[EP7] 2CV to Croatia: Getting to the Citroen Centenary!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2019
- Yes, Elly meets up with her ancestors and siblings as we make it to La Ferte-Vidame, Normandy for the offical Citroen Centenary celebrations! This doesn't contain the event itself, just the arrival - which is pretty epic all on its own! Tisser six-wheel CXs, H vans, 2CVs, BXs, Traction Avants, SMs and much more!
Also contains us skirting Paris. That bit wasn't so much fun...
On social media, the hashtag is #2CVtoCroatia and that's what we're doing after this show!
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This travel blog is truly, truly incredible. Better than ANY of the garbage being spewed on TV. Well done and many thanks Ian. P.S. how is your hunt for a decent cup of tea going?
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Have been struggling to get parts for my Citroen for the past few years, I thought my 23 year old Citroen is just too old to keep, then, this clip came long.....! Sharks. I'm no where close to the lineup here. I'm absolutely humbled by the number of beautifully restored, maintained and for some, enhanced Citroens. This event is absolutely fabulous. How I wish I was there to see it for myself. Now for my 23 yr old, I'm going to shop hard on the internet for some shocks and struts, hoping in another 23 years, it'll be more fitting for an event of such caliber.
As a recent convert to Mr HubNut, I'm loving the content and you're amiable enthusiasm and knowledge. Well done .Go Elly Go.
Great video as usual, very jealous of the adventure you're having 😊
better than any tv . well done Ian and good old Elly . hope you get leakage rubbers fixed 😊😊
14:45 If Thunderbird 4 and FAB 1 had a lovechild...that would be it... XD
More seriously though, a wonderful selection of cars - at this rate we won't need a dedicated centenary video! :)
HubNut are go!
Another lovely report! Thank you Ian. As I mentioned in another comment, I wasn't able to come along with my friend Bruno an his yugoslavian GS. But tomorrow there is a meeting in Kressbronn am Bodensee (Lake Constance, South Germany, my home village) and I will meet him... An his beautiful white GS. She is now better than she was new.
One of the best traffic jams I've ever seen! Wonderful. Looking forward to the footage from the event. Thank you HubNut.
Now there's an excellent HubNut idea - find the best quality natural traffic jam.
Wow. What a fab turnout. So wanted to get there with TicTac, our 1998 Saxo Open Scandal. Only 25 left on the roads here in Blighty and we have one of them! Do drop a line Ian if you fancy a jaunt into the North Yorkshire moors to film a piece 😀
🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤 Wit will. Too many beautiful Citroëns. Would love a DS Safari or Ambulance. Beautiful
Do have a soft spot for the DS and that lovely Traction Avant
I love looking at old cars, cars these days all look the same.
For a man that made his name photographing cars, editing car magazines, and a TH-cam channel that primarily is based in a messy garage in Wales.... You can't half throw together a travel blog.
And does anyone else, while we're on Sat nav cam, start humming flight of the valkyrie?
Elly is keeping him on the straight and narrow!!!
I love the sound of Elly's engine. It takes me back to 1986 when I bought my first 2cv and took it for a drive.
I'm rewatching your whole Croatia-trip for the third time. Given the fact that TH-cam has millions of videos I haven't yet seen (and probably never will at this rate), says a lot about me, but equally plenty about the nature of your videos. They encapsulate everything I look for when eyeing interesting, soothing, peaceful and down to earth experiences. They 'provided' for me the first time, and do so even more the third time round. I will most likely revisit the mighty Dacia- and Antipodes-tour in the same watching-vein. Keep up the very good 'work', Ian, and I'm already looking forward to what you have in stall when back in the UK. Greetings from behind a stationary pc in a stationary house from a pretty stationary guy in a rather stationary Belgium.
Avoiding the péage doesn't only save you money, it also saves you the embarrassment of having to move over to the passenger seat and reach for the toll booth. ;)
@Robert Brink ... or stretching across only to drop the little ticket down between the passenger seat and the door... Frankly, it can be quicker just to jump out and do the transaction at the booth.
