My Pictures from the Ace Café / Citroën 90th....

Only phone quality so not as good as Tim's photos above. but thought I'd post them anyway.

I went down with Mark in his 4x4 which had made it into the concours competition, so we got to park inside the small car park along with lots of Tractions and DS. The concours was divided into the 9 decades of Citroën production. 2000s, 1990s, 1980s etc.

View from the Roof as "TV's Mike Brewer" was wowing the crowd with his wit:




Check out the paintwork on the CX at the end of the line below, its that expensive TVR stuff which changes colour as you look from different angles. The whole of the engine bay was chromed and polished to perfection.
Needless to say he was Very Worried that Mark's door would scar his paint finish !


Liked this "so what" finish SM, apparently has competed in eurpoean classic car rallies.


Never seen this 6 wheel CX before, it was converted in Germany and reminded me of a TGV


Spanners' classy ride parked out front - had to really bumping up the kerb was not an option with his ride height. Very cool car though Mr Spanners and nice to meet you.


I think this is is a Rosalie, please don't beat me up if I'm wrong though.


Some interesting Acadiannining going on in the concours too.


This XM won the concours prize for its decade.


Mark's 2cv 4x4 didn't win in its decade Boo!


A very nice SM and wierdly airbrushed CCrosser bracketed Spanners' race car. Ellie's car in background, recovered from its roundabouting experience.


We waited in the cold north wind with tension gradually rising for the famous TV's Mike Brewer to announce the winners of the concours.


What a surprise, despite being in production for 6 of the 9 decades, and being the epitome of Citroën, the 2cv didn't win a single category. Boo. We were robbed, there should have been at least one 2cv (/A series), DS, and Traction in amongst the winners.

You can see below Dot's original promo 007 (no shilly shallying with dealer sticker kits on a mimosa club). Only 4 of these now in existence.


Bit of a funny event - we didn't really fancy doing the "Croissant Blank" drive round London in the dark bit afterwards, but nice to meet with people and I'd always wanted to go to the Ace Café, so all in all a pretty nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

Chris

Great pictures & a nice write-up, cheers, Chris!

There's *another* Mimosa DS in the first pic! And I thought mine was the only one!

Good pictures, having seen the pictures still can't workout why they didn't want the race car

Simon,

I know, the parking on the road and at the café was busy but not impenetrable - cars were parked up to a max of about 100m from the café on either side, so not as bad as it could have been.

Maybe after seeing it in their showroom, Citroën decided your race car was just such a nice 2cv that there was a chance it might win one of their categories. And a 2cv winning ?- that would never do

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Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25cScK9eqY

And now with moving pictures... I get more screen time then my van though...

Video if the Belgium celebrations can be found here:

http://www.vtm.be/nieuws/opgeknipt_nobc.html?vpos=5&vID=PIt_22086_vtm_id

They got to do their convoy in daylight!!