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A never published picture of this 1937 long wheel based TA as it came out of France in winter, 1967 or something.

Thanks to Gjalt van der Molen for the following:

"This car is in my garage now, in a perfect running condition. I bought it in 1967 in Bourges, Cher, from the second owner, who himself bought it second-hand in 1953. I still own the original carte grise.

 

It left Javel on the 7th of April 1937, and was delivered to an unknown person in the Indre-county in France. During the war, it had been stashed away somewhere and no German ever knew about it."

"As a student in the sixties, I lacked money to do anything structural to it, just took it apart and sold it in crates to a friend of mine. This was Koos Duindam, the one who played the André Citroën-role at the 1989 ICCCR in Holland on board of Bouwe de Boer' s mock-22CV 8 cyl. Koos himself died later in 1989.
His widow had the car finally restored in 1992 and offered it to me in 2000, so I couldn't help buying it back. An unique opportunity!

The car is on some photos in Arras. The colour gris irisé/black fenders is not original, but I don't mind at all.

The engine has been converted into a ID-crankshaft-hybrid, but perfo head and original 30 mm flat carb. Not exactly a sprinter, but it takes me anywhere. The gearbox housing is late 1937, so not original, the rest of the mechanics has been completely overhauled 17 years ago and running perfectly. 6V, no problems, even last winter at minus 18 at a wedding. The bride got nearly frozen, as no heating system is fitted, but with some blankets and hot water bags she survived anyway. Ice was forming inside every window, but no serious problems turned up."

Thanks to Gjalt for submitting these pictures

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