rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (12/07/84)
The first car I owned was a 2CV, in London, and I loved it!
Sure it had as much oomph as a tricycle, but it was cheap,
ran forever on a gallon of petrol, was easy to park, turned
on a sixpence - just perfect for city driving.
It was, however, a French left-hand-drive model, so every
time I turned a corner in right-hand-drive England, I found
myself on the wrong side of the street - a confusion worse
confounded after I got used to it and then moved to the U.S!
--
Rod Williams
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"trav@ucla-cs.UUCP (12/18/84)
You can see a 2CV in the movie "American Graffitti". The main
character has one... that does not start when he wants to follow
a blond girl in a white car (not a 2CV this one). This is quite
nasty. Indeed, a 2CV is not fast, is not luxurious (far from that),
but it is reliable (at least the one I was driving sometimes ago).
A good point also is that it is very light. You can go off the road
easily. Something funny: it is not possible to lock the hood. Thus,
to avoid some bad guys to still your battery (for the electric
railroad of their kids), when parking, you have to put a chain,
between air holes in the hood and the bumper!
Indeed, it looks like a tricycle.
--
Pascal Traverse
UCLA Computer Science Department
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