I can feel you. Getting rid of something you have had for almost forever is a sad decision, but when problems start occurring then something has to be done.

I've always admired this. Is it true that they can drive on three wheels. As a child I recall this being mentioned

Yes, you can take off either of the back wheels, but not both!! I’ve done it. I took off the passenger-side rear wheel because I wasn’t entirely confident and I figured less weight on the free-floating side would be safer for a first try. Also interesting is the rear fender which is attached by just one bolt. A wheel-nut sized bolt so you can take them off in 30 seconds with the wheel wrench. There’s no rear wheel arch, so changing a back tyre would be tricky otherwise. While we’re at it... you don’t have to Jack up the car. You set the ride height to maximum, put a prop under the chassis corner, and lower the ride-height. The wheel in question automatically lifts off the ground. Quite magical.

@@AbdullahBasit24 There was always something. You never felt totally secure on a country drive. And good mechanics were getting scarce. By the end, to only things older than citroen cars were citroen mechanics. There was also rust, the silent killer of many cars before the 1980s.

@@albertbatfinder5240 Understandable. Did you consider getting a new car after that?

@Crabby Hayes - That wouldn’t happen to have been in NYC, in either Queens or Brooklyn, would it?

@@danopticon Calumet City, Illinois. BTW, one of the customers in the crowd was the former race car driver, Paul Goldsmith - great guy.

@@crabbyhayes1076 - Aww, drat! I was hoping you’d met my dad. Before I was born, when Mon and Dad lived in Queens, and after I was born when we lived in Brooklyn, they were both doing well financially and sold their powder-blue VW bug and bought a powder-blue Citroën-something … I don’t know what model, but we had it a long time, and from my dim recollection it sure looked like a DS. Anywho, whenever Mom or Dad would start it up, the neighborhood children would gather around to, as my mom put it, “watch it rise up on its hind legs!” And she’s also told me there was a Moroccan food restaurant nearby where my dad would forever be showing off their Citroën, neither of my parents being car people but both being francophiles (they met in Paris) and big fans of modernity, Kennedy, the space age, the ‘64 World’s Fair, all of that. Oh well, it was a long shot, but I figured: how many Citroën cars could there have been in the USA? Thanks for the reply, cool about Paul Goldsmith, I send fond regards to your part of Illinois!

@@danopticon Thanks so much for sharing your story. Growing up south of Chicago, there were actually quite a few of them in my area. Many moves later - I currently live in North Carolina, I have seen very few over the years. But they sure were cool, as were the Citreons like the one in the Pink Panther movie (and in Paris)

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Lynne Barkas, because he is French. and the French are the most intelligent and creative nation. I myself am not French

Back to the futur taxi.

@@albertone3672 mate, you're fooling no one, you're French

the best french car ever made

@@albertone3672MERCI 😘👍...

IMO this is the most beautiful car ever made

Why was the production stopped?

@@eliudlumwaji7897 it had been produced for 20 years between 1955 and 1975 with nearly 1.5 million units.

@@vieuxbal1253 Thanks,I used to admire the vehicle when I was a toddler.

@@eliudlumwaji7897 same here 😊

and then the waiter shows up and he's an asswipe as usual.

Lovely image!

Yes, beautiful grasp of prose!

I appreciate whole heartedly for such thinking of you.

Truly beautiful words that are correct💪🏽

It looks like a modern cockroach

Si señor, una auténtica pasada, mi padre tuvo un Citroën gs.

The shark on wheels

Design

Totally,so beautiful

The European optic are quite futuristic

The European headlights (post-67) aren't like the American-spec ones. Covered and more contemporary-looking.

@Coco Lebonk the size of the engine too

Coco Lebonk France came out with cars like the Peugeot 504, 604 and Talbot Tagora, which were not particularly aerodynamic.

@@nkt1 citroën were known for being aerodynamic efficient, Peugeot Talbot, make the greatest engine diesel

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Your grandfather was smart. This car was expensive to maintain due to the hydraulic suspension. Sanity also tells him not to spend so much on a car that he cannot enjoy except it being a garage queen.

@@netmatrix75 it sat in the garage with a working engine and he sold it for nothing just to get rid of it. The garage is still just a place to leave stuff he is too old to use any of it.

@@netmatrix75 - The hydraulic suspension is not expensive to maintain until the car is old and everything is worn out and rubber parts are deteriorated from age and heat. The greatest killer of old Citroëns, besides crashes, is rust. They were made back when rustproofing was very much ignored. The frame boxes were barely painted inside. Spray-on undercoating cracked after a few years. Capillary action drew water, in the winter salt water, against the metal, causing severe corrosion. The way the skeleton frames were assembled, with hundreds of lap joints spot welded, as well drew water into the joints. If the accumulators ("spheres") are repressurized before the diaphragm is torn or punctured, they will last for a very long time. And the fluids should be changed on schedule. Many old "LHS" cars were damaged by not changing the (DOT3 brake) fluid annually. The best I could find was Castrol LMA (Low Moisture Absorption), which has a different label now. The reservoir is open to the air, allowing the fluid to absorb water. Failure to change the fluid results in corrosion of the steel and aluminum parts in the system. Also, in the USA mechanics ignorant of the cars poured oil or antifreeze in the reservoir. The later LHM (a special hydraulic oil similar to MIL-H-5606) cars suffer from failure to change the hydraulic fluid every two years, pouring brake fluid in the reservoir, pouring antifreeze in the reservoir. Ignorant mechanics would pour 80W-90 GL-5 oil in the transmissions, damaging the brass synchronizer rings, instead of the correct oil, 75W-80 GL-4, which leads to slow synchronization and nasty crunching noises. I had to buy a 5 gallon pail of 75W-80 but now I see it on the shelf in auto parts stores. In manual shift cars the driver can compensate by shifting more slowly but in hydraulic shift cars the shifting speed doesn't compensate for weak synchronization. As the engines have cast iron blocks, iron (meehanite) sleeves and aluminum cylinder heads, changing the coolant every two years is essential. At least these cars were made when copper/brass radiators and heater cores were the usual! Note: I have 3 SM radiators and one DS/ID crossflow radiator for factory air conditioning prepped cars. I had a full set of A/C parts with the two condensers, one on each side of the front end, below the bumper, and an A/C bellhousing and compressor bracket but burglars stole them, most likely to sell for scrap to buy meth.

