European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Appt la everyone who a one is o More or Tefs Cert of nor Tel with it says one Deus a Aarau or owner demise of the Deus Chevaux by Elaine Ganley associated press or be ally Hall a Century mountains. Deserts and Paris traffic could t Slop it thai chugging ungainly Jour wheeled Beasl As the Deu Chevaux. Bui modern lines have and an Era in me Trench Auto Industry has corns to an end. The Deus Chevaux French or Avo horses or two horsepower to a car although some say i is an exaggeration to Call it that tin can on wheels is More like re the last one rolled Oft a French Assembly line Fob 25 when France s oldest automobile factory the citroen Plant in Levallis shul Down. There was hardly a whimper or a wore1 in Tea press Yel the closing of inc Plant on the Western Edge of Paris signals the demise of the Tortoise shaped automotive with bulging headlights Hal took like a Erma Bombeck fog Seyes so ends an instr tuition As French As the Beret Ort Aggelis. Whether rattling Down a country Toad a careening across a City Boulevard. With its Side windows napping on their hinges Tia 3cv has Long been part of the French landscape. Its snarl s Pace and its noisy chugs have endeared millions spawning Deus Chevaux Ian clubs worldwide. When the last car left the factory in Laval Lois you can say in was the end of an Era said Gro Hoeg. A citroen spokeswoman by you cant say it is the end t the Deus the car will continue to be manufactured in Portugal but a less than half the 1987 rate when 43,255 Deus Chevaux were turned Oul. I Don t have great patriotic sentiment but it s the Only car with a French said Thice time Deus Cne Vau owner Giles co mignon the Deus Cheval was conceived As an affordable car Lor those o modest moans when it first came out the Dux Cheval Cost the franc equivalent of Abou $g50 tha two retest models Cost s6.500 and $7,460 like sensible shoes the buggy bed Spang suspension a simple engine no is functional in the extreme. And allegedly . Funny looking la some people downright ugly to others the Deus Chevaux is simply beyond Beauty says Oroen. In the 1960s, Deli Chc Maui s heyday in became a reverse slots Symbol among he rebellious Young a s More than a car said Collignon everyone who has one has a More or less sentimental relationship with it. Tote big advantage is Hal it can be comp of Ety falling apart broken All Over and it keeps running it has an incredible True " the Deus Chevaux has set Alli Lude and Deal records for a car climbing of l7,1botoct on Bolivia s mount Chacaltana in 1953 and Down deep into a Salt mine in France s Lorraine Region. Two frenchmen Jacques Seguela and Jean Clauda Baudot made an 87.000 mile round the world trip in a Deus Chevaux once resorting to crushed bananas to replace Oil lost com a broken Gearbox during a 200-mile desert stretch. Four wheels under an umbrella was the order to engineers working on the design in the 1930s, according to citroen which Laler toured it As the mos minimum a wooden Model was produced in 1936. World War ii intervened and the car was not formally unveil of Untrif october 1948 at the Paris Auto show. Originally available Only in Gray with a top Speed of 37 Miles an hour today s Deus Chevaux Streak by in All colors or even iwo tone and can reach a lop Speed of 72 Mph the upgraded engine remains mechanically elementary and the horsepower has increased from two to Ihrcke Cilien brochures Call the Deus Chevaux a mechanical phenomenon a commercial phenomenon a sociological hut the truth Hoeg concedes is that the car is outmoded. Orders have fallen a lot the european Market is increasingly closed to the Deus Chevaux because of pollution norms sir ice pollution controls for example have effectively banned the car from Switzerland and Austria since pc lobe 1987. To has nol been sold in Sweden since 1968 and in Finland since 19b2 because it does t come up to their safely standards. Deus Chevaux tans in other countries ale expected to be deprived of the car in the coming years Hoeg said. Woe Foft was Ever made to adj the French Model in the in red states but she said she understands there Are Somo Deus Chevaux collectors their. A company in Houston announced plans last Yea to Market a version of the Sci thai conforms to us. Standards. The closing of the Levallis Plant built in 1b93, is part of an Overall retrenchment of the French Auto Industry. Al ils Peak in the mid-1960s. The Plant turned Oul 550 Deus Chevaux a Day. Compared to to a Day last year. The citroen Plant in Mangada Portugal manufacturing Deus Chevaux since 1982, is expected to produce about 20.000 in 1968. Why is it when you re Down people iry to cheer you up when i have a Unity Day i want talk me out of it. It s Good to take a self pity Bath ones in a while. You know you re being ridiculous but you la snap out o it in your own time. I Don i want someone to Ell me thu Bluebird cd happiness is budding a nest in my free. I just want someone who looks up and says give a tissue. The Bluebird did d to a too Lai an Clui Toul Rhca .4 Page 16 the stars and stripes monday. April 4, 1968
