erm.....!...as I am about the venture on my first 2cv dream in 2 days time it strikes me that owning a 2cv is a pretty strange thing to do, and I was wondering why you all got started in this?. I´ve seen some great fotos of you as kids in your parent cars and stuff which I understand as its the reason I bought my cortina. but there must be other reasons...the aesthetics, the handling?? I don´t know, but thought it would be interesting to find out.

if there is already a thread on this then please redirect me and delete this.

by the way one of the many reasons for me is the thinness of the bodywork!..it reminds me of my first car a moggy van, the directness of the mechanics, no servos or electronics...oh and saggy seats..the most comfortable thing in the world...

anyway over to you lot

The whole family. Aunts mums dads all had the

I got mine cos i always loved them, andy dad wanted me to get it
Its quite sentimental now as forstly the day i collected was theday i last saw my grandma (v close)
And now my dad is dead it means more to me as reminds me of him. He loved so much!

A relatively detailed approach to scoring vehicles based firstly on insurance, then running costs, ease of maintenance, utility, and finally mechanical interestingness.

And you meet interesting helpful people.

I'd had a second-hand Escort and then a Cortina (which I didn't actually want, but I couldn't find another Escort) When that died, I wasn't sure what to go for but I knew that I wanted at least four doors. It was suggested that I buy something new; at the time, my price range spanned the very agricultural FSO, Lada and maybe a Skoda. Then my dad saw an advertisement for the Citroën 2CV - £4000, drive away for just £100 deposit - so I went down to the dealers and bought one! The salesman was mockingly deprecating of the little car but five minutes into the test drive I was hooked
That was September 26th 1988, so I'm now coming up to 25 years 2CVing...

Fits in the garage with room to spare.
Roof comes down.
I like looking at it.
It is a bastard great legend of a car too.

My old man had a new Cortina every other year as a Co.Car. - and that's the reason why I don't drive bland Fords...

We went to France for holidays when I was 'ickle, and - for a car-mad kid from '70s Sheffield - it was, quite literally, mind-blowing. The corrugated village shop parked on the green every other day and unfolded. There were spaceships that got up off the ground when they were started. There were battered corrugated chicken coops that leant and rolled around bends...

...and a pair of army officers in a tupperware cat litter tray hooning through the village every morning and evening...

I thought "I WANT SOME OF THAT!"

Then, when I got into my mid teens, there was an eight year old 2cv for sale in the local paper in need of a bit of work for an MOT. Perfect to buy, strip down, learn to spanner on, put back together, then learn to drive on...

Nearly 30 years later, here I still am.

Parents always had them, but i tend to continue driving them now because theyre Cheap and fast to repair, simple mechanics, loads of spares. I don't spend anything I don't have to on running vehicles so it makes sense. You meet a lot of decent people, and there are always opportunities to travel or further oneself through various 2cv related means.

As a stupid 17 year old, a knackered 1100cc 1972 Escort was too powerful for me, so I was encouraged by my dad to buy a less blisteringly fast car.

Initial hour of driving my first 2CV left me utterly bemused and unimpressed. After that I understood, and have never looked back. As motorway cars I still think they're poor, but on every other road they are unbeatable fun.

Also: cheap and simple to fix; easy to understand; fun to work on; spares are plentiful.

Saw the baddies driving stretch 2CVs in the film 'Belleville Rendezvous', I thought that was the height of cool and decided I wanted one.

Contrary to all my expections, rebuilding one for four years has only served to strengthen that impression - There must be something good about them!