Used Citroen Traction Avant for Sale near Pierrefonds, QC

My very 1st car ever. I didn't own the car shown but I had a similar one wich I bought 10 years old and in mint condition for Bec 5,000, cleaned it up and had it painted race green, otherwise it was similar to the one above even with the white sticker and rally number on the doors and big halogen spotlights. For me it is the best car ever made. The interior was over spacious, in back it was like a bedroom. The car was probably designed with the long legs of Charles De Gaule in mind, the interior was nothing fancy but functional and comfortable for those days. Fairly comfortable, assisted steering etc didn't exist in then, so being a front wheel drive and a rather large car heavy car, parking in tight spots was cumbersome work with that big steering wheel. For its time it was a powerfull, fast and a fast accellerating car and kept the road like no other, a train on a track. I named it my tank.

old, slow, unreliable, but I loved it.I owned it for over 35 years and restored it from the ground up, with help from Susan. Eventually it became just too labour intensive to keep it on the road so it had to go to be replaced by the Laser (what a backward step)

Traction 11BL 1956

The Traction Avant was introduced in 1934 and was made until 1957. It had a unitized body, rack and pinion steering, front wheel drive,torsion bar suspension, wet sleeve fully re-buildible engine with overhead valves. By 1948 it along with the Ferrari were the first cars to be offered with radial tires. When compared to anything out there introduced at the time, there was nothing like it. The handling is like that of a modern car. The only thing is it's a bit underpowered by todays standards. It was a car that was preferred by the robbers and the police alike. The Nazis even preferred them to their German rear wheel drive vehicles for their off road capabilities when they occupied France. Driving the car is a pleasure with a vehicle that seems to ride on rails with the way it tracks. I do find it a bit funny when you pull into a filling station and you are pumping gas, the question usually comes up: "What's that?" I have found that pronouncing the name Cit- ro- en will cause a confused look on people's faces and you find yourself repeating the name three or four times before you say: " It's a French car" Then the person will look at you and say: Oh, I thought it was a Ford that you cut the running boards off of."