REVELL CITROEN 2CV TEST SHOTS - A CLASSIC FRENCH CAR KIT COMING IN AUGUST
SMN report: Here’s a set of pictures that should tempt French car fans. The subject is a moulding test shot for Revell’s upcoming Citroen 2CV ‘Deux Chevaux’, a classic set of wheels from the land of garlic and escargots. The new-tool kit is due for release in August 2011, and will have 126 components. Produced to 1:24 scale, the 2CV model will measure 160 mm (6.3 in) long. The real thing - Citroen 2CV Charleston. Economy design The Citroen 2CV dates back to 1948, and represents a post-World War II economy approach to European mass-motoring, with a design brief demanding that the driver should be able to wear a hat, while driving across a ploughed field, carrying a crate of eggs on the passenger seat without breaking a single one. The engine was a tiny, air-cooled twin-cylinder design. Don’t break the eggs! The economical car that resulted from that unique brief was easy to maintain and simple to operate, with a soft suspension that made driving on the poor French roads of t...