Or get a Sanef - now Emovis - Liber-T electronic toll tag. Easy to log-on online, small cost per year for the tag, pay the same at the toll, but sail through the lanes marked "30 kph", bypass the queues and don't worry about looking for change, or queuing and stopping to swipe your credit card... Or avoid autoroutes, but they are convenient for covering long distances... Cheers.
@@johncollymore1697 I used to have a Bip&Go télépéage transponder in the car when I went to France every year, but if you skip one year, they'll charge you 10 Euro for every year you don't use it, so I've cancelled my subscription. It was fun to have one, the French honking their horns, flashing their headlights and even cutting me off because they believed a foreigner could not enter a yellow "t" lane while passing the queue for the regular toll booth. The astonishment on their faces was priceless when the barrier opened automatically for me. 😂
@@johncollymore1697 th-cam.com/video/5vFBLnR3AA4/w-d-xo.html my first experience with "télépéage sans arrêt" :)
Awesome!! Got a shock when I realised the CX Tisser wasn't a custom build and was actually a Citroen build with an actual purpose, certainly must be a unique driving experience.
What were they used for.The Brussels/Strasbourg run?
Ian said they were used for transporting newspapers through countries, this link will give you a better explanation www.carthrottle.com/post/a7bz668/
@@graemew7001 Wow! Thanks..
I feel more and more I was born in the wrong counrty - look att all the epicness! I got excited when there were 10 or so classic Citroëns at the classic car show i use to attend here in Sweden - this is just on another level all together... damn, I wish I could go there.
What a yummy selection of cars turned up Elly was right at home I see the That 6 wheel CX was epic.
Just............brilliant!
Simply watching your progress across and around Europe is strangely mesmerising! Glad you got to the meet even if you didn’t get in.
I’m sure it’ll be an amazing weekend!👍👍
What a wonderful collection of Citroen’s! Surprised not to have seen a single Saxo. I realise that they probably aren’t really considered classic Citroen yet but I have a big soft spot for them.
Love Elly, dear little car galloping along ❤️
" where they do sport" another great hubnut quote right there.that knocking sound from the front of Elly is definitely getting louder Ian. Hope all goes well on your continued journey and as ever look forward to watching more of your fantastic adventures.
Add spare king pins to your list off essential spares to carry. No point in replacing them until they're completely shot.
I really like the H (?) vans . The corrugated look tickles me . Like an old prefab roof 👌
they remind me of JU52s......
Great cross section of cars mixed in with usual french organisation, good preview before the event proper.
I bet Elly was among the cars that clocked up most miles getting there ckackety or not so hat's off to the both of you.
Thanks Ian
How very British, queuing up all day just to turn around and head off once you got to the front.
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It's the getting there that matters, not the being there.
The H van is so cool. This is getting exciting.
When I see those, I just think of ice cream (van)
What a wonderful selection of Citroen's. Thanks for sharing Ian, thoroughly enjoying the videos of your journey to Croatia and of the cars you have driven on that journey so far.
Thank You and Enjoyable ~ Your like a Wandering snail, No Worries about speed cameras. Smiles
Dacia Logan's - yes, I might be buying one! 🤩 That Russett-ish brown paint on the DS is an original colour - I know because when I was a wee lad, there was a Citroën DS Familiare the same colour just on our road. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's video. 👍🏻
Fell a little bit behind in watching the adventure unfold, so I already have a rough idea of the amount of goodies ahead in the future videos, but this was already pretty awesome. For me, the yellow CX newspaper delivery car stole the show (although the one seen momentarily a little later looked even more bizzare :D). What a strange car and a strange concept of a special version!
As always, I also loved the "plain" travel bits -- including the Parisian Peripherique (I must be misspelling that): with all its obvious ugliness, it does have a character.
Looking at all those Citroens old and new reminds me why I'm a fan of those funny French cars that everyone hates but some must keep buying them, Me, 2CV, Dyanne, BX, Zantia and a C3.
You had always been a winner running these air cooled 2 CV whatever climbing the hills in hot summer times.
