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My First Car


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I bought my first car in 1967. It was a 1960 model Citroen 2 CV with 90 000 km. Second hand, one owner. Light grey color.
I repainted it with real brushes and real paint and applied my own hippy-design in 2 colors, yellow and black. The only photograph I still had of this car was a Black and White shot. I scanned this image and brought back the colors in Photoshop.

Here is what I came up with.

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IamSam

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Excellent job Chris and a very cool car! Don't you wish you still had that car?
 

Tom Mann

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Hi Chris - I didn't see this thread back in April, but finally noticed it today, saw your Citroen 2CV, and thought you might get a chuckle out of this old Kodachrome slide from 1973 of my old Ami6.

The only before-and-after aspect I can point out about this car is that it had been sitting in a farmer's field, unused, for about 5 years, wasn't running, and after I worked on it, it ran, LOL. There's a much longer story about exactly where it came from, exactly how I used it, etc., but that's not for this forum. ;-)

Tom

PS - Notice the chains on the front wheels. ;-)
 

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I bought my first car in 1967. It was a 1960 model Citroen 2 CV with 90 000 km. Second hand, one owner. Light grey color.
I repainted it with real brushes and real paint and applied my own hippy-design in 2 colors, yellow and black. The only photograph I still had of this car was a Black and White shot. I scanned this image and brought back the colors in Photoshop.

Here is what I came up with.

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Now there's a classic... and an excellent job on the image restore. And I like the yellow and black you had on it.



Mmh...the car was fun, but I prefer to have good memories of this time and the girlfriends I had.

"To all the girls I loved before.... who traveled in and went out my car door"....

sorry can't resist..... :cheesygrin:
 
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Thanks for looking and your comments.

@ dv8_fx: Nothing beats old memories!!!
@ Tom: Ami6...what an ugly little car...very cool. But I guess the girls loved the soft suspension. Same with my 2CV.
 

MikeMc

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I just caught this...I remember my very first ride...a truck, got it for Christmas, that would have been about 1958. Looked like this one!

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Tom Mann

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Chris - I remember being absolutely shocked when I first saw the bizarre suspension systems on some of their models, particularly, the two long, large diameter cylinders that connected the front and rear suspensions on the same side. :eek:

In fact, I remember sitting in that Ami for about 10 minutes in a blizzard one night because every time I put the car in reverse to back out of the parking space, the driver's seat started to move upwards. The more I backed up, the higher it got, until I was worried about my head being crushed against the ceiling. I then would go forward a few feet, and the seat would come back down. I couldn't believe this was really happening, so I repeated it several times, and indeed it was repeatable!

I finally figured it out, :redface:, but I'll buy anyone who figures it out in this forum a virtual beer, LOL!:mrgreen:

Tom
 

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I envy MikeMC...... As a kid, I rode a box with coasters attached..... no steering wheel and no brakes......


Parents lived in the burbs.....We did have sidewalks though. We used the boxes in winter...better than a sled!
 

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Chris - I remember being absolutely shocked when I first saw the bizarre suspension systems on some of their models, particularly, the two long, large diameter cylinders that connected the front and rear suspensions on the same side. :eek:

In fact, I remember sitting in that Ami for about 10 minutes in a blizzard one night because every time I put the car in reverse to back out of the parking space, the driver's seat started to move upwards. The more I backed up, the higher it got, until I was worried about my head being crushed against the ceiling. I then would go forward a few feet, and the seat would come back down. I couldn't believe this was really happening, so I repeated it several times, and indeed it was repeatable!

I finally figured it out, :redface:, but I'll buy anyone who figures it out in this forum a virtual beer, LOL!:mrgreen:

Tom

The suspension on those cars was in a word....funky. When you say you seat was rising was any other part of the car doin any twisting at all. If not I have no idea then again we never had cars like that here in the states.
 

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Nice, nice, nice all. Mike, you joker.

I guess my first cars then were the little ones we used to line up like a traffic jam and make them do crazy things, like crash and roll. So that would have been around 1960? I guess chrisdesign is really oooold.

I don't exactly remember my first car. A Corvair I think (very cool car). It went all of two weeks before it broke down and I abandoned it. $100 in 1975. My next car in 1978 was a 1968 Chevy Impala, $200. When I moved from Las Vegas to San DIego, my future husband said the blue smoke pouring out the tailpipes almost gave him a heart attack. He wasn't sure we'd make it over the mountains. But one stop in a desert town and we managed to unload some of the heavy stuff into his car and we miraculously made it the rest of the way. I was not allowed to keep that car however. Sobbing though I was. NOT.
 

hershy314

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My first car....well truck was an 86 Mazda B2000 with a frame that was nearly rusted in half. Replaced the frame and did some body work before selling it. Took it from a heap on my grandparents property to something drivable in a couple weeks.
 

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