The Little French Car in Paris
WRITTEN B Y
Stan Cheren
With a little help from my friends
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he sun inched quietly across the factory parking lot where the new cars shone like a field of metal flowers. The Little French Car shook her gray chassis to clear her head of the loud factory noises—the clink-clunk-clunk of the conveyor belts and the banging of heavy machinery. The bright, green car next to her sneered, “Your gray color is so dull.” “Dull? Am I really dull?” she thought sadly. Why hadn’t they sprayed her body tomato red or tinted her canvas top buttercup yellow?
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Welcome to the world of our Little French Car The tales of our little French car are set in France and England in the 1980’s. Ms. Deuzy is a 1985 “Charleston” model 2CV manufactured at the Citroën factory in Levallois outside of Paris. We fell in love with her on our travels in 2012 and brought her back from Belgium to live with us in North Carolina. Ms. Deuzy is a real character on four wheels who talks to Luc and her animal and automobile friends. So, in these stories, we will give her the ample opportunity to meet exciting and fun folks and go to exciting places. Her constant companion is Luc, an 18 year old student at the Sorbonne in Paris. He spends the summers on his family farm outside of Aix. We write these stories to share the incredible history of these 2CVs with the collectors who grew up with them and with their children and friends. We invite you to share your stories of your experiences with your favorite 2CVs and to tell us where you would like us to take our Ms. Deuzy in the future.
This is just the beginning…
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