Very diplomatic of you in that lineup, not to say the French couldn’t organize a pissup in a winery 🍷
They were probably waiting for the Germans to turn up and tell them what to do.
I remember the complete and utter blunderfeck of the 2011 2CV World Meeting at Salbris, in France. From arriving in the queue, to getting onto the camping site, took well over six hours!!! No other reason than total disorganisation.
a wonderful doku...I fever with Elli. Have a save trip. Greetings from Berlin.
Excellent event. Great cars and vans.
Great video, some lovely cars arriving at the meet. Looking forward to the next installment!
What a great adventure. I am well enjoying these videos!
Lots of big Citroens - lovely! And a few that are utterly bonkers, as only the French know how. I had no idea that they built a 4-dr SM, but they should have made more of them :)
The Traction Avant still looks so much more modern than anything else from that era, and that semi-convertible one maintains the lines of the car, hopefully it's less troublesome and leaky than our old Webasto roofs as fitted to every other P6 in the Seventies.
Good to see some classic caravans too - I've had my eye out for an old lantern-roof Viking or Royale to go behind the 240, but cheap ones aren't good and good ones aren't cheap.
My understanding is that the price you pay for all those fantastically empty French country roads is the endless congestion around Paris, where much of the population is concentrated. And yes, in France, as in the US, you must come to a full halt at a Stop sign even if there's nothing coming :)
I must get myself back to France at some point - I had a wonderful couple of weeks on the Cote d'Azur in 2001, but although the scenery is stunning, it was a tad warm for me even in September, so maybe Northern France would be more to my taste.
Love the "make do" picnic table on that red 2CV!
Idiot, that's not a picnic table, it's the rear spoiler.
Quite a few squirrel! moments for poor ol Hubnut there. Drive safe :)
French food + many old Citroëns!
I used to do a fair bit of tent and tent cart camping , but also must admit that nowadays I prefer a real roof over my head as a bathroom of my own.
Looks like to become a nice meeting and hope you guys have sunny day.
This looks like a propper meeting, Citroën traffic jam.
Seen SMs in my life but no four door and only one Tissier ever.
9:17 um dripping petrol + stationary red hot engine + long dry grass + lots of people around......
Looooooooooovely........
psssshhhhhooooooooou....
I was thinking that....Even a psssshhhhhooooooooou.... won't tackle that! Umm.
I think that the petrol leak was right at the tank, i.e. in the back of the car, so the red-hot engine (I mean, not really, right? :)) wouldn't necessarily increase the risk of fire that much. I think that the exhaust is the other side of the tank (left, as opposed to right).
But I will agree that I felt worried about that leak as well.
@@barsorrro You might consider telling that too fighter pliots in ww1 and 2.
YOu dont see a man move quicker than one trapped in an aeroplane leaking petrol.
Great report as always Ian .going on a roundabout in Paris is a nightmare it’s who dares wins. If you go for a meal don’t have a window seat they charge you extra .
Nice! What interesting cars. Would never have expected a car with a Dixie horn!
I died and went to heaven... And to my surprise, heaven is fields and queues of Citroen motor vehicles... When I w’lad, I had a little delightfully yellow frog eye DS Estate with a boat that fastened to it’s roof, and it was one of my favourite toys... I swore to myself, “When I grow up, I will own a real one”. Long story short, no I didn’t, chagrin abound.
Life is like a bowl of lemons.
Broke down with my 1999 astra 2.0 sri today with the bog standard gear selector roll pin breaking in two after just 6 months of fitting it.
No gears to select and a very sloppy gearstick lol.
The original spiral roll pin lasted nearly 20 years.
So putting the proper spiral roll pin in this time and hopefully it should not happen again for a long time haha.
A highly enjoyable video ian especially after pushing my heavy car some distance before i had enough and got a tow back home.(:-)
What an amazing line-up of Citroens! As usual, I'm enjoying this adventure immensely, although the "Dixie" horn, at 18:37, seems a bit incongruous, given the locale! As a youth of about 14, I recall reading an article in one of the car magazines about the Citroen "SM". That, the Volvo 1800ES, and the 240Z, were a few of the cars I lusted after...
