"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
10/03/2014 at 13:33 • Filed to: Daily Turismo, Blog
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"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
10/03/2014 at 13:33 • Filed to: Daily Turismo, Blog | 10
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The Citroën DS (pronounced Déesse, like the French word for goddess) was a front-wheel-drive oddity built from 1955-1975. It featured a sophisticated oleopneumatic (oil-air) suspension instead of springs and oil shocks.
Pressurized nitrogen spheres at each corner work in conjunction with a 175 bar oil pump and a magical set of valves to allow a huge amount of suspension travel and variable spring/damping rates depending on road conditions and body movement. It was all very complicated and expensive to repair, but when it worked it was sublime. When it didn't work the DS was abandoned on the side of the road like a dead porpoise, but prices were low for long enough that well equipped hot rodders (in the classic sense) were able to perform some magic on the goddess...El Camagic!! Find this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! offered for $9,000 in Running Springs, CA via craigslist.
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Running Springs is located between two of LA's big winter fun spots, Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear, so it is an odd spot to find a car featuring a few surf/skim boards on the back...however, this car has been around the block a few times. The last DSchero we featured was a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! found in Long Beach back in June of 2013. That '73 example looks surprisingly like this one and it ignited an immediate schism within the DT inner circle, with some claiming it was the same, and others saying it was a new car. Blood feuds have begun on less.
Here is where it gets strange; a google image search for DS pickups located another extremely similar custom, but covered in Ron !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! paint. A !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! reveals the same license plate confirming that the blue car was at one point burgundy and found in Huntington Beach.
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The final nail in the old coffin is this photograph found on that shows what is clearly the car in the 2013 listing as created by Nico, as well as pics of it in the Anchorman color scheme. The car uses the same rear facing spotlight and puts an end to the pointless name calling within the DT "office."
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Regardless, this thing is unique as they come and looks reasonably well built. Are you bold enough to surf the DSamino wave of awesomeness by yourself? Seriously, who has ever seen one of these things?
See another El Caminoized special with more repaints? !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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My citroen won't start
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 13:34 |
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This is something I really don't approve.
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DailyTurismo
> My citroen won't start
10/03/2014 at 14:35 |
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But...think of how much stuff you can haul with it...
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My citroen won't start
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 14:54 |
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I'm thinking.
Slave2anMG
> My citroen won't start
10/03/2014 at 14:58 |
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tonered
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:20 |
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I didn't think that a DS could get better looking.
I was very wrong.
Ratchet when he's all hopped up on synthetic energon
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:22 |
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Huh, a DS I actually kinda like.
de Snoek
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:24 |
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As a DS owner and complete fan boy I do not approve of any customization of a DS that isn't a Chapron cabrio....
I'm sorry but this is just heresy :'(
El-Verde
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:31 |
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But the real question is...
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How can I Citroen DS-ize my El Camino?
SchwarzeEwigkt
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:38 |
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I can't take anyone seriously who spells it "hyrdolic."
ChickenMcBooty
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:38 |
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Appalling and downright criminal
sp
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:46 |
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SACRILÈGE!!! kind of cool, but still. Sacré bleu, my grandfather is rolling over in his grave.
KentWynne
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:47 |
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I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world."
"I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges."
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"It is a loathesome, offensive brute. Yet I can't look away."
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"It sickens me."
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JayHova
> My citroen won't start
10/03/2014 at 17:51 |
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The only acceptable hauling modification are the loadrunners.
Ad_absurdum_per_aspera
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:51 |
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C'est bon, la femme Agnes, avec bleu electrique.
I'd have done wood instead of flames on the sides, especially in the surfer context of that photo. Does it have a tailgate? That's kind of a big deal for me in this sort of custom. Starting with the wagon (sometimes known as the Safari) would have been a big start in the right direction, there...
ccc40821
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 17:52 |
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Great conversion (I love the DS and I always haul stuff), but if it can get the fundamentalists all riled up, so much the better. Even like the paint job.
hotCarl
> My citroen won't start
10/03/2014 at 17:54 |
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Thank you for this glorious new wallpaper.
tapzz
> de Snoek
10/03/2014 at 17:57 |
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As a fellow Citroën fan boy, and unabashed originality purist, I see where you're coming from... and yet. Yes, the stripes and the rear wheel spat things need to go, but the proportions do work rather well with that chop. It's better than some of Chapron's more unfortunate attempts at turning the DS into a 'normal' car.
Besides, Citroën built loads of D series, and heaven knows that many have and will continue to go to the crusher once the rot gets into all those box sections. If this was the alternative fate, maybe it's not so bad.
hismiths
> Ad_absurdum_per_aspera
10/03/2014 at 18:03 |
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By the photos it appears to be sans tailgate. Wood would (see what I did there?) be really, really hard on all those swoopy curves. I agree with previous poster, stripes and spats must go.
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DocV2a
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 18:06 |
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That thing is awesome! Well done.
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DailyTurismo
> JayHova
10/03/2014 at 18:07 |
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Yikes!
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Ad_absurdum_per_aspera
> hismiths
10/03/2014 at 18:07 |
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> I agree with previous poster, stripes and spats must go.
They are always a matter of taste, but here I think they're well done, really carrying the lines of the car without being obtrusive about it...
