Never found l'escargot very appetizing, whether the real or tin varieties. But these could change my mind. The gasser is magnifique!
Thats cool. photo shop is very useful today for us as we don't have miles of old cars from the 20-50's anymore so its good to see what it will look like before ya chop the crap out of it. and i like the floating farm house lol.
Found this while browsing the net for citreon 2cvs. It sure is radical, there is no information on the engine unfortunately.
Excellent. Thanks for starting this thread. I had a 2CV for about 10 years. Very fun and goofy car. Drove it, put gas and oil in it, and changed brakes... that's it... couldn't kill it... just kept going and going. Sold it to a friend. Kind of wish I had it back.
Olli is a great digital artist, he posts in the Friday Art Show here on the HAMB. Most of these pics have been posted here, by him.
I knew photoshop was involved, but like someone else said, all very buildable, and very very cool. Thanks for posting.
I am sorry, but that is pretty cool. Make a hell of a shop truck. May not hold much, but still. Like some had said, its so ugly its cool! Now to totally get myself in hot water... Get something like a small european AWD chassis (TTS or STI) and running gear and toss this body over the top. Take it to a track event and just giggle through the turns.
Ollie is Scandinavian, and he is on the HAMB. He has posted his art here before, and ( if I remember right ) a couple of really wild bikes... He has a thing for Citroen's....
GREAT STUFF!!!!!!!! The transporter in the last pic is my favorite. BESIDES:This thread CANNOT be shut down because it has traditional elements:Remember that Richard Dreyfuss drove one in American Graffiti;what is more TRAD than that!
There was a hot rodded 2CV on the inside last page of Road and Track sometime in the early 1980 - 289 with Hilborn injection, wide tires etc - looked killer. There is a stocker in Southern California which has the license plate HAUT ROD.... I have visions of taking a flat sided 2CV and turning it into a quasi 1934 Voisin C-27 Aerosport. This slab sided stuff must be a French thing.
The 2CVs are fun looking, but the Traction Avant models would make better looking rods, I think. Here's an image of one of the sedans in the long wheelbase format. And here is one of the rare, short wheelbase cabriolets. And here is one of the long wheelbase Commerciale models. Here is a short wheelbase sedan. There was also a coupe model. These things were already low to the ground compared to American cars of the same vintage, had no running boards, and look to me as though they could be the shell for a really killer rod.
Pretty cool. I had some of those cars in stock-form in the version of Matchbox cars back when I was a kid. One of the smoothest rollers I had! Looks cool, kinda reminds me of the VW to hot rod conversions.
All are a true breath of fresh air...ideas. Thank you for posting these VERY interesting treatments. Great stuff!!
They also look cooler If you get them low with the right stance.My dad has the sedans short wheelbase models. Im glad someone posted pics of the sedan.You tell people what your building and they think of the 60's models.....The one you posted is a prewar You can tell by the hood ,Later ones came with louvers .Reversed louvers.So how many of you guys thought front wheel drive was a new idea ,Same for unibody,Amazing......
Your right ,, it only takes a couple of them to shut one down, good luck ! Very CQQL pics,, some CQQL ideas mixed in there no matter what your into. Thanks for sharing them.
Another thing that are cool about those trucks ,Lights turn with steering . ..And you can adjust up or down from where your driving........A restored one goes for about 10,000 .
Not on the 2CV or the Ami. They do on the DS and maybe the SM ( not sure about that one...) I'd build the 2CV Gasser... ( I know that pic caused a shitstorm here on the HAMB before, but you'd need to have a sense of humor to own one) It would be the fastest Trashcan in town... A buddy of mine has a Stock one that needs to be restored, but he wanted too much money for it.
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