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e for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts 1 démarreur CITROËN CLASSIC OWNERS’ CLUB OF AUSTRALIA Australia’s National Citroën Car Club for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts for CitroënOwnersandEnthusiasts Citroën Australia’s NationalInternetMagazine Owners National andInternet Enthusiasts Magazine October 2020 Vol 1 No 2 Trucks and the Tour de France 2 Australia’s National Internet Magazine for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts 3 PPostalostal AddressAddress CCommitteeommittee SSupportupport CContentsontents CITROËN CLASSIC OWNERS’ President ~ Ted Cross Web Site Manager ~ Bruce Stringer ED SED PAGE 4 CLUB of AUSTRALIA Inc. [03] 98I9 2208 [H] 04I2 342 706 [M] Note new The address of the Club and this [email protected] [email protected] email address PREZ SEZ PAGE 5 magazine is: Secretary ~ Tim Cottrell Membership Secretary ~ YOU SED PAGE 6 PO Box 52, Balwyn, Victoria, 3I03. 04I6 009 297 [M] Ian Macdermott The Club’s website is: [email protected] 04I9 362 375 [M] A-TRACTIONS PAGE 8 www.citroenclassic.org.au Treasurer ~ Ian Macdermott [email protected] Citroën Classic Owners’ Club of 04I9 362 375 [M] Asset Custodians ~ Ted Cross CIT-IN 202I BENDIGO Australia Inc. is a member of the [email protected] Max Lewis PAGE I0 Association of Motoring Clubs. Activity Coordinator ~ Lee Dennes AOMC Liaison Offi cers~ The views expressed in this publication 0438 286 I8I [M] Max Lewis [03] 9372 092I [H] POST CIT-IN TOUR PAGE I2 [email protected] Russell Wade [03] 9570 3486 [H] are not necessarily those of CCOCA 2CV WORLD MEETING 202I or its Committee. Neither CCOCA Spare Parts Offi cer~ Lance Wearne Club Permit & Safety Offi cers~ nor its Committee can accept any 0424 054 724 [M] Russell Wade [03] 9570 3486 [H] PAGE I6 [email protected] Philip Rogers [03] 5944 309I [H] responsibility for any mechanical CITROËN & LE TOUR DE advice printed in, or adopted from this Publication Editor ~ Leigh Miles Ted Cross [03] 98I9 2208 [H] publication. [03] 9888 7506 [H] Librarian ~ Max Lewis FRANCE PAGE I8 [email protected] [03] 9372 092I [H] The Club cannot accept any LE COQ SPORTIF PAGE 38 responsibility for, or involvement in, Committee Persons ~ [email protected] any business relationship that may Robert Belcourt [03] 9885 4376 [H] Club Shop ~ Kay Belcourt AN EYE FOR DETAIL PAGE 39 occur between an advertiser and a Max Lewis [03] 9372 092I [H] 04I3 65I 2I0 [M] member of the Club. Russell Wade 040I 859 704 [M] [email protected] LE CAMION CITROËN Bruce Stringer 04I2 342 706 [M] ICCCR Representative ~ PAGE 42 Ted Cross [03] 98I9 2208 [H] LEGISLATION, REGISTRATION, LLifeife MMembersembers MMembershipembership CCoverover ImageImage ADMINISTRATION PAGE 50 The committee awards life Annual Membership is $35. The cover image is taken from the SELLING THE FAMILY JEWELS? membership to Club members in website www.en.typeh.eu/ where you recognition of their contribution specify and order your brand new PAGE 54 to, and support of, the Club. Life Type H van.. CLASSIFIED ADS PAGE 65 memberships have been awarded to: Sue Bryant 20I7 Brian Wade 20I7 MMeetingseetings Rob Little 20I2 Club meetings are held on the fourth DDeadlineeadline Ted Cross 20I2 Wednesday of every month [except The deadline for the next edition of CContributorsontributors Peter Boyle 2003 December] at 7:30pm. The venue ‘démarruer’ is Monday, December I4, Contributors to this edition of Jack Weaver I99I is the Frog Hollow Reserve Rooms, 2020. The deadline for the next ‘Front ‘Front Drive’ include Alan Brown and Nance Clark I984 Fordham Ave., Camberwell. Drive’ is Monday, November I6. Andrew Cox. CCitroëningitroëning Club Permit applications to New Permit holders must Club permit renewals can be FOR SPARE PARTS & TOOLS CLUB SHOP OTHER CLUBS VicRoads must be accompanied supply the Club with sent to PO Box 52 Balwyn, Contact Lance Wearne. For Citroën models, VIC www.citcarclubvic.org.au by a RWC [pre I949 cars can approved photos, club permit Victoria. 3I03 with a stamped Phone: 0424 054 724 [if memorabilia and other items NSW www.citroencarclub.org.au be inspected by a Club Safety number and expiry date. return envelope or signed your do phone, please do contact Kay Belcourt at QLD www.citroenclubqld.org Offi cer], ownership validation at club meetings/events if so at a reasonable hour] or [email protected] SA www.clubcitroensa.com and VicRoads forms endorsed the appropriate offi cers are [email protected]. WA www.citroenwa.org.au by the club including fi nancial present. au TAS www.citroentas.org validation. 