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DailyTurismo
> de Snoek
10/03/2014 at 18:08 |
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Did you notice the crazy bar of soap looking thing in the background? Look closely...
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DailyTurismo
> KentWynne
10/03/2014 at 18:09 |
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I approve of this message.
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DailyTurismo
> El-Verde
10/03/2014 at 18:10 |
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Where do I send my money?
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My citroen won't start
> JayHova
10/03/2014 at 18:23 |
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If I was an evil super villain, my henchmen would use 50 of this to shuffle dead bodies/nuclear warheads/AK-47's and Rosti around my compound.
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de Snoek
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 18:28 |
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Don't focus my attention to that piece of art! There are other people with me in my room right now and my pants start to feel funny
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greenagain
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 18:28 |
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It's beautiful. A well proportioned 2 seat rocket car.
CityDriver
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 18:29 |
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And here I thought a Ram 1500 with air suspension was the shiz. Damn.
2cvhoonage
> My citroen won't start
10/03/2014 at 18:37 |
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Neither do I. Nice to hear from you though. In fact when I am not doing what my screen name would lead you to believe I do with my car, I also have trouble starting it. I feel your pain...
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Stuckin1972
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 18:38 |
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PanchoVilleneuve ST
> My citroen won't start
10/03/2014 at 19:03 |
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I want to get one and do it up all Ecteau-Un style.
fintail
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 19:07 |
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Not bad.
I could see this in BTTF 2, in 2015, along with the DS Taxi.
Aston Martin Vespertine
> KentWynne
10/03/2014 at 19:20 |
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You win all the comments.
Atomic Buffalo
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 19:43 |
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I think the word should be Elcaminotized.
Or Rancherified.
Sean D
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 21:14 |
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I saw this one at Art Center a couple years back. It was really well done and kept with the spirit of the Citroen
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Sean D
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 21:14 |
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I saw this one at Art Center a couple years back. It was really well done and kept with the spirit of the Citroen
Dsscats
> DailyTurismo
10/03/2014 at 22:51 |
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Brb, seeing if he wants trades.
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DailyTurismo
> Sean D
10/03/2014 at 23:39 |
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The sweeping rear buttress lines work really well with those Bonneville Salt Flats style wheels. Nice find!
Maxaxle
> DailyTurismo
10/04/2014 at 00:05 |
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This is so wrong, and yet it's so right! I can't decide!
SkarTisu
> DailyTurismo
10/04/2014 at 01:31 |
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That's at least 34 different kinds of awesome
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bammalam
> Sean D
10/04/2014 at 01:52 |
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camille2cv
> Sean D
10/04/2014 at 02:05 |
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Wolc *grammar nazis go f*** yourselves*
> Stuckin1972
10/04/2014 at 03:20 |
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smallmotorsmakemesad
> DailyTurismo
10/04/2014 at 04:04 |
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I have never considered chopping up a DS - but now that I have seen it, I want one. The side flashes really make it. The red version doesn't look great, but the blue one - schawiiiing.
If I wasn't (a) in Australia and (b) broke I would buy this thing.
kaheff (L20E)
> bammalam
10/04/2014 at 04:59 |
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When will we finally arrive at the future where these Citroens originate from?
MaartenNL
> kaheff (L20E)
10/04/2014 at 06:57 |
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Its still lightyears away...
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kaheff (L20E)
> MaartenNL
10/04/2014 at 08:23 |
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Such cruelty...
Frankenbike666
> DailyTurismo
10/04/2014 at 12:19 |
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Wow, you just verbized El Camino.
KatzManDu
> de Snoek
10/05/2014 at 08:30 |
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I'm living in Belgium. Help me find a driver DS for < €5000. PLEASE! :(
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Joe Black
> DailyTurismo
10/05/2014 at 18:22 |
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A hipster's wet dream
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de Snoek
> KatzManDu
10/06/2014 at 05:44 |
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Ehh...good luck with that! For <5000 you either get a DS that has reasonable bodywork/frame (note: reasonable) and bad mechanics/hydraulics...or the exact opposite. I'd advice you to go for the latter. Its best to have an ugly but working car than to have a good looker that it rotten inside.
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KatzManDu
> de Snoek
10/06/2014 at 06:27 |
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That's what I'm on the hunt for. Any other suggestions than autoscout24.eu ?
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JayHova
> My citroen won't start
10/06/2014 at 08:59 |
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Of course you need to steal something extraordinary with one of these - nuclear warheads are a good start, but a tad boring....better something like a weather controlling device or maybe Lenins body.
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de Snoek
> KatzManDu
10/06/2014 at 09:00 |
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Try Marktplaats.nl. Dutch site, but we Dutch have a big share of DS'es on sale all the time in different states and in different price categories
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KatzManDu
> de Snoek
10/06/2014 at 10:34 |
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Gracias!
Nico's Custom Rides
> DailyTurismo
02/23/2015 at 20:46 |
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Hi, I'm Nico, the builder ..
Yes it's the same car with different color combinations ( I'm airbrush artist, too)
And the baby blue chopped delivery is the first version of the DS, when I was still in France..
Thanks for your comments !
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Nico's Custom Rides
> DailyTurismo
02/23/2015 at 21:39 |
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And you can follow Nico's Custom Rides on Instagram !