![]() 04/27/2019 at 20:50 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
A black one just wafted past like it’s nothing. 3rd one I’ve seen, EVER. Was on the way back from a flower festival in Silvan, taking the scenic route through Sassafras and Olinda.
Was something ike this.
![]() 04/27/2019 at 20:55 |
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Man thats weird, I saw an SM yesterday, too. A brown one. Great looking car.
![]() 04/27/2019 at 20:57 |
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i used to see them lots
but they are getting pretty rare here too
its a very complicated and rust prone car
![]() 04/27/2019 at 21:27 |
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For any other clueless readers like me, who had to go digging a bit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_SM
![]() 04/27/2019 at 22:00 |
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That looks like it could have been a bat mobile in a bygone era.
![]() 04/27/2019 at 22:42 |
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Haha, sorry. Didn’t exactly give a lot of information for non Citroen people to go off
![]() 04/27/2019 at 22:44 |
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Ooooh. Great, if weird.
Great, if French
![]() 04/27/2019 at 22:48 |
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They just never had a presence in the US, and that’s a shame. There was a sad one of these that used to park on W 76th Street - haven’t seen it for years. White, collapsed suspension all around.
![]() 04/27/2019 at 22:49 |
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I’d oft be hard-pressed to distinguish a Camaro from a Corvette, so the range of things I don’t know about in the car world is vast.
![]() 04/28/2019 at 01:36 |
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It is a shame. There are more in Australia, but not many more. I went to a French car show once which had a Clio V6 but no SM!
![]() 04/28/2019 at 02:27 |
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When you park a Citroën with hydropneumatic suspension from before ~1993, it will lower itself right down to it's bump stops in a few hours. That's normal and not a sign of collapsed suspension. Start the engine and it will be at ride height within 10 seconds or so.
![]() 04/28/2019 at 18:01 |
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I think this was worse - it didn’t move for a long time. How it didn’t get towed (you have to move your car around here for street cleaning, various other things) . I recall another dead one in Georgetown when I lived in DC. In fact there were several interesting dead cars in that neighborhood. And a cherry Peugeot 504 wagon.
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I would do dirty, unspeakable things for a well sorted one of these with the 5 speed.