Here we are in a Topolino-C
It is one of the last models.I have one built in '55 This one was built in 1954
The CX is the successor for the legendary Citroen DS
It was a heavy task for Citroen to create something new after the DS
A modern car only does transporting.
A classical car does it way nicer.
My name is Co van Wijk, 77 years old...
and I practise my hobby since 1975
I worked as 15 year old, for a blacksmith in the village Kockengen (NL), where I was born.
The vet and the doctor both drove a Topolino...
as they returned from a visit at a farm, the car definitely needed a good washing.
So, I drove them a bit... turned around and drove it a bit more...
until they came to collect the car and the fun was over... for that moment
I decided that, if I ever would be able to get one, I would definitely do it.
And it did happen. In 1975 I bought my first Topolino.
But, as we were self-employed, there was only little time to work on it...
so it took us a little less than 8 years to finish it.
By then I collected so many parts, I was tempted to start a second project
so I did...
On regular base we went to Italy, Reggio Emilia in April and in September to Imola...
where we tried to grab even more parts.
We hopped in the van on tuesday afternoon to return the next monday...
16 hours in the van. An offer, needed to work further on the cars.
The Fiat Topolino is a car ment for the working class.
They were not expensive, about hfl.900 (€ 400) back then...
well, they started in 1936 building these
interrupted during the second world war.
It runs terriffic and economical.
This Topolino is getting ready for it's restoration.
This one now has it's first paint on the inside.
This one is completely dismantled, as they all were. The is no screw to be found anymore.
The engine is waiting already and the chassis is over there.
This is an early one, built in 1936...
fitted with a side-valve engine.
Now it needs to made smooth before it goes to the painter.
Now there is much more progression then the first one...
I am working on it for a year now and I hope...
It will be on the road in a year from now.
Here I drive a Topolino 'C'
About the last ones built...
I have one built in 1955, this one was built in 1954.
This is so much fun to do... I always...
help my wife in the morning but the afternoon is mine...
and 5 days in the week I work on my hobby.
This is a NSU-Fiat...
a so called 'Weinsberg' from which only 4 are registred in the Netherlands...
so, clearly, I am very proud to posess one.
A mister Weinsberg from Germany designed the body...
and placed it on the chassis from a Topolino.
So, every Topolinofriend tries to get one of these...
and it did happen to me.
Also there is the Simca-Fiat, built under license in France for Fiat.
This is a Topolino chassis, built in 1936.
It was extremely crusty so we had it sandblasted and put primer on it...
and completed it using chassis paint.
And then the process starts to get it all together again.
All missing parts has to be fixed.
Most of it has to be reproduced by hand.
The tyres are quite problematic.
These are tyres ment for the Citroën 2CV...
these fit nicely and are X-tyres that are a bit more comfortable as the originally fitted, sturdy ones.
Brake hoses are universally available but for the other parts you buy, you may only hope it is fairly complete...
...with no need for excessive work.
This is the engine for a 1936 Topolino 'A'
It is completely rebuilt. New pistons, big-ends.
Well... almost completely new.
There is no fuelpump...
The fuel runs from the tank straight to the carburator.
So, if you forget to close the stopper...
you might be surprised by lots of spilled fuel under the car...
while the carburator is not always closed completely and fuel runs straight through.
You need to be aware of such things.
After years spend on restorations it is much fun to join group rides.
We regulary do and find some friends...
to join us and drive with 2-3 cars to an event together.
Sitting proudly in the car, realising I did it all myself...
that is real fun. Also, the interest people show is fantastic
I am Branko Cohenno, 50 years old and I drive CX,
And with this CX I had a fantastic ride: The Raid Arctique
It's a tribute to a 40 years old carmodel...
Introduced in 1974 by Citroen to automobile journalists...
...in the north of Sweden..
And after this introduction, these cars had to be brought back to Paris...
...and Citroen figured the easiest way was to just drive them back.
