17 August 2010 2CV

I’ll never forget the first time I saw one of these duck-like cars in France in the late 80s. I thought it was a VW Beetle gone very, very wrong. Turns out that the two cars were developed around the same time, just before WWII broke out. I learned this recently while researching a short non-fiction piece I’m writing about the 2CV (Deux Chevaux). So I was quite pleased to run across an example of the “tin snail” in Hove today.