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No, it was

They do duck down and hide behind modern monsters 😁 Who new that entrance 5 to a car park was on the other side of the complex to the different car park with 4 and 6 and it has the same row lettering and all underground car parks look the same. Once we found where the car was I went back into the building looking for a non-existent lift to take the fully loaded with wine shopping cart down to our level, just stairs so I had to go right over to the car entrance ramp. By then Mrs DS had gone looking for me in the building. We'll know next time 😆

Had a day trip to France in the DS, it was much admired by many people and I even got a flash and a wave from someone in a Visa softop near Cap Gris Nez. Missed our scheduled return ferry due to losing the car in City Europe's car parks but Irish* ferries did not charge us extra for catching a later one and even texted an apology for us being delayed by queues at border control. *I have no idea why they run a service on Dover-Calais either but they are the cheapest 😃

Deffo not a coach 😃

But was it built in Britain? Did they have a works here like Citroen did at Slough for the Traction Avant?

Note that it says BRITISH MERCEDES BENZ!

It seemed to me that every other car at Pebble Beach had a UK reg plate, is this a fashion thing or has all our best stuff gone over there?

A DS with a plexiglass roof was featured in an Italian film but I have lost the link. ID/DS roofs are grp as standard, another reason why the car was so ahead of its time.

I had one back in the mid seventies which I part-exed for a mini-mustang shaped Celica. Two cars I wish I still had. The Rover was handy when we needed to lift the engine out of a Citroen ID Safari - long length of rope tied to top of engine, slung over a beam in the barn and then tied to front bumper of Rover. Reversed Rover away whilst a mate guided engine to ground being showered with bits of concrete from the beam. Those were the days etc...

Knowing my mother she was wearing a big hat (the sort that ladies should always wear when returning items to shops) and she would have turned around and placed the handle into the open hand of the embarrassed sales manager. This is how I imagine the scene anyway 😊

You wouldn't find a small business putting that much cash into stock nowadays without being done for money laundering.

My parents went to the launch of the Capri there. When she tried to open the door of the car in the showroom the handle came off in my Mum's hand. They didn't stay.

such knowledge is part of my French heritage.

On the Citroen Cloverleaf it was called the Mother-in-law seat 😆

Simca also did a van, later to become a Talbot or Dodge. A friend had one for his company runabout that I borrowed to collect some furniture from the Isle of Wight, somehow we managed to squeeze in a sideboard, a disassembled dining room table and four chairs, as well as my pregnant wife and myself. I think the inside is a bit like a Tardis.

As soon as I saw the B plate i thought "yup, that's why" 😁 Heated windscreen option, its all win!

A lot of the proper single track roads are like that around here, green up the middle, which elicits the comment "you don't get many Reliant Robins around here"

https://www.franzose.de/en/Citroen-DS-11CV-HY/DS/Suche/Suche/?suchbegriff=36009 Any good?

I think I have got it wrong, re-reading @Wuvvum's post is it the hook type you need?

Check out the old money numberplate on that Rover! I have transited one of the piers doing a job for the PLA (Port of London Authority not Palestine Liberation bods) but not sure which one it was. It was an architectural gem though.

Force 4 Chandlery standard duty wiper blades in 11" and 14" flavours

And it is so much nicer taking the back roads instead of the motorways, you get to see so much more of the places you would otherwise wizz past.

You might be able to get stainless steel wipers meant for boats.