Wordless Outtake: 1985 Citroën Coupé Utilitaire
– Posted on September 9, 2018
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That would have looked so much better when they had welded the reardoors shut.
Nice. I wish they would have filled in the rear door gaps, and I can’t decide what I think about the fender skirts.
Someone will surely suggest a name based on “El Camino” so I’ll go first. El Citroeno? El Camion?
El Loco Hidroneumática.
D’accord!
Cxhero (don’t ask me how to pronounce that).
La Camino would seem best to me.
Citröen LeChemin
Fallen Goddess.
Ute? Uck.
That’s a Frenchero. Or a Franchero – your choice. Second version probablement pour Les Francais.
C’ute, Quite a good conversion though a bit unfinished with those door seams still showing, I had a look around my C5 after the last Citroen ute article and it would be remarkably easy to turn it into a ute a pallet fits chinese style between the wheel arches now.
Kinda like it. Can’t believe they didn’t hide the rear doors. Can they open? What would that do to the space/time continuum? Sorry, a bit medicated right now…
Maybe the door opens like a covair rampside, that would be cool
Another great, very unique find Johannes. Jim.
Looks like this is more French weirdness wrapped up in a delightful package. The only thing that really spoils this conversion (?) for me is the unwelded seams on the rear doors. That’s just sloppy.
True, the back section with the doors could be a lot cleaner. I wonder what prompted the conversion in the first instance? It looks like one of those ‘pick-ups’ (for want of a better word) funeral homes use as ‘flower cars.’
Unless it is on the extended Break/Prestige wheelbase, I’m not interested 😁
Looking ont he background, here’s hoping you’re plnnaning post on the whole show…..;-)
Working on it, Roger, working on it…
🙂
This is just..sad. My late brother, rest his soul. had the body shop experience of, well let me think..ah..I’m thinking..Oh, I got it!..NO ONE!! Took a perfectly good 73 VW Typr 3 fastback, in the 80’s, Attacked it mercilessly with a sawz-all. Wasn’t pretty. Cut off everything from the A pillar back, no kidding! Removing the window glass involved a five pound sledge hammer, And the “icing on the cake” (My brother was a very talented master Baker) instead of swallowing his pride and admitting he was out of his league and taking the car to a body shop. It might have been salvageable,
Nope, he took it to a guy who upholsters boats and makes convertible tops for pontoon and sport boats. This was in Florida. Anyway turned the beast into A VW roadster but not in a good way. Picture an baby blue type3, crudely chopped up with a big white pontoon boat top with external aluminum ribs for folding, I tried to take photos of at from time to time, but the camera shutter refuse to open, even if I snuck up on it. Mercifully it died a Viking death sort of by having the engine bust into flames. Always wondered if it did it on purpose, after being laughed at by all the other VW’s.