50 Years ago: The Citroën SM – The “Concorde of the Road”
It embodied not just speed and luxury, but also a poetic confidence in technology, design, and the future.
It embodied not just speed and luxury, but also a poetic confidence in technology, design, and the future.
Many advised us to just ship it the 3,000 odd miles from Montreal to Marina Del Rey. The car only had 41,000 miles — so why tempt fate by driving it so far?
The Harpin Company in the UK loaned Harry Metcalf a SM and he provides an overview and road test that is well worth watching.
A carbureted version from 1972 painted in 1972 brun scarabée colour with a tan leather interior and a blue fan swtich.
We reveal a SM purchase scam — and a lesson not to fall for “great deal” offers you may come across online!
At the end of it two SMs morph in the Concorde!
David Hume shares an offer Red made to him to purchase Red’s business or at least SMs and parts.
Some forgotten and sometimes surprising wrecks, like this Citroën SM, were discovered a few meters from the old shore.
Kevin Haggarthy from MotorOverload recently got to drive the car that caught his fancy as a youth — the Citroën SM.
The final two shots of the trailer for the film about the late US celebrity chef, best-selling author, and television personality Anthony Bourdain, feature a Citroen SM.
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