I did hear an airhorn of the French national anthem, which worked better. Never managed to get it on film!
Absolutely brilliant sight 😍👌🏼 great video
happily enjoyed my morning dose of hubnuts wonderful grand tour. thank you ian. i sure hope theres another tour coming up in your near future :)
Another great video ! Some real rarities there
For a Citroen man such as myself this video was pure bliss. Thank you Ian.
I’ve been to a couple, large, music festivals in France, believe me Ian, no organisation, whatsoever! 😆
Arh....Le Queue. C'est magnefique. Glad you got to the event. Those kingpins are sounding bad. It's not a bad job to replace them, but hopefully you found some replacements at the Citroen centennial. BTW....so love your Citroen CX video. I had a 2.0 (crossover between a MK1 and MK2) when I first started driving; it's electrics were terrible and I spent every Sunday soldering connections back together; but I loved it. Sadly engine expired (block went porous), but happy memories.
Wow ! Now getting quite excited.
Never ever seen a six wheeled Citroen, omg. 👍👍👍
Now the clonking and petrol leak is really starting to worry me. I hope they're going to be fixed soon. I shall have to carry on watching to find out. Loving this adventure.
Excellent entertainment, keep it coming!
Wow!!! Incredible Citroëns. That 4 door SM is a thing of beauty - I imagine it was an ex French ministerial car.
Re: the BX Enterprise at the very end - a French tax break vehicle I think. There was an LN/LNA Enterprise too.
Elly found her pals,,,love the four door SM,,,bring one back for me,,,😁🌞😁
Fantastic already and it hasn't even started 👍
Great event by looks of it many wonderful car's and vans. Quite glad you are filming it. It's great seeing things that I would not normally see. 👍👍
15:10 “stay here and watch all the lovely cars come in” 🤣🙃
I drive around in a Golf GTE - it has all sorts of gizmos on it like Apple CarPlay, Brake assist, very clever cruise control etc., etc., etc. and yet I see a 2CV with a transistor radio on the shelf or a CX or a fantastic DS and would dearly love to swap or at least have one as a weekend car. Cars today are clever, safe and quite clean but sooooo boring .
Yes even Citroens. My daily driver is a 2018 Cactus with Android Auto & CarPlay. It's roomy for its size and comfortable but lately I've been looking up Dyanes & 2CV's for sale.
Just come back from Germany adventure and love watching your antics, the Citroen Meet is the icing on the cake for me,brilliant
Brill, as usual. Some amazing vehicles seen by your lens and our eyes. Off and running
Good to see some Citroen H Van's that aren't converted into coffee stands
Great report! Good variety of Citroens. Love a good m.way 2cv blast in France. Elly is sounding good. Enjoy!
3:11 its funny you should mention the slipstream, when I drove the Nippa back from collecting it I noticed that sitting a little way behind a van made a noticable difference. It is bizarre getting out of a 300HP Volvo into a Nippa, but both are great fun to drive, in completely different ways... I wanted to go for a drive earlier today, had a choice between the Volvo, my E30 325i, and the Nippa... I went in the Nippa!
Loving these videos. You've excelled yourself. Wish I was doing the trip too. Hope all continues to go well - Elly sounds great at the moment, at least in the engine department.
I always hang on to my cars, from a devil-you-know perspective, so I haven't owned many.
However, my favourite ever, was my Citroen ZX, of which I spotted one as you left.
It was the car you bought if you couldn't afford the equivalent Peugeot, but blimey, what a smooth ride it was.
Hope you find ZX corner, then.
Oh, and that brown DS is 'chestnut,' I'd hazard to suggest, or 'marron,' even.
Cheers.
Those crazy cx things look like Thunderbirds. I love it
_"Heaven, I'm in heaven..."_ as the song goes - can't wait for the next instalment!! And definitely a 'frog-eye' fan here.
Traction Avant - probably the most beautiful and hansom (is that possible?) car ever made - right up their with the DS . This is you best vid of the trip so far . Bloody brilliant!!
What an amazing queue of cars! Hope the airbnb was a good one and hope you had better luck actually getting in to the event the following day! Can't wait for the next episode!