I had a quick look, the cheapest one I found was € 12,500

Well at least it made another person happy... We couldn't be happier when we found one for 800€, and I guess it's the same for the guy who know must enjoy this incredible car...

@Phillip Aubin Not this car Bécause built for US market. Lights cant move . European version have a glass Who protect thè front lights

If I am not mistaken, an American car "Tucker" in the 1940s and possibly others before that had turinng headlights.

Citroen was a little weird on the suspencion side but why this car had such strange ones? For what reason?

Did you make any adventures with her??

Sounds like she was a "goddess" just like the car.

It was not so common in the '70s to see a woman driving a Citroen Ds, my aunt and a girl friend of mine they both drove their Ds and people look at them... astonished and intrigued.

From Kenya..we had about 4 Citroen DS in the whole country.Imagine the exclusivity of being an owner

Which country please?

yep, me too

French cars are very under rated

The last one with 2,3 liters engine and fuel injection was not so bad.

And if it's a rear wheel you need to replace just keep the car in the highest position, and change your wheel.

Mercedes-Benz did use the system for models 108, 116 and 126 in licence.

@@vornamenachname5589 thanks for sharing your knowledge as I wasn't aware of it. What a pity that Citroën gave up on what them them famous. I'm French and I've always preferred Peugeot over Renault over Citroën but that said old Citroën were quite comfy at least at that time and in comparison to other car brands.

Rolls Royce used this system in license too...

ISaintLoupI . And high end Toyota Land Cruisers for the rear. Under license, of course.

@@paulmeahan7327 well the technology didn't really work for other manufacturers despite trying. And since 2017 I believe that Citroën has stopped it. Pity as that was a technology that set Citroën apart from the other.

After the E type jag!

@@75619630 I disagree on both of those claims, but whatever.

@@jakekaywell5972 🌍What is the MOST beautiful car for you?

This is one of the best car made

It’s definitely the most innovative car ever made to this day.

Yes nowdays Citroen sucks.

BANDVIT Romania ios Absolutely agree. You can basically forget every Citroen built after the year 2000.

Tobias Hommerich true and i really mis the old Citroens.

@@DrHouse2004 yup yup

Bulldog Orange,This is DS!!!

@@albertone3672 This is Citroën DS!

@Jim carson you know Fantomas??

@Jim carson where are you from?

@Jim carson alors oui, au Maroc ça s'explique

@Jim carson For the Americans, France is a XIXth century country

The last model using this hydraulic suspension was a citroën C5 from 2005, not so long

Not really, the second gen C5 also had Hydractive as an option. The production of C5 X7 ceased in 2017, so there's that.Too bad the C5 X7 wasn't available as a 5-door liftback.

@@benjamincharlin6770 Yeah bro you drive like suspension men that's coooool breuuuuw

@@aykutcinar7548 ...?

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Like the one in 1983 Scarface.

still, the car can be driven as soon as the engine starts. It will get up as you drive away. The hydraulic shift will work very quickly while the big red "STOP" light is still on. The only time the manual height control lever is needed to be moved is for tire changing and lifting the car to prevent "high-centering" (dragging bottom on humpy driveways). The normal clearance of the bottom of the car is 150 mm (6").

Very obsolete. Space-wasting inline mid-engine that sticks back into the cabin. Wouldn't pass safety or emissions standards. Very underpowered for its weight and engine size. Construction from many bits and pieces spot-welded together is tedious and expensive. Flat side windows are very dated. Even updated few would buy it.

*yacht Also, I think you mean speedboat, because there's no such thing as "high speed yacht"

cobbvd . You would be very lucky to find a Goddess owner who would swap it for a modern car. 😊

@@paulmeahan7327 I know it.

fermented grape juice, i trust ??

What's the point?

TheBigMclargehuge the point is: driving experience must be much more comfortable than standard suspension ( McPherson ) Plus, you’re able to avoid high potholes

@@marcosmoreno4049 ...and it's easier to change a flat tire without any fatigue. You can drive safely Ds on 3 wheels because of its Hydraulic Suspension. There are many videos on KZfaq, you can see. Even with two flat tires, you can brake and keep control on the car. Just because of Hydraulic Suspensions.

No we dont

That is not true at all...

I had a look under a C3, they replaced the swingman's axes with silent blocs mounted on a vertical nut YES VERTICAL!!! as a mech freak i found that disgusting, all the suspension's articulation is allowed by silent blocs bending...