Oltcit - my Story

[gricer]

Talking of real Citroens, imagine if these had been made. Its probably my all-time favourite concept car, and I suspect every one of us would now own one. In beige.

 

The C60

 

 

 

And it still exits. Somewhere I have an original Velizy design centre 35mm slide of this.

[Guest]

I have no idea if he's on here but years ago, 15 maybe, there was a young chap who hill climbed a Visa GTi at the Pestalotzi Hillclimb in Sedlescombe, Sussex.

(Mate worked for Caterham. They had run a comp with The Times for a seasons racing and track stuff aside this was part of it.

Matesjob at the weekends was to deliver the Caterham to events

What an awful job... )

Anyway Visaman was with his Mum and he binned it and rolled it (not with Ma in the car, silly!) Not sure how they got home to be fair!

I left it for an hour so he could get his pooh together and went and had a word with him as my neighbour had one for sale, this was 15 years ago and he couldn't believe his luck so they must be rare now, 15 year later.

[eddyramrod]

Talking of real Citroens, imagine if these had been made. Its probably my all-time favourite concept car, and I suspect every one of us would now own one. In beige.

 

The C60

 

 

 

And it still exits. Somewhere I have an original Velizy design centre 35mm slide of this.

 

Actually that is lovely, just as it is. I wouldn't go near it in beige!

 

Did I just call a French car lovely????????

[dollywobbler]

The C-60 is utterly bonkers. Here it is on the Citroen Car Club stand at the NEC Classic Motor Show 2009. Amongst novelties such as hydraulic suspension etc, it also has a cooling fan on top of the flat-four engine, driven by a pulley on the front of the engine. 90 degree belts FTW!

[dieselnutjob]

my 305 had that. the engine was transverse but they wanted a cooling fan on the front. So they ran a belt off of the crank and used two idler pulleys to make it go through 90 degrees and run a fan

[Adrian_pt]

Amazing to see an Oltcit in the UK. Genuine Oltcit too - that's what they were on the Hungarian market.

 

How many Axels made it over here? Only seen the low-quality pics of 2 C-regs on Citroenet.

 

Top work! These are getting rare even in Romania - and the pick up version is practically extinct. They also made a factory prototype 5-door, convertible (one of which still exists) and 4x4.

[wuvvum]

my 305 had that. the engine was transverse but they wanted a cooling fan on the front. So they ran a belt off of the crank and used two idler pulleys to make it go through 90 degrees and run a fan

Yup, my 304 was the same. I think having the fan on top of the engine gets more shite points though...

[Volksy]

my 305 had that. the engine was transverse but they wanted a cooling fan on the front. So they ran a belt off of the crank and used two idler pulleys to make it go through 90 degrees and run a fan

 

Never knew that!

 

The Chevrolet Corvair and a similar set up too, but for added shits and giggles made one of the idlers the alternator by the looks of it..

 

[ypsilandra]

Watch this space, there's a possibility of another Oltcit making it's way from Transylvania to Shropshire at some point

[Six-cylinder]

Now that’s how to tantalise Oltcit fanciers, go on give us a bit more.

 

Chris

[messerschmitt owner]

My Honda Z600s also had a similar arrangement of 90 degree belts too.

[ypsilandra]

Will hopefully be able to tell you a bit more soon.......

[Six-cylinder]

A month has gone buy and I can't sleep, any more news on the Oltcit making its way to the UK?