#2CVtoCroatia
The A86 and the whole area around Roissy (Charles de Gaulle) is hellish. Great video and lovely to see France on Hub Nut.
9.38, the lovely picnic radio, the ultimate accessory!
Then there was the Citroen SM Opera (4 door), the most lovely 4 door ever made, a pity that Chapron only made 8 of them( under contract from Citroen), as valuable and rare as solid gold rockinghorse poo.
Amazing adventure!
Wonderful!
The first field you were waiting in at La Ferte-Vidame was where I camped with Nellie, my Citroen Xsara Picasso!
Enjoyed this video thanks Ian
Nice drive, leaving elly's life blood and dribbling of her food, as you go, poor elly, but she got there, that's something. If the the sneaky peak of car in this video is anything to go by, then the main event video should be outstandingly epic, really looking forward to it.
You drove on the Peripherique? You absolute mad man...
I was rather intrigued to notice that the French are better at queuing up for the roadworks contraflow than we Brits are now, nobody driving right up to the barriers to try and barge in. Clearly we Brits are very much slipping if we're getting out-queued by Johnny Foreigner...
Hi Ian,I'm enjoying these episodes,this one was a bit mad with the show and finding where you are supposed to be,this is a massive event.
I do hope you can produce a special video for the utterly splendid 3 axle CXs. They are just so very Thunderbirds!
The third axle ought to steer - just a little bit.
Such chaos. much French.
2:36: A few corners is all it takes :)
5:52: Not going to lie; I like the grunge in this image. It's horrible, but also kind of aesthetically pleasing. Very urbex.
12:48: He's just following you around, that's what he's doing :D.
15:09: Definitely what I would do!
17:52: My oh my that clunking is getting bad.
3 times I had to drive into Paris to find the campsite 🙄 satnavs were quite new and I thought I could do without it , Mrs shambles was on the map for 3 months, brought much tension that a satnav would have alleviated 😅 the lane with the long queue that you are driving past is the lane you need to be in 9 times out of 10, I also followed a tram in Switzerland and ended up blocking the tracks at a roundabout bcos of narrowing concrete walls 😂, it took a launch of faith into traffic, funny now when I think back. 👍🏻
Great videos
You made it there Bro respect!👊
I was sure that you went to a gathering of old Citroëns ! I have seen thirty years ago one of these lenghtened , twin rear axle CX van , when i was employed at mail sorting centre in Brussels . It was operated by a press distributor that came from Paris to drop french newspapers during the night and drove further to Amsterdam . I think those vehicles were transformed by the french car body maker Heuliez . Must be very rare .
Love that DS convertible in the queue, awesome looking thing
Good to see a few Berlingos represented there, the disorganized entry would drive me crazy. Looking forward to the next video.
As a Berlingo owner, I always pretend I drive a worthy successor of the Acadyane. Ah well, some illusions just make life a bit more fun 😀.
I think the first generation Berlingo was a fine replacement. Don't forget the C15 though.
@@HubNut Agreed although I cannot get excited about the post 2008 models.
I inherited a chocolate brown DS Super 5 (RJO243M) from my father who brought it new in about 74. Very nice car. Steerable headlights and all.
Brilliant.
The Brits form a committee and don't adjourn to the pub until everything is planned and organised to the n'th degree. The French form a committee and stay in the bar until the last possible moment drinking and eating knowing it will all be alright somehow. :-) .You've got to love the French way of doing things.
,another great video thank you also I received my hubnut rear window sticker today thank you
wonderful times
tres bien ....Merci
How can you have a 100 year celebration and not have coordination on where all these vehicles are going to go. I'm so jealous because to see this many Citroens in one place is a once in a 100 years event. 😃 Citroens such as the DS and SM are probably the most unique cars in the world. Our once a year Citroen car meet in upstate New York is nothing like what you are having in Europe. Someday I'll own a French car. Someday. 😔
Wait for tomorrow's video. 😉
Funny! I know the guy talking to the C35 driver. He’s actually a member of a 2CV club from Berne...