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RE: Does anyone know the name of this beautiful old car?
This is a Citroen 15 CV Traction Avant, propably a 6 cylinder version built in Slough, GB in the early 50s. It was also nick named " Gangster car", because it was really fast compared to the cars the police had at the time and a popolar escape car. It can be also seen in numerous french gangster movies of the film noir period in that role.
It was quiet advanced for its time, with the front wheel drive and all. About 750.000 were build until 1957.
Here is a example picture from Wikipedia:
Cool thanks for the info, I thought I would get a reply from you and you didn't disappoint, cheers mate.
No problem, with such a iconic car. They are very popular among vintage car enthusiasts in Europe, and you can see one driving around on sunny sundays here and there. It has this cool vintage look, but drives fairly well for the time period. And its not so ridiculously small like many other post war european cars were.