whats the most "unusual" vehicle you ever drove?
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The most unusual vehicle I have driven or at the controls was a UH-1C Iroquois or Huey. I was crewchief on one early in my military career. Every time my aircraft was scheduled for flight with only one pilot, which was often at Ft Knox, I got to ride the other seat. I would have enlisted for life during those times, if they had ask, of course now I would anyway.
Don
Don
You guys are way off !!
I was a Peugeot mechanic for a few years and also worked on and drove many Citroens!!
The DS21 was a great car but weird at the same time and the 2CV is another odd one.
One other car that got a lot of flack was the Saab Sonnet V4.
I was a Peugeot mechanic for a few years and also worked on and drove many Citroens!!
The DS21 was a great car but weird at the same time and the 2CV is another odd one.
One other car that got a lot of flack was the Saab Sonnet V4.
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You guys are way off !!
I was a Peugeot mechanic for a few years and also worked on and drove many Citroens!!
The DS21 was a great car but weird at the same time and the 2CV is another odd one.
One other car that got a lot of flack was the Saab Sonnet V4.
Jim
When I was a youngster we went to Holland to visit some relatives. There were lots of Citroens driven here. An uncle had a car like the one on the right. If I recall correctly...when he started the car...air bags would inflate the suspension to "ride" height and the car would squat down again when he would turn the engine off. An early "low rider". The car in the centre picture was nicknamed the (translated into English) as the "Ugly Duckling" by locals...but very popular.
I returned to Holland in 1972. This time had a ride in a car made by the Dutch called a DAF. The car was not really unusual... but the transmission was pretty unusual to me. It was not manual or automatic and had no noticable "shift" points. It had a variable speed tranny. NICE.
Ron
Richard/SIA
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You guys are way off !!
I was a Peugeot mechanic for a few years and also worked on and drove many Citroens!!
The DS21 was a great car but weird at the same time and the 2CV is another odd one.
One other car that got a lot of flack was the Saab Sonnet V4.
DS21 was not really odd, hydraulic suspension is not really that unusual.
I drove one for a while, they are actually a nice ride.
The 2CV was the French version of Hitler's "Peoples Car", if gas goes back to $4.00 a gallon we will see something similar here, the liberals will probably proclaim mandatory U.S. production and purchase of "Smart Car's"! :eek:
Saab Sonnet was more interesting when they had three cylinder two-stroke engines, the Ford V4 ran rough and is expensive to rebuild.
You guys are way off !!
I was a Peugeot mechanic for a few years and also worked on and drove many Citroens!!
The DS21 was a great car but weird at the same time and the 2CV is another odd one.
One other car that got a lot of flack was the Saab Sonnet V4.
Now I KNOW we need to get the puking smilie!
Could they have made that first car any uglier? :eek: I watch the old Mission Impossible shows and frequently see these. I laugh everytime. 
Not really unusual but not many guys have driven one either, 1943 Willys jeep. My grandfather had one that we did everything on the farm with. Plowed the fields, pulled the sickle bar, added a trailer and hauled coal, manure, red dog stone etc. I learned to drive this when I was around 10 yrs old. I can remember my father hopping between the wind rows behind it while plowing the field with an old plow share that was for a horse team. Even then I understood that slipping the clutch to slow down enough to plow would burn the clutch up, so I wouldn't do it. Had big ole lug tires on it with chains all around. That jeep would go anywhere!
In my early days I worked construction and ran a D8 Cat and a Northwest Model 25 and a 45 shovel. Natuarally that led me to airplanes?
Also my first car was a 47 Crosley 4 banger wagon. I mowed a lot of lawns to get the $50 to buy it at age 13. In Texas at the time you could get a drivers license at 14. I bought the car and just before my 14th birthday they changed the law to 16.
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Also my first car was a 47 Crosley 4 banger wagon. I mowed a lot of lawns to get the $50 to buy it at age 13. In Texas at the time you could get a drivers license at 14. I bought the car and just before my 14th birthday they changed the law to 16.
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Now I KNOW we need to get the puking smilie!
Actually I`m very fond of the DS cars.
They have a ride that only the Citroen can deliver with its hydraulic system and very advanced for its time.
They even were the first car to have front wheel drive.
The system was/is a very good one in design and function.
You can set the ride height and lower it when parked.
You also can lift the wheels off the ground (one at a time ) to change a tire.
An Amazing car !!!
That would be the SM. quite the car !!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_SM
The Citroen company produced its first practical front-wheel drive in 1934, a year in which they also introduced torsion bars, a unitized body, and a dashboard gear shift. It was a revolution in auto motive design and the 1934 Citroens were so reliable that they were made without major changes for over 20 years.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles01/article825.shtml
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Wow, until DQ posted the photo of the Citroen SM I completely forgot about driving one of those. I was a young sailor and a woman who took a special
interest in me for a weekend had one and let me drive. Truth be known, I really remember very little about driving the car Maybe my mind was someplace else
interest in me for a weekend had one and let me drive. Truth be known, I really remember very little about driving the car Maybe my mind was someplace else
John, " one weekend "????? Was she disappointed with what you had to offer.???
Richard/SIA
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BZZZZT! :eek:
WRONG! :eek::eek::takethat
As I recall, even the Cugnot steam wagon was front wheel drive.
Some claim it as the FIRST car.
I've seen classic Cord's from the thirties, with front wheel drive.