It’s always fun to come across a Corey Behrens find at the Cohort. In this case a colorful et jolie 2cv van. How do you say ‘lemon twist’ in French?
French cars are awfully rare in my surroundings, so I won’t even pretend to know what year or variant this is. At the Cohort, it is labeled as a 1971 AK3ST 400 model and I’ll take their word for it. I guess such info is publicly available in the Netherlands with a license plate search?
Curious mix of stickers in the back. I’m not hip enough to know what most of these mean, but a 2cv can certainly be a hipster-mobile with ease.
torsion de citron
Torsion du Citroen?
Beautiful pics. A near perfect ‘palette’ for selling goods anywhere. Whether in a city park, or an office building foyer, they exude so much cuteness, and charm. Many, many examples at Pinterest, of these being used to sell every conceivable type of product, from coffee to cheese, to paint, to motorcycles.
Makes me think the first gen Dodge Neon offered with a cargo box, or a small camper box, might have been a clever marketing offering by Chrysler, in 1995. Perhaps, a better route (and much cheaper), to reaching the ‘lifestyle’ demographic, than the Pontiac Aztec.
Yes, this information is visible for the public. Just fill in the reg no in the yellow box (TIK HIER) in this page: http://www.rdw.nl
The result will be that you will see these kind of details. Date of first registration 24-11-1971, date first registered in the Netherlands 1985 which means this was imported when the car was 14 years old. Etcetera.
The color is VERY close (if not identical?) to the Deutsche Post yellow, which apparently did use at least a few of these at one time for mail services if i’m not mistaken. Although with the blue wheels it’s channeling its own license plate very closely overall.
This one looks to have had added panels over where the rear side windows often are (just behind the front doors).
Blue and yellow and French makes me think Michelin.
Why I didn’t think Michelin here, is because blue is always the dominant colour in their branding. Yellow, always the accent colour. Reverse, of this example.
Gxxgle “Michelin” and “2CV” images. You’ll find lots of photographs of yellow 2CV Fourgonettes with blue lettering and blue rims.
It made sense to reverse the common colour scheme on service vehicles for safety reasons, I think.
You’re right. Thanks, for the correction!
and “Frenches mustard”..
Or Bilstein.
Deutsche Post used Fourgonettes only in the federal substate of Saarland (in the west, close to France) as far as I know.
By the way: Saarland police departments even used Peugeot cars (Series 305 and 406) at some time. Don’t know if they still do.
Nice little trucklet ;
I remember a very few of these around college & university campus’ in the very early 1970’s .
-Nate
The asking price was € 6,350:
https://classiccarsconnection.nl/verkocht/citroen-ak-400/
Yet another great Corey Behrens find!
As a Paramatta Eels fan sign me up colours are correct, as a Citroen fan I;d take one anyway.
The 2CV gained the nickname ‘ugly duckling’ or simply ‘duck’ in the Dutch language. The commercial version, like this one, quickly gained the nickname ‘delivery duck’
Then add an 8-track player and a CB, and you’ve got a Disco Duck.
Mmkay. That was pure lame chops on my part, and probably not even worth a cringe if you live outside of the US or Canada. I hafta say that the Fourgonette would probably be my ideal 2CV platform, and that I could think of hundreds of uses for one. Living in the US, I’ve never seen one, though I have encountered a Sahara… That was actually my first 2CV sighting. It was leaving a coffee shop in Bisbee, AZ- the sound of one engine starting, then a second springing to life before it puttered away… was a bit surreal.