It took 6 days to drive them from north-Sweden back to Paris
Ik ben Jaco Terpstra,42 jaar...
...and drive the CX for about 8 years now.
Evern since my youth, I'm mad at this car.
At the Citroën-forum aan article popped up...
... handling the introduction in 1974 of the CX in Swedish Lapland...
...and how the card drove back to Paris
And soon replies followed how cool it was and wished to repeat it
But people also said only a fool would actually do it and...
...the cars are now way to old to survive a tour like this...
...until 2 people stood up who wanted it to happen...
Rens Korevaar en Joost Hovenier
..who got together to see if it could be organised.
And after that slowly more people, me included got enthousiast about it...
And I decided to put everything aside to join
Ik ben Daan Pluijms
I realised, just fom the beginning...
...the Raid Arctique would be reality...
..by the initiative and madness of the people that wanted to do this.
What really touched me was the willingness to really do it.
It is not only driving 3400 km from the north of Sweden to Paris but...
...first you have to get there, with the same car
When the time was there...
... we just stepped into the car on a friday evening and headed for the north of Germany
I couldn't feel realize the magnitude of this event yet, but
It didn't have the idea we started something big, but...
...as we left the ferry and 2 other CX's are joining from Malmö to Stockholm ...
...we got aware of what was actually happening.
For us, for everybody....
The CX was the succeeder for the legendaric Citroën DS
Citroën had the difficult task to develop something new after the DS
They succeeded with this very futuristic design
This car has a peerless appearance
The interplay of lines is still fantastic
The CX had its 30'st anniversary in 2004
The Dutch CX club tried to do the tour with a group of enthusiasts but that didn't work out
I did register as enthusiast participant because it is wonderful to use this car...
...to drive enourmous distances throug a marvelous landscape
But, It didn't work out and I figured to do it myself.
I had some stickers made and put it on the car like it was in 1974 and drove the tour
It was very intresting, but now...
...in 2014 and there are a lot more possibilities like the Internet...
...giving a platform through the Citroën-forum where we can reach people not only in the Netherlands...
...but all over the world people got enthusiast enough to make it possible...
...to rerun the Raid Arctique in 2014 in an international setting
And immediately you learn to look at people a different way.
There was an Australian family who bought a car in England just to drive to the north of Sweden
They just drive 1500 km a day and complete the Raid
We have equipes from Russia, Norway. 3 equipes from Finland
The show decisiveness, just do it, just make it work and at the same time...
...it's very sociable. It was a very nice atmosphere that lasted all 6 days.
As soon the plans got formed...
...I wanted to design stickers for the cars
The organisers wanted to re-use the original 1974 logo but I didn't agree with that...
... that was 40 years ago and...
... while this event is a tribute to the original but the participants drive their own event
It is better to create something that can be remembered
I tried to me something that fits the original.
Here we see the original design...
...and next to it the new one...
I wanted to keep the round shape, the globe and the Arctic Circle clearly visible but with a new twist
The result is a vignet you can use on anything...
..on a car,a cap or t-shirt. Whatever.
This way you can keep a memory of a beautiful event and...
...the event got it's own personality
To drive a tour of 3200 km from the arctic circle to Paris you need a decent car
A sound technical condition is mandatory
It needs some preparation to make sure critical parts are fine
We received lots of help from the Dutch roadside assistance...
...spareparts were made available...
...to fix any problem during the Raid
All cars reached the finish.
It is very good to see how...
..people just accomplish this
They start driving through Norway for a week or so...
...followed by a 3500 km tour to Paris
My stongest rememberence is...
...we just did it...
... and all cars went, without much problems...
...from A to B
I can imagine it will happen again.
I am Hans, 44 years old and...
...all of my life mad about cars.
Only 17 years old I had my first car...
...and took driving lessons.
It was an Alfa, a nice GT2
It had to, because...
...I was cleaning cars in my spare time for an Alfa dealer
Every free hour and holidays...
I was cleaning cars for them and...
