls. The lack of anything on the steering wheel to rest hands on made distance driving tiring. The two pods, about the size of beer cans, were interesting but poorly executed. They were well out of fingertip reach and had no turn signal cancel.

Hand brake mounted in the dash where the radio should be, the radio mounted vertically in the console where the hand brake should be.

Cooling shrouds were riveted to the engine.

The car was amazing in snow. Raise the car, and the skinny tires cut through drifts.

Hardly any loss of traction ever, even on black ice.

The car handled better and smoother at the low suspension setting. You could lose a filling at the high setting. The suspension could be adjusted on the fly. I enjoyed recreating the UFO scene at the beginning of Close Encounters.

I abused the hell out of that car, and it eventually died. Recycling old RX-7 spark plugs and oil was probably not a great idea. On the other hand, the engine became a superb smoke generator during that last 100mph autobahn drive. Germans sure were proud of the manicure on their middle fingers that day.

alex wrote:

racerdave600 wrote: The red one is a 2CV Truckette.

Amazingly, I saw one of these on the road today. Wife and I were up in York, PA shopping and came up beside it on RT 30. Signage indicated it was used by a clock repair shop in York called "The Clock Doc of York".

Unfortunately we were in the wife's car and didn't have a camera. I 'll have to buy a P&S to stash in her car like I have in the other vehicles.