When we lived down in "La France profonde" in the Lot et Garonne we had a 1972 2CV4 as our second car - yep, that's right, not the sporty 2CV6 but the 400cc one. I have very happy memories of it - the perfect car for rural france, and certainly a car with an endearing character. I used to open the roof in March and close it in November, and I never took the keys out of the ignition. After a couple of years banging up and down the rough track to our house the chassis collapsed; a local garage replaced it for about 400 quid. It met it's end at the hands of my cousin when it caught fire in Marmande after the petrol pipe fractured.
Funnily enough, shortly after I took delivery of my 4/4 sport the 2 year old son of a friend sazid he thought it was like his grandpa's 2CV - I guess it was the separate wings.