...got inescapable infected by the Alfa-virus
At a certain moment I bought myself a classic and...
...the passion you can put in it and...
...the sensation of driving a classic that talks to you...
... there you can put your heart in.
You can drive it in whatever mood you are and...
...it talks back.
A modern car doesn't do anything but transporting...
... but a classic car...
...is superb on this aspect.
All cars is placed under trickle charge such manner...
...I can take one instantly no bycicle or anything must in the way, that will prevent using them.
Depending on the mood of the day, I take one of the cars and...
...start enjoying...
...as the people around me like it also.
When I visit my customers in a classic, they always like it...
...and it's a nice starting point for a conversation.
They like to talk about the car and understand this is purely is something personal for me and nobody else...
... a real personal passion.
The cars i have now, all are...
...cars with a heart,,,
...and all have a sporty character.
The last recruit, a Healey...
...is a car that was on my wishlist a for long time, because...
...especially the first 6-cylinder, the 106...
...has a very beatiful basic shape...
...nicely formed classic lines
This car has everything a classic sportscar needs in my eyes...
Beautiful sound... a fat engine and...
...it's open.
An open classic car has this extra dimension
Mainly because I use them for classical rally's...
...Nuvolari...
Did this one once, with another car, together with my brother and partly with my father in the Mille Miglia
Fantastic when you are able to use such a car for this
In the greatest country of the world, between the nicest cars and beautiful people.
This car is bought in 1956. Ordered by it's first owner at a dealer in Los Angeles...
He was a soldier who went to England in 1957 to personally collect the car at the factory and...
...drove it until 1981.
But not too much. It only has 38.000 miles. Very low mileage, though.
I am the third owner.
I bougt him 2 years ago.
He had red paint back then but we restored the original colors.
A special color
I was happy to find the heritage certificate, describing the original color for this car
Because he was so original on every aspect...
Never resturated, rock-hard...
It was hard to determine where to start or where to end restoring...
At the level of bolts, springs and things we discussed...
...wether or not to chromize it.
Nothing was done, finally. Just took it apart...
....painted it and putted together again
Moving parts were fixed, though
The engine is revised but...
... further thaan that, it's still a very original car...
...no Botox was added.
Same with people. You can see when they get older...
...the same with this car.
The engine is revised...
...it has little extra compression compared to the original
115 hp... not too exciting...
...as the standard already delivers 100 hp.
Compared to current standards not really much but...
... back then quite a show off.
Striking on a Healey is...
...you will be very aware of the engine.
A nice, heavy 6 cylinder...
... quite some power...
...almost 3000 cc.
Giving lots of torque.
No need to rev it up too much
You can determine olmost every turn...
...of the engine
by the sound of the exhaust next to you.
Well, steering is heavy...
...a thin steeringwheel
In this car, comfort is hard to find...
...but, when used to it you can drive him quite long and relaxed...
... and still it's a car not taking anythig fot granted.
Special for the Healey is, it first exsisted by the passion of just one man...
...Donald Healey, who...
...developed the car, in 1952, developed the car using Austin components
Later on, the car was adopted by the large Austin concern...
...that made sure it went to a gigantic success.
All over the world and mostly in the US, lots of cars were sold
You will notice, this is a car developed with passion...
... by just one person...
...not screwed up by book-keepers, demanding the use of cheaper components but...
...just a beautiful, stylish car.
But it is a 50 years old car...
...that you will find out...
... but it can compete with modern cars...
...on a curvy road.
In a corner of the garage there was this Mercedes
The story behind this car confirmed the good feeling I had about it
This 60 years old car only had 2 owners before and...
..was originally right-steered when it came to Switserland
It was for a Patissier in Weinfelden where my mother came from
This Patissierhad an accident wich damaged his right hand...
...and was not able to use a car where he needed his right hand for switching gears
So he wanted a car with the gear on the left side and bought this right steered Mercedes.
But this proved not too practical so the car was hardly used
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