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.
Undoubtedly very expensive to create, since they were 100% hand made by craftsmen in Citroën’s design studio, very few were made.
“Henry De Ségur Lauve — An American designer in Paris” is a particularly suitable read for North American Citroënistes.
Jay is most impressed with his Panhard 24 BT, and shows off some it cool features such as the exposed four-corner drum brakes that are bolted directly to the wheel rims.
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