4 Australia’s National Internet Magazine for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts 5 EEdd SedSed PPrezrez SSezez We were watching a little TV Citroën in Australia. o, it is not ‘Front Drive’, it the other evening… and right s you know the club has I recently wrote to you all is ‘démarreur’. ‘Starter’ in now we, in common with many been prevented from run- about the coming changes to NFrench. We put our toes in the others, are watching a good Aning normal events. the running of CCOCA, which water a couple of months ago deal more TV than we used to In Melbourne we have been has largely been prompted by when we sent out what was de- and a promotion for the Tour limited to ‘stay at home within a restrictions we have all faced scribed as a ‘supplementary’ edi- de France appeared. Needless 5kilometre perimeter’, but there throughout Australia. Ian Mac- tion of ‘Front Drive’. We saw this to say the fact that the vehicle have been some benefi ts as well. dermott has also followed up as a way of providing you with sponsor of this very French of Getting back to basics and look- with a letter seeking your pref- something a little extra during sporting events is Skoda was not ing after family and friends have erence for a hard [paper] copy these diffi cult times. just a shock, it was a disappoint- been a priority. Leigh has been of the magazine, or to continue I have decided to continue the ment. I remembered that in the giving you bonus electronic mag- with the electronic format. The idea. But to ensure there’s no past Citroën has had a very close azines, and here is another one. choice is yours, but please let Ian confusion between the editions relationship with sport in general We will continue to trial know as soon as possible. These of ‘Front Drive’, which a per- and cycling in particular. monthly Zoom club meetings. changes are proposed to start centage of you have elected to Of course the brand has en- Last month we had club mem- rolling out from November I, continue to receive in hard copy joyed a long, and very success- bers join us from South Austral- 2020. The overall effect of these form, and these soft copy only ful association with rallying, but ia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South changes will return unspent extra magazines, there is a new I am excluding that fi eld. Tomes Wales, Queensland and the UK. membership fees to the mem- and tomes have been written title ‘démarreur’. It was great, and I would love to bers in the short term and will ~ over the decades. If you want to Don’t worry, there will still be speak to more people at our Oc- rationalise our range of ongoing know more about Citroën’s ral- six hard copies of ‘Front Drive’ tober meeting. services and fees. lying history, contact the Club’s posted out. ‘démarreur’ is addi- When most people think of CIT-IN in 202I at Bendigo is still new Librarian [Max Lewis] and Citroën as a marque, they usu- on track. We have early registra- tional. see what he has on the shelves. Whether you get ‘Front Drive’ ally think of the signature models tions in place, and our recom- But, it is not just the direct like Traction, DS, SM and 2CV, but mended accommodation already by post or email, you will also re- sponsorship link that came to ceive ‘démarreur’ if we have your Citroën is much more in Europe. has 65 people booked in. You do mind. Over the years in the pag- It is imbedded in the French cul- correct email address. Continued on page 7 es of ‘Front Drive’ I have seen [in- ture, beginning with street signs deed I have probably published] donated by Andre Citroën in images of Yvette Horner. the 1920s, Citroën taxis, the Eif- Her association with the Tour fel Tower publicity, and of course began in I952 when the Calor a vast range of Citroën com- company, sponsor of the Tour de mercial vehicles. For many years France, offered her the opportu- Citroën was synonymous with nity to join the race, launching her the Tour de France as the offi - career. She played on a podium cial support vehicles. There are at the fi nish of each stage. Wear- many examples here in Austral- ing a sombrero and perched on ia as well, if we count the Cami- the roof of a Traction Avant dec- ons and Camionettes that were Continued on page 6 imported since the early days of 6 Australia’s National Internet Magazine for Citroën Owners and Enthusiasts 7 EEdd SedSed PPrezrez SSezez Continued from page 4 around the Tour de France for Continued from page 5 larly wish to see many CCOCA orated in the Suze brand colours decades. And that is the prime not need to pay for accommo- and CCCV members supporting of yellow and black, serenaded focus of this Supplement edition. dation until a week before the our own national event.