Traction Avant Portuguese Performance Homage
Rally enthusiast João de Lacerda became aware of a 15-6 tweaked for performance by Philippe Rochat. João’s grandson decided to re-create it in their honour.
Rally enthusiast João de Lacerda became aware of a 15-6 tweaked for performance by Philippe Rochat. João’s grandson decided to re-create it in their honour.
Alain Dufour is offering a 1:43 scale model of the 1938 11BL Traction Cabriolet re-bodied by Emile Tonneline.
This year, among Traction owners contacted, were folks in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Guadeloupe and New Caledonia.
Just how does water get inside a Traction gearbox? In any event the results are not pretty, but they are interesting.
For 40 years Citroën’s UK manufacturing plant was located in Slough. Its output of cars were distributed to Britain and throughout the Commonwealth.
What’s more interesting and seemingly a very good deal is this 1937 Challenger Motors Traction Avant.
At this year’s Pebble Beach Concours, two Citroën Traction Avants, adapated to run with Gasification, were on display.
Known to colleagues as PJB, he directed Citroën as a vice-president and as chairman from 1935 until his death in a car accident.
These home movies, edited together with the song H.C.Q. Strut by Django Reinhardt from a 1939-1940 album, make a great period experience for Traction aficionados.
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