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The Citroën 2CV is to France what the VW Beetle is to Germany: a cheerful budget banger that was designed to mobilise the masses after years of bloody conflict. I got to drive one once and it was, let me tell you, quite an experience.
This particular example was owned by an eccentric cellarmaster, who after finding out during an impromptu wine tasting that I had a penchant for classic cars insisted that I “immediately” take his beloved Red ‘66 for a drive up the Franschhoek Pass.
Totally unperturbed by the amount of vino that may or may not have been imbibed, the proprietor of this machine threw me in behind the steering wheel and over the roar of its tiny boxer engine described how working the column-mounted gear lever was “like having that sense of knowing exactly when you can touch a woman’s breast timing is everything”.
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